[Bio c. 2010] Dona Schwartz earned her PhD at the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania, and works as a photographic artist, scholar, and educator. Among her many academic publications are two photographic ethnographies, Waucoma Twilight: Generations of the Farm (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992) and Contesting the Super Bowl (Routledge, 1997). Her first photographic monograph, In the Kitchen, was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2009.
Her photographic work has been internationally published and exhibited, and is included in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Musée de lʼElysée, the George Eastman House, the Harry Ransom Center, the Portland Art Museum, the Kinsey Institute, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. Dona was born in Philadelphia, PA and lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with Ken Waters, their blended brood of six children (now ranging in age from 17-28), and their two rambunctious bearded collies. She is on the faculty of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Minnesota.
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| Role | Project |
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| Artist | Ethnographic Terminalia: New Orleans |