Cay Lang, artist and founder of the Taking the Leap program, has been making and exhibiting her photographs internationally for more than 20 years. Since receiving her M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1979, her work has been exhibited internationally at many museums. Articles about her work have been published in Popular Photography Magazine, Photo Technic International, Camera and Darkroom Magazine, British Journal of Photography, Camera Austria International, Photo Metro Magazine, Graphis Nudes Switzerland, and more. Anthologies that include her work are: Flora Photographica: Masterpieces of Flower Photography by William Ewing (Simon & Schuster); Nude by Hisaka Kojima; Exploring Color Photography, by R. Hirsch, ( W.C. Brown). She is represented by Galerie Michele Chomette in Paris, and the Weston Gallery in Carmel, CA.
Her teaching experience includes the University of California, Davis, and San Francisco State University, among others. In 1989 she founded the Taking the Leap program and in 1998 she wrote Taking the Leap: Building a Career as a Visual Artist. She now divides her time between running the program, speaking engagements, and working on her current photographic project: Photographing God.
Cay Lang
Studios
Putnam
Cay Lang worked in the Putnam studio.
The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…