Thu, Sep 22, 2016, 1 –2 pm Auditorium 150 Visiting Artist Lecture Image Brittany Nelson Brittany Nelson works with nineteenth-century photographic chemistry techniques by altering their traditional usage to create artifacts that speak about the future. She received her MFA in photography from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, and her BA in photography and philosophy from Montana State University. She is a recipient of a 2015 Creative Capital Grant in Visual Arts, and a Theo Westenberger Foundation Grant for women advancing the arts. Solo exhibitions include Morgan Lehman Gallery (New York, NY), VOLTA (New York, NY), PATRON Gallery (Chicago, IL), and David Klein Gallery (Detroit, MI), as well as upcoming group exhibitions at BAM (Brooklyn, NY), the Cranbrook Art Museum (Bloomfield Hills), and the Houston Center for Photography. She was awarded the Fish/Pearce Award for excellence in process-based work from the Print Center, Philadelphia, and her work has been featured in the New Yorker, WIRED, Musée Magazine, Collector Daily, Aesthetica Magazine, and Art F City. Nelson’s studio is currently located in Richmond, VA.