Lecture: Tuesday November 14, 5:30-6:30 PM – Artist Lecturer - Stacy Kranitz. Art and Architecture Building, Room 109. 

Stacy Kranitz was born in Kentucky and currently lives in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Tennessee. She will be lecturing in Knoxville on Tuesday, November 14, at 5 PM in Room 109 of the Art + Architecture building and the following day she will be spending time with students in classes and studios.

She is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow. Her work was shortlisted for the Louis Roederer Discovery Award in 2019. She has presented solo exhibitions of her photographs at the Diffusion Festival of Photography in Cardiff, Wales, the Rencontres d’Arles in Arles, France, the Cortona on the Move festival in Cortona, Italy  and the Tennessee Triennial. Her photographs are in several public collections, including the Harvard Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, and Duke Universities, Archive of Documentary Arts.

Kranitz works as an assignment photographer for publications including Time, National Geographic, the New York Times, Vanity Fair, the Atlantic and Mother Jones. Her first monograph, As it Was Give(n) to Me, was published by Twin Palms in 2022. It was shortlisted for a Paris Photo – Aperture First Photobook Award.