Interview with Gregory Foster-Rice
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Gregory Foster-Rice (he/him) is a historian and educator. He was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois and moved around the country in his formative years, including Houston, Texas where he earned his MA in Art History at Rice University. He returned home to Chicago to earn his PhD in Art History at Northwestern University. He became an assistant professor in photography at Columbia College Chicago, and currently is an associate professor and Associate Provost for Student Retention Initiatives at Columbia. He has curated several exhibits, such as The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago and Los Angeles, 1960-1980 at the Art Institute of Chicago and Princeton University Art Museum, an exhibition which received the Philip Johnson Award from the Society of Architectural Historians, and the exhibit The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity & Politics, which first opened at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in 2018 and was moved to DePauw University in 2022. Length: 87:23. Transcript: 29 pages.
Publication Date
Fall 2024
Publisher
Columbia College Chicago
City
Chicago
Keywords
art history, photography, technology, artificial intelligence, Chicago, Illinois, teaching
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Communication | History | Photography | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Recommended Citation
Erell, Millea, "Interview with Gregory Foster-Rice" (2024). Photography at Columbia College Chicago, 2024-2025. 7.
https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/photo_oh/7
Comments
The Photography at Columbia College Chicago oral history project documents the program taught here from the perspective of faculty and alumni. Conducted as part of a larger Columbia College Chicago oral history project focused on capturing oral histories from people who shaped the modern Columbia, these interviews offer personal narrative insights into the evolution and history of the college photography program. Students in the Oral History: The Art of the Interview class taught by Dr. Erin McCarthy, conducted the interviews.