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Research Areas
Visual Art; Graphic Design; Fine Art Photography
Education
M.F.A, Boston University
M.S.W, Simmons College
B.A., Brandeis University
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Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Fran Forman
Fran Forman
As a graphic designer, Fran has held a succession of positions in the field of illustration and design. Her personal art combines her illustrative and photographic skills with a passion for surrealism, paradox, illusion, assemblage, the non-human world, and the dislocations of time and place.
A recipient of several grants and many awards and honors, she teaches digital collage at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) and at Brandeis in 2012. Her work has been exhibited widely, both locally and internationally. In 2010 and 2008, she won first place, second place, and an honorable mention at the International Photography Awards, and an Honorable Mention at the Julia Margaret Cameron awards. In 2008 and in 2007, she was a winner in PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, their People’s Choice award, and Adobe Photoworkshop.com. Her work appears in journals and magazines and adorns the covers of several books.
Both the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston have included her work in their collections.
Current Projects
I plan to complete my book of images and poetry and to continue teaching my craft. As my artwork continues to evolve and develop, I hope to increase its visibility on a national and international stage. I’m fully aware, however, that today’s economic challenges present new obstacles, but visually expressing the themes of global and natural connections are more pressing than ever.
Representative Publications
Forman, Fran. A Jack Kerouac Romnibus, Penguin 1996. Electronic book in a CD-rom format based on the life, times and literature of the Beat author, Jack Kerouac.
Forman, Fran. Becoming Americans, Strawbery Banke Museum, 1998. A CD–rom and multi- media exhibit based on the life of an early 20th- century Jewish immigrant girl and her family, for Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, NH, a living museum.