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Stephanie Bursese is an artist born in upstate New York in 1980. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Florida with a major in Photography and a minor in Art History. In 2006 she graduated from Syracuse University with a Master of Fine Arts in Photography. During the last 15 years of making photographs her work has appeared in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions as well as a variety of print publications. She was a co-director of Spark Contemporary Art Space in Syracuse New York, founded numerous academic and community based art organizations, and was selected to participate in a summer residency at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia in 2006. In 2009 she received a grant from the Meadowlands Commission in New Jersey to create a image based project about the area surrounding the Meadowlands. In addition to this project, Stephanie is currently editing a series of images called Something Like Human Emotion from her performance at The Welcome House, an experimental residency directed by Marianne Bernstein, funded by Design Philadelphia and First Person Arts. She recently had a solo show of work from both these projects at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. Stephanie is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography at Western Connecticut State University.