Education
1997
M.F.A., University of Iowa, Photography Major/Drawing Minor.
Graduated with Departmental Honors.
1996
M.A., University of Iowa, Photography Major/Drawing Minor.
Teaching Experience
2002- Present
Associate Professor, Art/Photography, Hendrix College, Conway, Arkansas.
Select Solo Exhibitions
2007
Historic Bridges of Arkansas, Photographs by Maxine
Payne, Old Independence Regional Museum, March 15- May 15, 2007 Batesville,
Arkansas.
2005
Historic Bridges of Arkansas, Photographs by Maxine
Payne, Arkansas Educational Television Network, Conway, Arkansas, November 2005
- January 2006.
2004
Blue Hole Holler Dress +Honey Company, David Dunlap
and Maxine Payne, Art Complex, Bldg. A, Hendrix College, August 20-Ocotober
8, Conway, Arkansas.
2003
Alchemy and Moonflowers: images of summer by Maxine Payne,
Art Complex, Bldg.A, Hendrix College, October 9-November 7, Conway, Arkansas.
2001
kin, Old Independence Regional Museum, September
9-October 31, Batesville, Arkansas.
Blood Mountain: a Photographic Installation, Living
Arts, September 3-27, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1999
Between Public and Private, Georgia Perimeter College,
April-May, Clarkston, Georgia.
1998
Bringing in the Sheaves, 1998, The Arts and Science
Center, October 20-January 13, Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
Untitled Installation, The University of
Martin, as part of a Festival of Southern Culture, September 20-October 9, Martin,
Tennessee.
Elsinger Feed Truck Tour, One person traveling
exhibition during the month of June. Locations: Pennsylvania-Truck Stop (unknown
location), New York, New York-Tisch School of the Arts, New York University,
“Hogs and Heifers” (bar), Washington D.C., Metered Parking (somewhere near the
White House), North Carolina-The Asheville Art Museum, Penland Craft School,
Atlanta, Georgia-Vaknin Schwartz Gallery, Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Memphis,
Tennessee-“The Poor and Hungry Café.”
1997
Prayin’ the Levee’ll Hold, Arts Iowa City, Iowa
City, Iowa.
1996
Bringing in the Sheaves, CSPS, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
1995
62 Miles to Nowhere, Eve Drewelowe Gallery,
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
1993
In My Common Life, Snow Fine Arts Gallery, University
of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas.
Select Group Exhibitions
2006
Through Separate Lenses, Nancy Noland, Maxine Payne and Kat Wilson,
Historic Arkansas Museum, Little Rock Arkansas, October 5, 2006 – January 21,
2007.
2004
Originals! Arkansas Women Artists, June 2004-July
2005, Cynthia H. Couglin Gallery, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas
State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas River Valley Arts Center, Russellville,
Guachoya Cultural Art Center, Lake Village, South Gallery, South Arkansas Art
Center, El Dorado, Regional Arts Gallery and Texarkana Humanities Council, Texarkana
and Showcase Arkansas Gallery, Little Rock, Arkansas.
2003
through our lenses: Personal and Political Views of 18 Photographers,
January 24 – April 10, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, New York. There
is an ongoing web exhibit at
www.thephotographyinstitute.org.
2002
Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self,
website component of exhibition, International Center for Photography, New York,
New York.
2001
Provenance: Issues of Place in the work of Maxine
Payne Caufield, Bill Rowe, Gelsy Verna, Heeyon Kim and Ashley Nicole Lawson,
Marshall Arts , Delta Axis Gallery, September 21-November 3, Memphis, Tennessee.
Sotheby’s Online Benefit Auction for the National Graduate
Seminar, Art Club Tribeca, June 7, New York, New York.
Arkansas Artist Fellows Exhibit, South Arkansas
Arts Center, Merkel Gallery, May 24- June 26, El Dorado, Arkansas.
Greater Midwest International XVI, Three
Untitled Works from the “Cull of the Litter Series,” 1,192 entries by 420 artists,
selected 71 works by 60 artists, one of four “Best of Show” winners, Juror:
Mark Spencer.
2000
Graphics/Photo-Photo/Graphics, Maxine Payne Caufield
and Gary Wade Brown, Humanities Fine Art Gallery, University of Minnesota, Morris,
September 6-27, Morris, Minnesota.
