Melinda Blauvelt

Melinda Blauvelt (b.1949) was the first woman in Yale's MFA Program in Photography where she studied with her mentor Walker Evans. Later, she taught photography at Harvard then established the photography program at the University of Virginia. Her photographs are in the collections of major museums, including the High Museum in Atlanta and the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery. In 2023, Stanley Barker Books published "Brantville", photographs Melinda made in 1972 - 1974 in a small fishing village in New Brunswick, Canada. She's represented by the Hulett Collection.