Forrest L. MacDonald
Visual artist, photographer, painter, sculptor, mixed media, college professor, active member of the artist collective Fountain of Pythons.

MacDonald’s art involves around themes of interdependence of mutually dependent life forms, the transitory nature of existence and re-purposing personal obsolete technologies into sculptures.

COMING SOON
Teaching a photography workshop for Veterans
"Breaking Barriers"
July 12th - Aug 9th, 2019
University of South Florida
exhibition following in
USF Contemporary Art Museum
December 2019
http://www.graphicstudio.usf.edu/CAM/cam_museumsoncall.html

UP COMING PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA:
Feature and interview in
Jayhawk Journalist magazine June 2019
University of Kansas Journalism School
Lawrence, Kansas

PUBLICATIONS
His photography has been featured in Artborne , American Artist, American Theater, Photo Insider, How, Print, Step inside Design, Verge, House Home and Living, Urban Times magazine, the Orlando Sentinel and the New Times Miami newspaper.

AWARDS
MacDonald's commercial photography for Ringling College of Art and Design viewbooks has received three national ADDY awards from the American Advertising Federation. Two of the viewbooks received first place gold and one received a second place national silver ADDY award.
His fine art photography received first place recognition in an international photography competition by photoworkshop.com, Canon cameras and Agfa film in May 2000.

EDUCATION
University of South Florida, MFA in Studio Arts 2012
University of Kansas. BSJ in photojournalism 1989

CURRENTLY ADJUNCT TEACHING
Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design
Denver Colorado

PREVIOUS ADJUNCT APPOINTMENTS
New College of Florida / Florida's honors college
Ringling College of Art and Design
Univ of South Florida / School of Art and Art History
Hillsborough County Community College
The Art Institute of Tampa