Mary Curtis Ratcliff

[8] This footage was hastily compiled into a pilot for a prospective CBS television magazine series titled Subject to Change.

However, after an unconventional screening at the Videofreex loft in lower Manhattan, network executives declined to move forward with the project.

[7]She collaborated with Griffin on a multi-projector synchronized slideshow with sound called Daze of Syracuse: Past, Present and Future at the Everson Museum,[11] visited the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Reservations with him in South Dakota, documenting and engaging in the Sundance Ceremonies with the Lakota Sioux in 1971 and 1972.

[14][15][16][17] At the suggestion of artist Helène Aylon, she participated in residency programs at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in 1997 and 1999.

[1] Over the next 20 years, her artistic technique grew to include layered elements of drawing, collage, image transfer, and photography.

[2][18] Beginning in 2016, Ratcliff began combining her focus on nature-based imagery using mixed media techniques with a return to kinetic sculpture, notably in the exhibitions Full Circle, What Goes Around Comes Around, and Circumference.

[20] Mary Curtis Ratcliff lives in Berkeley, California with her husband, SFMOMA curator Peter Samis.

Amelia (1972), a tribute to Amelia Earhart
Josephine (1992), a tribute to Josephine Baker
Two Birds , 1999
Jellies , 2018