| Renee Billingslea received an MFA in Photography in 2003 from San Jose State University after earning a BFA in Photography from Southern Oregon University, and serving two years in the Peace Corps, in the country of Kiribati. In addition to teaching, Renee is an exhibiting artist who combines her talents in photography with textile and mixed media creating environments that address historical, racial and social issues. Her installation "Lynching in America" is currently touring throughout several Academic Institutes, and her most recent installation entitled "abductions" will be opening in the fall of 2004 at San Luis Obispo Art Center. If Renee is not teaching or making art, she can be found spending quality time with her husband Aldo and their daughter Trinity, or weeding her vegetable garden. |