News, Exhibitions and Workshops

Hello friends and welcome to the return of my newsletter. I hope to provide you with some exciting news and updates every six months or so in regards to my photographic endeavors. As some of you know the last several years have been filled with some professional and personal milestones: marriage, building a home, traversing state lines to teach new and exciting classes, and a return to graduate school to earn another MFA degree. I earned my second MFA in 2013 through Christopher James’ new MFA in Photography program at Lesley University College of Art and Design (formerly Art Institute of Boston). Since then I have been able to return my full attentions to my photography with a new sense of purpose and focus. The first step in this focus was a redesign and update of my website which finally is more compatible with mobile devices. I am continuing to make small improvements on the usability and aesthetics of the site. Please check it out here.Here are some of the things I’ve been up to in the last year…

Current and Upcoming Exhibitions

Opening this Saturday May 2nd is the first solo exhibit for my new series Meditations on Being a Phoenix. This body of work has been in progress over the last 2 years and has taken many incarnations before reaching its final form as large pigment prints under encaustic wax and oil. The opening reception is from 5-7pm this Saturday at Gallery 136 1/2. The show runs until May 30th

This past Thursday the show Everyday Icon: An Exhibition of Artist Fellowship Recipients opened at The Gallery at Constitution Plaza. Inclusion in the exhibit is a result of being awarded a Connecticut Office of the Arts Artist Fellowship. A selection of my Ziatype prints from Paper House will be on display as a part of the exhibit until July 2nd.

Opening on June 6th at the Margaret L. Macdonough Gallery is the three person invitational exhibition Through A Glass Refracted. This show is a special one for me, I get to exhibit a selection of the Meditations on Being a Phoenix photographs alongside works by my two closest friends from college, artists Paula Robins and Adam Lein. This show takes place during the Alumni Reunion weekend at Albertus Magnus College. There will be an opening reception from 2:30-5pm on June 6th, please RSVP here if you plan to attend.

Publication

I am thrilled to have a selection of my photographs and the research work I did on the Athenatype process published in Christopher James‘ 3rd edition of The Book of Alternative Photographic Processes which was released in March. As a result of my Connecticut Office of the Arts Fellowship I was able to travel to Santa Fe to work directly with Christopher and Dick Sullivan in researching process which is referenced in the Athenatype chapter. Its an honor to be among such great practitioners and friends in the pages of this book!

Workshops

On May 23rd I will be conducting an Encaustic Play Day Workshop at PhotoSynthesis in Manchester, CT. This is a great opportunity to learn some of the less technical and more serendipitous features of using encaustic wax, pigments and oil on the surface of a photograph. More information on this workshop can be found here.In addition to teaching Alternative Photographic Processes at Lesley University College of Art and Design I will be conducting a class in Alternative Processes at Central Connecticut State University which made a comeback as a course offering last Fall, this is a no prerequisite class and can also be audited. To get a feel for what happens in this course please take a look at the video I created with my husband, videographer Mike Zych.

Miscellaneous

My year has been filled with some great opportunities to share photography and to work with other artists who I greatly respect.Earlier this month I participated in the New York Portfolio Review hosted by the New York Times. It was an honor being among the 5% of applicants accepted into this event and to meet and network with many great practitioners and professionals. I hope to have some more news to share soon as a result of the reviews I had at this event.

Over the past year I worked as a Photography Research Consultant to author Kathy Leonard Czepiel for her upcoming historical novel about a female photographer working within the early to mid 20th century. This book does not yet have a release date but I look forward to sharing more info on what I know will be an enjoyable read for photographers.

Lesley University College of Art and Design interviewed me on my work as an MFA candidate and my experiences of post graduate life, that interview can be found here.

I shared my love of historical and hand made processes as a visiting artist for Avon Old Farms Preparatory school in Avon, CT and for Canton High School in Canton, CT. Students learned the trials of the modern dry plate tintype process and how to make a human sized Cyanotype photogram outdoors in the cold and unpredictable New England Spring.

Last October I participated in the Careers in the Arts panel at Tunxis Community College where I met and shared my experiences with several enthusiastic budding artists. Please stay tuned for more photography related news. In the mean time you can find me online: