[OPLINLIST] Photographic Exhibition and Presentation in McArthur

[Erick C. Walker]

Sanford to give photographic exhibition and presentation

 

A photographic presentation and exhibition by Elise Mitchell Sanford will be segments of Cherishing Family: A Spring Literary Arts Festival in McArthur, Ohio during the weekend of April 13, 14, and 15. 

Sanford will exhibit a collection of photographs entitled The Stuff of Dreams.  She holds MFA and BFA degrees in photography from Ohio University and a BA in journalism from Tulane University, with additional graduate work at Iowa State University in television and technical journalism. She has been a visiting instructor in photography at Ohio University.

Her awards include a Regional Area Projects Grant in 1995; a National Endowment for the Arts Regional Visual Arts/Arts Midwest Fellowship in 1991-92 and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist's Fellowship in 1991-92. Sanford has had artist residencies at Light Work (in Syracuse, New York), at The Headlands Center for the Arts (located near San Francisco), and at The Ragdale Foundation (Lake Forest, Illinois).

She has spoken on the topic of women, aging and art at many places. She was also a panel speaker on Women and Aging at the Fourth Women in Photography Conference in Houston and as a visiting artist at the Houston Center for Photography, and at SPACES in Cleveland.

            Sanford has had more than sixty exhibitions and her work is in many private collections. She is the founder and Project Director of The Athens Photographic Project, teaching people with severe mental illness how to express and empower themselves through photography.  She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of NAMI-Ohio (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Ohio).

She will give her presentation at 3:30 p.m. on April 13 and her exhibition may be viewed on both April 13 and 14 (during normal hours of operation) at the Herbert Wescoat Memorial Library.

 

Cherishing Family: A Spring Literary Arts Festival is sponsored by the Herbert Wescoat Memorial Library and the Friends of the Herbert Wescoat Memorial Library, Inc., in McArthur, Ohio. The festival opens at 1 p.m. on Friday, April 13, 2007 and the last event will commence at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 15, 2007. All events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact the library at 740-596-5691 or www.vintoncountypublic.lib.oh.us.

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