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MICAH CASH
TOPICS - • Adventure • Art History • Creativity  • Culture
• Failure • Historian • Imagination • Self-Expression
• Storytelling • Strategy

MICAH CASH - PROGRAMS

  • Color Outside the Lines: Lessons from an Artist
  • Unlock Your Creativity
  • More than Scenery: Landscape as Social Document
  • Creative Outcomes: Let Process Influence the Product
  • How to Learn from Failure
  • An Artist's Process: From Idea to Product
  • Waffle House Vistas: Photographs of Economic Stability and the Built Environment
  • Dangerous Waters: Interpreting the Contemporary Landscape of the Tennessee Valley Authority

MICAH CASH - BIOGRAPHY

Micah Cash is a visual artist, author, and educator. His work explores the built environment, and his projects use the visual languages of landscape and architecture to investigate narratives of history, utilization, and economics. He chronicles space and place with a desire to have meaningful conversations about what we value and how what we build shapes who we are.

His most recent photography book, Waffle House Vistas, was published by The Bitter Southerner in 2019. The project has received international recognition and is in its third printing. Micah’s first photography book, Dangerous Waters: A Photo Essay on the Tennessee Valley Authority chronicled the contemporary cultural relevance and impact of TVA. Published by University of Tennessee Press in 2017, it featured over 70 photographs that documented TVA’s hydroelectric dams and their surrounding public recreational lands. His work has been featured in The Atlantic, Politico Magazine, and Places Journal, to name a few, and is represented in private collections throughout North American and Europe. 

Micah is a dynamic speaker with over twenty years of arts nonprofit and higher education experience. He brings his creative process as a multidisciplinary artist to his presentations and leads inspirational lectures about understanding and harnessing creativity, perception, and the creative process. He possesses an MFA from the University of Connecticut and a BFA from the University of South Carolina. 

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MICAH CASH - MEDIA

Dangerous Waters: A Photo Essay on the Tennessee Valley Authority

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), created in the 1930s during Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s sweeping New Deal governmental reforms, has long marked the landscape of the upper south and controlled the waterways that run throughout Tennessee and portions of its bordering states. Controversial even at its inception, TVA grew to become the largest public power agency in the United States, combining social welfare goals with technological innovation and regional modernization. What began as a social uplift project for a depressed Tennessee Valley has, over many decades, devolved into an underfunded agency unable to adequately maintain its numerous dams, visitor centers, and recreational spaces.

Waffle House Vistas

Waffle House Vistas is a collection of photographs documenting the built environment of the southeastern United States as seen through the windows of Waffle House restaurants. The book discusses economic stability and the social demographics of America’s working class through the prism of the cultural fast-food icon. These photographs ask viewers to look up from their hash browns and acknowledge the institutions and structures that create real, yet rarely acknowledged boundaries that feel impossible to break through for much of this country. Micah spent a year traveling through eleven states and visited over sixty Waffle House restaurants while following a strict set of rules: he sat down where he was able, ordered coffee and some food, and photographed what he saw from his seat. Featuring a foreword by novelist Maurice Carlos Ruffin and essays by the author and Laura Bullard, the book includes forty-two full-color photographs and contemplates notions of place, identity, and precarity.

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