 Stephen
Althouse
Professor of Photography; Chair, Department of Fine Arts
salthouse@mail.barry.edu
| Teaching Philosophy |
| “My goal in teaching is to encourage students
to discover more about themselves, to allow my students the
freedom to search for something meaningful, and to ultimately
help them find a truly satisfying form of creative visual expression.” |
Bio:
Born in Washington, D.C. and raised in rural Pennsylvania,
Stephen Althouse received his Master of Fine Arts degree in Sculpture
and Photography from Virginia Commonwealth University. His undergraduate
study in sculpture was at Tyler School of Art, Rollins College,
Florida, and the University of Miami. His utilization of photography grew out of a need
to document, and thereby indirectly preserve his fragile pieces
of sculpture that were often temporary assemblages of found objects.
The sculptural attributes of making and manipulating subject matter
have carried over into his large-scale photography and digital imaging.
He was awarded a position as an artist-in-residence at the Museum
of Modern and Contemporary Art in Liège, Belgium, through
a Fulbright Research Grant, and he received an Epson Corporate Artists
Grant in support of his fine art digital printing. In addition to being widely
exhibited, his artwork has been extensively collected by major museums
throughout North America, South America, and Europe.
| Selected Museum Collections: |
| Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts |
| Centre d’Art et de Culture Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France |
| Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico |
| Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
| Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan |
| Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France |
| Münchner Stadtmuseum - Museum of Photography, Munich, Germany |
| Museum of Art, Bern, Switzerland |
| Museum of Art, Lima, Peru |
| Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany |
| Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France |
| Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria |
| Museum of Modern Art - Casa de Cultura, Quito, Ecuador |
| Museum of Photography, Antwerp, Belgium |
| National Museum of Fine Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Polaroid International Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England |
| Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany |
| Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Tokyo Photographic Cultural Center, Tokyo, Japan |
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