Dana Potter

Assistant Professor, Art and Design

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Dana Potter is a designer, artist, and educator specialized in printmaking, graphic design, and media art. For six years, Potter has worked as the Senior User Experience Designer for Fortepan US, a national public resource for vernacular photography (funded by National Archives and National Endowment for the Humanities). Potter is the graphic designer for and co-coordinator of Open Air Media Festival, an outdoor media arts program hosted at PS1 in Iowa City (funded by the NEA and Andy Warhol Foundation). Potter’s work has been exhibited in competitive national and international exhibitions including “Celebrate Print Exhibition” Lawrence Art Center 2023; “2020 Screen-print Biennial” Troy, NY; “14th Annual Master’s Pieces” Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH; “9th International Printmaking Bienal Douro,” Douro, Portugal 2018; “2017 Beyond Printmaking 5,” Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas; and “Stand Out Prints 2016,” Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, MN. She has attended residencies at the Morgan Papermaking Conservatory in Cleveland, Oh; The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wrocław, Poland; and Arts Quarter Budapest, Budapest, Hungary.

Education

  • MFA University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville, TN
  • BFA University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA

Research Interests

As a UX/UI designer I work with web developers, historians, and social justice activists and together we create interactive web projects that tell stories or serve as resources for storytelling. The collaborative public web projects I work hold an interest in humans and their stories over algorithms and data, shifting power in the digital landscape to under-represented voices. My ongoing work as a user experience designer extends the research that defines my creative practice. I first learned about–and got the opportunity to utilize biometric technologies such as eye-trackers and computer-mouse-movement trackers by user-testing for web projects. In my studio practice I investigate and create work in reponse to the mechanics, visualizations, and applications of biometric technologies. I maintain an active presence in the national printmaking community by organizing projects that connect print with emerging technologies under the moniker HiLo Arts Lab.

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