Alumni Highlight: Dana Mariko Chang

Dana Mariko Chang ’15 (Photography BFA, Ecosystems, Sustainability and Justice minor) is an Oakland-based artist and photographer with a give attention to the intersection of meals and group. Growing up in Northern California, her household taught her the function of meals as a connector: meals ties collectively communities, relationships, cultures, and households. Whether it’s a tangerine grown in her grandmother’s yard or salmon caught by her mom within the San Francisco Bay, she realized that meals must be grown and ready with care; a meal grew to become an expression of affection between people.

Dana started exploring meals and images whereas incomes a BFA in Photography at MICA, the place she developed relationships with cooks and farmers with a dedication to sustainability in Baltimore. How to Eat Meat (2013) and Baltimore’s Bounty (2015) are the culminating photograph journalistic books she produced to have fun these cooks and farmers. After incomes my diploma, she moved again to California to work as a Producer and Photographer at a business meals images studio for over 6 years. Select purchasers embrace Williams-Sonoma, San Francisco Chronicle, Good Eggs, the North Face, Adobe, Queer Soup Night.

Q: What recommendation would you give a future artwork scholar?
A: Stay curious! Take courses that curiosity you no matter how “useful” you suppose they’ll be to your profession. I beloved Typography with Tony Rutka and Urban Theory with Kate Khatib and John Duda- and I discover myself nonetheless referring to the data from these courses to this present day.

Q: What are you thus far?
A: I’m presently a photographer for Williams Sonoma. On any given day I could possibly be taking pictures meals, cookware, cutlery, or generally even furniture- there’s by no means a uninteresting second!

Q: What are your future plans/aspirations?
A: I’d like to shoot a cookbook!