BIO

Alexandra Silverthorne (she/her) holds a Master of Fine Arts from Maine College of Art (MECA) and an undergraduate degree from Connecticut College with a major in Government and minors in Art and Philosophy. Since 2010, she has taught photography courses at American University, Montgomery College, and the University of the District of Columbia. She has taught additional courses through MECA’s Continuing Studies program and was an Artist-In-Residence at Phelps A.C.E. High School in 2017 and at Street Sense Media in 2022 – 2023. In 2009, Silverthorne co-initiated the MFA Alumni Residency Program at MECA and served as the Residency Coordinator for four years.

Silverthorne has exhibited throughout the DC area, including solo shows at BlackRock Center for the Arts (Rockville, MD), harmon art lab (Washington, DC), Heineman Myers Contemporary Art (Bethesda, MD), and Warehouse Gallery (Washington, DC). She received a fellowship to travel to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan for the 2004 annual World Conference Against A&H Bombs. She has received numerous grants from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities as well as one from the Puffin Foundation. Her work can be found in regional permanent collections, including the John Wilson City Hall Building (Washington, DC), District Art Bank Collection (Washington, DC), and Montgomery County’s Works on Paper Collection (Silver Spring, MD). She lives and works in her hometown of Washington, DC.