Elaine O'Neil

Biography: Elaine O’Neil

Elaine O’Neil’s photographic documents concerning the mother daughter relationship have received many awards including a National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Massachusetts Council for the Arts Fellowship.

In recent years, Ms O’Neil’s photographs have been included in exhibitions at the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York; The George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; The Houston Center for Photography; The Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo; The Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ; and The Telfair Museum in Savannah,GA.

Her work is in numerous public and private collections including the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX; The George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; The New Orleans Museum of Art, LA; and The Library of Congress.

Elaine O’Neil is a noted educator currently teaching graduate fine art photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York.

Biography: Julia Hess

Born in Boston, MA into a family of artists in 1982, Julia Hess moved with her family in 1990 to Pittsford, NY. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Materials Science and Engineering from

Carnegie Mellon University. After graduating with honors, Julia worked on projects related to the NASA Space Shuttle program at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, FL, and completed

a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering at the University of Florida.

Currently working as an Engineer in Philadelphia, PA, Julia now balances her work in the sciences with classes at the University of the Arts and the Koresh Dance Company, and by involvement in the artistic and cultural opportunities the city has to offer.