Liz Murphy Thomas

Education

Master of Fine ArtsPhotography and Digital Imaging
Maryland Institute College of Art, 2003

Bachelor of Fine ArtsCreative Photography
University of Florida, 2001

Professional Memberships

Teaching Experience

ProfessorDigital Media
Florida State College at Jacksonville, 2012 – present

InstructorDepartment of Art
Lincoln Memorial University, 2011 - 2012

Assistant ProfessorDigital Media
University of Illinois Springfield, 2006 – 2010

Adjunct InstructorPhotography
Pensacola State College, Spring 2006

Visiting InstructorDigital Imaging
University of West Florida, 2003 – 2005

Teaching Intern
Maryland Institute College of Art, 2001 – 2003

Professional Experience

Faculty Advisor
Campus Voice student newspaper: Florida State College at Jacksonville, 2014 - present

Media Mogul (photography)
One Spark Inc., 2014

Visual Arts Editor
drafthorse journal, 2012 – 2013

Web Developer – Department of Web and Publications
Lincoln Memorial University, 2011 – 2012

Social Networking Specialist – Department of Web and Publications
Lincoln Memorial University, 2010 – 2011

Visual Arts Gallery Director
University of Illinois Springfield, 2007 – 2010

Solo Exhibits

2011
The Land of Sunshine – The Studios at Key West; Key West, FL

2009
Breaking Through the Glass Floor – Access Gallery; University of Illinois Springfield, IL
Let Us Praise Famous Men: Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum; Harrogate, TN

2008
Breaking Through the Glass Floor – Applebee Gallery, MacMurray College; Jacksonville, IL
Uniformity – Tyler School of Art, Temple University; Philadelphia, PA
Memories Discarded – Lincoln Land Community College Visual Arts Gallery; Springfield, IL
Memories Discarded – Blackburn College Visual Arts Gallery; Carlinville, IL
Identity – Robert Morris Gallery; Springfield, IL
Uniformity – Visual Arts Gallery, University of Illinois Springfield; Springfield, IL

2005
Facing Shadows – A Portrait of Alzheimer’s – Gallery 88; Pensacola, FL

2004
Faceless Portraits – MFA Thesis Exhibit, Maryland Institute College of Art at the University of West Florida; Pensacola, FL

Group Exhibits

2016
Faculty exhibition; Florida State College at Jacksonville South Campus Library and Learning Commons; Jacksonville, FL
Florida State College at Jacksonville Visual Arts and Digital Media Faculty Show; Nathan H. Wilson Art Gallery; Jacksonville, FL

2015
Florida State College at Jacksonville Visual Arts and Digital Media Faculty Show; Nathan H. Wilson Art Gallery; Jacksonville, FL

2014
Southeast Center for Photographic Studies alumni slideshow; The Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL
Florida State College at Jacksonville Visual Arts and Digital Media Faculty Show; Nathan H. Wilson Art Gallery; Jacksonville, FL
6x6x2014 – Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
PHOTOJAX 2014; CoRK Arts District, Jacksonville, FL

2013
GAAM Winter Juried Art Exhibition; The Museum, Jacksonville, FL
Florida State College at Jacksonville Visual Arts and Digital Media Faculty Show; Nathan H. Wilson Art Gallery; Jacksonville, FL
A Million Little Pictures|Analog; Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, NY
FATE Biennial Members Exhibition; Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
PHOTOJAX 2013; CoRK Arts District, Jacksonville, FL
Things Found… By Accident, Art House online gallery

2012
P_STOP permanent public installation; Museum of Contemporary Art; Perm, Russia
Florida State College at Jacksonville Visual Arts and Digital Media Faculty Show; Nathan H. Wilson Art Gallery; Jacksonville, FL

2011
WinterTide, The Fine Arts Center of Hot Springs; Hot Springs, AR
From These Hills: Contemporary Art in the Southern Appalachian Highlands, William King Museum; Abingdon, VA
SPE South Central Members Exhibit, University of Texas at San Antonio; San Antonio, TX
Not for Sale – FICTILIS; Seattle, WA
Voices of the World – UIF Cultural Exhibit, Durham University; Durham, UK
Opening Benefit and Silent Auction – Five Ten Gallery; Mason City, IL

2010
Smoke & Mirrors – Lightwell Gallery, University of Oklahoma; Norman, OK
IN-STRUCT: A Showcase of Work by 2010-11 TSKW Instructors – The Studios of Key West; Key West, FL
KY7 Biennial – Lexington Art League; Lexington, KY
SELF – Croft Art Gallery; Waco, TX
Water S(our)ce – Gwinnett Environmental and Heritage Center; Buford, GA

2009
Indirect Objects: Captured Identities – Parkland Art Gallery; Champaign, IL
Between History and Myth, Triennale Bovisa Gallery; Milan, Italy
Rise & Fall, New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Miami, FL; Richmond, VA; Baltimore, MD; Washington D.C.; Boston, MA; Providence, RI; Las Vegas, NV; Los Angeles, CA
Esprit de corps – Applebee Gallery, MacMurray College; Jacksonville, IL
Marking Places, Retracing Spaces – Multimedia Gallery, The University of the Arts; Philadelphia, PA
Sea of Seas – The Slade Research Center, University College London; London, UK
The Relentless Eye – Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
Anthology – Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College; Daytona Beach, FL
Faculty Exhibition – Access Gallery, University of Illinois Springfield; Springfield, IL
Lottery for the Arts – Roseville Arts!, Roseville, CA
Nature – Caladan Gallery, Cambridge, MA
The Way We Are – NXNW Arts Festival; Wigan, Lancashire, UK
Cellutations – The Arts Council of Greater New Haven, New Haven, CT
15 x 15: Alumni Invitational – Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
6x6x2009 – Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
Dead Video / Live Video Festival, the Boston Cyberarts Festival 2009; Pozen Center, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Lost and Found – Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IL
LLCC Lincoln Bicentennial Invitational Show, James S. Murray Gallery, Springfield, IL

2008
Faculty Exhibition – Access Gallery; University of Illinois Springfield, Springfield, IL
Let Us Praise Famous Men: Lincoln in The Many Faces of Abe - Springfield Art Association; Springfield, IL

2007
A River Runs Through Us: Engaged Documentary Practice – SPE Midwest Regional Members Exhibit; Flint, MI
On My Own Time – UIS Public Affairs Center; Springfield, IL
Art Walk Downtown – Springfield, IL

2006
Faculty Exhibition – Access Gallery; University of Illinois

2005
Snap to Grid 2nd annual competition – Los Angeles Center for Digital Art; Los Angeles, CA
15 x 15: Alumni Invitational – Meyerhoff Gallery - Maryland Institute College of Art; Baltimore, MD

2004
Faculty Exhibit – Art Gallery, University of West Florida; Pensacola, FL

2002
No Consensus – Fox Gallery; Baltimore, MD

2001
Visitors Please Buzz – Fox Gallery; Baltimore, MD
Reflections: Identity, Time and Place – Maryland Institute College of Art; Baltimore, MD
One Night Stand - Senoir thesis exhibit; Gainesville Comfort Inn Gainesville, FL

2000
2000ADD – Lush Gallery; Gainesville, FL
The Living Machine - The Ark Gallery; Gainesville, FL

1999
Scaramouche - Blank Space Gallery; Gainesville, FL

Artist Lectures & Conferences

2015
"Failure is an option: designing a curriculum that allows students to overcome their preoccupation with grades" at the International Conference on College Teaching and Learning; Ponte Vedra Beach, FL

2014
Speaker – WordCamp Orlando; UCF Rosen School of Hospitality, Orlando, FL
"I Was There: Photography and the Iconography of Tourism" at the Popular / American Culture Association in the South Conference; New Orleans, LA
Panel Chair: Visual Impressions Popular / American Culture Association in the South Conference; New Orleans, LA
"I Remember: tourism, iconography and photography in Florida" Florida Historians Conference; St. Augustine, FL

2013
"The Land of Sunshine: Documenting the Disappearing Tourist Culture Along Florida’s US1" at SECAC 2013; University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
"Social Media practice and pitfalls" Fleming Island High School; Jacksonville, FL
"Yarn Bombing" Florida State College at Jacksonville, Kent Campus; Jacksonville, FL
"Don’t Turn Them Off: cellphones and student engagement" at the 24th International Conference on College Teaching and Learning; Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
"Don’t Turn Them Off: cellphones as the key to student engagement" at PostHaus - 2013 FATE Biennial Conference; Savannah, GA

