Cory Bernat grew up swimming with manatees and watching shuttle launches from her front yard in Satellite Beach, Florida. In college Cory studied art & design and was recruited by the cia. She was employed for three years at the cia, first as a graphic designer, and later as a disguise technician working with wigs. She then lived in San Francisco for five years and worked as a graphic designer, an art school librarian at the San Francisco Art Institute (sfai), and a volunteer docent for the National Park Service on Alcatraz Island. At sfai, Cory adopted the unexpected role as community stylist, bartering cia-quality hair cuts for art. She amassed a formidable art collection in the process. Cory has since returned to the east coast for graduate school and to investigate connections between visual culture, food culture, art, design, advertising and public history. She earned two master degrees in December 2009. Currently Cory is developing an exhibit of food posters from World Wars I and II at the National Agricultural Library. Cory still cuts hair for trade.
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