Mark Wittig

Title: “Educational Structures”

On View: August 1 - August 28, 2022

Bio: In 2021, Mark Wittig’s project Structures that Transformed Education was awarded an Artistic Innovations Grant, a program of Mid-America Arts Alliance. This project is generously funded by Mid-America Arts Alliance, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Arkansas Arts Council. The financial support from these organizations supported photographing and building architectural sculptures of schools that played a role in changing education in America. This grant supported Wittig’s creative practice, a solo exhibition, an artist workshop, and a panel discussion, at the Arkansas Regional Innovation Hub in North Little Rock, Arkansas.

In 1995, Wittig earned a Bachelor of Architecture with a Minor in Painting from the University of Arkansas. In 2003, he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography & Drawing with a Minor in Art History from The University of Tulsa. In 2008, he earned a Master of Fine Arts in Photography & Open Media from The University of Tulsa. With this diverse education, Wittig has worked as an architect, educator, and artist. For the past four years, he was the Photography and Design Instructor at North Little Rock High School, the large urban public high school in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Starting in the Fall of 2022 he will be an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma in Chickasha, Oklahoma.

Artist’s Website: http://markwittig.com/

Work Location: 260 E 3rd St. Tulsa, OK 74120