Angie Elizabeth Brooksby
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Angie Elizabeth Brooksby | |
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| Born | 1965 (age 60–61) |
| Education | Frederick High School |
| Alma mater | Maryland Institute College of Art |
Angie Elizabeth Brooksby (born 1965) is a contemporary American-born painter. She paints cityscapes of Paris, specifically the paintings of the Parisian blue hour. Before living in Paris she lived and painted for over 20 years in Florence, Italy. She was born in Poughkeepsie, New York.
She studied photography in Maryland at Frederick High School (FHS) with Dr. Margaret Dowell co-author of Addiction and Art (Johns Hopkins Press), while at FHS she received awards from the state of Maryland for excellent photography and she was selected to attend the summer program at the prestigious CTY in 1982. In 1987 she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with honors in sculpture from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). While at MICA she studied with sculptor John Shahn, the son of social realist painter Ben Shahn, and with poet Joe Cardelli. In 1986 she attended Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy where she studied painting with Fulbright Scholar Gene Baldini.