May Mantell / Bio

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
2007 Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
2004 Artist In Residence Exhibition, Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT

FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES
2013 Vermont Studio Center, Vermont Artists Week
2010 Symposium Presenter: Neue Liechtensteiner Exkurse / La Condition Animale, Liechtenstein. A symposium on animals with scientists, philosophers and writers who work on the topic. I was invited to present my photography project Animals: A Requiem.
2004 Christian A. Johnson Artist in Residence, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
2003 Artist In Residence, The Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
1993-95 Awarded 2 one year fellowships for graduate study: The Lilly Squires Memorial Fellowship in Studio Art and The Stanford Committee for Art Fellowship Award.

EDUCATION
1995 MFA, Studio Art, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
1992 BFA, Photography, The San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Also studied at The School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA and the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

TEACHING
Studio Art / Photography: B&W Darkroom, Color Darkroom, Digital Photography / Fine Art Printing / Design / Book Making. Courses taught at Middlebury College, The University of Vermont, The San Francisco Art Institute, and Stanford University.

PROFESSIONAL
Photography, design and production for print & web, print production prepress through bindery, analog color printer, studio assistant to commercial photographers, worked in graphic design studios in Los Angeles & Palo Alto, CA.

Personal Bio
My childhood was spent on a psychedelic outpost in Northern California amidst its counter-culture on a lunatic commune in the 1970s. I was transplanted, at 13, to a remarkably more placid yet cold, rural New England of the 1980s. I went to Boston to art school after high school and fell in love with photography, my very first semester. In the 1990s I finished college at The San Francisco Art Institute, went to grad school at Stanford, spent a couple of in years in LA after grad school before moving back to the Bay Area where I worked in a graphic design firm in Silicon Valley and lived in San Francisco. In 2,000 I left the Bay Area and moved to rural Vermont.  I now live in the Champlain Valley, of Vermont, sometimes referred to as Vermont’s Banana Belt, on a little desert island with one palm tree with a majestic view to the West of the Adirondack Mountains and the setting sun, very close to Lake Champlain, with non-stop natural beauty just outside my front door.