Author Biography
Myra Greene, who is of African American heritage, was born in New York City. She received her BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and her MFA in photography from the University of New Mexico. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums nationally including Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California; Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia and Sculpture Center in New York. Myra is the recipient of the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Photography in 2009 and has completed residencies at Light Work in Syracuse, New York and the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Her work is currently in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, The New York Public Library and the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. Kristen Merola is an artist and photographer, working in Rochester, New York. Tate Shaw is Director of the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York.
