Conclusion

Bill Gaskins explores questions about visual and media culture in the twenty-first century through photography and media from an interdisciplinary professional and academic foundation that includes his body of arts and culture writing framed through photography, cinema, the history of photography, visual and material culture, and American and African American Studies scholarship. His relevance as a contemporary artist has garnered attention through books, catalogs, solo and group exhibitions at major venues including the Crocker Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Smithsonian Institution. Bill Gaskins is also an informed and inspired professor, acknowledged by his students and peers for his insightful and transformative approaches to teaching and learning. He is presently Director of the Graduate Program in Photography + Media & Society at the Maryland Institute College of Art.