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William Franson is a Per Course Instructor in Art at the Adams School of Music and the Arts, where he teaches within the visual arts discipline. His academic role is part-time, focused on studio instruction and artistic mentorship.
His artistic research explores themes of memory, identity, loss, and the boundary between language and image. Using analog techniques such as black and white film, Holga cameras, and traditional darkroom processes—including cyanotype and Van Dyke brown printing—Franson emphasizes materiality and tactile experience in his work. Key projects include Mason-Dixon: American Fictions, Iron Things, A Nickel and a Kopek, and The Structure of Everyday Life, all reflecting deeply personal narratives intertwined with broader cultural and historical reflections.
His photographs have been exhibited at the Ipswich Museum (MA), Gallery Kayafas (Boston), and in Nashville, TN. He resists digital photography for its perceived lack of tangibility, favoring grain and physical process as embedded components of meaning.
Franson’s teaching and creative practice are grounded in the belief that simple tools and intuitive responses to everyday circumstances can evoke profound visual and emotional resonance.
