Dana Fritz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she is member of the Visual Literacy and Graduate Faculties. Dana received a BFA from Kansas City Art Institute in 1992 and an MFA from Arizona State University 1995. Her honors include several Juror's Awards, an Arizona Commission on the Arts Fellowship, a Nebraska Arts Council/Lincoln Arts Council Impact Grant, a Rotary Foundation Group Study Exchange to Japan as well as artist residencies at Villa Montalvo in Saratoga, CA, Château de Rochefort-en-Terre in Brittany, France and Biosphere 2 in Oracle, AZ. She has received numerous UNL grants from the Research Council, Layman Trust, Hixson-Lied Endowment and Humanities Center. Her work is widely exhibited in the United States and is held in several collections including the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.