Michael Washburn

Birthplace and Residences: Chicago, IL; Minneapolis, MN; Washington, DC; Cambridge, MA; Princeton, NJ; New York City; Ossining, NY. 

Education: BA, Harvard College (1962). MPA, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (1967). 

Career: 1967-1976: Executive Director and Senior Vice President, Fund for Peace and World Policy Institute. 1976-2014: Michael Washburn Associates, Caesar and Washburn, Washburn Carmichael (nonprofit consulting firms). Arts clients included New Museum, Artists Space, Arts Connection, Roulette, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Studio Museum in Harlem, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Photography: 2015-Present: Since retiring, He has devoted a significant portion of his time photography and served for seven years on the Board of the Color Camera Club of Westchester as Secretary, Vice President for Competition Judges Recruitment, and member of the Steering Committee for the CCCW Annual International Competition.

I am a photographer. My practice includes The Hudson River, Travel, and Abstracts. My pictures have been selected in more than 50 juried exhibitions at galleries, museums, libraries and in several exhibition catalogues and publications. 

Among the more than 50 juried exhibitions I have been accepted into, here is a selection: Soho Photo Gallery (NYC), Salmagundy Club (NYC), Art Gallery at the Rockefeller State Park Preserve (Sleepy Hollow, NY), Garrison Art Center (Garrison, NY), Fuji Film Competition (Sleepy Hollow, NY), Rockland Photography Club (Pomona, NY), Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Sarasota, FL), Samuel Dorsky Museum (New Paltz, NY), Voices for Biodiversity (Taos, NM), Hastings Village (NY) Art Commission & The Newington-Cropsey Foundation, New York Hall of Science (Queens, NY), Ashton Gallery (San Diego, CA), Praxis Gallery (Minneapolis, MN), Rhode Island Center for Photographic Art (Providence, RI), Webster Arts (St. Louis, MO), The Space Gallery (Philadelphia, PA), Upstream Gallery (Hastings-On-Hudson, NY), Greenburgh Public Library Annual Westchester Photography Competiton (Greenburgh, NY), National Foundation of Press Women, LensCulture (Amsterdam, Netherlands). Publications include: Croton Review Fall 2023, ArtAscent Art and Literature Journal, Balanced Rock: The North Salem (NY) Review of Art, Photography and Literature, Still Points Arts Quarterly (14 Issues) (ME), Unworldly Namibia Botswana (Artist's book).

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