Anita Licis
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Department of Architecture
Jury
Julie Lasky
Gary Lee
Ariane Steinbeck
Jaime Velez (Chair)
Anita Licis-Ribak
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Department of Architecture
is a photographer, artist, and designer currently based in Barcelona, Spain. She received her bachelor's degree in Architecture from Rīga Technical University in Latvia and her master's degree in Interior Architecture from the University of Massachusetts. She studied architecture and design at the Urban Studies Architecture Institute in Verona, Italy, and received a Fine Arts diploma in Painting and a Performing Arts diploma in Piano from the Chersky School of Fine Arts in Russia. She has studied photography with a number of master photographers and artists at the Maine Media Workshops, PRC in Boston, Griffin Museum of Photography, Snow Farm Workshops, IEFC, GrisArt, and CFD in Barcelona, among other venues.