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Leah Sobsey is an artist and educator. Her combined art and
anthropology background shaped her love of stories and gave her the
tools to artfully map and investigate her own history and now
others. Sobsey primarily works in 19th century photographic
processes intertwined with digital technology. She received an MFA
from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BA in Anthropology and
Sociology from Guilford College. She has exhibited nationally in
galleries, museums and public spaces, and her work is held in
private and public collections across the country. She has taught
at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Maine Photographic
Workshops, and currently teaches at the Center for Documentary
studies at Duke University and is a Visiting Assistant Professor at
the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Sobsey is the
co-founder of the Visual History Collaborative and one of the core
artists in Bull City Summer, a collaborative documentary project
that explores the Durham Bulls AAA baseball team. Bull City Summer,
the book, published by Daylight Books was released in 2014 and is
one of their top sellers. Sobsey s images have appeared in The New
Yorker, the Paris Review Daily, Slate.com and many more.
Xandra Eden is Executive Director & Chief Curator of DiverseWorks
in Houston. She was previously Curator of Exhibitions for the
Weatherspoon Art Museum in Greensboro, NC. Since 2003, she has
organized over 60 exhibitions of work by national and international
contemporary artists. Recent major exhibitions include Zones of
Contention: After the Green Line (2015); Nancy Rubins: Drawing,
Sculpture, Studies (2014); and Diana Al-Hadid (2013). Eden held
positions at the The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada, the
Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, and Women & Their Work
Gallery, Austin. She received her BFA from SUNY Purchase and MA
from CCS at Bard College
John W. Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.
Louis Agassiz Fuertes Director, Cornell Laboratory of
Ornithology
Professor, Dept. Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell
University
Dr. Fitzpatrick is a native of St. Paul, Minnesota, graduated magna
cum laude from Harvard University in 1974, and received his Ph.D.
from Princeton University in 1978. Since 1995 he has been Director
of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and professor in Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology at Cornell University. Previously
(1988-1995), he was Executive Director of Archbold Biological
Station, a private ecological research foundation in central
Florida. From 1978 to 1989 he was Curator of Birds and Chairman of
the Department of Zoology at Chicago s Field Museum of Natural
History. He is a Fellow of the American Ornithologists' Union,
served as its President (2000-2002), and in 1985 received its
highest research honor (Brewster Award) for his co-authored book
Florida Scrub-Jay: Ecology and Demography of a Cooperative Breeding
Bird. He has received numerous career awards for his work in
science and conservation, including The Nature Conservancy,
Linnaean Society of New York, Environmental Advocates of New York,
and Audubon.
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"Sobsey’s work will remind you of the continual cycle of life and
death...",
- Musee Magazine, June 16, 2016
"...her book tells a story about America’s natural history at a
time when climate change and funding cuts call the future of the
our indigenous species and wild spaces into question.",
- Slate, September 16, 2016
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