BIO

Alexandra Silverthorne is an artist and educator, who lives and works in her hometown of Washington, DC.

Silverthorne has exhibited in galleries and institutions throughout the DC area, including The Phillips Collection, American University Museum, DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities, and the Corcoran Gallery of Art. She has also exhibited in numerous galleries outside of the area, including Field Projects Gallery (New York, NY), Institute of Contemporary Art (Portland, ME), Second Story Gallery (New Orleans, LA), and artspace (Richmond, VA). She has received numerous grants from the DC Commission on the Arts & Humanities as well as funding from the Puffin Foundation and a fellowship to travel to Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. 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). 

Silverthorne 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 in art departments at American University, George Washington University’s Corcoran School of the Art & Design, Montgomery College, and the University of the District of Columbia. She also teaches weekly photography workshops at Street Sense Media.