Professional Practice for the MFA with Christine Shank
June 12-16, M-F, 9:30am-5:30pm
Professional Practice for the MFA prepares students with or obtaining a Master of Fine Arts degree for their professional lives beyond graduate school. Students will gain practical knowledge and experience to enter the professional environment of being an artist and arts professional. Through presentations, guest lectures, readings, and a variety of exercises, participants will engage in the process of learning and practicing professionalism, promotion, and contributing to the field on a professional level. The workshop will cover developing a CV, teaching packets for applying for university-level positions, writing artist statements, personal promotional materials, and other aspects of post-MFA life.
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Christine Shank is an artist that works predominantly in photography and is interested in exploring the narrative quality in a single image and through relating images in series and sequences. Her work is concerned with ideas of loss, isolation, intimacy, storytelling and the implication of place. She has exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States since 1998. Her work has received funding through NYFA, The Midwest Center for Photography and The Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism. Shank has had residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Residency and Kimmel Harding Nelson Residency Programs. Her artwork is housed at the Harry Ransom Center and the William Benton Museum of Art as well as several private collections. Shank has a BFA from Miami University, Oxford Ohio and a MFA from Texas Woman’s University. She currently lives in Rochester NY where she is an Associate Professor and the Director of the MFA in Photography and Related Media program at Rochester Institute of Technology.