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Deborah Guzman Meyer
Deborah Guzmán Meyer is a Montclair-based artist by way of
Chicago, NYC, and the Dominican Republic. She has a hybrid
name because she's Latina but married a gringo. She earned
her BA at Pace University and MFA at Columbia College in Chi-
cago. She’s a full-time art teacher at Bloomfield Middle
School, and a ceramics instructor at the Montclair Art Muse-
um. Her work has been featured in exhibitions and collected
internationally, including in Miami, Chicago, New York, and
France. She likes to think of herself as a modern renaissance
woman, curious about all art forms and willing to try her hand
at it. Art is why she gets up in the morning.

Featured: New Americans

This body of work documents the physical appearance of
these new Americans but also it examines what our innate re-
actions are, as humans, to encountering these individuals. The
children that appear in these photographs are all biracial.
They are photographed at a tender age, between two and ten,
at a time where they themselves have not begun the process
of codifying, identifying themselves more with one race than
another. The photographs are printed on fabric, then embroi-
dered by hand.