Margaret Holland Adams is a Professor of Photography at Radford University. and formerly

The Corcoran College of Arts and Design, George Washington University. for 18 years.

She is an artist and independent curator whose works cross pollinates between analog photography and new media.

She lives in Radford Va. She received her BFA in 2001 from The Corcoran College of Art and Design and her MFA

from Tyler School of Art, Temple University. She has studied at The Maine Media Workshops

and under alternative process masters Jerry Spagnoli, Mark and France Osterman, and

Christopher James. Her work is included in both editions of The Book of Alternative Processes

by Christopher James. In 2008 she was named “Best Fine Art Photographer” by FotoWeek DC

and in 2011 curated Examinations in Light, a large scale new media projection event for

PROject/proJECT in Roanoke, Virginia. Margaret was born in Winston -Salem, NC, raised in

Statesville, NC and spends her summers photographing on her family farm in Cleveland, NC.

She uses an 8x10 view camera, toned silver gelatin prints, appropriation, video and sound installations to

explore portraiture, soil histories,  southern vernacular, family and the legacy of war.