2012
"The Land of Sunshine: the End of an Era" at the Society for Photographic Education Southeast Regional Conference; Daytona State College, Daytona Beach, FL
"Florida and Tourism" at the Florida Historical Society Annual Meeting and Symposium; Tampa, FL
"Breaking Through the Glass Floor" at the 14th Annual Conference of the Marxist Reading Group; The University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
"Marching in Seven-League Boots: Nicéphore Niépce to digital workflow" at NEXUS: Voice and Voicing in a Technological Era; The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
"The Land of Sunshine" at the annual South Carolina Historical Association Conference; Columbia, SC

2011
Panel Chair "Analogous Yet Asynchronous: Digital Imaging and Photography" 67th Annual SECAC conference; Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
"Uniformity: Concepts of Identity at Work" in Visualising the Changing Landscape of Work and Labour seminar, Department of Sociology; The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
"The Land of Sunshine: Documenting a Never Was" at the Space, Place and Production of Knowledge Conference, Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies; University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI
"Creativity and the Internet" at the FATE/MACAA conference On Stream; St. Louis, MO
Artist talk at The Studios of Key West; Key West, FL
"The Land of Sunshine" at the 3rd Auburn University Montgomery Liberal Arts Conference Southern Studies; The Auburn University Montgomery, Montgomery, AL

2010
Panel Chair "The Indecisive Moment: Photography in the Age of Banality" Curiouser: the 2010 Joint Meeting of SECAC & MACAA; Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
"Uniformity: identity and work" at the Fashion in Fiction – the Dark Side Conference; Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA
"Social Networking and Family Communication" at the LMU Tri-State Social Work’s Technology and the Family Roundtable; Harrogate, TN
Panel Chair "The Indecisive Moment: Photography in the Age of Banality" at the International Visual Sociology Association’s annual conference; Bologna, IT
"The Land of Sunshine" at the 6th Annual International Association for the Study of Environment, Space and Place Conference; Towson University, Towson, MD
"Some Rights Reserved: Protecting Creative Works with Creative Commons" The University of Illinois Springfield; Springfield, IL
"The Land of Sunshine: Documenting the Disappearing Tourist Culture Along Florida’s US1" at the Northeast Modern Language Association’s 41st Annual Convention; Montreal, QC
Panel Chair "Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction: How Artwork’s Scale is Affected by Infinite Reproducibility" at the Midwest Art History Society’s 2010 Annual Conference; Omaha, NE
"Let Us Praise Famous Men: Film, Iconography and Truth" at The National Popular Culture and American Culture Associations’ 2010 Annual Conference; St. Louis, MO
"Social Media, Creativity and Promotion" at THATcamp (The Humanities and Technology camp) Columbus; Columbus, OH

2009
Artist talk at Parkland Art Gallery; Parkland College; Champaign, IL
"Let Us Praise Famous Men: Lincoln at the Between History and Myth: Politics and Political Use of Abraham Lincoln conference; University of Milan; Milan Italy
Artist talk and roundtable discussion; Triennale Bovisa gallery; Milan, Italy
"Uniformity: a Photographic Examination of Projected/Perceived Identity at the 20th Annual International Forum for Psychoanalytic Education; Seattle, WA
"Social Media and Art" at ASAP/1 Arts of the Present conference; Knoxville, TN
"The Digital Image in Art: New Technology or a New Medium?" at the Aesthetic Dimension of Visual Culture conference, Academy of Fine Arts; Prague, Czech Republic
"Web 2.0 and Creativity" at the Association for Integrative Studies Creativity and Play Across the Disciplines Conference; Tuscaloosa, AL
"Web 2.0 and Creativity" at the Image 2.0 Digital Media Futures Conference, University College Falmouth; Falmouth, Cornwall, UK
"Let Us Praise Famous Men" at the Transcultural Montage conference, Aarhus University and Moesgaard Museum; Aarhus, Denmark
"Uniformity: a Photographic Examination of Projected/Perceived Identity" at the International Visual Sociology Association’s Social and Visual Landscape conference, University of Cumbria; Carlisle, Cumbria, UK
Keynote Speaker - Let Us Praise Famous Men: Lincoln - Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum, Harrogate, TN

