elin o'Hara slavick is an interdisciplinary artist, poet, professor, curator, critic and activist. She began teaching in the department of art at the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which r ...

in 1994, where she held the titles of distinguished term professor, associate chair and director of graduate studies. Sheis currently the Artist-in-Residence in the College of Health Sciences, UC, Irvine. She was the Huntington Art and Research Fellow at Caltech in 2022.

Career

Slavick received a BA from

Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College is a private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York. The college models its approach to education after the Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials. Sarah Lawrence scholarship, particularly i ...

and a MFA in photography from the

School of the Art Institute of Chicago The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is a private art school associated with the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) in Chicago, Illinois. Tracing its history to an art students' cooperative founded in 1866, which grew into the museum an ...

. Her work has been exhibited internationally in both solo and group exhibitions. Her published books include ''Bomb After Bomb: A Violent Cartography'' (with a forward from

Howard Zinn Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922January 27, 2010) was an American historian, playwright, philosopher, socialist thinker and World War II veteran. He was chair of the history and social sciences department at Spelman College, and a political sc ...

) and ''After Hiroshima'' (with an essay by James Elkins). She was once represented by Cohen Gallery in Los Angeles. In 2018, she has published a chapbook of

Surrealist Surrealism is a cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists depicted unnerving, illogical scenes and developed techniques to allow the unconscious mind to express itself. Its aim was, according to ...

poems entitled ''Cameramouth'' (SurVision Books, Ireland.)

Personal life

Slavick was raised by a German mother and a Catholic father, and began taking photographs as a young child. Her parents are progressive pacifists, activists again war and hunger, greed and corruption. Slavick is married to

epidemiologist Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population. It is a cornerstone of public health, and shapes policy decisions and evidenc ...

br>David Richardson
and has two children.

References

External links

Official website

After Hiroshima book

Shoutout LA

Atomic Photographers Guild

Dark Archive, ExhibitionReview

Holding History in Our Hand book
{{DEFAULTSORT:Slavick, Elin OHara Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Sarah Lawrence College alumni School of the Art Institute of Chicago alumni University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty Surrealist poets