Artist Profiles: Maggie Clarke

Maggie Clarke
The Founder and President of the Riverside-Inwood Neighborhood Garden (RING) Garden has always had an eye for landscape and a love of rock and roll. A resident of the Inwood section of Manhattan since 1979, and a native of Florida, she first entered her graphical paintings in junior shows, winning best in show in St. Petersburg, and subsequently in statewide competition. Her long-standing interest in environmental studies and photography were both sparked while on a junior year exchange program at Dartmouth College. Since then she has focused her camera lens on subjects as diverse as mountains (Canadian and Colorado Rockies, Whites, Greens, and Berkshires of New England, the Alps, as well as Fuji in Japan), rainforests (Washington to Alaska), peoples and environment of southeast China, and gardens (English, Dutch, Canadian as well as American gardens, such as RING), and even under difficult conditions at rock concerts (she's sold thousands of photos of the Moody Blues). Some of the photos in this show were taken while "on tour" with the Moody Blues in California, February, 2005 and in Europe, August 2004.

Maggie works as an environmental consultant and adjunct professor of Geography at Hunter College, having earned her Ph.D. in earth and environmental sciences in 2000, and serves on the executive boards of a multitude of environmental technical and citizens' advisory committees specializing in waste prevention and recycling. She is webmaster for RING (www.ringgarden.org), and took many of the photos featured there. Her other photo-based website, from which she has sold thousands of photos of the Moody Blues is www.moodyland.org. Click here for her other websites and a profile in the New York Times. She can be reached at mclarke@hunter.cuny.edu.