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Please visit the Holmes 103 exhibition space for the first Ekard Artist in Residence for the Fall 2026 programing! The 103 is open Monday-Friday from 9:00AM-5:00PM. Stephen Marc is a documentary/street photographer and digital montage artist, whose work explores American identity and sense of place. Marc is an Emeritus Professor of Art at Arizona State University where he began teaching in 1998, after 20 years at Columbia College Chicago. Raised between the South Side of Chicago and Champaign, IL, Marc relocated back home to Chicago in 2024. Marc received the 2026 Distinguished Alumni Award from Pomona College, the 2022AY Stuart B. Cooper Endowed Chair in Photography at Maryland Institute College of Art, and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. Marc received his MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University and his BA from Pomona College. Marc's American/True Colors (2020) received an Independent Publisher's IPPY 2021 Gold Medal for best book in Photography and was a 2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards Finalist for both best art book and best multicultural book of the year. Marc's most recent book, Street Cat Tales and Times (2023) combines digital montages and photographs. His earlier three other books include: Urban Notions (1983), that addressed three communities in Illinois where he had strong family ties; The Black Trans-Atlantic Experience: Street Life and Culture in Ghana, Jamaica, England, and the United States (1992); Passage on the Underground Railroad (2009). Since 2008, Passage on the UGRR has been registered as an Interpretative Program of the National UGRR Network to Freedom, a division of the National Park Service.

Join the Griot Institute for an exciting experience with West African drumming! Lessons will be held weekly on Mondays throughout the semester. This opportunity is free of charge! No experience necessary and instruments are provided. Register by emailing griot@bucknell.edu (mailto:griot@bucknell.edu).