Even in paradise, adolescence is complicated. The photos inComing of Age in Wonderlandsee teenagers simultaneously wedded to the tyranny of cool while rebelling against it. These portraits of Bermuda's teenagers are as stirring and unique as the island itself.
Debra Friedmanhas a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and an MFA from the Chicago Art Institute.
Pamela Gordon Bankswas the first woman, and youngest person, ever to serve as the Premier of Bermuda.
Tom Butterfieldis founder and executive director of the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art.
-DEBRA FRIEDMAN is an established and internationally exhibited photographer and educator living in Toronto, Canada. She has a BFA from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and an MFA from The Chicago Art Institute. She is the recipient of numerous visual arts awards from The Polaroid Corporation, The Canada Council and The Ontario Arts Council and has enjoyed several artists’residencies, notably at The Hambidge Centre in Rabuns Gap, Georgia and at Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art.
-Tom Butterfield is founder and executive director of the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art. He graduated from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute in Toronto, in1976 and received a Canada Council Grant for photography before moving back to his homeland, Bermuda. In 1987. There, he started Masterworks Museum based on the notion that if Winslow Homer and other world prominent artists came to the island to create work, many other visual artists may have been inspired by the island as well. Today, the collection of over 1500 artworks including painting, drawing, sculpture and photography is housed in a state-of-the-art museum in the Bermuda Botanical Gardens attracting thousands of visitors each year.
-The Hon. Dame Pamela Gordon Banks DBE, JP
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