Deborah Stratman

Bio

Deborah Stratman (b. 1967) is a Chicago-based artist and filmmaker whose work investigates issues of power, control, and belief. Over more than dozen films, she has explored freedom, surveillance, public speech, sinkholes, levitation, orthoptera, raptors, comets, evolution, extinction, exodus, sisterhood and faith. She is the recipient of Fulbright, Guggenheim and USA Collins Fellowships, an Alpert Award, Sundance Art of Nonfiction Award and grants from Creative Capital, Graham Foundation, Harpo Foundation and Wexner Center for the Arts.