Ann Fessler is an author, filmmaker, video-installation artist, and a professor emerita at the Rhode Island School of Design.
[2] Fessler graduated with an MFA from the School of Art's Photography division of the University of Arizona, where she received the Harold Jones Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007.
[5] The installation appropriated images of French painter Nicolas Poussin's famous 17th-century painting, The Rape of the Sabine Women, to show how art history itself has become a silent conspirator in the subjugation of women and the equation of female gender with passive victimhood.
[7] Multiple bodies of her work have been widely exhibited in galleries, museums, and film festivals since the 1980s.
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