INFO



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