Randy Brown is a Denver-based artist, arts activist, and educator who has worked and exhibited in Denver and nationally for more than 30 years. He is an eight-year member of the fine arts faculty at RMCAD. Brown currently teaches a diverse, yet focused course load that includes Basic Photography and Photography II and Contemporary Digital Portraiture. Both of these classes are traditional, darkroom-based courses and include the use of 35mm SLR, Holga, Pinhole, Medium Format, 4X5, 8X10, and experimental hand-made cameras. Brown has received the Indonesian Documentary Project Honorarium at the University of Denver; Curators Stipend from the Invisible Museum; Museum of Outdoor Arts Exhibit Stipend; and Fellowship at MacDowell. He has also completed a five-week residence to advance in-progress photographic work.
Randy Brown
Studios
Nef
Randy Brown worked in the Nef studio.
Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…