About

Erika Gentry is a Visual Artist and Educator. She specializes in digital imaging, photography, education, multi media arts and fine art printing in the Bay Area. An early advocate of the creative digital domain, she has been teaching and presenting electronic arts and photography at the institutional, organizational and individual levels nationwide since 1996 and has been a consultant to many of the industry’s leading professional photographers as they converted from film to a digital workflow. She has taught one-on-one and group courses at corporations and colleges such as The Rochester Institute of Technology, The San Francisco Art Institute, Foothill College, City College of San Francisco and Rayko Photo Center. She is currently full-time faculty at City College of San Francisco.

Gentry grew up in Portland Oregon and received her bachelor of arts degree from The School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon in Eugene. She completed her master of fine arts degree at The School of Imaging Arts and Sciences  from New York’s Rochester Institute of Technology. Her personal photographic projects explore issues of identity as expressed through the use of technology. She exhibits her art work nationally and serves on the Board of Directors for Fotovision.org and as Co-Chair of the Board of Directors for The Society for Photographic Education West Region.

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