Ann Mansolino University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ann Mansolino received her B.A. in English from the University of California at Riverside and is currently pursing an M.F.A. at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In her current work, she is investigating issues of history and memory in relation to the construction of identity and is exploring the role that remembered narratives and treasured objects (such as old family photographs) play in creating and preserving a sense of self in connection to a significant and enduring past. Photographs and textual narratives are presented paradoxically both as historical records and as sites of contemporary creative activity, suggesting the ways in which the process of remembering and the process of creating may merge into one another imperceptibly, at times becoming one and the same. Mansolino works three-dimensionally with photography and is also involved with digital imaging, artist’s books and installation.