Claire Garoutte — Faculty ; Chair of the Art and Art History Department and Associate Profes ; Department of Visual Arts , College of Arts & Sciences .

Biography

Claire Garoutte is an Assistant Professor and director of Photography at Seattle University. She taught at the Photographic Center Northwest for 18 years and was the Director of Education from 1998-2006. Claire is the author of Matter of Trust (1996, Konkursbuch, Germany) and co-author with Anneke Wambaugh of Crossing the Water: A Photographic Path to the Afro-Cuban Spirit World (2007, Duke University Press, Durham, SC). She has worked extensively in Cuba since 1994 and her work has been exhibited internationally.