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Clarissa Sligh

Early life and education
Virginia (Clarissa Thompson et. al. vs. Arlington County School Board).

Clarissa Sligh was born in Washington D.C. in 1939. Clarissa Sligh is a visual artist, lecturer, and essayist.

M.F.A. in Visual Arts from Howard University, 1999. M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, 1973. The Skowhegan School of Art, Skowhegan, ME, Painting, Summer 1972. B.F.A. in Visual Arts from Howard University, Washington, DC in 1972. B.S. in Mathematics from Hampton Institute, Hampton, VA in 1961.

Photographer and Text-based Installation Artist, NY, NY

Career
Clarissa Sligh trained under

http://www.anonymouswasawoman.org/past-award-winners.html

Jewish Museum, New York, NY, Walker Art Center and the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, MN, Corcoran Gallery of Art and the National African American Museum Project, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

2013 grant from the Shlenker Block Fund of the Houston Jewish Community Foundation. Other awards include an International Center of Photography Annual Infinity Award (1995) and fellowships from Anonymous Was a Woman (2001), the National Endowment for the Arts (1988), the New York Foundation for the Arts in artist’s books (2005) and in photography (1988 and 2000). Reframing the Past, 1988 MOMA NY collection

Sligh was co-founder, in 1988 of “Coast to Coast National Women Artists of Color Projects”, which traveled exhibitions nationally through 1996. She has worked with organizations including the National Women’s Caucus for Art (1985 to 1994), the Artists Federal Credit Union, New York, (1986 to 1987), Printed Matter (1992 to 1996), the Artists’ Advisory Board of the Women’s Studio Workshop (2004 to 2007), the Artist Advisory Committee, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, (2004 to 2008), and the Penland School of Crafts, (2007 to 2014).

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