Vintage amateur

She became the first woman to hold an exhibition at Washington's National Portrait Gallery in Her father was a lieutenant colonel in the U. The family moved frequently with her father's duty assignments, and she took her first pictures when he was stationed in the Philippines during the Vietnam War. At Northwood High School in Silver Spring, Maryland, [6] she became interested in various artistic endeavors and began to write and play music. She attended the San Francisco Art Institute , [6] where she studied painting with the intention of becoming an art teacher.