COLLEEN MULLINS
UPCOMING EDUCATIONAL SERIES
Publish Your Photography Book
(Special Guest)
Colleen Mullins is a photographer and book artist. She has garnered numerous grants and fellowships, including two McKnight Fellowships, four Minnesota State Arts Board Grants, and in 2020, she was a nominee for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award for her project Expositions are the timekeepers of progress. Additionally, she has been an artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center, the Penland School of Crafts Winter Residency, and In Cahoots Residency. Mullins' work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston-Hirsch Library, US Embassy in Moscow, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, Southeast Museum of Photography, and University of Arizona Special Collections, among others. Her publications include Photo District News (PDN), The Oxford American Eyes on the South, The New York Times Lens Blog, and numerous textbooks. She has authored articles for Afterimage and PDNedu, and occasionally independently writes reviews of books. Recent exhibitions include Griffin Museum of Photography, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, and The Georgia Center for the Book.
She is a member of the Rolls and Tubes Collective and lives and works in San Francisco.
About Rolls and Tubes:
The commodification of the commonplace was a running theme of the COVID-19 pandemic. Having made homebodies of us all, the COVID-19 crisis created absurd rolling shortages, of flour, hair dye, and of course, toilet paper. This was the genesis of the work by the Rolls & Tubes Collective. In this work, each of the four artists reinterpreted a known photograph in the arc of contemporary, and the history of photography, utilizing toilet paper as an element of the image.
In August of 2021, Rolls and Tubes released a short-run book of forty of the over-100 images in their catalog that was quickly snapped up after 18 hours on sale. Their exhibition Rolls and Tubes: A History of Photography originated at the Tilt Institute for the Contemporary Image in late 2021, was shown in San Francisco this winter, and will be on view at the Griffin Museum of Photography, June 1 – July 30, 2023.
