Jane Fulton Alt was born in Chicago in 1951. Alt attended the University of Michigan (BA, 1973) and the University of Chicago (MA, 1975). She has exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally. Alt is the recipient of numerous awards and her work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, New Orleans Museum of Art, Beinecke Library at Yale University, Southeastern Museum of Photography, De Paul University Art Museum, University of Illinois Comer Archive, Centro Fotografico Alvarez Bravo in Oaxaca, Mexico, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Wilmette Public Library and the Dancing Bear collection of William Hunt. Alt is the recipient of the 2007 Illinois Arts Council Fellowship Award and the 2007 and 2008 Ragdale Foundation Fellowship. Her first photographic book, Look and Leave : Photographs and Stories of New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward, will be released in August, 2009.
