Marydorsey Wanless, Assistant Professor

Art Building 108
Office: 785-670-1632
Darkroom: 785-670-2553
email: marydorsey.wanless@washburn.edu

Marydorsey Wanless is a fine art photographer and educator living in Topeka, Kansas. She is an Assistant Professor of Photography in the Art Department at Washburn University in Topeka, where she teaches black/white darkroom photography, alternative processes, and advanced digital photography.

Her work incorporates personal experiences combined with alternative photographic processes. She has exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally; and has received many awards, including the grand prize in the SoHo Gallery’s alternative photography show, The Krappy Kamera Exhibit 2009. Her work has been published in SilverShotz 2009, Art Buzz 2010, Plates to Pixels Magazine, Visual Overture Magazine, Lightleaks, Shots, and Feminist Media Studies. Her images will be included in the 3rd edition of Christopher James’s book on alternative photographic processes, and in the 2nd edition of Plastic Cameras: Toying with Creativity by Michelle Bates.

She received a Bachelors of Science in Art Education with teaching certification in 1971, and a Masters of Arts in Interior Design in 1972, both from University of Missouri at Columbia. She completed a Masters of Fine Arts in Photography from Kansas State University in 2009.

To see more work: www.marydorseywanless.com

Education:

Courses Taught:

• Photo I
• Photo II
• Documentary Photography
• Advanced Photo Techniques
• Advanced Digital Photography
• Professional Photographic Lighting
• Non-silver Alternative Processes I and II
• Independent Studies in B/W Photography
• Mural Printing

Links, Related External Web Sites:

Link to: f295.org kudos

Link to: "Krappy Kamera Contest, 2009": #32, Grand Prize Winner

Link to: Alternative Photography / Wanless

Link to: the "Invisible Age" exhibit at the Rayko Gallery in San
Francisco, Fall 2008