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Net. Artist Sonya Goldberg Rapport

THE WOMAN WHO BUILT A LEGACY

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Welcome! This is the semi-official website for the posthumously acknowledged net artist, Sonya Rapoport.

Sonya Rapoport was born October 6, 1923 in Boston, Massachusetts and has since passed away June 1, 2015 at the age of 91. In the earlier years of her childhood, Sonya visited the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for classes and spent her summer's at the Art Colony in Ogunquit, Maine. As a young woman she attended Massachusetts College of Art, Colombia University, Boston University, the Corcoran School of Art, the Art Students League of New York, and finished her masters in the practices of art from the University of California, Berkely.

As a posthumously made website of the net artist, the Sonya Rapoport Legacy Trust was established and endowed during Sonya's lifetime to preserve her work and to broaden its critical and historical recognition. The trust supports her legacy through a variety of initiatives including exhibitions, loans of artworks, research, publications, conservation, and educational programs for the public and the scholarly community. Thus allowing her lieftime collection of work to continue it's influence on the world and its artists alike.