Mindy
Stricke is a photographer and collaborative community
artist. She began her career blending different mediums
as an interactive media producer and writer at NBC,
and went on to study photography at the International
Center of Photography in New York City. In 2003 she
combined her interactive and portrait photography
skills to launch SingleShots.com,
the first photo studio to specialize in online dating.
She
continued to work on solo projects, exhibiting her
work throughout North America, including the Safe-T
Gallery, Makor/Steinhardt Center, the Spike Gallery,
Pen and Brush Gallery, CUE Art Foundation and Galapagos
Art Space, all in New York City, as well as the Maine
Photographic Workshops and the Cade Center for Fine
Arts in Maryland, among others. She was also invited
to contribute her story as a portrait maker to the
Smithsonian Institute Photography Initiative online
exhibit Click!
Photography Changes Everything.
Her portraits and other work have been featured in
international publications including the New York
Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek, Time Out New York
and Voce in Japan.
As
a collaborator and community artist, she loves experimenting
with new forms and different group processes. With
the collective Wa-kow!, she produced and exhibited
the multi-media installation Holy/Oil at Living Arts
of Tulsa in 2007. In 2008 she began working with Jumblies
Theatre in Toronto, developing workshops
and multi-disciplinary projects with seniors, youth
and adults at the Davenport Perth Neighborhood Centre
and Mabelle Arts in Etobicoke. Originally from New
York, she now lives in Toronto, Ontario with her husband
David and daughter Noa.