Jessica Spink Will Receive the First-Ever Bachelor of Arts Degree in Photography from Marian University

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Jessica Spink and Bill Foley in the Fisher Hall Art Gallery on campus, where examples of her photography were displayed during the Senior Art Show.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN (05/03/2011)(readMedia)-- Jessica Spink, a senior from Indianapolis, will receive the first bachelor of arts degree in photography from Marian University on Saturday, May 7, 2011.

The degree program, which was started in 2008, is led by Bill Foley, an award-winning photojournalist. Foley grew up in Indianapolis and has lived and worked in 47 countries, including Cairo and Beirut for nine years. His series on the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacres earned him the Pulitzer Prize, an award regarded as the highest national honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical composition. 

About Marian University

Marian University (www.marian.edu) is the only Catholic liberal arts university in central Indiana. It is a private, co-educational school offering classes to both traditional and non-traditional students. Located two miles northwest of downtown Indianapolis, Marian University is a Catholic university dedicated to excellent teaching and learning in the Franciscan and liberal arts traditions. It is one of Indiana's 31 independent colleges, and one of 244 Catholic colleges and universities in the United States. On July 1, 2009, Marian College became Marian University. On January 15, 2010, Marian University announced it would develop the first college of osteopathic medicine in the state of Indiana.