Amber Davis Tourlentes
www.amberdavisphotographer.com
A native of Boston’s South End, Amber received her MFA in Photography and Computer Arts at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1998. She taught new media and digital photography at Princeton University, 1998-2000. 2000-2005, Amber taught Photography at Massachusetts College of Art, Emerson College and the ProArts Consortium. Amber currently teaches at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Amber’s solo and group exhibitions include; Smith College, Lesley University, Amherst College, Harvard’s Carpenter Center, Hampshire College, Mass College of Art, APE Gallery, WORKS, San Jose, Harvery Milk Inst. CA, ArtSpace, Essex Arts Center, Boston Public Library, Danforth Museum, Boston Center for the Arts, Mills Gallery, Circa Gallery in Montreal. Gallery 119 and Photographic Resource Center at Boston University.
In 2005, Amber received an individual Massachusetts Cultural Council grant. Amber is also involved with several activist and legal coalitions serving the same sex parented and gay community, such as GLAD (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation), HRC (Humanity Rights Campaign), FamilyPride and COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere). Her work has been featured in countless fundraiser exhibitions, including gay, lesbian, and transgendered targeted publications.
Amber has given artist talks at numerous schools including, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, Hampshire College and Tufts University. Amber has shared her work during interdisciplinary panels serving both faculty and students researching the LGBT Family Movement at the Kahn Institute, Smith College, Emerson College and Family Pride Coalition Disney World, FA.
Nita Sturiale
www.nitasturiale.com
Nita balances an interdisciplinary life as an artist, teacher, and entrepreneur. Nita’s work explores the relationships between intellect, emotion, natural phenomena, and emerging technologies. She has presented her work at Boston Museum of Science, MIT’s Media Lab, Cambridge River Arts Festival, Tufts University, Mills College, Harvard University, in Wales, Beijing, and Milan, as well as online. She is included in Stephen Wilson’s book, Information Arts (MIT Press, 2001). Nita has been a member of the Nature and Inquiry artist group since 1991. With this group, she directed the award-winning Invisible Ideas - a GPS-enabled art-walk premiering in the 2003 Boston Cyberarts Festival. In 2005, Nita collaborated with Jane Marsching in a digital conversation and interactive installation, Weight of God. Nita’sStations of a Commute audio work was featured in NYC’s Conflux Arts Festival in 2007.
Nita is Associate Professor and department Chair in the Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art. She has also taught two signature courses in mobile computing and web production at Harvard University. Previously, she has taught at Endicott College, Greenfield Community College, Carnegie Mellon University, as well as in various K-12 environments in MetroBoston. She was a founding member of the Boston Cyberarts Festival’s Youth committee that pioneered the Festival’s Faces of Tomorrow online portrait gallery for youth.
Nita’s entrepreneurial activities include co-founding SmartWorlds, a software company developing applications for mobile devices. In addition to working in high tech, Nita and her husband, Giuseppe Taibi, import the Taibi family’s Sicilian Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Olio Taibi, into the United States.
As a Jacob K. Javits Fellow, 1994-97, Nita received an M.Ed., Harvard Graduate School of Education and a M.F.A., Tufts University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, combining art, science and education. Her B.F.A. is from the Massachusetts College of Art.
She lives in Lexington, MA with her husband, Giuseppe and their two daughters, Ella Francesca and Gaia Valentina.
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