{"id":1096,"date":"2015-04-20T07:25:22","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T11:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=1096"},"modified":"2017-04-06T14:09:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T18:09:28","slug":"valerie-sonnenthal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/valerie-sonnenthal\/","title":{"rendered":"Valerie Sonnenthal"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5217\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1096-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/valeriesonnenthal.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/valeriesonnenthal.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/valeriesonnenthal.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1105 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/valerie.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"valerie\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/valerie.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/valerie.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Valerie Sonnenthal grew up in Manhattan playing in museums on weekends, going to alternative performance groups and exhibits in high school, majoring in Art History while at college, continuing studies in printmaking and then returning to NYC where she lasted less than a semester at School of Visual Arts before joining Kenneth Rinker\u2019s Dance Company as an artist-in-residence for a couple of years. Her first job was as a hand-papermaker working with Steven Kasher at Bummy Huss Paper before she began a career as a Photo Editor working for the French edition of GEO, Magnum Photos, Aperture, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair, the NY Post, ARTnews and the Associated Press among others. She exhibited her own work in group shows regularly and became the Curator of Dance Theater Workshop\u2019s Gallery in 1980 through 1989 while working full-time as a photo editor. DTW\u2019s gallery was the perfect venue for emerging artists to have one-person shows and because no one would even look at alternate processes in photography Valerie committed to exhibit photography in the broadest sense of the word for at least half of the 8 \u2013 10 exhibits she mounted yearly. For many artists and photographers DTW was their first one-person exhibit in NYC, including: Rebecca Cummins, Chris Callis, Celie Fago, Paul B. Goode, Jon Goodman, Candy Jernigan, David Katzenstein, Jeff Mermelstein, Cherie Nutting, T. Ellen Sollod, Peter Yamaoka, Arnie Zane, Elizabeth Zeshin, Karen Zuegner and so many others. Valerie took time off to raise her two sons living in Rockland County, NY and after 9\/11 became a librarian, getting her MLIS from LIU. She and her children moved to Martha\u2019s Vineyard in 2005. She joined the Cleaveland House Poets in 2006. In 2008 she and photographers Edward Grazda and Jeffrey Ladd formed Errata Editions to publish a Books on Books series \u201cdedicated to making rare and out-of-print photography books accessible to students and photobook enthusiasts.\u201d Valerie\u2019s artwork is in the Polaroid Collection, Martha\u2019s Vineyard Hospital Collection and private collections in the US and abroad. She now serves as her town columnist in the MV Times, writes arts and lifestyle stories for the paper and MV Arts &amp; Ideas magazine and teaches MELT Method and Foot Fitness and is creating work for the Built on Stilts Dance Festival for her 2<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><sup>nd<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> year in a row.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/valeriesonnenthal.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listValerie Sonnenthal grew up in Manhattan playing in museums on weekends, going to alternative performance groups and exhibits in high school, majoring in Art History while at college, continuing studies in printmaking and then returning to NYC where she lasted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1096","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-writers","8":"category-curator"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/valerie.jpg?fit=500%2C375&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p47FRq-hG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1096\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}