a Professor Emeritus. He eventually left the Bulletin
BARBARA CHASE-RIBOUD
to attend Temple University’s Tyler School of Art,
American, born 1939
receiving his MFA in 1989. Today Camp remains a professor emeritus at Ursinus College, and he
Barbara Chase-Riboud began her art career at age
continues practicing photography in Philadelphia. His
seven, attending classes at the Samuel S. Fleisher Art
work is included in the collections of the Pennsylvania
Memorial and selling her first print to the Museum
Academy of the Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum
of Modern Art, New York, when she was a teenager.
of Art, and Woodmere Art Museum, among
She received her BFA from Temple University’s Tyler
others. He has been awarded fellowships from the
School of Art in 1957 and won a fellowship to study
Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment
at the American Academy in Rome the same year.
for the Arts, and the Pew Fellowship in the Arts.
She created her first bronze works there, which became her most recognizable medium. She earned
And the House, 1977–79 Chromium-intensified gelatin silver print, 4 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.
her MFA from Yale University in 1960 and settled
Courtesy of the artist
Chase-Riboud began her celebrated Malcolm X series,
Evening, 1978 (negative), 1980 (print) Chromium-intensified gelatin silver print, 3 x 4 3/4 in. Courtesy of the artist
G-G-G- - -, 1978 Chromium-intensified gelatin silver print, 4 1/2 x 6 in.
permanently in Europe upon graduation. In 1969 which consists of over-life-size cast bronze sculptures draped and bound with knotted and braided fabrics. Chase-Riboud’s sculptures are included in national and international collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Courtesy of the artist
The Hill, 1978 Chromium-intensified gelatin silver print, 5 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.
Time Womb, 1970 Aluminum and silk, 78 x 18 1/2 x 12 in. Collection of Dr. and Mrs. William Wolgin
Courtesy of the artist
Clockwise from top: And the House, 1977–79, by Donald E. Camp (Courtesy of the artist); Evening, 1978 (negative), 1980 print), by Donald E. Camp (Courtesy of the artist); The Hill, 1978, by Donald E. Camp (Courtesy of the artist); G-G-G---, 1978, by Donald E. Camp (Courtesy of the artist)
On the Hill, 1979 Chromium-intensified gelatin silver print, 4 3/4 x 7 1/4 in.
LAURA WILLIAMS CHASSOT
Courtesy of the artist
American, born 1942
Two Dresses Friday Night, 1979 Chromium-intensified gelatin silver print, 5 x 7 1/4 in.
Laura Williams Chassot creates colorful works of
Collection of Alice Oh
different art forms, including poetry and music. She
Winter Grass, 1979–81 Gelatin silver print, 5 x 8 in. Woodmere Art Museum: Museum purchase, 2013
abstraction and magical realism that draw from many moved to Philadelphia from Virginia and graduated from Cheyney State College (now Cheyney University of Pennsylvania) in 1964. She also studied at New York University and a variety of Philadelphia art institutions. including the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts), and Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. Chassot taught classes in the Upper Merion Area
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