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KELLEY KIRKPATRICK
Kelley Kirkpatrick joined the faculty of CGCC in August 2000, following eleven years at Mesa Community College. She has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography from Arizona State University and a Bachelor of Arts in Art from Humboldt State University, Arcata, California. Kelley is currently teaching all levels of Photography and Computer-Photographic Imaging. She is excited to be part of the growing program at CGCC and hopes to expand the photography area to include more advanced and special interest classes. Kelley is actively exhibiting her own work, which she describes as documentary portraiture. For the last four years she has been photographing in Portugal, focusing primarily on musicians, artists, and her own experiences as an outsider awkwardly navigating through Portuguese language and culture. In June of 2000 she taught her first workshop there, in a converted convent in the town of Montemor-o-Novo. Kelley's photographs have been shown recently at Northlight Gallery in the School of Art, Arizona State University, the Mesa Art Center, the University of Toledo Center for the Visual Arts, Amore Mills Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona, and Glendale Community College, Glendale, Arizona. For more information about her work or the Photography program at CGCC, call (480) 732-7291 or email: kelley.kirkpatrick@cgcmail.maricopa.edu