Elise Gaffney is an artist with roots deeply bound in the Rubber City–Akron, Ohio. Her photographic and installation work creates space for the vastness of feeling, perspective and shared experience. Moments, captured on film or phone or high-quality camera—the commonplace, the conscious acknowledgement that–the blips, the sparks, the joy, the heartbreak–are all worthy of notice, of shifting, of evolving into something else. Her work has been exhibited in gallery spaces in Northeast Ohio and Tennessee, and have been included in national photography publications. Elise is a magna cum laude graduate of the Bachelor of Fine Arts Studio Art program at East Tennessee State University, and a cum laude graduate of the Bachelor of Arts Communications program at The University of Akron.