For over 15 years, M. Stevenson Strelinger has utilized ceramics, painting, sculpture and photography to express her compassion for life.  Photography has emerged as the most useful media in which she can relay her artistic mission: that is, "...Revealing the beauty of God that surrounds us in the reality we agree upon."  She seeks the moment, in a place in which the spirit comes forward for us to see.  Her mission is fulfilled by going on photo journeys throughout the country.

Previously, Strelinger received the award of excellence in the annual student photography contest of Photographer's Forum magazine.  She placed second in the St. Louis Community College of Art St. Louis Gallery and Hydeware Theatre.  She has also exhibited three different times at the museum at Cahokia Mounds in Illinois, in Brooking Park, in Memphis, Tennessee at The Bunker and the No Exit Gallery, and at the Memphis College of Arts Gallery.  She has also been featured in The Memphis Flyer.

Strelinger recently received her Bachelor of Fine Arts (Magna Cum Laude) in Photography from Memphis College of Art.  While attending school she was awarded placement on the Dean's Honors List and received both the Faculty Scholarship and the Hunter Stratton Memorial Scholarship.

For the future, Strelinger has teamed up with author Cheryl E. Ward (M.A., History), to publish a documentary on the alleys of St. Louis.  The book will be a historical look at the creation of those alleys and the communities they helped weave together.

Visually, Strelinger brings her unique style to the alleys of today through the utilization of a documentary approach, while at the same time conveying a spiritual sense that the photos she has created are not only educational but emotional.  Keep your eye out for the Alleys of St. Louis©, by Cheryl. E. Ward and M. Stevenson Strelinger, in the late fall of 2007.