Carol
Panaro-Smith received her BS in Art Education from State
University College at Buffalo and an MFA at Arizona State University.
She has taught photography and mixed media for over 20 years
in the valley. Her photography and mixed media work has been
exhibited extensively for over a decade. Her area of specialization
is alternative photographic processes, mixed media and artists’
books. Recent honors include an artist in residency fellowship
at the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts
and a national grant from the Surdna Foundation of New York
. Carol founded Alchemy Studio Workshops in 1998 with the vision
of bringing the highest quality workshops in the arts to the
community. She currently teaches part time at Arizona State
University and Scottsdale Community College and is co-director
of Alchemy Studio with partner, James Hajicek.
James
Hajicek is a professor in the School of Art at Arizona
State University. He received his BFA from the Kansas City Art
Institute and his MFA from the University of New Mexico. His
area of specialization is late 19th century photographic printing
processes. His work has been exhibited internationally over
the last thirty years and can be found in many significant public
collections including the International Museum of Photography
at the George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, and the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
France. He has received several National Endowment for the Arts
Fellowships for his own photography and his work with obscure
photographic printing processes.
