LEE BLANKENSHIP

Work


Deschutes is Still
Sonoma Salt
Blaze
Pacific Spore
Flathead
Okinikane
Northwest Plateau
Mermentau
Toiyabe










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Lee Blankenship is a visual artist based in Oregon. His work explores multispecies politics and existential boundaries between living/nonliving beings. Blankenship is specifically focused on how modalities of seeing can challenge our spatial and temporal assignments to natural phenomena and processes, and the default paradigm of anthropogenic geography. Emmert is interested in how our interaction with natural forms can redefine our attributions to diverse physical, biological, and cultural features—and encourage ecocentrism as a mechanism for framing land and life.




SELECT PUBLICATIONS


THE ATLANTIC
TIME
ROLLING STONE
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
BARRON’S
FAST COMPANY
FORTUNE
TEXAS MONTHLY
AMERICAN WAY
SPIRIT
MIX
MONEY
THE OREGONIAN
SEATTLE MAGAZINE
THE WASHINGTON POST

AWARDS / RESIDENCIES


IDAHO FILM COLLECTION photography grant 2023
US FOREST SERVICE Outreach through Arts, 2013-2017
DIGITAL ARTS EQUITY & ACCESS education outreach grant, 2017
STORY ARC Turnbull Center Cinematic Journalism Workshop Leader 2015
NEA ARTWORKS grant for Geography of We multimedia project, 2014
STORY ARC Turnbull Center Cinematic Journalism Workshop Leader 2014
CALDERA ARTS Artist in Residence, 2013
CALDERA ARTS Artist in Residence,  2012
COLLEGE BOARD Excellence & Innovation in the Arts, 2011
ADOBE® EDUCATION AWARDS – My students comprise 8 of 17 worldwide winners for the Adobe Youth Voices International Photo Competition
OREGONIAN NEWSPAPER Annual Photography Competition Judge
SOCIETY OF VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS 6-time recipient of DSVC Award for Excellence
GRAPHIS Design Annual Award
COMMUNICATION ARTS Design Annual Award
PRINT MAGAZINE Design Annual Award


FACULTY APPOINTMENTS


BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY — CLINICAL PROFESSOR IN PHOTOGRAPHY & MULTIMEDIA / 2023-
EVERGREEN — INSTRUCTOR IN PHOTOGRAPHY & MULTIMEDIA / 2020-2008
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON — INSTRUCTOR IN PHOTOGRAPHY & MULTIMEDIA / 2014-2008
CALDERA ARTS — LEAD TEACHING ARTIST IN PHOTOGRAPHY & MULTIMEDIA / 2017-2012
THE IMMUNE SYSTEM — LEAD TEACHING ARTIST / VISUAL COMMUNICATION NETWORK / 2008-Ongoing


EDUCATION


Master of Multimedia—University of Oregon
Bachelor of Photography—Millsaps College
Bachelor of Philosophy—Millsaps College
Teaching Certification—SSCC WA State
College Board Art Instructor Certification
Summer in Sculpture—Corcoran College of Art & Design


TALKS


SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN CAREERS Lilly Endowment—Jackson, MS
ECOCRITICAL ART THEORY Boise State University— Boise, ID
VISUAL NARRATIVE Literary Nonfiction Masters Workshop—Eugene, OR
CLASS, POVERTY, AND IDENTITY POLITICS IN ART THEORY Boise State University—Boise, ID
TECHNOLOGY & ARTS EDUCATION, US Forest Service Public Affairs—Bend, OR
ENGAGING YOUTH THROUGH THE ARTS, College Board Western Regional Forum—San Francisco, CA
SOCIETY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS Editorial Photography Workshop—Eugene, OR