Hometown: Southington, CT, USA

Email: brooke.foti@uconn.edu

Website: https://www.brookefoti.com/

Brooke Foti Gemmell is an accomplished and award-winning artist and designer, having had work featured internationally in exhibitions, publications, permanent installations, and private collections. In 2022, Brooke received the M.A. in Digital Media & Design from UConn’s School of Fine Arts, where she also earned her BFA in Studio Art with studies in Photography, Video Art & Communication Design and a Minor in Digital Arts. Brooke also studied Graphic Design at Central Saint Martins in London.

She was previously a Hilla Rebay Fellow in Trinity College’s Studio Art Department in Hartford, CT, where she coordinated programming for the Broad Street Gallery and opened her first solo book exhibit, entitled Long Road Home. Before taking on the role of Greenhouse Studios Design Technologist, Brooke worked as an Assistant Archivist for the U. Roberto (Robin) Romano Papers at UConn’s Archives & Special Collections Department, and co-curated the collection’s multi-media exhibition, Lifting the Veil: A Photographic Archive of Child Labor in Light Manufacturing for UConn’s Business & Human Rights Initiative.

She has since been parked at the intersection of design, information, and academia; with a talent for solving visual problems and creating engaging resources for users, Brooke has developed the branding of several projects and businesses, and continues to guide the visual identity of Greenhouse Studios and its projects as a Design Technologist.

A lifelong equestrian, Brooke also serves in leadership roles of two New England equestrian non-profit organizations, manages the marketing of an award-winning horse training facility in central Connecticut, and is a published equine artist & photographer.

Exhibitions:

– Selections from Long Road Home, solo show, Summer 2018.

– Lifting the Veil: A Photographic Archive of Child Labor in Light Manufacturing, co-curator, Fall 2017.

Permanent Installations:

– “Igor’s Dream,” Beer Fermentor Mural at Two Roads Brewery in Stratford CT.

Permanent Collections:

– Provost’s Collection (UConn)

– Private Collection of Pascal Fouché (Paris)

Greenhouse Studios Projects:

– Tube Research – Research Application in development;

– Husky ReView – Augmented Reality experience in development

Outreach:

– Digital Scholarship and Pedagogy in the Liberal Arts, Connecticut College, November 2018 – Panelist

– CT Digital Archive, Hartford Public Library, Spring 2018 – Presenter

– d’Archive Radio Show, Episode 6 – Guest

Fun Fact: I reached my peak of athleticism as an infant when I absolutely crushed every other baby entered into the 1993 Waterbury Crawling Competition. It’s just been a slow decline ever since.

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