title: Gregory Spaid
text: # Gregory Spaid
  
  Gregory Preston Spaid (born 1946) is an American artist known for his photographic and mixed media works.
  
  ## Early life
  
  Spaid was born in Misihiwaka, Indiana. He studied at Kenyon College, receiving a B.A. degree in 1969, and at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he received an M.F.A. in art in 1976, having worked with the renowned photographer Henry Holmes Smith. He has been a professor of art at Kenyon College since 1979. From 1999 to 2002, Spaid moved to a position of Associate Provost at Kenyon College, serving as Acting Provost during the Academic Year 2002–03. He was named Kenyon's Provost in 2003, a position he held until 2008. He lives in Gambier, Ohio.
  
  ## Collections
  
  His work is included in the collections of the Getty Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Smithsonian Museum of American Art.
  
  ## Publications
  
  Books
  
  Grace: Photographs of Rural America. Asheville, NC: Safe Harbor Books, 2000.
  
  On Nantucket. Asheville, NC: Safe Harbor Books, 2002.
  
  Co-Author
  
  Logsdon, Gene. The Man Who Created Paradise: A Fable. Foreword by Wendell Berry. Photography by Gregory Spaid. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2001.
  
  