Education1997M. F. A Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT1992B. F. A. University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT  Awards2006Woodstock Center for Photography, Artist in Residence; Woodstock A-I-R, , Woodstock, NY2001Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Tourism, Culture, History & Film, Hartford, Artist Fellowship Grant, Hartford, CT1999Japan-United States Educational Comission, Fulbright Memorial Teacher Fund, chosen alternate for CT1995The Art Matters Foundation, Art Matters Fellowship, New York, NY  Collections Woodstock Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY  Public Projects2004My Latina Self/ My Other Self, Hartford Public Library, Hartford, CT2003Sharing Through Stories, Instructor of photography, a collaboration -Todd Vogel, The American Studies Class, Trinity College and the Wyllis Lisbon housing community, funded in part by Trinity College, Hartford, CT2002ACT LIKE YOU CARE, Conceived, Directed and Instructed by Marlo Marrero, Funded in part by Gerber Scientific, CT Transit, Miss Porter's School, The Bushnell, Real Art Ways, West End Civic Association, Briarwood Printing, Simonds Photographic, Mark Snyder, Phil Fortune. A L Y C is a multifaceted project that allowed visual voices of two communities of young women (13 girls), ages 10-17, to be seen by many peoples via photographs, the web and our public transportation system.     www.actlikeyoucare.org  Exhibitions2008  Merging Cultures: Latin American and Caribbean Art & Life, Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, CT
Made In Woodstock IV, Woodstock Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY2005  Women In the Arts, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, IN2004  Mirror as Mirror, Benton Museum, Uconn, Storrs, CT
Northeast Exposure on-line, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA2003  Female Representation, BackSpace, Portland, OR
Republica Dominicana, EBK Gallery, W. Hartford, CT
CT Heart Gallery Program, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT2002  Act Like You Care, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT2001  Grant Recipients Exhibition, Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Hartford, CT
Fellowship 2001, Juror Jean Caslin, Director of Houston Center of Photography, Silver Eye Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA1999  Marlo Marrero, Miriam Butterworth Gallery, Hartford College for Women, Hartford, CT (solo)
TRANS, Curated by David Borawski, Middletown, CT
WOW, Curated by Marlo Marrero, Presented at Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT1998  The Rebellious Bead, Umpqua Community College, Roseburg, OR (bead-work/photography)
3 Artists, Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford, CT  (photography/fiber-works)
San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum Preview & Auction, San Francisco, CA (bead-work/photography)1997  

The Rebellious Bead, Museum of the Southwest, Midland, TX (bead-work/photography)1996  

Everything in Moderation, Store Front Project, Hartford proud and Beautiful Foundation, Hartford, CT  (photography/fiber-works1994  

Treading on Hallowed Ground, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA (bead-work/photography)

Store Front Project “Don’t  I Know You?”, Re:solution, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA (bead-work/photography)  

Professional Experience1998-present Instructor of Art; Photography1, Advanced Photography (experimental), Intro to Color Photography (digital), Conceptual Photography, Portrait; Studio Lighting, Independents in Photography, Studio 1(mixed media; drawing painting and sculpture), Miss Porter’s School, Farmington, CT www.missporters.org2000Adjunct Professor, Photography 2, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT1999Adjunct Professor, Photography 1, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT  

Relevant Professional Activities2009National Association of Independent schools, People of Color Conference, Denver, CO2005National Association of Independent schools, People of Color Conference, Dallas, TX
Presenter: Public Art Projects: Embracing Identities and Connecting Communities2004National Association of Independent schools, People of Color Conference, Miami, FL2002National Association of Independent schools, People of Color Conference, Chicago, IL2001National Association of Independent schools, People of Color Conference, Providence, RI  2010Society of Photographic Education Conference, Philadelphia, PA2004Society of Photographic Education Conference, Newport, RI2001Society of Photographic Education Conference, Savannah, GA  2005Photolucida, Professional Portfolio Review, Portland, OR