Terri Garland

• Terri Garland is an artist who specializes in photographing the social fabric of the American
• South.
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• She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1987 and her MFA in 1990. She
• teaches photography at San Jose City College.
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• As a graduate student, Garland began an examination of white Supremacist culture that  Â
• spanned over two decades, photographing individuals within the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations,
• American Nazi Party and the Christian Identity Movement.

• Since 2005, she has divided her time between Louisiana and Mississippi. Her current work,
• Louisiana, Purchased is a visual study of the ways in which we depend upon and demand,
• continuous supplies of fossil fuels and the resultant damage and ongoing destruction to coastal
• communities in Louisiana.
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• Her photographs are included in the collections of The Center for Creative Photography in
• Tucson, Arizona, The Art Institute of Chicago, The di Rosa Preserve in Napa, California, The
• Cleveland Museum of Art, Saint Elizabeth College in Morristown, New Jersey, the Bibliotech
• Nationale, Paris, France and Special Collections at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
• Among her awards are a WESTAF/NEA Fellowship, Silicon Valley Arts Council Grant, a
• Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship and a grant from the Gulf Coast Fund that was used to teach
• photography to children during the summer of 2013 in the primarily Native American
• communities of Isle de Jean Charles and Pointe-au-Chien, LA.
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