Vicki Ragan is the 2009 Recipient of the Harold Jones Distinguished Alumni Award
The Harold Jones Distinguished Alumni Committee proudly announces UA Photography Program Graduate (MFA,1981) Vicki Ragan as the 2009 recipient of the Harold Jones Distinguished Alumni Award.
Vicki Ragan will give a lecture “From Public to Intimate: A Journey in Photography,” discussing her photographic work and career on Friday, October 16, at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, in Tucson, Arizona.
Ms. Ragan, a graduate of both the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Arizona in Tucson, has exhibited in major venues around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, the Museum of Modern Photography in Tokyo, the Museum of Natural History in Paris, Photokina in Cologne, Germany, the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona, the Brooklyn Museum of Fine Art, FotoFest in Houston, the Houston Center for Photography, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Southeastern Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach, Florida.
Her work is in the permanent collections at the High Museum, the Center for Creative Photography, the Brooklyn Museum, the Houston Museum of Fine Art, and Polaroid Corp.’s International Art Collection. It has also appeared on the covers of Smithsonian Magazine and The British Journal of Photography. Profiles of Ms. Ragan and articles about her work have appeared in a variety of publications, including The New York Times, Houston Center for Photography’s Spot magazine, and Woodstock Center for Photography’s Photography Quarterly.
She has received numerous public art commissions, and has permanent installations in Jackson- Hartsfield International Airport, the Adamsville Community Center and the historic Block Candy Building in Atlanta, as well as in the Island Grove Community Center in Greeley, CO.
Ms. Ragan has published four books: Changing Dreams (2007: Museum of New Mexico Press), Oaxacan Clay (2000: Chronicle Books), The Edible Alphabet Book (1996: Bulfinch Press), and Oaxacan Wood Carving: The Magic in the Trees (1993: Chronicle Books).
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