Ms. Agnes Ricks Egan

Her initial art instruction was from her mother, Agnes Ricks Egan, one of the first members of the Guild of Creative Art and a notable national painter.Ms. Egan received a BFA in graphic design/photography from Carnegie Mellon University and later studied with Sam Abell, a senior National Geographic photographer.
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In 1992, Ms. Egan photographed the world premiere of Philip Glass' The Voyage at the Met and sold to all the singers and to Mr. Glass for his archives.
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After mastering darkroom technique, Ms. Egan began exhibiting fine arts photographs throughout the tri-state area, at galleries in New York City, Princeton, Woodstock, Jersey City, Trenton, Brielle, New Hope, Red Bank, Allenhurst, and at the Guild of Creative Art, where she was one of the first photographic exhibiting members.Her images are in the permanent collection of the Montclair Art Museum, Graphic Arts Library of Princeton University, Southern Methodist University, and the Monmouth County Historical Association.

As an instructor, Ms. Egan has taught composition courses and portfolio workshops at Brookdale Community College and a two-week course in Venice, where many of her images derive along with extensive studies of Greece.She currently teaches private classes for photographers at her home, and in November 2008, she will hold a three-part workshop at the Guild, a reprise of an earlier series she initiated there.In addition to multiple photographic awards, she has also been included in Who's Who of American Artists.

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