Donita Simpson spends her time photographing established and emerging artists in the Tri-County Area.  She explores the artists, their studios and the newly created environment that exists between the artist and the photographer. Ms. Simpson has exhibited her work internationally and continues to show her work widely.  In 2016 her portrait of Gilda Snowden was chosen as a finalist in the Outwin- Boocheever Portrait Competition where it was selected from 2500 images to hang in The National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute from March 2016 until January of 2017.  It then traveled the country until 2018.  Her work is in the collections of the Tweed Museum, Visual Studies Workshop, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Detroit Institute of Art, as well as, several private and corporate collections. Simpson earned an MFA in photography and an MEd from Wayne State University.  She has served as an adjunct professor of photography at both Marygrove Collge and Wayne State University in Detroit. 

The reception will take place on May 13th from 6pm-10pm.