Will Henry
Press Manager
Department of Art
Will Henry is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Alabama, working across photography, printmaking, drawing, graphic design, and book arts. Their practice centers materiality and image-making, engaging both traditional and experimental processes to explore how bodies, narratives, and identities are constructed, disrupted, and reimagined.
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Education
BFA in Fine Arts, University of Montevallo, with concentrations in photography, printmaking, and graphic design
MA in Studio Art, with a focus in photography and printmaking, The University of Alabama
MFA in Studio Art, with a focus in photography and printmaking, The University of Alabama
MFA in Book Arts, The University of Alabama, along with a Certificate in Museum Studies
Areas of Responsibility
Small Craft Advisory Press studio and press operations.
Artist book and special edition production
Equipment management
Student supervision and mentorship
Book arts instruction
Artist collaborations
Select Scholarly & Creative Works
2026 Verdant Fund Award, African Diaspora Art Museum of Atlanta and the Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art in Kennesaw, Georgia
Their work has also been selected for notable juried exhibitions, including The Visual Voice at the Zuckerman Museum of Art in 2023, juried by artist Lesley Dill
Morgan Art of Papermaking 14th Annual Juried Show: A Hand of One’s Own at the Morgan Conservatory in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2026, juried by Brittany Gorelick and Lillian Young
Additional Scholarly/Creative Works & Awards
An invited portfolio participation in Salt & Blood of Hidden Kinship through Southern Graphics Council International in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2025)
A featured artist publication in The Black Warrior Review (2021)
A guest artist talk at the African Diaspora Art Museum of Atlanta (2023).
Juried exhibitions including
AIGA Atlanta Poster Show, Art of the South at Stove Works in Chattanooga,
26th Annual Postcards, Edge at Berry Campbell Gallery in New York,
Portrait: Self, Other at PhotoPlace Gallery, and the Wiregrass Biennial at the Wiregrass Museum of Art.