Hendrix Invitational, Maxine Payne Caufield,
Jack Slentz, Kathy Holder, Trischman Gallery, Hendrix College, September-December,
Conway, Arkansas.
Fellows of National Graduate Seminar, Tisch School
of Art, New York University, New York, New York.
University of Central Arkansas Annual Faculty Show,
Baum Gallery of Fine Art, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas.
1998
University of Central Arkansas Annual Faculty Show,
Baum Gallery of Fine Art, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas.
Women in the Visual Arts 1998, 12th
Annual International Competition, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven Connecticut,
Juror: Andrea Miller-Keller.
Alternatives 98, Ohio University School
of Art, Athens, Ohio, Juror: Clarissa Sligh.
1997
University of Central Arkansas Annual Faculty Show,
Baum Gallery of Fine Arts, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas.
1997 Toledo Friends of Photography National Juried Photographic Exhibition,
The University of Toledo Center for the Visual Arts, Toledo Ohio, Juror: Kenda
North.
MFA Show, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, Iowa.
Iowa College Salon XIX, Brunnier Art Museum,
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.
1996
Fellows of National Graduate Seminar, Tisch School
of Art, New York University, New York, New York.
Grants & Fellowships
2007
Associated Colleges of the South Project Grant for “The Women of San Luis,
Costa Rica: Sharing Life Experiences through Oral History and Photography.”
Hendrix College Faculty Project Grant for “Making Pictures, Three for a Dime.”
2004
Hendrix College Faculty Project Grant for “Arkansas River Bridge, Artist
Book Project.”
2003
Hendrix College Faculty Project Grant for “Arkansas River Bridge Project.”
2001
University of Central Arkansas Public Service Grant for “KidCare Photo ID
Event.”
2000
American Photography Institute, National Graduate Seminar Participant, Tisch
School of the Arts, New York University, New York.
Individual Arkansas Artist Fellowship, Arkansas Arts Council,
Little Rock, Arkansas.
Penland School of Crafts, Issac and Sonia Luski Fund Scholarship, Penland,
North Carolina.
University of Central Arkansas Faculty Development Grant for “N.Y.U., Model
Curriculum for a New Millennium.”
University of Central Arkansas University Research Council Grant for “Experimental
Portraiture,” Penland, N.C.
University of Central Arkansas Public Service Grant for “KidCare Photo ID
Event.”
1999
University of Central Arkansas Public Service Grant for “KidCare Photo ID
Event.”
1997
University of Central Arkansas Research Council Grant for “Sonny Boy and
King Biscuit Re-visited.”
Society for Photographic Education Student Scholarship Recipient for the
1997 National Conference.
Academic Awards
1997
Departmental Honors Graduate, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
1995
Iowa Arts Fellowship, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
1994
Iowa Arts Fellowship, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
1993
Deans List, University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas.
Presidential Scholar, University of Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas.
Performance Scholarship, Art Department, University of Central Arkansas,
Conway, Arkansas.
“Top Ten Art Student” University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas.
Memberships
College Art Association
Society for Photographic Education
Professional Service
2005-2008
Member, Professional Practices Committee, College Art Association, NY, NY.
2004
Mentor, BEACON Program, Faulkner County, Arkansas. Mentoring incarcerated
woman.
Juror, “Professional Development Fellowship, College Art Association, New
York, New York.
2003 – 2005
Member, Board of Directors, Faulkner County Humane Society, Conway, Arkansas.
2002-2005
Member, Services to Artists Committee, College Art Association, New York,
New York.
1999
Juror, “Professional Development Fellowship,” College Art Association, New
York, New York.
Select Bibliography
Juror’s
Statement, “Originals! Arkansas Women Artists, Arkansas State Committee, The
National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2004-2005, 1, 4.
Professor finishes bridge odyssey,” The Arkansas Democrat Gazette, November
16, 2003; 1, 5B.
“Birthday Party Features Local Singer, Photographs,” The Batesville Guard,
September 7, 2001: 1, 3.
“Fair and Tender,” The Tulsa World, September 6, 2001: 3D.
“Southern Gals,” Urban Tulsa Weekly, September 6, 2001: 17.
