Rate My Professor Deb Hall

Hall’s digital prints explore themes of design, typography, language, symbols, information, and communication, often addressing anxieties about design saturation’s impact on perception and the human effect on the natural environment. Notable series include Iconographia (2016) and Habit and Habitat. Her work has been exhibited regionally and nationally, with solo exhibitions such as Anthropocenic: Art About the Natural World in the Human Era at Bates College Museum of Art (2019), 677 Prime Gallery (2012), and Habit + Habitat at Tom Myott Gallery (2011). Group shows include Selected Faculty Exhibition at Schick Art Gallery (2021, 2016, 2011), Works on Paper at South Shore Art Center (2018, Juror’s Award), Then & Now at Saratoga Arts Center (2018), and Digitally Propelled Ideas at California Polytechnic University, Pomona (2004, Purchase Award). Her artwork is in permanent collections of the Portland Art Museum, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz, Adirondack Trust Corporate Gallery in Saratoga Springs, and numerous private collections. Awards encompass a Photographer’s Fellowship from the Center for Photography at Woodstock (2012), multiple Juror’s Awards from regional exhibitions (2018, 2011, 2006, 2004, 2003, 1982), NORI Awards (2004, 2007, 2008), National Calendar Award (2003), and Silver CASE Award (2008). As a NASAD team leader and evaluator since 2012, Hall contributed to accreditation site visits and curricular recommendations for art and design institutions nationwide. Her mentorship fostered alumni success in design fields, and she engaged in community projects with SPAC, Caffe Lena, and Saratoga Farmer’s Market.