Personal Bio
I have been teaching art since graduate school at Yale University where I received my Master's of Fine Arts. I attended the Universidad Catolica in Quito, Ecuador for my first year of college where I lived for over two years. My very first teaching experience was teaching English to students older than I was (19) and who were employed in corporations and embassies in Quito. I am fluent English/Spanish. Following my year in Ecuador I attended the University of Toronto where I received a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy. Continuing my academic career, after a year traveling throughout Europe, I received a Bachelor's of Fine Arts from SUNY, Buffalo. During that time I received a travel fellowship to West Africa to research earth architecture. For about ten years New York City was my home; from there I developed outdoor installations from New York to Houston, TX to Heilbronn, Germany. In between I taught art at NYU, and the Colorado College. My most notable freelance assignment was working as a model maker for PeeWee's Playhouse the first year it was produced in New York City!
in 1995 I received a Fulbright Award to teach Womens' Art and Creativity at the Universidad Catolica in Concepcion, Chile. While there I worked with studio art students to create an outdoor installation that addressed the extremely high percentage of vehicular fatalities in this economically exploding country.
I have taught Drawing, Color, Sculpture and Calligraphy at a number of Connecticut colleges such as UCONN, ECSU, Tunxis Community College and Trinity College. I have been teaching art in the public school sector for 20 years during which time I have continued to create and exhibit my own work. My most recent solo exhibition was at Five Points Gallery in Torrington, CT.
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