“Although she was born and raised in the Boston area, rising star Courtney Stock (’09 MFA), thirty-five, began her career as an artist on Nantucket. “I developed my first black and white photo at NISDA,” she says, referring to Nantucket Island School of Design and the Arts, which was founded in the 1970s as a collaboration between Rhode Island School of Design and Mass College of Art, and offers interdisciplinary programs linking art to science, culture and the environment. “It was a fundamental experience for me,” Stock says. “I wrote my college essays about it. It was so formative.””

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