ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ART
126 French Hall
810-762-3377
Originally from Dallas, Texas Darryl Baird has a thirty year career as a photographer and educator. His initial education was at the United States Naval School of Photography in Pensacola, FL. He has also earned a Bachelors of Fine Arts from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, studying Broadcast-Film Arts.
He continued to work for twenty years as a commercial architectural, advertising, and editorial photographer in the Dallas metropolitan area. His first love, however, was always art, especially photomontage imagery like that of Jerry Uelsmann.
He recently left the commercial field to return to graduate school, earning a Master of Fine Arts in Photography at the University of North Texas. While in graduate school, he taught and helped shape the digital imaging curriculum at Dallas County's Richland College. His involvement in digital processes began in his commercial work as another way to add value and visual effects to his existing work. Soon he was convinced by the growing digital technology to convert wholly over to digital photography. Since then, his work has appeared in numerous publications and exhibitions, like the Adobe Photoshop 5.0 CD Digital Artists Studio, the Photoshop 5.0 WOW! Book, and honorable mention in the Annual (now Bi-annual) Digital Photography exhibition at Bradley University.
Darryl is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Michigan-Flint helping to develop graphic design and photography programs. He is a member of Buckham Gallery in Flint and will have exhibitions in the coming year at Mott Community College and Buckham Gallery.
