Program: Photography
When she was 5, Katherine Sifers received her first camera from her dad before a road trip to the Rocky Mountains.
It was during high school that her interest in photography truly began to develop.
“It is my method for exploring and understanding the world,” she said. “Photography allows the photographer to keep tiny edits of an experience.”
When she was an undergrad at Columbia College Chicago, Sifers worked as a teaching assistant and found that it allowed her to share what she loves about photography. She taught photography at the Evanston Art Center after finishing her Bachelor of Fine Arts, which further reinforced her passion for teaching the craft of photography.
I want students to be comfortable asking questions, to learn from mistakes and to develop new solutions to problems.
Katherine Sifers
At the College of Southern Maryland, Sifers worked as a professor of photography and new media. She also was the director of the college’s Tony Hungerford Memorial Art Gallery.
Now at College of DuPage, Sifers enjoys working with her students and her peers in the Arts, Communication and Hospitality Division.
“I want students to be comfortable asking questions, to learn from mistakes and to develop new solutions to problems,” she said. “I believe that photography and the visual arts provide students with critical skills for problem solving that are applicable in all disciplines.
“In the students, staff and faculty of the ACH Division, I am surrounded by a community of artists that is excelling in its craft. I am lucky to teach in such an exciting and inspiring environment.”
Learn more about the Photography program at College of DuPage.