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6:30 - Announcements

6:40 - Curtain Raiser

6:50 - Speaker Presentation

Zoom details will be emailed to all active members on October 10th.

Kay Kenny received a BFA from Syracuse University, MA from Rutgers University, and MFA from Syracuse University (all in Visual Arts).

Painter, photographer. Writes art criticism and articles on the visual arts for arts magazines. Photography teacher for over twenty-five years at New York University, and the International Center of Photography in New York City.

Historical Processes Exhibit Soho Photo, 3rd Place award. Margaret Cameron Photography Award, Honorable Mention 2019, 2016 NJSCA Artist Fellowship for Works on Paper. 2015 Arthur Griffin Legacy Award, Griffin Museum, 2009 Honorable Mention in Fine Arts Photography Lucie Awards. Three-time recipient of NJSCA fellowship award.

Numerous one-person shows, most recently in Griffin Museum Virtual Gallery, 2022, Casa Columbo Museum, Jersey City, NJ 2019 Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA 2019, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ 2019, as well as Medellin, Columbia, Taipei,Taiwan, Lubbock, Texas and New York City. Curated several exhibits, including ''Memory & Loss", a five-person photo-based exhibit at the Mary Anthony Gallery in New York City. Recent publications about her work include Photography’s Antiquarian Avant-Garde, by Lyle Rexer, Abrams Publishing, Light & Lens,Photography in the Digital Age, & Photographic Possibilities by Robert Hirsch, Focal Press as well as several other photography books. Photo Insider Magazine featured an interview with her about her work in their June issue 2001.          

Her co-curated exhibit (with Orville Robertson) “Manifestations: Photographs of Men”, opened at the Southeast Museum of photography in 2004. Her work is in several notable corporate, museum and private collections including Pfizer Corporation, New York, NY The Buhl Collection, New York, NY, Southern Alleghenies Museum, Loretto, PA, Colombo Centro Americano, Medellin,Colombia, Prudential Insurance Company,Newark,NJ, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Lawrenceville, NJ. Taiwan Photo-Fest, Taipei, Taiwan, Nantong Museum, China, Brooklyn Museum Artist Books Collection, Newark Public Library Artist Books Collection,Philadelphia Free Public Library, PNC Corp., New Brunswick, NJ, Provident Bank,NJ, Smith College Museum of Art. Northhampton,MA, Emory University