Megan Witherspoon (nee Jeltema) received her Master of Fine Arts degree in photography/sculpture in 2004 from the Lamar Dodd School of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens. She completed her undergraduate training in 2001, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Fine Art from James Madison University in Virginia. As an undergraduate Megan was awarded the 2001 Art Achievement Award and the Frances Grove Scholarship Award for academic excellence in the arts. As a graduate student, she was recieved a Graduate Research and Performance Grant from the Center for Humanities and the Arts at the University of Georgia.

Though she was formally trained primarily in photography, Megan’s work is typically sculptural in nature, employing a wide range of materials and processes in order to convey her message. Work in the past has utilized steel, cast iron and bronze, wood, plastic, and paper, often overlaid with transferred or projected digital and photographic images. As a working process, Megan usually begins with a concept and then searches out the best form or material to communicate that concept. Her current mixed-media work references toys, buildings, and “environments” that often incorporate photographic overlays.

Megan has spent time photographing in the United States and abroad, including the Czech Republic, Ghana, Switzerland, France, and Italy. Her work has been included in a number of group and solo exhibitions, including Visceral: Images of the Internal Body at the Athens Institute for Contemporary Art in Georgia and the 27th Annual Juried Exhibition at the Lyndon House Arts Center, a show in Athens, Georgia that was curated by James Rondeau, the Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. In 2003 her work was selected for inclusion in the permanent collection of Philip Morris, USA. In addition, her work was included in the Lynchburg College Gender Studies Symposium in Lynchburg, Virginia in 2001.