Camille Ross

Born in San Francisco in 1964, Camille is a Native American* who was raised between Berkeley, California and rural Mississippi. She earned her MFA degree from Cranrook Academy of Art, where she studied with Carl Toth, and her BA from Goddard College (1989), where she studied creative writing with Mark Doty. She appears to also have an MA degree in Latino Studies on which she worked with esteemed Chicano Renaissance Studies scholar Dr. Felipe de Ortego y Gasca. Along with being a photographer, Camille is an educator and activist, dedicated to the protection of civil liberties and the humane treatment of immigrants and refugees. She has photographed throughout the desert southwest and in Mexico and Columbia, as well as doing projects in New York City and the Catskill Mountains. Her photographic work has been exhibited in both group and solo exhibitions at venues including the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Museum of Fine Art (New Mexico Museum of Art), the Harwood Museum in Taos and the International Women's Foundation in Marfa, Texas. At the end of 2018, she worked on the Big Island of Hawaii for several months, where she taught workshops on photography and on the subject of global warming. Her website indicates she has done work for "National Geographic" magazine. In 2019 she was awarded a residency at the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild in Woodstock, New York and anticipates the publication of a book of her photographs in the new year. She is a yoga teacher at her own Native Flow Yoga. [Information compiled from artist's website 2019, Saachiart.com, other online resources and museum correspondence]. *Artist did not provide additional information about her affiliation.