Biographie de Ray Merritt
Ray Merritt has been active in the art world for over forty years. He has served as a Trustee of the International Center of Photography and as a member of the Photography Committees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Norton Museum of Art, where he served as Chair of the Photography Committee. He has authored or edited over twenty books on an assortment of subjects.
Among those works are The Corporate Counseling Handbook (NYSBA), The Partnership Handbook (NYSBA), A Thousand Hounds (Taschen) and Full of Grace: A Journey Through the History of Childhood (Damiani). He is a co-creator of the Outcastics, a series ofchildren's illustrated books, the first of which, The Adventures of Captain Cur & Wonderflea, was published by powerHouse. The next books in the Outcastics series, Alice and the Grain of Sand and Laroo, will be published in 2009.
Mr. Merritt's philanthropic activities include working with the US Fund for UNICEF, where he has served as Secretary, Director and member of the Executive Committee, and the Cygnet Foundation, where he serves as Board Chair. He also is a Director of The Buhl Foundation, the Association of Community Employment Programs for the Homeless (ACE), the Design Trust for Public Space and The Loyola Foundation.
Mr. Merritt lives in Sag Harbor and New York City.