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About

     Primarily working with Polaroid film, Thelma Harris is able to capture emotionally charged imagery while evoking a sense of nostalgia. She combines portrait and street photography styles in a way that conveys change within herself and her environment. As society moves toward digital technologies not only has our sense of photography altered, but so has our physical landscape. Using Polaroid photography Harris is able to create a dialog with viewers that leaves them wondering if these tangible photographs are relics of the past much like many of the objects in her images.

Education

2016

Central Washington University

Bachelor of Fine Arts concentration in Painting and Photography 

Member

2020
Current active member of Postcard Collective

 

Awards

2016

Juror's Choice Award, Queer Art Exhibition

Solo and Group Exhibitions

2022

Big Spooky Art Show, Seconduse, Seattle, WA

Chase the Light, PCNW, Seattle, WA

 

2021

Modern Margins, Alma Mater, Tacoma, WA

Chase the Light, PCNW, Seattle, WA

 

2020

Modern Womxn, Alma Mater, Tacoma, WA

Chase the Light, PCNW, Seattle, WA

2019

B-Side, Thunderbird Bar, Portland, OR

Planned Obsolescence, Shunpike, Seattle, WA

Modern Womxn, Alma Mater, Tacoma, WA

Evanescence, Helen S. Smith Gallery, Auburn, WA

The Green Show, DrewBoy creative, Richland, WA

Chase the Light, PCNW, Seattle, WA

2018

Everyone's $50, The Alice, Seattle, WA

Art Show by the Society of Artists Who Make Things for People to Look At, DrewBoy Creative, Richland, WA

Chase the Light, PCNW, Seattle, WA

2017

6x6 NW, Shoreline Lake Forest Park, Shoreline, WA

2016

More Than Mundane, University House Issaquah, Issaquah, WA

Pop Up Art Show, Chihuly Garden and Glass, Seattle, WA

The Breaking of the Shell, Gallery 231, Ellensburg, WA 

Veteran Artist Collaborative, Clymer Museum and Gallery, Ellensburg, WA

2015

Painting Exhibition, Wine Works, Ellensburg, WA

2014

Impossible Exhibition, Wine Works, Ellensburg, WA 

Juried Exhibitions 

2016

Queer Art Exhibition, Gallery 420, Ellensburg, WA

Beauty of Bronze, Wenatchee Valley Museum, Wenatchee, WA

9th Annual Juried Exhibition, Collective Visions Gallery, Bremerton, WA

2015

Student Juried Exhibition, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA

2014

Student Juried Exhibition, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA

Publications 

2019

Volume 4 Issue 4, Fjords, Print

2018

Issue 110, Fraction Magazine, Online

2017

About Self, PRYME Editions, Online

2014

34th Annual Spring Photographer's Contest Finalist, Photographer's Forum 

Demonstrations 

2019

Still life photography and Emulsion lifts, Make and Create, Shoreline Lake Forest Park Arts Council, WA

2018

Emulsion lifts at The Cabins, Norfolk, CT

Emulsion lifts at Photo fest, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

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