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MARGARET PENNEY

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Margaret H. Penney was born in Beirut Lebanon in 1973, the daughter of a diplomat she spent much of her childhood overseas in the Middle East and North Africa. She has a Bachelors from Johns Hopkins University and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University.

An early adopter of the web and art online, she has exhibited New Media art at the Museo Tamayo Contemporary Art Museum in Mexico, the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, the Benicassim Festival in Spain, and Morean Art Center among others. Her design and artwork have been featured in Yahoo France, AOL, La Reforma, XLR8R, FACT magazine, Neural.it, Rhizome and in the book Eye Candy from the Underground.
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Margaret Penney is a designer, teacher, writer and media artist. As a print, web and motion graphic designer, Margaret has worked with Simon & Schuster, TIAA-Cref, Nike, Delia’s girls clothing, MTV, and Sol Lewitt. She designed one of the first social networking portals, a precursor to Friendster, Dotlove.com, for the pan-Asian teen market. Her environment design for Dotlove, won 3rd place behind Sony and Nokia at the Hong Kong Computer Expo.

Margaret developed the digital media curriculum at The Masters School, an independent school outside New York City. She works at Sessions College, an online Design and Fine Arts school as an instructor and serves as their Department Head of Multimedia. She teaches Typography, Color Theory, Web Design, Flash Experience Design, Marketing, Design Business, HTML 5 and CSS.

As a new media artist, she has exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London; the Museo Tamayo in Mexico City; and around NYC. Her artwork has been reviewed globally online, in print magazines, and included in the book Eye Candy from the Underground: Fresh Styles for Web Designers. She has lectured on digital media art at Purchase College, the School of Visual Arts Annual Conference for Educators, and the Pratt Institute.

As a writer, she has been published in New York Arts magazine, Flavorpill.com, Rhizome.org, and the Baltimore City paper. Margaret has a B.A. from Johns Hopkins University and M.F.A. from Columbia University.