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Carrie Scanga is a printmaker and installation artist. Her installations and works on paper engage with personal mythologies, nostalgia, and theories from ecology, architecture, and design. Scanga earned a BA from Bryn Mawr College, and an MFA from University of Washington in Seattle. She is currently Chair of the Department of Art, Director of Visual Arts Division, and Associate Professor of Art at Bowdoin College in Maine, where she also directs the Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project visiting artist program. Scanga's works on paper, artists' books, and installations have been exhibited throughout the world in solo and group exhibitions and have received critical recognition in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and Printeresting.org. Some recent notable exhibitions include: the Portland Museum of Art, the Lawndale Art Center, PLUG Projects, Islip Art Museum, St. Louis Craft Alliance, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, El Conteiner in Ecuador, Janet Turner Print Museum, and the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. She has been awarded fellowships from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The MacDowell Colony, and residencies at the Blue Mountain Center, Fundación Valparaíso, Sculpture Space, Artspace, and the Salina Art Center.
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