Anita Douthat
Anita Douthat (born 1950) is an American photographer. Biography. Douthat received a bachelor of science from the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago, IL) in 1972 and a master of fine arts from the University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM) in 1986. Her photograms have been included in exhibitions at the Cincinnati Art Museum (Cincinnati, OH); Indianapolis Art Center (Indianapolis, IN); Ross Art Museum at Ohio Wesleyan University (Delaware, OH); and the Weston Art Gallery in the Aronoff Center for the Arts (Cincinnati, OH). Her work is included in the collections of the Cincinnati  Art Museum (Cincinnati, OH); Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX); Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, OH); and University of New Mexico Art Museum (Albuquerque, NM). She has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New England Foundation for the Arts, and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. From 1985–1992, she was curator of the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University and is currently associate director of the Carl Solway Gallery (Cincinnati, OH). Born in Cincinnati, she currently resides in Alexandria, Kentucky. Artistic process. Douthat makes large photograms. She places found objects, chosen for their transparent  or opaque qualities, atop photosensitive paper and lets the light burn through to create silhouette-like imagery. Later, the paper is chemically gold-toned — it gets a purplish color — and fixed for permanence. Her "Alterations" series is of life size images of women's apparel, including wedding dresses. Awards. Douthat has received awards and grants for her work from the following bodies,