Resume

Education

MA, Southern Studies, 2005, The University of Mississippi

BFA, Photography, 1990 The Atlanta College of Art (Presidential Scholar)

Selected Awards

2018 Atlanta Urban Design Commission, Award of Excellence for Public Works of Art

1995 Georgia Council for the Arts Individual Artist Grant

Northern Telecom New Works Fellowship

1993 The Southern Arts Foundation/National Endowment for the Arts, Regional Fellowship in Photography

1989 Lyndhurst Foundation Young Career Prize, The Lyndhurst Foundation, Chattanooga, TN

The National Dean’s List 

Who’s Who Among American Colleges and Universities 

1988 The Laura Whitner Dorsey Scholarship, The Atlanta College of Art

Teaching/Instruction/Community Outreach

2010 - Present The Journey Projects, Director Community Collaborations in visual art

2009 – 2012 Spelman College, Adjunct Professor (Computer Art/Art History)

2010 -2011 Agnes Scott College, Visiting Professor (Mixed Media Arts)

2006 – 2009 Emory University, Adjunct Professor (Photography)

2009 -2013 Evening at Emory, Instructor, Photography

Public Art Commissions and Selected Exhibitions

2019 The Ancestral Memory of Sound: Lift Every Voice and Sing, Commission, First Congregational Church, Atlanta, GA

2017 Journey to Freedom: Women of the Civil Rights Movement, (NEA) Public Art Commission, City of Atlanta Office of Cultural Affairs

2017 In Plain View, Site Specific Installation, Morgan County African American Museum, Madison, Georgia

2016 The Journey Projects, Eatonville, Florida, Site-specific installation, Zora Neale Hurston Museum, Eatonville, Florida

2016 University of Central Florida, "Storm", The Encounter: Baalu Girma and Zora Neale Hurston, commission and site-specific installation 

2015 Angels in Straight Jackets, Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, GA

Site-specific installation and collaboration with Mab Segrest, Professor of Women's Studies, Connecticut College, New London, CT

2014 Beneath the Ogirishi Tree, Fulton County Commission, Wolf Creek Library Project, Atlanta, Georgia 

2012/2019 The Ancestral Memory of Water, Site-specific Installation, First Congregational Church, Atlanta, Georgia

2011 Unraveling Miss Kitty's Cloak, Site-specific installation, Old Church, Emory University at Oxford, Georgia

2010 Mapping the Present Just Went By, Site-specific installation, Madison-Morgan Cultural Center, Madison, GA

2004/2005, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, The Chemistry of Color: The Harold A. and Ann R. Sorgenti Collection of Contemporary African-American Art 

2001/2002 Smithsonian Anacostia Museum and Center for African American History and Culture (Traveling Exhibition), Reflections in Black – A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present,  

2000 Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Austin, TX, Our New Day Begun – African-American Artists Entering the New Millennium, Traveling Exhibition – February 

2000- February 2001

1997|1998  University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID; James A Michener Museum of Art, Doylestown, PA; DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, Yellowstone Art Center, Billings, MT, Hand Colored Photography, 1839 to the Present

1996 A Guide to Juke, Hartsfield/Jackson International Airport, Atlanta, GA

1995, Atlanta, Georgia, Magdeburg, Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne, Germany; Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, Art in Atlanta

1994 Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Imagining Families, Images and Voices, 

National African-American Museum Project

1990 Fish Dreams, Mural, Adams Park Bathhouse, Atlanta, GA

Selected Residencies

2000 Artist-in-Residence, Reynoldstown Community, Atlanta, Georgia; Sponsored by the Reynoldstown Revitalization Corporation and The National Black Arts Festival, Atlanta, Georgia, “Collective Action-Artists as Agents of Change” a collaboration with artist Bongi Bengu of South Africa 

1999 Artist-in-Residence, Caversham Press, Balgowan, South Africa, W.K. Kellogg 

Foundation African Program Initiative, Fulton County Arts Council, Artists-in-Residence International 

1997 Artist-in-Residence, The University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, England, awarded by Artist-In-Residence International

1994 Artist-in-Residence, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Center, Adelaide, South Australia, Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest/Arts International, New York 

Selected Publications and Media

Bowles, Juliette, The International Review of African American Art, Vol. 14, No. 2, Page 59, Hampton University Museum, 1997

Colvin, William E., Civil Rights and Social Justice, The National Center for the Study of 

Civil Rights and African-American Culture at Alabama State University, 2010 

Dugan, Ellen, Picturing the South: 1860 to the Present, Chronicle Books, The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, 1996 

Kronowitz, Debra, “Welcome to My Playhouse: Storytelling Dances Inside Lynn MarshallLinnemeier’s Head, Art New Orleans, Winter 2010, Vol 1, No. 1, 

Marshall-Linnemeier, Lynn, Pavich-Lindsay, Melanie and Tuttle, Lisa, Look Back, Nexus 

Press, Atlanta, Georgia, 2002 

McNamara, Mary, “have yourself a very retro Christmas”, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Page 23, December 21, 1997 

Willis, Deborah, Reflections in Black, A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, London, 2000 

Willis, Deborah and Carla Williams, The Black Female Body: A Photographic History, Temple University Press, Philadelphia, PA, 2002 

Wardlaw, Alvia; Royse, Lisa; Dierks, Chars, Our New Day Begun-African American Artists Entering the New Millennium, Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, Austin, TX 2000 

Selected Collections

Boston Consulting Group

Fulton County Georgia 2019 Art Acquisition Program

The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA

The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Clark Atlanta University Galleries

Private Collections