Gregory Spaid joined Kenyon's faculty in 1979 after receiving his MFA degree from Indiana University and teaching at Berea College. Spaid has recently returned to teaching full-time after serving for nine years in the academic administration, including six year as Kenyon's provost. He teaches courses in photography, color, and advanced studio work. His artwork is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, the International Museum of Photography, and the J. Paul Getty Museum, where his photographs were recently exhibited.

Areas of Expertise

Photography, mixed media, drawing

Education

1976 M.F.A Indiana University, IN
1969 B.A. with High Honors, Kenyon College, Gambier, OH

Selected Publications

Nantucket Geometry Lessons: Photographs of Nantucket Island Architecture by Gregory Spaid, Safe Harbor Books, New London, NH, Spring, 2002

The Man Who Created Paradise, written by Gene Logsdon, with photographs by Gregory Spaid and introduction by Wendell Berry, Ohio University Press, Fall, 2001

Grace: Photographs of Rural America by Gregory Spaid, with essays by Wendell Berry and Gene Logsdon, Safe Harbor Books, New London, NH, 2000

Ohio magazine, photography, July, 1995, summer, 1993 and December, 1983

Kenyon Review, cover photographs, vol. XXII 3/4, 2000, vol. XXI, 1-3, 1998-99, vol. XVII, 1-3, 1994-95

Courses Taught

Arts 101: Color and Design
Arts 106: Photography I
Arts 226: The Photography of Invention
Arts 227: Photography: contemporary Practice
Arts 228: Photography II
Arts 229: Documentary Photography
Arts 320: Color Photography
Arts 321: Digital Photography
Arts 480, 481: Advanced Studio part 1 and 2

Artist's Statement

"The experience of making art has great value for all students, whether or not they continue on in the arts as a profession. I construct my studio art courses so that students will acquire new perspectives from which to see and understand the world around them. In my courses I try to promote visual intelligence and creativity, which are values increasingly important for liberally educated persons. At the same time, my courses convey the rigor and dedication that serious art making requires. Above all, students learn by doing -- by being fully engaged in the process of making art. I believe it is in the struggle and the fun of making something that really matters that the passions and insights of the creative process are best revealed."