Maryellen Stone, Photographer and Digital Artist 
As a photographer, Maryellen is grateful to be able to combine her love of animals and the outdoors with photography. Her photographs have been published in several books and other print media. Her work has been recognized at art exhibits locally, nationally, and internationally. Maryellen earned "Digital Photographer of the Year" honors for the 2022-2023 season at The Merrimack Valley Camera Club.  In 2022 she earned recognition as one of two top photographers in the Masters’ Class of the Cape Cod Art Center Camera Club.  Maryellen is a member of the Merrimack Valley Camera Club, The Cape Cod Art Center Camera Club, The North America Nature Photography Association, The Cape Cod Art Center, (juried artist in photography and digital art), The Photographic Society of America, The National Association of Photoshop Professionals, The Plymouth Center for The Arts, the National Association of Digital Artists, and the Reading Art Association. 
In January 2023 Maryellen’s image, "Leaves Abstract~ Batsú" was named one of the 250 images in The North America Nature Photography Association's "Showcase" competition and will be included in their "Expressions" publication. 
Maryellen has completed the Massachusetts Audubon's Birders Certificate Program and volunteers at the Joppa Flats Education Center’s (MA Audubon), bird banding station. She is a member of the weekly volunteer survey team at Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Concord Unit. Maryellen is a former member of the Board of Directors of Eastern Massachusetts Hawk Watch and is an avid hawk watcher. 
Maryellen's recent exhibits include the Cape Cod Art Center Solo Exhibit, June 2022, (online only), Memorial Hall Library, Andover, MA February 2021, (online only), the Kimball Library in Atkinson, NH (dual exhibit with Ron Wybranowski), the Flint Memorial Library in North Reading, MA, and the Firehouse Center for the Arts in Newburyport, MA. 
Her work has been accepted in many recent juried exhibits including, “All New England”, a Juried Art Exhibit, Cape Cod Art Center, October, 2023; “For The Love of Color”, a Juried Online Photography Exhibit, Cape Cod Art Center, September 2023; "Coast To Coast", a Juried Art Exhibit, Cape Cod Art Center, May, 2023; “Focus" a Juried Online Photography Exhibit, Cape Cod Art Center, March, 2023; "Red" a Juried Art Exhibit, Cape Cod Art Center, February, 2023, as well as the Plymouth Center For the Arts Annual Juried Photography Exhibit, June, 2022.
Maryellen presents instructional programs including, "Who Doesn't Love Flowers?", "Getting Started in Bird Photography", and "Creating Your Own Textures". 
A retired educator, Maryellen lives happily with her husband Bob, and their cat Lily north of Boston, MA, when they are not on Cape Cod photographing birds, flowers, and the sea.  Maryellen believes like Miss Rumphius that, “You must do something to make the world more beautiful.”


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