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ArP - Alessia Petrolito
Arp - Alessia Petrolito
Born in the USA, adopted and raised in Northern Italy. She gained her BFA at the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin, Italy. She lived in Chicago, where she obtained her MA in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2016. She presented her artist research at the 5th ICAR - International Conference on Adoption Research in New Zealand. She currently lives in Italy where she is working for a no-profit organization while writing on her Italian blog (arpadoptic.com), about adoption and other visual metaphors, and taking the Northwestern University | Social Media Marketing Specialization on Coursera.


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