Wednesday, 20 January 2016

Refreshments: 5:45 p.m.

Presentation: 6:30 p.m.

Location: IMF HQ2-01A-280A&B

1900 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC,

20431

EiC Theme: Still Life

Guest Speaker: Gayle Rothshild

Title of Gayle’s presentation: “And She Was”.

BIO

Gayle Rothschild has been working as a fine art photographer since 1982 when she received her MFA degree from the University of Maryland, College Park, MD.  Her first photography class was at Photoworks, Glen Echo Park, in 1977, then studied at Corcoran School of Art, Washington, DC, and at The Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY,

Her photographs have been exhibited in numerous group and solo exhibitions including The Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY, Maryland  Art Place, Baltimore, MD, Vis Arts, Rockville, MD.,    Washington County Museum, Sandra Berler Gallery, Chevy Chase, MD, National Museum of Women In the Arts, Washington, DC, The Corcoran Museum of Art, American University Museum Katzen Art Center, “Washington Art Matters: 1940’-1980’s”, and American University Museum Katzen Art Center, “Presence of Place” in 2015.  Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas and was in the Corcoran Museum of Art.

From 1993- 2010 she was represented by Sandra Berler Gallery, Chevy Chase, MD.,

She is the photographer/illustrator for the children’s book, What Is The Sign For Friend, Franklin Watts, publisher.

Gayle Rothschild has been a photography instructor at Photoworks, Glen Echo Park since 1983, she is currently the Director of Exhibitions and member of the executive board. Gayle has an exhibit starting January 15 until January 2016. The exhibit is titled: “Self & Subject: Ideas in Contemporary Portraiture“