Bio
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| Sondra Peron grew up in Connecticut and resides in Northampton, Massachusetts. She holds her M.F.A. in Photography from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, Maryland. She graduated as an Ada Comstock Scholar from Smith College with a B.A. in Philosophy in 1998. Ms. Peron is currently on the faculty at Springfield Technical Community College where she teaches Basic Photography, Photography II, and the History of Photography as well as conducting independent studies with advanced students, and academic advising . She has also taught traditional and digital photography at Holyoke Community College, and at her alma mater Northwestern Connecticut Community Collge. Since 2001, she has worked as arts administrator for the Northampton Arts Council, and from 2004 to 2010 worked as a teaching assistant in the art history department at Smith College. Ms. Peron has produced a significant body of work using vintage cameras, most notably the Brownie Hawkeye manufactured by Kodak from the late 1940s to early 1960s. Her photography has been exhibited in solo, two-person and group shows throughout New England, Maryland, Tennessee, and China. Her work is featured in the current issue of Afterimage: The Aesthetics of Atrocity, has been published in Cerise Press: A Journal of Literature, Art and Culture and The Sun Magazine. Work can also be found in the collections of the Mortimer Rare Book Room in Neilson Library at Smith College, and various private collections. Peron has received grants from foundations and cultural councils in support of her photographic work. She has served as a guest artist and lecturer at the Smith College Museum of Art, Darrow School, Northwestern CT Community College, Holyoke Community College, and Skidmore College. (Self-portrait at Serfios, "iron island" of the Cyclades, Greece) |
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