Ellen Galinsky

Ellen Galinsky is the President of Families and Work Institute (FWI). She is the elected President of the Work and Family Researchers Network and also serves as a senior advisor on Youth Mental Health at the Administration for Children and Families. Between March 2016 and September 2022, she served as Chief Science Officer of the Bezos Family Foundation. She is the author of Mind in the Making, a best-selling book on early learning that the New York Times called “iconic,” and Judy Woodruff of the PBS NewsHour named “must reading for everyone who cares about America’s fate in the 21^st Century.” Her book on adolescent development, The Breakthrough Years, will be published in March 2024. She is also the author of 90 books/reports and 360 articles for books, academic journals, magazines, and the Web. She is the recipient of the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Work and Family Researchers Network and 2023 21 Leaders for the 21^st Century by eWomen News.Galinsky had her first major photography exhibit at the Charleston (WV) Art Gallery in 1970 and was chosen for a solo exhibition at the Soho Foundation-Alfred Stieglitz Gallery in 1975, followed by an exhibit at Bank Street College in 1979. The Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY presented her solo exhibition in 2003 and in 2019 as did the UMA Gallery, New York City in 2005 and 2007. She also had one-person exhibits at the New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY in 2006, at RiverWinds Gallery in Beacon, NY in 2008 and at Blue Hills Plaza, Orangeburg NY in 2013 and at the SohoPhoto Gallery in New York City 2020. She has exhibited in numerous group shows, including Hopper House in Nyack, NY; Imaging Arts in Tappan, NY; Outside In Gallery in Piermont, Blue Hills Plaza, the Blue Door Art Center in Yonkers, NY, and Rockland Center for the Arts. A number of Ellen Galinsky’s books and reports are illustrated with her photographs, including The New Extended Family(1977), The Preschool Years (1988), and the groundbreaking Ask the Children (1999), selected by the Wall Street Journalas one of the best work-life books of 1999. Ellen Galinsky is also the author and photographer of two award-winning children’s books, Catbird (1971) and The Baby Cardinal (1977). She was included in the historic book of photographs, Women See Woman (1976). Her photographs were displayed at The White House Conference on Early Learning (1997).

In all of my work, I explore the process of change. As I researcher, I study how children and adults grow and change; I study which intervention help improve lives. I’ve spent the last nine years on three studies for a forthcoming book on adolescence, The Breakthrough Years. As a photographer, I also explore change, similarly looking at the interplay between human creation and nature’s recreations—for the last decade along Route 66. This year, however, I have returned an old theme. The first solo shows of my photographs—in the 1970s—were of water. Now, fifty years later, I am back. Almost every day, I walk to the landing on the Hudson River. What is more powerful than water in that nexus between decay and rebirth? Water is soft yet strong; turbulent yet calm; transparent yet opaque; a mirror to all that surrounds it. Across the days—from one moment to the next—no photograph of the Hudson is ever the same. Water is at the epicenter of the process of change. To depict this moment-to-moment change, I am submitting two photographs, each with two photographs of the changes in the water minutes apart.

Solo Shows1970: Charleston Art Gallery, Charleston, WV;1975: Soho Foundation-Alfred Stieglitz Gallery, New York, NY; 1979: Bank Street College of Education, New York, NY;2003, 2005, 2007: UMA Gallery, New York, NY;2003: Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY;2006: New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY;2008: RiverWinds Gallery, Beacon, NY;2013: Blue Hills Plaza, Orangeburg, NY;2019: Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY;2020: SohoPhoto Gallery, New York, NY. Group Shows Hopper House in Nyack, NY; Imaging Arts in Tappan, NY; Outside In Gallery in Piermont, NY; and GaGa in Rockland County, NY. Upstream Gallery in Hastings-on-Hudson (2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2022); Blue Hills Plaza in 2011 with the show traveling to the New York Hall of Science (2012 and 2020); the Blue Door Art Center in Yonkers, NY (2013, with the show traveling to Hastings on Hudson, NY; Blue Door Art Center in Yonkers (2018), Rockland Center of the Arts (2023).

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