[3] She was also a fine art photographer whose work is in the collections of multiple museums, and a historian of Native American culture.
In 1969, she followed her husband Stephen Strom to Stony Brook University as a research associate, and in 1972 they moved again to the Kitt Peak National Observatory, in Tucson, Arizona.
[5][6] Strom's photograph "Chapel Grid" (1981), a gelatin silver print, is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
[7] Four of her digital prints, studies of the tilework at the Alhambra from 2012 to 2013, are in the collection of the Tucson Museum of Art.
[4] In 1986 the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics in Mexico gave Strom an honorary doctorate.