Join us for a talk by Smithville artist Stacy Kranitz, the 2024–25 recipient of Austin Peay State University’s Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts (CECA) Tennessee Artist Fellowship.
The CECA Tennessee Artist Fellowship was created to celebrate contemporary art and to support the continued creative work of exceptional Tennessee artists. Unlike other fellowships, nominations and applications from artists are not solicited. Rather, a committee of APSU Art + Design faculty compiles a list of outstanding artists from across the state and selects the fellowship recipient. Through the generous support of the Center of Excellence in the Creative Arts (CECA), the selected artist receives $5,000 to aid in the creation of new artwork and additional funding for an artist lecture.
The selection committee states: “Stacy Kranitz’s honest, stark, and hauntingly beautiful work immediately caught the committee’s attention. She is not just a Tennessee artist but an artist whose work speaks about Tennessee. She is an obvious choice for this fellowship.”
About Stacy Kranitz
Working within the documentary tradition, Stacy Kranitz makes photographs that acknowledge the limits of photographic representation. Kranitz was born in Kentucky and currently lives in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Tennessee. She is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow. Additional awards include the Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography (2017), a Southern Documentary Fund Research and Development grant (2020), a Puffin Foundation grant (2022), and a Center for Documentation Fellowship (2023). Her work was shortlisted for the Louis Roederer Discovery Award (2019). She has presented solo exhibitions of her photographs at the Diffusion Festival of Photography in Cardiff, Wales (2015); the Rencontres d’Arles in Arles, France; the Cortona on the Move festival in Cortona, Italy (2022); and the Tennessee Triennial (2023). Her photographs are in several public collections including the Harvard Art Museum; the Museum of Fine Art, Houston; and Duke University’s Archive of Documentary Arts. She works as an assignment photographer for publications including Time, National Geographic, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and Mother Jones. Her first monograph, As it Was Give(n) to Me, was published by Twin Palms in 2022. It was shortlisted for a Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation First Photobook Award.
To learn more about Kranitz, visit her website or follow her on Instagram @stacykranitz.
