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Member’s Gallery – Prints (Virtually): Nostalgia-Field Trips Before Covid with Willa Friedman
April 25, 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 7:45 pm
Willa will be just reminiscing. Field trips are always fun and looking back at the pictures we took is fun too.
BIO:
Willa’s first job after college was as an instructor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Her first summer there, she had a choice of several summer projects—filing, cleaning small animal cages or photographing wildlife in city parks for the NYC schools. She claimed to be able to do photography and brought home a camera and a light meter. Bob taught her everything she needed to know over the following weekend and her work was published. Bob still claims to have taught her everything she knows.
Willa has taken courses and workshops at Photoworks at Glen Echo, and with Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant in New Brunswick, Canada, and Santa Fe Workshop in Santa Fe, NM. She has also had extensive courses in Photoshop with Eliot Cohen. She has been a member of NVPS since 2004 and has learned a great deal from the members and speakers. She has held many positions and is currently coordinator for the solo shows at Beanetics.
Willa won Photographer of the Year in Novice Monochrome in 2006, Advanced Monochrome in 2009 and Color Print of the Year in 2008. Willa has work on display at the Art League Gallery at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria and Falls Church Arts. She has an image in the permanent collection of the Joseph Miller Center for Photographic Arts. She has had several images published in the Northern Virginia Review and has won their Best in Visual Arts award twice, and was also published in Elan Magazine, as well as being in numerous juried shows. Willa has had solo shows at 1st Stage, the Stone Tower Gallery at Glen Echo and has had several shows at Beanetics Coffee Rosters in Annandale and has been a guest artist at Waverly Street Gallery in Bethesda.
