Background

Ann B. Rosen was born in 1948 in Brooklyn, New York, United States.

Education

Ann Rosen received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1971. She also received a Master of Fine Arts in 1978 from the Visual Studies Workshop of SUNY in Rochester. From 1971 to 1972 she attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Career

Founder-manager of Hard Press since 1978, Ann Rosen has also been publications co-ordinator at the Hallwalls Gallery since 1977. She has taught at SUNY (1979), the Educational Opportunity Center (1979), and Cepa Gallery (1976-1979), all in Buffalo, and at VSW in Rochester (1975). Ann Rosen describes her work as being "about combinations - an overlapping of mediums (words and images), a series of images (collage), color and textural patterns."

Achievements

• In 2004, Ann Rosen received a grant from the Brooklyn Arts Council to develop her project, In the Presence of Family and, in 2010, received an additional one to continue this project, creating a historic document of the families. She has published several books in connection with this project, In the Presence of Family: Brooklyn Portraits, 2009, and Revisiting in the Presence of Family: Brooklyn Portraits, 2018. In 2016, Ann Rosen received a grant from the Puffin Foundation to expand her work teaching digital photography to women in living in shelters.

Connections

Friend:

Minor White

Ann Rosen attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying with Minor White and Ron MacNeil.

Friend:

Ron MacNeil

Ann Rosen attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying with Minor White and Ron MacNeil.

teacher:

Joan Lyons

Ann Rosen studied at the State University of New York under Nathan and Joan Lyons, John Wood, and Keith Smith.

teacher:

John Wood

Ann Rosen studied at the State University of New York under Nathan and Joan Lyons, John Wood, and Keith Smith.

teacher:

Keith Smith

References

• Photographs by Ann Rosen