Melissa Ann Pinney at National Portrait Gallery

May 1, 2022 3:00 pm

We are so proud of our alum Melissa Ann Pinney and her work with CPS Lives & Ogden International High School. Her photograph, Portrait of Jael (2019), is part of the exhibition The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Learn more here.

Pinney’s photograph also featured in a Washington Post article titled, “A portrait competition that stretches the definition of a likeness.”

Congratulations Melissa!

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