Patti Ambrogi is a professor Emerita from the School of Photographic Arts and Sciences at RIT. She holds a BFA from SUNY Albany and an MFA from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY. As a student she studied a year abroad at the University of Siena in Italy, taking summer classes at The Shakespeare Institute, Oxford University, England.

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibits at Tokyo Polytechnic Institute in Japan, the Visual Studies Workshop, the Center for Book Arts in NYC, and The Boston CyberArtsFestival, at the Photographic Resource Center in Boston, as well as the Menschel Gallery at Syracuse University, the Memorial Art Gallery and the George Eastman House in Rochester.

Ambrogi has lectured about moving media and the still photographer. She is the founder of the Media Café at RIT, a curriculum that promoted the production of temporal work crossing disciplines and media. She is also the recipient of RIT’s Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Contribution for Teaching and the Honored Educator Awardat the 2012 Regional Society for Photographic Education.