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Trained as an artist, BFA RISD, MFA Umass Dartmouth, Ralph Mercer has practiced photography as a commercial photo-illustrator throughout his career. Recently, his work has concentrated on …
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Sandro Chia is an Italian painter and prominent figure in the Italian neo-Expressionist movement Transavanguardia. Chia’s paintings and sculptures are often brilliantly colored, mystical compositions featuring …
Sills, Vaughn
Sill’s photographs have been exhibited in art, history and botanic museums and galleries; they are in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, DeCordova Museum, Harvard Art Museum, the Polaroid Collection, and the Eaton Vance Collection, among others. Several significant awards have helped support her practice and recognized her work; twice her work was awarded with an Artist’s Fellowship in Photography by the Massachusetts Cultural Council. Other grants and awards have come from the Artadia Dialogue for Art and Culture, the Polaroid Foundation, and The New England Foundation for the Arts. Her books, Places for the Spirit, Traditional African American Gardens (2010) and One Family (2001) have earned awards from the Garden Writers Association and the Magazine Association for the Southeast.