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Debra Priestly is a visual artist exploring themes of memory, ancestry, history, and cultural preservation. Her work is widely exhibited and part of numerous collections, including the Albany Institute of History and Art, the Francis Greenburger Collection, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Sandor Family Collection, and the Petrucci Family Foundation Collection. It has appeared in Art in America, BOMB magazine, dART International, The New York Times, and other publications. Awards include two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships in Painting, Art Omi Residency, The Marie Walsh Sharpe’s The Space Program Residency, and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Studio Immersion Project Fellowship. She holds an MFA from Pratt Institute and a BFA from The Ohio State University. Priestly lives and works in New York City and Upstate New York. She taught art at various institutions, including Sarah Lawrence College, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and Queens College, City University of New York, where she was recently designated Professor Emerita.
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