AMY THOMPSON AVISHAI
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Exhibitions
PHOTOSTOP Gallery, solo show, Within These Walls: Educating Girls in Rural Morocco, White River Junction, Vermont, 2012.
Critical Mass Top 50 traveling group show: Across the Divide, Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle, Washington, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, Oregon and RayKo Photo Center, San Francisco, California, 2011
Alliance Française, solo show, Within These Walls: Educating Girls in Rural Morocco, Boston, 2011
Remis Gallery, solo show, The Governor’s Academy, Byfield, Massachusetts, 2010
Griffin Museum of Photography, 15th Juried Group Exhibition, juror: Catherine Edelman, Winchester, Massachusetts, 2009
Panopticon Gallery of Photography, Four Points of View, group show, Boston, 2009
International Museum of Women, San Francisco, featured museum pick, online exhibition, Within These Walls: Educating Girls in Rural Morocco, 2009
Photo Resource Center, Northeast Exposure, Emerging Artist of the Month, online exhibition, Boston, Massachusetts, September 2006
First in the Nation, juried group show of four decades of New Hampshire presidential elections, New Hampshire Historical Society’s Tuck Library, 2001
Washington Center for Photography, Your Shot, Our Show, juried group show, Washington, D.C. 1995
Awards/Honors
Best Art Exhibit of the Year 2012, Within These Walls: Educating Girls in Rural Morocco, PHOTOSTOP Gallery, Upper Valley region of New Hampshire and Vermont
Prix de la Photographie, Paris, France, 2011, Young Mennonites and Bok Choy, Cambodia
Critical Mass Top 50 Photographers2010, Young Mennonites series, Ohio
Critical Mass Finalist 2009, Faith, Violence and Visitors series, Cambodia
Nomination, Women to Watch 2007 biennial exhibition, National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.
Critical Mass Top 50 Photographers 2006, Within These Walls: Educating Girls in Rural Morocco
Recipient, Fulbright fellowship, Morocco, 2003–2004
Recipient, Paul Schutzer Memorial Award for Advanced Documentary Work, Ohio University, 2003
Featured photographer, National Geographic, “ZipUSA: Athens, Ohio 45701”, January 2003
Recipient, Grant from the Center for Southeast Asia Studies, Ohio University, Cambodia, 2003
Guest Presentations and Benefit Auctions
Benefiting Underprivileged Schoolgirls in Morocco, Fifth Annual Anniversary Gala, The Moroccan Society of Houston, Texas, 2010
Guest Presenter, Colloquium, Visual Journalists Reporting in Asia, Center for Asian Studies and Center for African Studies, Michigan State University, 2010
Guest Presenter, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, Massachusetts, 2009
Photo Resource Center Benefit Auction, juried selection, Boston, Massachusetts, 2009
GIRLS’ LEAP Benefit Auction, Boston, Massachusetts, 2009
Selected Publications
Women’s Review of Books, Amy Thompson Avishai: Revealing a Hidden World, by Leslie K. Brown, published by Wellesley College, 2011
SocialDocumentary.net, SPOTLIGHT: Girls’ Education and Daily Life in Rural Morocco, 2010
Tuesday; An Art Project, letter-pressed journal of poems, photographs and prints, published biannually, Cambodia series featured, 2009
Verve: The New Breed of Documentary Photographers (blog), Cambodia series featured, 2008
Professional Experience
Photography instructor, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 2007–present
Staff photographer, The Valley News, West Lebanon, New Hampshire, 1998–2001
Freelance photographer, The New York Times, Washington, D.C. bureau, 1996–1997
Education
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Master of Arts in photography, School of Visual Communication, Ohio University, Athens,
Ohio, 2007
Bachelor of Arts in Interdisciplinary Humanities, Michigan State University, 1992