T. Charnan was born in San Antonio, Texas is 1971. She was raised on a dirt road in Maryland outside Washington, DC. In 1994 she graduated magna cum laude from the U of MD with degrees in Studio Art, Art History and Women's Studies. Lewis then spent a year working and hitchhiking through the Middle East and Eastern Africa. In 2004 she earned an MFA from MICA, won the graduate painter's prize, a traveling scholarship, and a MD Governor's Citation. She lives and works in Beacon, NY.
 

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