Margo Geddes is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice uses photographic processes as sites for examining temporality, perception, and materiality. Working across photography, printmaking, artist books, and fiber-based methods, she engages durational processes that foreground embodied looking and the photograph as object. She holds an MFA from the University of Oregon and an MA in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins University, and is registrar at the Missoula Art Museum.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Over the past five years, my research and professional practice have focused on using digital tools and material inquiry to reveal hidden histories, relationships, and narratives within art, archives, and landscapes. My graduate research at Johns Hopkins University examined linked open data as a means of expanding visibility and connectivity for small museums, situating their collections within broader cultural networks. This work continues through my engagement with digital humanities projects, including digitizing exhibition archives and contributing to platforms such as the Montana History Portal and the DPLA, with an emphasis on making museum archives less hermetic and more generative as sites of connection and storytelling. As a registrar, I approach archives as living components of collections care—spaces not only for preservation, but for interpretation, access, and relational discovery. Parallel to this, my studio practice investigates how meaning is embedded in both landscape and language. Series such as After the Fire document post-wildfire terrains in western Montana as sites of loss, regeneration, and revelation, while The Golden Alphabet draws on research into the evolution of alphabets and symbolic systems to create unreadable glyphs that gesture toward a universal human impulse to communicate interior experience. My current body of work, La Durée, extends these concerns through an exploration of time, memory, and perception, examining how lived duration accumulates through repetition, observation, and material process. Together, my research, professional work, and artistic practice explore how systems—ecological, linguistic, and archival—carry memory and how those systems can be opened, reinterpreted, and reconnected.
