Donna Wesley Spencer's interest in photography reflects her life as a student and teacher of art, history, and 19th-century literature. She studied photography at the Evanston Art Center during her years living in the Chicago area, as well as in various workshops, and Penland School of Craft. She is a founding member of Perspective Gallery in Evanston, IL. For the past few years, her studio interest has been in alternative processes, making platinum palladium prints, or printing photographs on vellum over gold leaf, particularly for images of Southern landscapes and birds. Her life as a birder led her to a current project on wildlife preservation. She currently lives in a small town in North Carolina.

Exhibitions

Montgomery Photo Festival, 2023

Craven Allen Gallery, "In Stillness", October, 2022

Slow Exposures,  September 2022

A Smith Gallery, "Animalia", 2022

SxSE Gallery, "Love & Loss & Resilience", 2020

SxSE Gallery, "Southern Landscapes", 2020

Perspective Gallery, “A Southern Diary”, September 2019

Click! Photography Festival, Click! Class of 2018

Perspective Gallery, “Homestead”, September, 2016

Evanston Public Library, "Inside the Frances Willard House", July 2016

Morpho Gallery, Chicago, April 2016

Perspective Gallery, “Books” August 2015

A Smith Gallery, January 2015

Carnegie Visual Arts Center, “Alabama Revisited”, January 2015

Perspective Gallery, “Southern Places”, October 2014