Effi Karakaidos
Ms. Karakaidos received a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of California, Los Angeles and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Vermont College in Visual Art. Before accepting a full time teaching position with The Art Institute of Pittsburgh – Online Division, Ms. Karakaidos taught photography, foundations and image manipulation courses for The Art Institute of California – San Diego, where she was also the Gallery Committee Chair and the Photo Club adviser. She has had two solo museum exhibitions at the Museum of the Living Artist in San Diego, and has participated in and won prizes in numerous juried exhibitions including First Prize at the San Diego Museum of Art Artists’ Guild Juried Exhibition, awarded by Scott Atkinson, Head Curator of the San Diego Museum of Art, and Jurors’ Award at the Cannon Gallery Biennial Juried Exhibition in Carlsbad.
Brianna Burnett
Brianna Burnett currently lives and works in San Antonio, Texas. She received her Bachelor of Art from Austin College in Sherman, Texas and her Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Texas Tech University. Brianna has photographed internationally for publications and nonprofits, taught elementary art, and studied at the Glasgow School of Art. She has exhibited nationally and internationally in places such as Suchitoto, El Salvador and self-published “A Little Space – Growing Up Salvadorian”. Brianna is a founding member of Clamp Light Studios, a co-op of studios and an artist run gallery in San Antonio, Texas. Brianna’s current photographs are investigations into the ideas of storytelling and narrative. She works with alternative processes to create one-of-a-kind photographs and small edition series which reference experience, past connections, community and story.
www.briannaburnett.com
www.clamplightstudios.com
Damon Sauer
Damon Sauer is an artist and educator based in Phoenix, Arizona. His fine art work includes an ongoing collaborative practice with Julie Anand. Their work investigates notions of boundaries, language and perspective through diverse photographic media and technologies; it has been exhibited nationally at venues including RayKo Gallery in San Francisco, the LA Center for Digital Art and the El Paso Museum of Art.
Sauer’s personal Fine Art work involves photographic investigations of residue and mediation.
He has also worked on editorial projects for the Virginia G. Piper Charitable trust and other commercial photographic projects.
Damon Sauer currently serves as a full-time faculty member at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh - Online Division, and has previously taught at Phoenix area community colleges and universities, as well as serving as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis. Sauer will be co-teaching a course at Penland School of Crafts in the Summer of 2011. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of New Mexico in 2005.