FRAMEMAKER - Key Persons

Malcolm Glass is a local award-winning poet and APSU emeritus professor of English.

Mitzi Cross is an award-winning photographer, teacher and writer. She has taught writing and photography workshops in high schools, colleges, and other venues. She has exhibited her photography in numerous galleries throughout the United States. Four of her most recent works were selected for Exposed: The Contemporary Nude exhibit at The 1650 Gallery in Los Angeles, Calif. Her photography, poetry, and fiction have appeared in several publications including FLASH-POINT, North Carolina Scenes, Number One, In Focus, The Scribbling Mob, Body Wisdom and Southern Land Poetry Review.

Susan Bryant was born and raised in Terre Haute, Ind. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Painting from Indiana University and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Indiana State University. She is a Professor of Art at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tenn., where she has taught photography for the past 36 years. Bryant's artwork has been included in over 100 (selected) juried and invitational group exhibits and 28 (selected) solo exhibits across the United States. She is the recipient of a Tennessee Arts Commission Fellowship in photography. She is the recipient of a Kodak award for photographic educators through the Santa Fe Photographic workshop. She is the recipient of the Ovation Award for Individual Artist from the Center for Excellence in Creative Arts in Clarksville, Tenn. She has been awarded over 20 faculty research grants through Austin Peay State University. She is the recipient of two fellowship at the Hambidge Center Artist Residency (2016 & 2017) and three residencies at A.I.R. Studio Paducah (2015, 2016, 2018).