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E D U C A T I O N

                      1966 - Skidmore College, BA - Painting & Art History
                      1969 - University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts, MFA

G R A N T S ,  F E L L O W S H I P S ,  A W A R D S ,  C O M M I S S I O N S

                       Bessie Berman Grant in Painting, The Leeway Foundation, 2000.
                       “One Percent” Public Art Commission awarded by the Redevelopment Authority of Philadelphia, Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, 1996.
                       Residence Fellowship at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center, The Rockefeller Foundation, September 1993.
                       National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship, 1991-92, 1985-86.
                       Distinguished Achievement Award, Skidmore College, 1991.
                       Nominee for the AVA (Awards in the Visual Arts) national artist award, 1990, 1989, 1984, 1981.
                       Residence Fellowship at Giverny, Readers Digest Foundation, April – September 1989.
                       Institute of Contemporary Art – “Patron Print” Artist –1989.
                       Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Artists Grant, 1989, 1981.
                       Visiting Artist Grant – Artists for the Environment Foundation, Walpak, NJ, May 1983.
                       Visiting Fellowship to Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM, November 1982, 1980.
                       Visiting Fellowship to the Print Research Facility at Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, December 1981.
                       The Print Club of Philadelphia, 57th International Competition – Professional Prize, 1981
                       Purchase Prize, Rutgers University National Drawing Show, New Brunswick, NJ, 1979

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P U B L I C   C O L L E C T I O N S

                       Air Co. Corporation, Montvale, NJ
                       American Telephone and Telegraph Center
                       ARCO, Philadelphia
                       Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
                       AVC Corporation, Philadelphia
                       BankAmerica, CA
                       Blue Cross of Southern California
                       CIGNA Corporation, Philadelphia
                       Colgate University, Picker Art Gallery, Hamilton, NY
                       Commodities Corporation of America, NY
                       Continental Bank, Philadelphia
                       De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
                       First Pennsylvania Bank, Philadelphia
                       FMC Corporation, Philadelphia
                       General Public Utilities Corporation of Reading, Reading, PA
                       Goldman and Sachs, New York
                       Hahnemann Hospital, Philadelphia
                       Hay Associates, Philadelphia
                       IBM, Tucson, AZ
                       James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
                       Ken Parker and Associates, Philadelphia
                       Mobil Oil Corporation, Washington, D.C.
                       Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
                       Petro-Lewis Corporation, Denver, CO
                       The Philadelphia Museum of Art
                       The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Newark, NJ
                       Reader’s Digest, Pleasantville, NY
                       Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA
                       Rutgers University Collection, Stedman Art Gallery, Camden, NJ
                       Security Pacific National Bank, CA
                       Smith, Kline and French, Philadelphia
                       University of New Mexico, Tamarind Collection, Albuquerque, NM
                       Wells Fargo Bank, CA
                       Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia

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T E A C H I N G   P O S I T I O N S

                       Community College of Philadelphia, Philadelphia PA
                       Full Professor, 1985 – 2000
                       Associate Professor, 1978 – 1985
                       Assistant Professor, 1973 – 1978
                       Instructor, 1969 – 1973

                       Princeton University, Princeton NJ
                       Visiting Professor – Visual Arts Program, Spring, 1985

                       Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass CO
                       Visiting Instructor, Summer, 1996
                       2-Week Workshop – “Painting the Landscape En Plein Air in Oils”

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L E C T U R E S ,   P A N E L S ,   S Y M P O S I A ,   V I S I T I N G   A R T I S T / C R I T I C   V I S I T S

2007 Lecturer, "On visiting Edna Andrade's Works on Paper Show", Woodmere Art Museum, PA.
  Panelist, "Women in Feminists Who Changed America", Women's Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
2006

Visiting Critic, for Graduate painting Students, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA 

  Lecturer, Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA
 

Panelist with Andrew Revkin, Reflections on Exhibit, Out of the Blue, Abington Art Center, Abington, PA

2005

Panelist, “Secular& Sacred-Art and Heritage” for Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center, Independence Seaport Museum

  Lecturer, Rider University, Lawrenceville, NJ
 

Juror, Von Ness Scholasrship/Fellowship, Moore College of Art and Design  

2004

Key note speaker, "Terrestrial Forces" Lecture, Museum of Fine Arts, FSU, Tallahassee, FL

2003

Panelist, “Focus 30 years Later” Moore College of Art And Design, Philadelphia, PA

 

Lecturer, “Art and the Wissahickon”, Germantown Science & Art Club, Germantown, PA

2002

Lecturer, "My work as a landscape artist”, for MYX, Reykjavik, Iceland

2001

Panelist, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

 

Lecturer, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA

 

Lecturer, Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA

2000

Visiting Artist and Critic, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1998

Guest Speaker, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

 

Guest Speaker, Middle Tennessee State University, Mutreesboro, TN

1997

Guest Speaker, The Cosmopolitan Club, Philadelphia, PA

1995

Chair, The College Art Association Conference, Boston, MA, “Painting: Dead Again/Born Again?”

 

Guest Speaker, Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, PA, “Cecilia Beaux and the Business of Art”

 

Guest Critic, Maryland Institute, College of Art, Post-Baccalaureate Students

 

Guest Speaker, Community College, Houston, TX

 

Visiting Artist and Critic, Summer Six Program, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

 

Guest Lecturer, Cortland State University, Cortland, NY

 

Guest Lecturer, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

1994

Juror, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA, Ninth Annual National Print Show.