Rolf, Carol, “A Total Transformation of Space,” The Log Cabin Democrat, November
19, 2000: 1B, 8B.
“Local Artist Receives Arts Council Fellowship,” The Log Cabin Democrat,
October 9, 2000: 13.
“Gallery Exhibit: Photography and Screen-Printing,” The University Register,
September 21, 2000: 8.
“UCA Photographer Hits Road to Show Off “Feed Truck Tour,” Log Cabin Democrat,
October 22, 1998: 1+.
Williams, Jonathon, “Caufield Balances Past, Present,” Echo, August 26, 1998:
9+.
“Roadside Attraction,” Peachbuzz, June 16, 1998: E-2.
Birke, Judy, “Subtle “Women in the Visual Arts Reflects Human Experiences,”
New Haven Register. March 15, 1998: F-1.
“Public Strategies: Public Art and Public Space,” Proceedings: American Photography
Institute, National Graduate Seminar, June 1-12, 1998: 188-197.
“Stepping into the Story of Dorothy Anne,” Icon, November 14, 1996: 9.
“The House that Maxine Built,” Icon, March 7, 1996: 8.
“Chicken feet, huge photos on exhibit,” Iowa Press-Citizen, March 9, 1996:
10.
“Unique exhibit afoot at CSPS,” The Cedar Rapids Gazette, February 16, 1996:
4W.
“1996 Fellowship Recipients Named,” CAA News, September/October 1996: 5.
Select Publications
“Arkansas’ Historic River Bridges,” Active Years, April 2004, Volume XV,
Number 12: 31-35.
“Responses,” Art Journal, Fall 1999: 5-6.
“Kendrick/Woods Temple Church of God in Christ, Higgins, Arkansas,” A Spiritual
Journey: The Art of Eddie Lee Kendrick, The New Orleans Museum of Art, 1998:
22.
“The Photographic Installations of Maxine Payne Caufield,” The Iowa Journal
for Cultural Studies. May 1997: 25-30.
“The State of the Art of Installation in Iowa City,” Icon, December 12, 1996:
11.
“Artist’s Books from Women’s Studio Workshop, An Analysis,” Proceedings:
American Photography Institute, National Graduate Seminar, 1996.
“Gay Block Review,” Proceedings: American Photography Institute, National
GraduateSeminar, 1996.
Select Presentations
August 2007
“Arkansas Historic Bridges” Central Arkansas Library System, Little Rock
Arkansas.
March 2007
“The Historic Bridges of Arkansas” documentary screening, Old Independence Regional
Museum, Batesville, Arkansas.
January 2004
“Poverty in American Photography: Arkansas,” Japanese Photography Exchange Study
Group, Columbia College, Brooklyn, New York.
October 2002
“Perdicaments (sic) of a Chicken Farmers Sister: Or, Real Stories of a Real
Woman in the Real South,” Shifting Landscapes: Considerations of Time, Place
and Culture” The Society of Photographic Education South Central Regional Conference,
Texas Tech University, Lubbock TX.
February 2001
“Academic Sweatshop,” Society for Photographic Education, National Conference,
Savannah, Georgia, February 16, Panel “Rethinking a Curriculum for the New Millennium.”
June 1999
“The Elsinger Feed Truck Tour,” New York University, Tisch School of the
Arts, American Photography Institute, National Graduate Seminar, New York, New
York.
September 1998
“Hard Times at the VFW,” The University of Tennessee, Martin, Tennessee,
Visiting Artist.
April 1998
“Makin’ Whiskey and Skinnin’ Hawgs,” Western Carolina University, Cullowhee,
North Carolina, Visiting Artist.
January 1998
“Cannin’ Beans and Keepin’ Quiet,” New York University, Tisch School of the
Arts, American Photography Institute, Japanese Studies Tour.
October 1997
“Old Roots in the New South,” Southeastern College Art Conference, Richmond,
Virginia, Panel Participant.
February 1997
“Bringing in the Sheaves and Skinnin’ Hawgs,” College Art Association Conference,
New York, New York.
April 1997
“Prayin the Levee’ll Hold,” Baylor University, Waco, Texas.
“Whiskey Makin,” The University of Central Arkansas, Conway, Arkansas.
“Skinnin’ Hawgs,” The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.
Website
www.hendrix.edu/okragirl