Mariette Pathy Allen is a graduate of Vassar College and the University of Pennsylvania where she received a MFA in painting. She won a New York State Council on the Arts grant in 1988, and in 1989, her book, Transformations: Crossdressers and Those Who Love Them, was published by E.P. Dutton, Inc. Her second book, The Gender Frontier published by Kehrer Verlag in Heidelberg, Germany, won a 2004 Lambda Literary Award. Ms. Allen has been a consultant and still photographer on five films; Southern Comfort, the most recent, won the 2001 Sundance documentary award. Her photographs have been included in a number of national and international exhibitions and is in the permanent collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the George Eastman House, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Brooklyn Museum, the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, the Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Frankfurt, among others. Q & A to follow the lecture.
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