Kaitlin (Halsey) Wilson Botts (b. 1983) is an artist, designer, photographer and educator based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her photographic work revolves around themes of loss, absence, trauma and grief as realized through both portraiture and abstracted manipulations. Botts work also focuses on the combination of text (poems), image, and collage elements within her journal series, seeking to make that which is private a public act of viewing.  

Her work has been exhibited and published both nationally and internationally. She has given numerous lectures and workshops on photography, graphic design, and the visual arts. She works as a practicing graphic designer, recent clients include Medicating Normal - The Film, The Withdrawal Project, The Thomas S. Kenan Foundation for the Arts, and the UNC School of the Arts Library.

She is Professor of Design in the Visual Arts program at UNC School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, NC. She is also the director of the Visual Arts Summer Intensive program at UNCSA. She previously held the position of Associate Professor of Art at Piedmont College in Demorest, GA and was the coordinator of the graphic design and fine art photography programs there for 8 years. Botts earned her BA in Graphic Design from Meredith College in Raleigh, NC and MFA in Imaging Arts from the Rochester Institute of Technology where she previously taught in the first-year photography program in the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences, the School of Design, and in the New Media program.

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