Marilyn Waligore received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin--Madison and undergraduates degrees in Art and in English from the University of California--Berkeley. She is a recipient of the Arts Midwest/ National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Photography, the Visual Artist Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council, and the Moss/Chumley North Texas Artist Award. Her photographs have been exhibited widely, including solo exhibitions at ARC, Artists/Residents of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, and Women & Their Work Gallery, in Austin, Texas and group exhibitions at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, the Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, Maryland, the Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, the Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio, and the Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York, among others. Waligore's digital photography was included in SIGGRAPH '05, Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California, and the Sixth Annual New York Digital Salon that travelled from New York City to Spain, Portugal, and the Canary Islands. Her web animation Nagasaki was featured as part of technOasisArtSite, SIGGRAPH'99, Los Angeles, California. Her article "Artist-Sorceress: Photography and Digital Metamorphosis" appeared in Leonardo , the Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology and she curated the digital photography exhibition Digital Sorcery for the Center of Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York. Her photographs are represented in collections such as the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, the Longview Art Museum, Texas, and the Madison Art Center, Wisconsin. She is currently an Associate Professor of Photography in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. Her current work in digital photography includes altered and digitized color photographs and silver gelatin prints.