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Lorraine Walsh
Lorraine Walsh is Director and Associate Professor of Multimedia Arts and Sciences. Walsh’s art, inspired by the sciences and nature, is exhibited internationally in venues that include the Greece Biennale at the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, The Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, and the José Martí National Library in Havana, Cuba. Additionally, she has exhibited work in a broad range of galleries and museums, and her work belongs to several collections. She lectures internationally, and is the recipient of numerous awards and grants. Recently, Walsh received a grant titled e-MobiLArt (European Mobile Lab for Interactive Media Artists Collaborative Project), a new Euro project for the creation of interactive installation artworks. Other grants include working with multimedia and physics students on a collaborative astronomy grant from the National Science Foundation for the visualization of the radio sky. As a designer, Walsh has developed graphics and interactive media for the Petrosains Discovery Center and Science Museum in Malaysia, The National Geographic Society and The Smithsonian Institution. As an artist and a teacher, she believes in combining digital technologies with traditional techniques. Her interdisciplinary work in animation, installation, and print merges time-honored practices in art alongside digital methodologies.
Former Visiting Assistant Professor in Digital Design and Interactive Media at Pratt Institute in N.Y., Walsh received her BFA from Parsons The New School for Design and her MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Other academic appointments and guest artist invitations have included Lafayette College, Rutgers University, Vassar College, Wellesley College, Western Carolina University, and the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
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