Adair Freeman Rutledge

512.968.0382 | 809 30^thAve, Seattle, WA 98122 | adair@adairrutledge.com

Education

2005 Post Baccalaureate Certificate, Photo Concentration, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

2004 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Graphic Design, Auburn University

Awards | Honors | Grants

2019 Seattle Art Museum’s Betty Bowen Award, Finalist

PCNW Juried Exhibition, Honorable Mention

2018 International Photography Awards, 1^stPlace Winner, “Field Sports” Category

International Photography Awards, Honorable Mention, “Deeper Perspective” Category

CENTER’s Editor’s Choice Award, 1^stPlace

Critical Mass, Photo Lucida, Top 200 Finalist

CDS/Honickman First Book Prize Finalist, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke

The FENCE, National Winner

Review Santa Fe Scholarship Recipient, CENTER Santa Fe

American Photography 34, Selected Award Winner

2017 Critical Mass, Photo Lucida, Top 200 Finalist

American Photography 33, Selected Award Winner

Review Santa Fe, Top 100 Artists

2010 Arts at the Airport, Honorarium

2005 Photography Travel Grant, Mexico City, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Exhibitions

2019 “Face First,”Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge, WA (forthcoming)

“Women’s Stories, (Untold),”Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS

“Picture Your Story,”Central Arts Sanctuary & The Do Good Fund, Mobile, AL

“PCNW Juried Exhibition,”Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, WA

2018/19 “The Fence: A Public Art Exhibit,”United Photo Industries, Traveling Exhibition: Brooklyn, Boston, Atlanta, Santa Fe, Durham, Denver, Calgary, Houston, and Sarasota

“Full Circle: 2018 CENTER Award Winners,”Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Boone, NC

“Currents 2018,” Ogden Museum of Southern Art,New Orleans, LA

2010 “The Arcade Project,”Arts at the Airport - Flying Solo Exhibition, Nashville International Airport

“The Arcade Project,” The Rymer Gallery, Nashville, TN

2009 “Tennessee Art League ASMP Photo Exhibition,” Tennessee Art League, Nashville, TN

2008 “Alabama Photo Book Project,”Traveling Exhibition

“Tennessee Art League ASMP Photo Exhibition,”Tennessee Art League, Nashville, TN

2007 “ASMP Fine Art Exhibition,” Tennessee Art League, Nashville, TN

2006 “Emerging Nashville Photographers,”The Arts Company Gallery, Nashville, TN

2005 “Innards,” School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

“Open Space,” School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Teaching and Lectures

2018 Artist Talk,Review Santa Fe, CENTER, Santa Fe, NM

2009-14 Adjunct Professor, Nashville Film Institute– Developed an Intro to Photo course curriculum and

taught a one week intensive photography class each quarter.

Publications and Press

NPR The Picture Show – The Dress Hasn’t Changed, But the Girls Have, by Lindsey Feingold, July 7, 2019

(Top 10 most read Picture Show stories)

Buzzfeed News – 8 Photo Stories That Will Challenge Your View of the World, by Gabriel H. Sanchez, July 13, 2019

Oxford American – Letter Imperfect, by Diane Roberts, Fall 2019 Issue

Reckon – Q&A With Photographer Adair Rutledge on Southern Femininity, by Abbey Crain, July 11, 2019

The Stranger – The Best Things To Do in Seattle This Week, photograph from the PCNW Juried Exhibition

featured, January 14, 2019

Fraction Magazine – Issue 119 featuring “Azalea Trail Maids” April 2018

Lenscratch – CENTER’S Editor’s Choice Award First Place Winner: Adair Freeman Rutledge,

by Aline Smithson, May 20, 2018

A Photo Editor – The Art of the Personal Project: Adair Rutledge, featuring the “Nashville Cardinals” series,

by Suzanne Sease, April 6, 2017

A Photo Editor – The Best Work I Saw at Review Santa Fe,featuring the “Nashville Cardinals” series,

by Jonathan Blaustein, December 1, 2017

Commissions (Partial List)

ABC Networks, Amazon, American Songwriter Magazine,Audubon, Brooks Running, Buzzfeed News, Country Weekly Magazine, Hospital Corporation of America, John Deere, Lands’ End, Oxford American, Sunset Magazine, UVA Children’s Hospital, Weight Watchers