Frances Robson earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1985. She has been awarded numerous Saskatchewan Arts Board and Canada Council grants and recently spent four months at artist residencies in Australia and New Zealand. Her photographic work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the United States, Australia and elsewhere, and is in numerous public and private collections. She is currently making books of her past photographic work and creating portraits with an 8”x10” camera.      Since 1987, Frances has been a sessional photography instructor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Saskatchewan. She has also mentored artists through CARFAC Sask and taught art and photography to children.