About my journey...
Bio
Photo by Philip Garcia.
Danea Males is an artist and educator living in Greenville, South Carolina. She grew up in rural East Texas, and earned her Master of Fine Arts degree at Texas A&M University Commerce in 2008. In recent years, Danea has been implementing antique, photographic processes in the documentation of landscape and home.
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Education
Master of Fine Arts in Photography, 2008
Texas A&M University Commerce, Commerce, Texas
Bachelor of Arts in Photography, 2003
Texas A&M University Commerce, Commerce, Texas
Associate of Science in Photography, 2000
Kilgore College, Kilgore, Texas
Professional Experience
Interim Professor
Lander University, Greenwood, South Carolina, Spring 2025
Photography I, Photography III, Photography Studio
Adjunct Professor
Lander University, Greenwood, South Carolina, 2018 - 2025 (Current)
Art Appreciation, Communications Photography, History of Photography
Adjunct Professor
Spartanburg Community College, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 2018 - 2019
Art Appreciation
Exhibitions and Social Media Assistant
Southeast Center for Photography, Greenville, South Carolina, 2017 - 2019
Assisted with matting, framing, installation and deinstallation of exhibitions. Ran social media platforms and hosted Instagram takeovers.
Adjunct Professor
Northeast Texas Community College, Mt. Pleasant, Texas, 2011 - 2017
Digital Photography I, Introduction to Art Appreciation, Digital Photography II, Appreciation of the Humanities
Adjunct Professor
Texas A&M University Commerce, Commerce, Texas, 2008 - 2010
History of Contemporary Photography, Survey of Photographic History, Critical Thinking, Visual Perception, Photography I
Solo Exhibitions
Not My Home, Cabin Floor Records, Greenville, SC, 2017
Not My Home, Whatley Center for Performing Arts, Mt. Pleasant, TX, 2016
Observations of American Roadside Culture, TCC PHOTO Gallery, Longview, TX, 2010
Observations of American Roadside Culture, TAMUC University Gallery, Commerce, TX, 2008
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Faculty and Alumni Exhibition, Lander University, Greenwood, SC
Less is More, Arapahoe Community College, Littleton CO
2023 Main Exhibition for Slow Exposures Photography Festival, Concord, GA
Nice; 01, Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD
2022 The Montgomery Photo Festival, Montgomery, AL
2019 Artisphere Artists of the Upstate, Greenville, SC
Main Exhibition for Slow Exposures Photography Festival, Concord, GA
2018 Home, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
To Do, To Undergo, To Look, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC (co-curator)
XI, Lander University Gallery, Greenwood, SC
Focus on Photography, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX
2017 Landscape, Grand or Personal, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC
Open, Vermont Center for Photography, Brattleboro, VT
2016 Perspectives, Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview, TX
2013 Photography Alumni Exhibition, Anne Dean Turk Fine Arts Gallery, Kilgore, TX
Musings: 18th Annual Photo Competition, Photo Center Northwest, Seattle, WA
SPE Members’ Exhibition and Antiquarian Avant-Garde Photography: Works by the North Texas Alternative Process Group, Visual Arts Center Gallery, Starkville, MS
2010 Old Stomping Grounds and New Frontiers: A touching tale of how Pancho Villa taught me to swim, Brick and Bombs, Baton Rouge, LA
Two-Person Exhibitions & Collaborations
Home-Land, Black Hills State University, Spearfish, SD, 2025
Home-Land, Lander University, Greenwood, SC, 2024
Some Kind of Blue, Slow Exposures Photography Festival, Zebulon, GA, 2022
Some Kind of Blue, Under the Magnolia, Lindale, TX, 2022
Artist Lectures & Workshops
Some Kind of Blue, artist talk, Slow Exposures, Zebulon, GA, 2022
Cyanotype workshop, Under the Magnolia, Lindale, TX, 2022
Lecturer, Environmental Portraiture, ATPI, Austin Community College, Austin, TX, 2014
Lecturer, Treece, Kansas 66778, SPESC Regional Conference, Mississippi State University, Starkville, MS, 2012
Lecturer, Treece, Kansas 66778, ATPI, University of Texas, Arlington, TX, 2012
Lecturer, The World Through a Plastic Lens, The Visual Aesthetics of Holga Imagery, ATPI, University of Texas, Arlington, TX, 2008
Curatorial Experience
To do, to undergo, to look, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, co-curator, 2018
Awards & Grants
Part-time Faculty Member of the Year, Lander University, Greenwood, SC, 2025
Artist Project Grant, Metropolitan Arts Council, Greenville, SC, 2024
Publications
Home-Land, Lenscratch, October 3, 2023
Common Ground, Borderline Press, Issue 2, 2023
Carolina Muse, Volume 2, Issue 03, 2022
Treece, Kansas 66778, The Recollective, 2013
Treece, Kansas 66778, Escape Into Life, 2011
Kilgore New Herald, May 6, 2007