{{short description|American photographer and sculptor}} {{Infobox person | name = Alice Wingwall | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Alice Atkinson | birth_date = {{birth date|1935|9|5}} | birth_place = Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|2026|2|13|1935|9|5}} | death_place = Sea Ranch, California, U.S. | other_names = | occupation = Photographer, sculptor | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = | education = Indiana University<br>University of California, Berkeley | spouse = {{marriage|Donlyn Lyndon|1963}} }} '''Alice Wingwall''' ({{nee}} '''Atkinson'''; September 5, 1935 – February 13, 2026) was an American photographer and sculptor. Diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa as a young woman, she was legally blind for the last 26 years of her life.<ref name="gate">{{cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Berkeley-Blind-photographer-s-vision-extends-2697897.php |title=Berkeley: Blind photographer's vision extends beyond her eyes |last=DelVecchio |first=Rick |website=sfgate.com |publisher=SFGate |access-date=November 14, 2025}}</ref>
==Early life and career== Wingwall was born Alice Atkinson in Indianapolis, Indiana on September 5, 1935, one of four children. She was raised in Zionsville.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|title=Alice Wingwall obituary|url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sfgate/name/alice-wingwall-obituary?id=60890919|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|date=February 25, 2026|access-date=May 5, 2026}}</ref> She studied at Indiana University and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963. Wingwall later taught at the University of Oregon and then became a professor and the director of the studio arts program at Wellesley College.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.exploratorium.edu/tinkering/tinkerers/alice-wingwall |title=Tinkering Tinkerers: Alice Wingwall |website=exploratorium.edu |publisher=Exploratorium |access-date=November 14, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/2022-spring/spotlight-2/ |title=Spotlight |last=Sosa |first=Anabel |website=alumni.berkeley.edu |publisher=Cal Alumni Association |access-date=November 14, 2025}}</ref> She changed her surname to "Wingwall" in 1980, having been inspired by a street shrine on a Roman building with a stone cherub who seemed to be pulling the building forward despite having lost one of her wings.<ref name="gate"/> She additionally studied at the École du Louvre, the École nationale supérieure des arts appliqués et des métiers d'art, the Atelier del Debbio and, with a grant from the Danish government, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.<ref name="lens">{{cite web|url=http://lenscratch.com/2014/04/alice-wingwall-photographer-happens-blind/ |title=ALICE WINGWALL: A PHOTOGRAPHER WHO HAPPENS TO BE BLIND |last=Smithson |first=Aline |website=lenscratch.com |publisher=Lenscratch |access-date=November 14, 2025}}</ref> She is a member of the Blind Photographers’ Guild alongside Pete Eckert and Bruce Hall.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://visualsummit.com/link/Promo_Page_-_45714 |title=Blind Photographers' Guild |website=visualsummit.com |publisher=Bruce Hall |access-date=November 14, 2025}}</ref>
In 1991, Wingwall created the outdoor fountain and sculpture ''Cascade Charley'', which is currently installed on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Oregon. In 2000, she edited a short film, ''Miss Blindsight/The Wingwall Auditions'', alongside Wendy Snyder MacNeil. The film won the Best Independent Film of the Year award at that year's New England Film and Video Festival.<ref name="lens"/> In 2015, Wingwall appeared alongside her husband in Erinnisse and Patryk Rebisz's documentary ''Shoulder the Lion''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gualalaarts.org/2017/04/shoulder-the-lion/ |title=DVD screening of documentary, Q&A with Director, Erinnisse Rebisz, Director of Photography, Patryk Rebisz, and local residents Alice Wingwall and Donlyn Lyndon |website=gualalaarts.org |publisher=Gualala Arts Center |access-date=November 14, 2025}}</ref>
Wingwall's work has been included in the California Museum of Photography's ''Sight Unseen'' exhibition and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive's ''Blind at the Museum'' show.<ref name="lens"/> In 2005, her exhibit ''Portrait Selves'' was shown at UC Berkeley's Townsend Center for the Humanities.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/events/portrait-selves |title=Portrait Selves |website=townsendcenter.berkeley.edu |publisher=Townsend Center for the Humanities |access-date=November 14, 2025}}</ref> Wingwall's exhibit ''Beyond All That'', created in collaboration with Suzan Friedland and Lis Gladstone, has additionally been shown at the Gualala Arts Center in Mendocino County, California.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gualalaarts.org/2024/07/beyond-all-that/ |title=Beyond All That: Alice Wingwall, Suzan Friedland and Lis Gladstone Present An Exciting New Exhibit |website=gualalaarts.org |publisher=Gualala Arts Center |access-date=November 14, 2025}}</ref>
==Personal life== Wingwall was married to architect Donlyn Lyndon in 1963; they had three children.<ref name=nyt>{{cite web|title=Donlyn Lyndon, Last Surviving Creator of the Sea Ranch, Dies at 90|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/arts/design/donlyn-lyndon-dead.html|last=Green|first=Penelope|date=May 5, 2026|publisher=The New York Times|access-date=May 5, 2026}}</ref> She died on February 13, 2026.<ref name="gate"/><ref name=obit />
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