Deborah Springstead Ford Information

Deborah (Springstead) Ford recently retired from being the Executive Director of PLAYA , in Summer Lake Oregon, a residency program for artists, writers, scientists and others involved with research and creative inquiry. She has been an arts advocate, educator and program administrator in addition to being a professional visual artist for over 30 years. She studied photography at the Minneapolis College of Art & Design, Arizona State University and Goddard College. Ms. Ford has a BFA in Photography, a Masters in Photography/Art Education and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts. She taught photography full time from 1982-2013, the last 19 years at Prescott College in northern Arizona. She also has taught a wide variety of photo-based workshops from Yuma Symposium and Sitka Center for Arts and Ecology to Penland School of Craft. She has received numerous awards and fellowships, including two Montana Arts Council grants (2019 and 2020), four Arizona Commission on the Arts Grants (including an Artist Project Grant 2009) and participated in many Artist-in-Residence programs around the country including the Biosphere 2, Ucross Foundation, Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Arts, Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Joshua Tree National Park, Isle Royale National Park, and Aspen Guard Station to name a select few. Her work is found in numerous public and private collections including the Center for Creative Photography, California Museum of Photography (Riverside), Northlight Gallery, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology among others. Her work has been exhibited nationally and recent publications include a profile in Black and White Magazine, Issue #82 , photographs in Orion (November/December 2013) magazine and images in Undermining: A Wild Ride Through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West (by Lucy Lippard) . 91 Upper Hawk Valley Road, Columbus, MT 59019 Beauty Passing Through Us: Natural History and Art as Intervention, Natural History Institute, June 24-Fall 2021, Prescott, AZ. The Space of Hope: A Collective ...