About my journey...

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