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Keeara Rhoades, MFA

Associate Professor of New Media and Photography, CLASS

Ms. Keeara Rhoades鈥� life has included a camera since she was 8 years old. The tool used to catalog landscapes and foster creative exploration is always nearby. 

鈥淚 had a Kodak disc camera, and I would take pictures of pets, siblings and friends,鈥� she said. 鈥淚t took off from there.鈥�

The hobby turned into a passion and that passion led to art. Her work explores liminal spaces within perception, transformation, and the slippages between memory, labor, and time. Growing up in Wyoming, surrounded by vast landscapes and deep histories of extraction, industry, and erasure, Ms. Rhoades developed an early fascination with the remnants of time and memory.

She now shares that passion with students, as she 鈥済ives an above and beyond gift of time and talent to the students, department, and university,鈥� a nominator wrote.  

She said she likes to have a lot of contact time with students 鈥� whether in the classroom or the studio 鈥� so they can explore and create art.

鈥淚 love getting to know my students,鈥� she said. 鈥淚 love the challenge of getting them to be able to critically think so they can find their voice.鈥�

Her work as an educator goes beyond teaching and creating art. As the sole new media professor, Ms. Rhoades takes on the responsibility to make sure that all 20 machines in the Mac lab have updated software and operating systems and students have access to functional digital and film cameras, video cameras, programmable lighting kits, printers, dark room enlargers, timers, and fresh chemistry.

鈥淚n addition to maintaining guru status in the digital art world, Keeara, shares her photography expertise with the department by documenting the Northcutt Steele Gallery Exhibitions for publication,鈥� a nominator wrote.