Alexandra Silverthorne

Alexandra Silverthorne is an artist, photographer, and educator based in her hometown of Washington, DC. Silverthorne has exhibited throughout the DC area and her work can be found in regional permanent collections, including the John Wilson City Hall Building, District Art Bank Collection, and Montgomery County’s Works on Paper Collection. Additionally, she’s worked on multiple photographic projects, including Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop (Photoville, 2017), Ice Cold: A Hip-Hop Jewelry History (Taschen, 2022), and Inside Out: Dignity and the Art of Seeing (DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, 2025).

Since 2010, she has taught photography courses at American University, George Washington University’s Corcoran School of Art & Design, Montgomery College, and the University of the District of Columbia, and served as the founding Faculty Advisor for the AU Photo Collective. She has served on multiple boards and committees including Montgomery College’s Exhibition Committee, FotoWeekDC’s FotoBook Committee, and Jackson Art Center’s Friends of Jackson Committee. She currently serves on the board of the Jeffrey K. Silverthorne Art Foundation.

Silverthorne oversaw WPA’s financial records from the January 2008 separation from the Corcoran through December 2025. In 2017, she led the effort for WPA to become a W.A.G.E. certified organization, making it the first organization between New York and Miami to receive the distinction. Silverthorne additionally served as Resident Historian from 2016 – 2025 and as Interim Director of the organization from June 2022 – August 2023.