Allison Cekala is an artist primarily working in film and photography. Her current work focuses on landscape through investigating the ways in which humans move, shape, and transform their surroundings. Her work has been exhibited and screened nationally and internationally at venues including at the Museum of Science (Boston, MA), the Schneider Museum of Art (Ashland, OR), The Vermont Center for Photography (Brattleboro, VT),The American Film Institute (Washington, DC), the Ann Arbor Film Festival, among others. In 2015, the Boston globe named her solo show, "Salt Mountain" as one of Boston's best shows from 2015. Her work as also been featured on WBUR's Artery, Light Leaked Photography Journal, and Public Radio International's "The World". Cekala's work has been supported through residencies at ACRE, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony. She has received grants from Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship in film/video, the Blanche E. Colman Foundation, and The Karsh Prize in Photography. Cekala holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studies from Tufts University (2015) and a BA from from Bard College (2006) in Photography and Environmental Studies. She is currently an adjunct professor of Photography at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA.