Ivette Spradlin

Ivette Spradlin

Ivette Spradlin

Ivette Spradlin is a Cuban-American photographer, video artist, and educator. She received her BFA in Photography from the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia and her MFA in Photography from Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She focuses on photographing people and their surroundings concentrating on the emotional aspects of transition, adaptation, and balance in one's life. She is a Flight School Fellow, Artist Opportunity Grant awardee, and an Art on the Walls artist through the Pittsburgh Arts Council. She has been published in Next Level Magazine, screened her films nationally, including at the Carnegie Museum of Art and Transmodern Film Festival in Baltimore. Most recently, her Oval Portrait photographs were part of a Magenta Foundation pop-up, public art project in downtown Pittsburgh and she was part of the 2014 Pittsburgh Biennial. Last week, her portrait, as part of a portrait swap project curated by Stuart Pilkington, was featured on the BBC.

She lives in Pittsburgh, PA and teaches at Carnegie Mellon University and Pittsburgh Filmmakers.

Spradlin portrait

Spradlin show