Professor Calla E Thompson
Associate Professor
About
Calla Thompson’s art practice crosses media and is a critical examination of our culture. Her work is exhibited internationally, and she has been the recipient of awards both in Canada and the U.S.
Research interests
The constructed image; the role of truth in photography; humor in visual and text-based works, particularly in relation to issues of power and resistance; site-specific installations; lesbian and gay history in Canada and Toronto in particular.
Teaching interests
The construction of the photo post-shutter, especially veracity in digitally montaged photography; documentary photography, particularly its status in the digital age, as well as the role of the contemporary photojournalist; and entrepreneurship in the visual arts.
Education
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MFA, Photography
— School of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University (1999) Jamboree: Gender, Class, and Iconography in Installation
- Other, Photography — Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa (1996)
Grants and Contracts
- Faculty Research Fellow 2017
Courses Taught
- Documentary Film and Photo
- Indep Studio Research
- Adv Photographic Compositing
- Multimedia Environments
- Indep Studio Research
- Documentary Photography
- Digital Darkroom
- Graduate Review Day
- Adv Photographic Compositing
- Multimedia Environments
- Graduate Review Day
- Independent Studio Research
- Documentary Photography and ART346 Intermediate Documentary Production
- Digital Darkroom
- Internship
- Advanced Photographic Compositing
- Digital Darkroom
- Teach Practicum
- Documentary Photography
- Visual Concepts II/Camera Vision
- Indep Studio Research
- Internship
- Senior Projects
- Adv Photographic Compositing
- Digital Darkroom
- Internship
- Indep Studio Research
- Internship
- Adv Photographic Compositing
- Digital Darkroom
- Internship
- Digital Darkroom
- Teach Practicum
- Indep Studio Research
- Internship
- Topics In Photography: Entrepreneurial Practices for Photographers
- Documentary Photography
- Digital Darkroom
- Thesis Exhibit
- Indep Studio Research
- Documentary Photography
- Documentary Photography
- Digital Darkroom
- Documentary Photography
- Digital Darkroom