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  • email adavis2@massart.edu
  • phone 617-879-7401
  • education
    • MFA - University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    • BFA - University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Consortium Studies
    • Hampshire College, Amherst College, and Smith College)

Amber previously taught photography and digital media at Princeton University, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Emerson College and Harvard University.

Industry Experience

Exhibitions
Solo and Selected Group Exhibitions

  • Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA
  • JanKossen Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY
  • Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA
  • Viewpoint Gallery, Halifax, NS
  • Carpenter Center, Harvard University
  • artStrand Gallery Provincetown, MA
  • Photographic Resource Center, Boston University
  • Circa Gallery, Montreal, Canada
  • Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts
  • Art Institute of Boston Gallery, Cambridge, MA
  • Harvey Milk Institute, San Francisco, CA
  • Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
  • WORKS Gallery, San Jose, CA
  • Oresmen gallery, Smith College, Northampton, MA
  • Boston Public Library, Johnson Building

Publications
Reviews & Published Work

  • Printer’s Devil Review
  • 2014 –glbtq Social Sciences Encyclopedia
  • 2013 – Harvard Gazette
  • 2013 – Artscope
  • 2013 – Boston Phoenix
  • 2013 – Bay Windows
  • 2008 – Edge Media Network
  • 2008 – Feminism & Motherhood
  • 2007 – Seal Press
  • 2007 – Fox and Paula’s On, photographs aired
  • 2004 – Newsweek
  • 2004 – CNN, photographs aired
  • The Advocate
  • Arts & Understanding
  • Oxingale Record, Northampton, MA

Selected Panels & Talks

  • Harvard University/Carpenter Center
  • Society for Photographic Education/Rockport ME
  • AICAD Symposium/Baltimore MD
  • Tufts University Communication and Media Studies
  • NE Women in Photography, Simmons College, Boston, MA
  • Kahn Liberal Arts Institute Smith College

Organizations

  • The History Project, Boston MA
  • Greater Boston PFLAG
  • Family Equality Council
  • GLAD, Boston MA
  • New England Women in Photography
  • Friends of Somerville Public Library

Awards and Recognitions

  • 2015 – Honorary Board, COLAGE
  • 2013 – Derek Bok Center for Undergraduate Education Teaching Award, Harvard University
  • 2005 – Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant
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