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Plymouth State University
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17 High Street
Plymouth, NH 03264-1595
Chehalis Hegner-Melloni
Graduate Adjunct Faculty, Art
Office phone number: (603) 535-2201
e-mail: chegnermelloni@plymouth.edu
Administrative contact: Deborah Stalnaker
Administrative contact phone number: (603) 535-2933
Administrative contact email: dlstalnaker@plymouth.edu
Degrees and Education
- M.F.A., Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University
- M.A., Berklee College of Music
Profile
Photographer and New Media Aritst Chehalis Hegner was born in 1961 in Chicago. She graduated from the Interlochen Arts Academy in 1979, and from the Berklee College of Music in 1984. She will complete her MFA in visual arts at the Art Institute of Boston this spring. Some of her mentors include George Fifield (of the DeCordova Museum and founder of the Boston Cyber arts Festival), photographer Arno Minkkinen, and master printer Jonathan Singer, founder of Singer Editions, Boston.
Chehalis is a practicing fine art photographer and videographer. Current projects include "I to Eye," a photographic installation piece that explores questions of personal and socially constructed identities; an investigation of how constructed roles dissipate when the individual is confronted with illness or near-death experiences. Also in production is an independent film project entitled "The Anatomy of a Kiss," based on a series of filmed interviews on the celebrated topic of Kissing.
Her work has been presented in Boston, Chicago, and the Greater New England area in fine art and university galleries. She currently teaches workshops and photography within the art department at Plymouth State University.
