Graduate Teaching Assistant Mary Jo Titus is enrolled in the MFA in Visual Arts program and has been assigned to teach color photography in the undergraduate art program. Titus also serves as a curatorial assistant and photographer for UND Art Collections. Prior to entering the graduate program, she received her BA in Visual Arts (with a minor in Art History), a second BA as a Scholar in the Honors Program, and was academically honored by admission into Phi Beta Kappa at the University of North Dakota.

Titus’ work is based on a process of activating elements within her photographic compositions (as well as sometimes manipulating elements introduced from the outside) thereby enabling the viewer to investigate
entities previously unnoticed in the image. This process is enriched through contemporary digital technology. In
addition, the panoramic format (or free form format) used in her photographs elevates the image out of customary techniques and into a world wherein the viewer is enveloped by the work. This process, which she will continue to research as a graduate student, investigates the correlation between the photographic images, installation of the works, and the ultimate interpretive qualities produced through the merging of these aspects.

Inner Whispers: Perspective (1a). 2006. Digital photography printed on polystyerene. 22” x 28”.