Holly Smith Pedlosky

Holly Smith Pedlosky, teacher and artist-photographer, teaches at the Lesley Seminars at Lesley University, in Cambridge Massachusetts, and she teaches in Italy in the summers for the International Center of Photography and for Northeastern University.

Holly has lived in Venice, Italy, for a number of years. She has been leading photography workshops in Italy since 1985.

Holly's recent work is a series called Venetian Spaces: a series of panoramic photographs exploring the contrast between the Venetian sotto (below) and sopra (above).

Holly has exhibited in the Print Room of the Fogg Museum at Harvard, the Hilles Library at Radcliffe, the Fine Arts Gallery in Worcester, and extensively in Boston, Chicago, Cape Cod, and Venice, Italy. In 1994 she won a Gladys Kriebel Delmas Foundation Fellowship to photograph laundry on islands in the Venetian Lagoon and the casalinghe, traditional Italian housewives who hang it. She photographs these women, their art of hanging laundry, and the language of suspended cloth in Venetian life and art. Holly earned a BA, Radcliffe College, Harvard University, an M.A., Urban Planning, University of Colorado, and an M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she studied with Generative Systems founder and artist Sonia Landy Sheridan.

Holly's Web Sites: www.pedlosky.org & www.italyphotoworkshops.org