ACT visiting artist, Judy Gelles, will present her "Fourth Grade Project" in which for the
past eight years Gelles has interviewed and photographed over 300 students from
China, India, South Korea, England, Italy, St Lucia, South Africa and multiple areas of
the United States. She asked all of the students the same three questions: Who do you
live with? What do you wish for? and What do you worry about? Told in their own words,
their stories touch on common human experiences and urgent social issues.
Gelles received her MFA in photography from the Rhode Island School of Design and
her Masters in Counseling from the University of Miami. Her work is in major collections
including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and
the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has had residencies at the
MacDowell Colony, the Visual Studies Workshop, and the Atlantic Center for the Arts.
Her work has been featured in Ms. Magazine; Vision Magazine, Beijing, China;
Camerawork; New Art Examiner; Artweek and Photography Now. She is represented by
Pentimenti Gallery Philadelphia, and DeSoto Gallery Los Angeles.
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