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M.J. Alexander is a photographer and writer who explores the people and places of the American West, combining the vision of an artist with the skills of a storyteller. Her photographs have been published here and abroad and exhibited in venues ranging from Pleiades Gallery of New York City to New Mixico's Hubbard Museum of the American West. Her first book, Salt of the Red Earth: A Century of Wit and Wisdom from Oklahoma's Centenarians, featuring portraits and quotes culled from her interviews with the state's pioneers, was released in May 2007 by the Oklahoma Heritage Association. She is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States who earned a certificate from Cambridge University and degrees from Vassar college and Columbia University's School of Journalism. She worked fifteen years as a reporter and editor, half of them with the Associated Press in Manhattan; taught news writing at New York University; chaired the journalism department at Saint Michael's College in Vermont; and traveled five continents. Alexander has been artist-in-residence at Hedgebrook colony on Whidbey Island, Washington, and has won eight consecutive ASCAP awards for lyric wtiting. She has been based in Oklahoma City since 1998.
Browse our complete catalog by this artist. Pieces are ordered by the year of the item's production.
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