SPACE presents Licence, a collection of works by artist T. Foley ranging over the past six years. By blending the genres of documentary, auto-biography, and fiction, she explores the issues of sexual and racial identity, self-representation, authorship and narrative device. The exhibition opens on Friday, January 27, 2006, with a free reception as part of the Cultural Trust’s Gallery Crawl in the Cultural District, from 5:30-10 p.m. A gallery talk with the artist will be held on Saturday, February 4, at 2 p.m.

T. Foley is an award-winning artist living and working in the Pittsburgh area. Her films and videos have been shown at various screening venues throughout the United States and in Canada. She is a former Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Media Arts Fellow (2001), and she also received a fellowship award from the Pittsburgh Foundation for outstanding achievement as an artist living and working in the Pittsburgh area (2003).

Her speaking engagements and residencies are usually related to animation production and to her study of various representations of race and gender in animated media. Her most popular talks, "Betty Boop Is a Dog/Cartman’s Mom Is a Dirty Slut: Women in Animated Media"; and "Race In Animated Media from Peter Pan to the PJs" have been shared with audiences in Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Texas, New York and Louisiana.

In 2005, Foley received a fellowship to work with other youth technology educators from around the world at the first ever IDEAS Institute within the Lifelong Kindergarten at MIT’s Media Laboratory. Later that year, she led an Animated Documentary production courses for teens and adults sponsored by the True/False Film Festival in Columbia, Mo. Foley has future plans to lead an animation production workshop at a small art center in Oaxaca, Mexico.

For the past eight years, as the director of Pittsburgh Filmmakers' K–12 Media Literacy Arts Education program, Foley has worked to create opportunities for students, parents and teachers to better read (analyze) and write (produce) in the language of photographic media.