Professor Margaret Stratton (1953), Seattle, Washington, is a photographer, video artist and educator. Stratton has received five National Endowment for the Arts Awards in Photography, Installation and New Media. Her video, Kiss The Boys and Make Them Die, received the grand festival prize for the Best New Film/Video of 1995 by the Canadian Film Board and was screened at the Berlin Film Festival. Stratton's work in video is distributed by the Video Data Bank, Art Institute of Chicago. Her work documenting prisons, Detained in Purgatory: America's Abandoned Prisons, was published as Contact Sheet #110, LightWork, Syracuse, New York, 1999. The Living and The Dead: Resurrecting The Neapolitan Cult of The Skull, a monograph of her photographs of Naples, will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2010. Her current work, large scale panoramas of cities and rural towns in China, engages visual dichotomies of global modernization and consumer culture.

Publications

• Exhibition - Artist. Event held at Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Louisiana. Sponsored by Society for Photographic Education

• Exhibition - States Project: Iowa Margaret Stratton - Major Participant Artist. Event held at online. Sponsored by Lensscratch. Further details can be found at http://lenscratch.com/2015/09/margaret-stratton-states-project-iowa/

• Exhibition - SPE Juried Traveling  Exhibition - Major Participant Artist. Event held at Snap! You Are Here in Orlando, Florida. Sponsored by The University of Central Florida. In collaboration with Deborah Willis (Juror), Carol McCusker. Further details can be found at https://www.facebook.com/events/902696053106841/

• Exhibition - Site Unseen: Incarceration - Major Participant Artist. Los Angeles, California. Sponsored by Los Angeles Valley College. In collaboration with Shelia Pinkel (Curator).

• Exhibition - Site Unseen: Incarceration - Major Participant Artist. Event held at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Sponsored by Hampshire College Film and Video. In collaboration with Shelia Pinkel (Curator). 

Awards

• Gambrinus Fellowship, Dortmund Technical University
• Arts and Humanities Initiative Award, University of Iowa
• Iowa Humanities Major Project Award, Humanities Iowa
• Iowa Art Council Mini Grant, Iowa Arts Council