2008
"Breaking Through the Glass Floor: Gender Roles in the 21st Century" MacMurray College Speaker Series, Jacksonville, IL
"Creating Art in a Participatory Culture" at the Association for Integrative Studies Annual Conference, Springfield, IL
Artist lecture and photography demonstration, New Berlin High School, New Berlin, IL

2007
"Facing Shadows: A Portrait of Alzheimer’s" Imagemaker Presentation at A River Runs Through Us: Engaged Documentary Practice SPE Midwest Regional Conference, Flint, MI

2005
"Careers in Digital Media" Woodham High School; Pensacola, FL

Publications

Article – “A community thread: the fiber art of Jackie Kuhn” for the exhibition Breaking the Walls of Graffiti international exhibition; Szczecin Academy of Art, Szczecin, Poland

Conference Program and Poster – photograph selected for program and poster of the 2012 international conference “Making It Home: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Recognition and Displacement in America” hosted by the Graduate School of North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

Creative Journal – Three photographs selected for inclusion (one as the cover) in the Spring 2011 edition of “The Emancipator” published by Lincoln Memorial University

E-Journal Portfolio – “The Land of Sunshine” InTensions Issue 3 - “Suspended” Fine Arts Cultural Studies at York University, Fall 2009

Bibliography

"The Way Home" Folio Weekly, December 25-31 2013
"Fiber Threat" Folio Weekly, September 4-10 2013
"Figuration and Gestural Abstraction: Prints of Arthur C. Danto" Bogusz-Boltuc, Ewa; American Society for Aesthetics, 2010
"Stop Making Art" Danto, Arthur C.; American Society for Aesthetics, 2010
"Who Are You Really?" Uniforms Magazine; May/June 2008

Public collections

Southeast Museum of Photography; Daytona Beach, FL
Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum; Harrogate, TN
Brookens Library, The University of Illinois Springfield; Springfield, IL

Grants, Awards and Residencies

Faculty Certificate Program – Blended Course Delivery; Florida State College academy for Professional Development, 2013

2011 Tennessee College Public Relations Association Awards:
- Gold (1st) Print Advertising: "I found my career path at LMU" - photography and layout
- Bronze (3rd) Social Media: "Campus Photo Trivia Tuesday" - photography and execution

Artist in Residence – The Studios of Key West; March 2011

Illinois Arts Council Program Grant on Behalf of the UIS Visual Arts Gallery; 2009

University of Illinois Springfield faculty Summer Competitive Scholarly Research Grant – The Land of Sunshine photographic documentary series; Summer 2009

Illinois Arts Council Program Grant on Behalf of the UIS Visual Arts Gallery; 2008

Exhibitions Curated

2015
Breaking the Walls of Graffiti international exhibition - U.S. coordinator, Szczecin Academy of Art, Szczecin, Poland (forthcoming)

2012
Curatorial Internship under the supervision of A.D. Coleman, VASA Project, Fall 2010-2012
-Weep not for the future: the photographs of Sam Davis, spring 2012
-Light Quartet: Themes & Variations (Kate Breakey), January – March 2011

2011
2011 Our Creative Legacy Homecoming 2011 Alumni Exhibition, Lincoln Memorial University

2010
Sustain: Juried exhibition on Sustainability in Art University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
Felicia Olin: Curiouser… University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
2nd Biennial Juried Alumni Show University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery

2009
Khara Koffel: At Some Point University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
Sergei Chepik: East Meets West (co-curated with Benedictine University Springfield) University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
Arthur C. Danto: Prints University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
Highlights from the Vogele Print Collection University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
Ted Rall: Search and Destroy University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
Bathsheba Grossman: Life in 3 Dimensions University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery

2008
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew: An Indian from India and Bollywood Satirized University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
James Luna: Talking Stones (co-curated with UIS faculty) University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
1st Biennial Juried Alumni Show University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
Michael Jones McKean: The sunshine of our last day (co-curated with UIS faculty) University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery

2007
Philip Hartigan: Hecho En Cuba University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
Mary Alice Johnston: Faces of Paris University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery
Ioan Florea University of Illinois Springfield Visual Arts Gallery

2005
D(igital)fraged University of West Florida Art Gallery