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Kathie Florsheim
Kathie Florsheim, of Providence,
Rhode Island, is an independent photographer whose work has been
shownin museums and galleries nationally and internationally.
Her current series, On the Edge, evolved out of photographs she
made during an artist's residency at the Atlantic Center for the
Arts. This series of documentary photographs explores the relationship
between the manmade and natural enviroment and the conflict between
public and private use along the coastline in the Northeast. She
is photographing along the coast in Rhode Island, on the Cape
and in Maine. This series began in 2003 and has concentrated primarily
on the Cape since 2007. She has a particular affinity for Provincetown
because of her family's history in 'Town. She is concurrently
working collaboratively with a team of scientists, architects,
mapmaker, community organizer etc., which she directs, called
Living on the Edge (LOTE). LOTE is a project that examines a small,
seasonal coastal community in Rhode Island as its shoreline recedes,
and its residents contemplate erosion, storm damage and sea level
rise. She is also completing on another documentary project, A
Day at the Beach, a series photographed at Narragansett Town Beach
in Narragansett, Rhode Island. That body of work probes the sociology
of how we go to the beach.
Her professional honors include
a fellowship with the Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources,
a Visual Art Sea Grant award given by the University of Rhode
Island, and a CASE Media Fellowship awarded by the University
of Maine, and an artist's residency Atlantic Center for the Arts.
She earned an M.F.A. in Photography from the Rhode Island School
of Design, where she studied with Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan.
She also earned a B.A. in Modern European History from Mt. Holyoke
College.
