Jodie Mim Goodnough is a visual artist based in Pawtucket, RI. She attended the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies in Portland, Maine and received her MFA in Visual Art from Tufts University in 2013. Goodnough was the recipient of a 2019 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grant, a 2017 Alumni Traveling Fellowship from Tufts University, and a 2017 Fellowship in Photography from the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts. She has attended residencies at the UCross Foundation, Wassaic Project, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Hambidge Center, ChaNorth, Byrdcliffe, and Mass MoCA, among others. Her work has been shown nationally in solo and group exhibitions, including at the Spring/Break Art Show in New York, ArtPort Kingston, and in the solo exhibition Biophilia at the Newport Art Museum in Newport, RI. Goodnough is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI.

As a professor of photography and visual literacy, I teach students to recognize bias or persuasion when it comes to lens-based images and to engage with photographic archives and their blind spots. During my sabbatical in fall 2023, while engaging with my archive containing some 35 years of photographs, I realized the value of including personal image collections in this conversation. During this talk, I will discuss the archival work done over my sabbatical, put it in context with other contemporary artists, and discuss how it impacts my teaching today.