Jean Marie Casbarian
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Jean Marie Casbarian is an interdisciplinary installation artist who incorporates photography, film and video projections, sound, sculpture and performance into her artworks.  She received her MFA from Milton Avery School of Art at Bard College in New York in the year 2000.    Along with a nomination for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Jean Marie has received a number of awards and artist residencies including The LaNapoule Foundation Grant in LaNapoule, France, the Chicago Artist's Assistance Project Grant, and a yearlong Associateship with The Rocky Mountain Women's Institute.  Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.  Jean Marie is Chair of the Studio Arts Program at Transart Institute, a low-residency MFA program based in Berlin and New York City where she also teaches and mentors graduate students. She is a faculty member with both the ICP-Bard MFA program and General Studies Program at the International Center of Photography in New York City and has taught in the film and photography departments at Hampshire College, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the City Colleges of Chicago. Currently, Jean Marie resides in Western Massachusetts where she holds an appointment as artist and research associate at Five Colleges, Inc. in Amherst, Massachusetts.