Stephen Marc is an Emeritus Professor of Art in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. Raised between the South Side of Chicago and Champaign, IL, he began teaching at ASU in 1998, following 20 years at Columbia College Chicago. Marc was the Spring 2022, Stuart B. Cooper Endowed Chair in Photography at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), and a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow. He received his MFA from Tyler School of Art at Temple University and his BA from Pomona College. Marc is a documentary/street photographer and digital montage artist, whose work explores American identity and sense of place.
Marc’s American/True Colors (2020) received an Independent Publisher’s IPPY 2021 Gold Medal for best book in Photography and was a Finalist for both best art book and best multicultural book of the year from the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards. Street Cat Tales and Tangled Times (2023) is his visual storytelling follow-up to A/TC that incorporates both digital montages and photographs.
Marc’s earlier three books include: Urban Notions (1983), that addressed three communities in Illinois where he had strong family ties; The Black Trans-Atlantic Experience: Street Life and Culture in Ghana, Jamaica, England, and the United States (1992); and Passage on the Underground Railroad (2009). Since 2008, Passage on the UGRR has been registered as an Interpretative Program of the National UGRR Network to Freedom, a division of the National Park Service.
