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Stephanie Pogue

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According to Wikipedia, Stephanie Elaine Pogue was an American professor, printmaker, artist, and curator. Her artistic interests included the portrayal of women and the human figure. Early life and education She was born in Shelby, North Carolina, but was raised in Elizabeth, New Jersey. In junior high school and high school, she was interested in art, ballet, and music. She attended Syracuse University, but felt isolated there as the only black student in a dorm of 250 people. While at Syracuse, she took a life-drawing class for non-majors. After a year at Syracuse, Pogue transferred to Howard University where she studied art. At Howard, she was taught and mentored by notable artists and art historians including James A. Porter, David Driskell, James Lesesne Wells, and Lois Mailou Jones. Her classmates included artists Franklin White, Lou Stovall, and Sylvia Snowden. After receiving her Bachelor's from Howard, Pogue graduated from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan with her Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking in 1968. Progue continued her art education throughout her career, including studying privately with bookbinder George A. Baer in 1969, studying lithography with Mavis Pusey, studying at the Printmaking Workshop in New York during the summer of 1976, and studying art history at Vanderbilt University.

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