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IMAGES OF WOMEN IN ANCIENT ART Issues of Interpretation and Identity
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Carlie Cameron Collier is a native of Lancaster County, Virginia. She spent six years at St. Margaret's School in Tappahanock and received a B.F.A. and M.F.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University, with additional studies at Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy. She has been the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships and honors including a scholarship from the Mediterranean Society of American for photographic studies in Greece. Ms. Collier has exhibited nationwide, including the Los Angeles Photo Center, North Carolina Center for Creative Photography, The Light Factory, Emory University, The Chrysler Museum and the Peninsula Fine Arts Center. Locally Ms. Collier has taught at Virginia Commonwealth University, J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College, the Women's Resource Center (University of Richmond), Mary Washington College and the Hand Workshop Art Center. She has also conducted lectures and hand-coloring workshops throughout the state of Virginia and at Touchstone Center for Crafts in Pennsylvania. Collier recently served as chairperson for the Richmond Chapter of the Women's Caucus for Art, she is a Richmond-based artist, designer, photographer and educator whose work consistently explores the experience of being female. Her recent photographic project, MUSES, A Tribute to Mature Women Who Live Creative Lives, is an ongoing "labor of love" which has been exhibited locally and nationally. The exhibit helps reveal strong, vital women who have chosen to let creativity and the process of aging facilitate and enhance their becoming more fully themselves. The series was on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts from April to June of 1996 and is now traveling the state of Virginia via the Museum's Statewide Exhibitions Department. Her other passion continues to be exploring the Mediterranean. "Drawing, photography, writing, teaching and travel have all been channels for my creative work," she says. "At this state of my life, I can finally begin to see how they are interwoven and how the process is unfolding with true meaning and purpose. I find it extremely exciting!" Her most recent photographic project and exhibition is called "The Mysterious Feminine". | ||||