AP Summer Studios: Myra Greene

ART PAPERS Summer Studios is series of studio visits with Atlanta-area artists, selected by Art Papers. Attendees will meet the artists and learn about their practices. Conversation and Q&A guided by AP Editor + Artistic Director Sarah Higgins.

Complimentary refreshments will be provided. AP subscriptions and merchandise will be available for purchase.

Tickets are $25 for each studio visit, and availability is limited. We recommend you purchase ticket(s) early.

Ticket holders will be contacted with additional information regarding studio locations prior to the event.

ABOUT THE ARTIST: Myra Greene

Myra Greene is currently working on a new body of work that uses African textiles as a material and pattern to explore her own relationship to culture.   She currently resides in Atlanta GA where she is an Associate Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Art and Visual Culture and Director of the Photography Program at Spelman College.

She received an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Photography and has completed residencies at Light Work in Syracuse New York and the Center for Photography at Woodstock. Her work is in the permanent collection of Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City.  Myra Greene’s work has been featured in nationally exhibitions in galleries and museums including The New York Public Library, Duke Center for Documentary Studies, Williams College Museum of Art, Museum of  the African Diaspora in San Francisco and Sculpture Center in New York City. Myra Greene was born in New York City and received her B.F.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and her M.F.A. in photography from the University of New Mexico.