Education
Biography
As Assistant Director of the Tulane Global Humanities Center, Allison Beondé oversees the administrative, financial, and programming operations of the center. She plays an integral role in the center's internal grants/fellowships program, which supports faculty research. Additionally, she organizes and promotes the center's programming and events, including guest speakers and an annual symposium.
Beondé has taught an array of introductory photography courses, from the darkroom to the digital lab, as a former School of Liberal Arts adjunct professor in the Newcomb Art Department. As a visual and exhibiting artist, her work centers around the idea of American mythology and constructed cultural consciousness. Her latest series aims to document sites of erasure and invisible violence shaping the American South. She has received a Traveling Fellowship through the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, a Light Work Grant, an Artist Grant through The Canary Lab at Syracuse University, and a fellowship through the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. Beondé's work is in the permanent collections of BNY Mellon, Light Work, and the Newcomb Museum of Art. She has been featured in VICE, DesignMilk, and iGNANT, and has exhibited work throughout the United States and Western Europe.
