Brenda Whitehill Schlenker is a photography-based contemporary artist and professor living and working in Pasadena, CA. She earned a BS in Applied Art and Design with a Graphic Design emphasis at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and an MFA in Visual Studies at Pacific Northwest College of Art.

Whitehill Schlenker spent the first decade of her post-undergraduate career as a graphic designer in Los Angeles area design firms, and eventually balanced a freelance business with teaching. She now enjoys an art practice devoted to personal studio work and teaching design and photography. 

She uses photography to explore the unseen through the seen. She particularly finds meaning capturing the visual outcomes of human expression and construction, and the aftermath of the forces that confront them. Her processes include various combinations of collage, alternative darkroom techniques, digital media and non-photographic interventions including needlework