BFA 1992 Kansas City Art Institute
MFA 1995 Arizona State University
Research/Creative areas of interest:
Photography and its intersection with ecology and landscape theory
Teaching areas of interest:
Photography
Foundation/First-year Design and Drawing
Professional Practices for Studio Artists
Japanese Visual Culture, Study Abroad,
Courses regularly taught:
Intermediate and Advanced Photography
Film and Darkroom
Courses occasionally taught:
Visual Literacy 140A: Analysis and Composition
Visual Literacy 140B: Perceptual Drawing
Capstone Art Experience
Japanese Visual Culture in Context- Summer Study Abroad
Selected University and Professional Service:
UNL Study Abroad Advisory Council 2008-
UNL Peer Review of Teaching Project Leader 2005-
Dept. of Art and Art History Graduate Committee 2006-
UNL Visual Literacy Program Coordinator 2007-2010, 2000
UNL Research Council 2004-2007
Society for Photographic Education Conference Portfolio Reviewer 2007-
Associate Curator, Workspace Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Creative Work and Honors:
Dana Fritz’s creative work in photography focuses on cultivated and constructed landscapes. Her honors include several Juror’s Awards, an Arizona Commission on the Arts Fellowship, a Nebraska Arts Council/Lincoln Arts Council Impact Grant and a Rotary Foundation Group Study Exchange to Japan. She has been artist-in-residence at Villa Montalvo in Saratoga, California; Château de Rochefort-en-Terre in Brittany, France; and Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln has awarded several grants to support her work from the Office of Research and the Hixson-Lied Endowment. Fritz’s work has been published in numerous exhibition catalogs as well as in Orion, Photography Quarterly and PDNedu. Fritz’s work has been exhibited in over 60 venues in the last decade including the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Houston Center for Photography, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art as well as Château de Villandry in France an the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art in Japan. Her work is held in several collections including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; New Mexico State University, Las Cruces; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona; and Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris.
