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• Comment: Please rewrite this in your own words. I agree with what @Pythoncoder said. 🚂ThatTrainGuy1945 ^{Peep peep!} 13:04, 16 April 2026 (UTC)

• Comment: Looking at the history, this text appears to be copy pasted from somewhere, probably an LLM —pythoncoder (talk | contribs) 09:34, 16 March 2026 (UTC)

DM Witman is an American interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work is held in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.^[1] Her practice draws on scientific training and frequently addresses ecological change and photographic materiality.^[2] Her work has been discussed in publications including The Boston Globe,^[3] The Guardian, BBC Culture, and WIRED.

She is an Associate Professor of Photography at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.^[4]

Witman earned a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science/Biology from Kutztown University in 1995 and an Master of Fine Arts in Photography from Maine Media College in 2009.^[5] Prior to her career in the arts, she worked as a field biologist conducting environmental impact studies.^[2]

Witman has taught at Maine Media Workshops + College, Unity College, and the University of New Hampshire. She has also served as a visiting artist at the Farnsworth Art Museum and the Center for Maine Contemporary Art.^[6]

Witman works primarily in alternative photographic processes, including camera-less and lensless photography, pinhole imaging, and salted paper.^[7] Her projects often incorporate organic materials and may transform over time through exposure to light or environmental conditions.^[2]

According to the Danforth Art Museum, her work addresses ecological grief, resilience, and environmental change through process-based methods.^[8] Art New England has described her work as examining climate change through photography and audience interaction.^[9]

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Danforth Art Museum, the Portland Museum of Art Biennial, Revela-T Festival in Barcelona, and Klompching Gallery in New York.^[10]

She has received grants from the Maine Arts Commission^[11] and The Kindling Fund and Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

First exhibited at Maine Museum of Photographic Arts as part of the A Lensless Vision: Camera-less Works, Melt uses satellite imagery printed onto unfixed salted paper that gradually fades during exhibition.^[12] The project was supported by the John Anson Kittredge Fund and The Kindling Fund via SPACE Gallery and was discussed in Lenscratch.^[5]

Presented at the Danforth Art Museum in 2024, the project addresses eco-distress through photographs incorporating salt as both subject and material.^[8]

Index documents plant life in an intertidal marsh along the St. George River and references herbarium records as a baseline for environmental change.^[13]

Included in the exhibition Icebergs and Wildfires at Klompching Gallery in 2019, the series reworks historical photographs of Arctic icebergs through the application of red gouache and salt printing.^[14]

Exhibited at Second Street Gallery in 2013, the series used gelatin silver paper exposed to the movements of slugs to produce abstract images resembling celestial bodies.^[15]

• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston^[1]
• Portland Museum of Art^[16]

• Danforth Art Museum (2024)^[8]
• CICA Museum, South Korea (2024)^[17]
• Photographic Resource Center (2022)^[18]
• Klompching Gallery, New York (2019)^[19]
• Portland Museum of Art Biennial (2018)^[7]
• Second Street Gallery (2013)^[20]

• Candela Gallery (2025)^[21]
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2023)
• Colorado Photographic Arts Center (2022)^[22]
• Newport Art Museum (2021)^[23]
• Portland Museum of Art Biennial (2018) ^[10]
• Griffin Museum of Photography (2017)^[24]

• Monson Arts Residency (2021)
• Ellis-Beauregard Foundation Residency (2020)
• Puffin Foundation Grant (2019)
• Critical Mass Top 200 (2018)^[25]
• Maine Arts Commission Grant (2018–2019)^[26]
• Kindling Fund Grant (2015)
• John Anson Kittredge Education Fund Grant (2014)^[27]
• Women’s Studio Workshop Residency (2012)^[28]