 

Guest Speaker, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

 

Chair, The College Art Association Conference, Seattle, WA, “The Role of the Landscape Artist in the 90’s: One of Respect or Dismissal?”

1992

Visiting Artist, Summer Six Program, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, “20th Anniversary Celebration”

 

Visiting Artist and Lecturer, University of Delaware, Graduate Painting Department, Newark, Delaware

 

Guest Speaker, Alliance Francaise, International House, Philadelphia, PA

1991

Visiting Artist and Lecturer, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

 

Guest Lecturer, “Painting in Giverny,” Bucks County Community College, PA.

 

Artist and Juror, Fleisher Art Memorial, Fleisher Challenge Competition, March.

1990

Panelist and Juror, New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship Grants

 

Guest Lecturer, “The Giverny Experience,” The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

 

Guest Lecturer, “The Giverny Experience,” The Cosmopolitan Club, Philadelphia, PA

1989

Panelist, “Elemental Concerns,” College Art Association Conference, San Francisco, CA

 

Panelist, “The Subjective Response in Contemporary Landscape Painting,” Women’s Caucus for Art, San Francisco, CA

 

Guest Lecturer and Critic, “Work/Travel,” Portland State University, Portland, OR

 

Selected Patron Print Artist, Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

 

Readers Digest Residency Recipient, Musee de Claude Monet, Giverny, France

 

Guest Lecturer, SMU in Paris, France

1988

Visiting Artist, Critic and Lecturer, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

 

Speaker, “The Process of Creating Art,” Business Volunteers for the Arts, Philadelphia, PA

 

Chairperson, College Art Association, Committee for the “Artist’s Award for a Distinguished Body of Work”

1987

Presenter, Women’s Caucus for Art, Awards Dinner, Houston, TX, honoring Judith Brodsky

 

Member, Kutztown University, Kutztown, PA, Doctoral Equivalency Evaluation Committee

 

Guest Juror, “Woman Image Now,” Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

 

Panelist, “Space Chase Conference,” Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA

 

PA, sponsored by Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and the City of Philadelphia

 

Member, College Art Association, Committee for the “Artist’s Award for a Distinguished Body of Work.”

 

Guest Artist, Critic and Lecturer, Hollins College, Roanoke, VA

1986

Guest Juror, annual Women’s Caucus for Art exhibit “Influences: Across Borders, Beyond Boundaries,” Florida International University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL

 

Member, Art in City Hall, Curatorial Committee, “The Still Life in Two and Three Dimensions,” Philadelphia, PA

 

Juror and Guest Lecturer, All Florida Exhibit, “Inner Surfaces,” sponsored by Women’s Caucus for Art

 

Member, Kutztown University, Tenure Panel

1985

Visiting Professor, Princeton University, Princeton NJ

 

Convener, Women’s Caucus for Art/College Art Association Los Angeles Convention, Developing and Planning Session

 

Guest Artist, Great Lakes Colleges Association, The Philadelphia Urban Semester

 

Guest Juror, Westmoreland Arts and Heritage Festival

1984

Guest Lecturer and Critic, “Art Series Program,” Kutztown University

 

Guest Juror, Bucks County Community College, sculpture contest for “Volunteer of the Year Awards”

 

Speaker, Women’s Caucus for Art, Awards Dinner, Toronto, CANADA

 

Guest Juror, Delaware County Community College

 

Guest Lecturer, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ, Visiting Artist Series

 

Guest Lecturer and Critic, Stockton State College, Atlantic City, NJ

 

Guest Lecturer and Critic, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

1983

Moderator and Panelist, “Drawing: A Mainstream Activity of the Eighties,” College Art Association Conference, Philadelphia, PA; with Dotty Attie, Arnold Bittleman, Chuck Close, Keith Haring and Ellen Lanyon

 

Presenter and Coordinator, 5th Annual WCA Honor Awards for Outstanding Achievement in the Visual Arts, Women’s Caucus for Art Convention, Philadelphia, PA

 

Guest Speaker, “Pennsylvania Waterways Project and Landscape as Theme,” Allentown Art Museum, PA

 

Guest Lecturer, “Pennsylvania Waterways Project,” Albright College/Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery, Reading, PA

 

Guest Lecturer and Critic, “Review of Work and Pennsylvania Waterways Project,” Artist for Environment Foundation

 

Panelist, 1984 Painting Fellowship Grants, New Jersey State Council on the Arts

1981

Panelist, “Politics and Arts,” Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA

 

Guest Panelist, Artists Talk on Art Series, “Landscapes as Morality Play,” Landmark Gallery, New York, NY

 

Guest Speaker, Whitney Museum of Art, Fairfield County Branch, Stamford, CT, in association with The American Landscape: Recent Developments exhibition

1980

Panelist, “Why No Great Women Artists?” Women’s Caucus for Art and Coalition of Women’s Art; with Linda Nochlin (moderator), May Stevens, Audrey Flack, Grace Hartigan, Diane Russell, Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Josephine Withers and Adelyn Breeskin

 

Guest Speaker, “Review of Development,” Bucks County Community College

 

Panelist, “Philadelphia Women Artists,” Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

 

Gallery Lecturer, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadlephia, PA

 

Guest Lecturer, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

1979

Panelist, “Landscape Observed and Transformed,” College Art Association Conference, Washington, DC; with Yvonne Jacquette, Jane Frelicher, Ann McCoy and Lenore Malen, Moderator

 

Guest Lecturer, “Photography’s Role in My Work,” Philadelphia College of Art, Photograph Department

 

Guest Speaker, “Second Annual Roaring Fork Women in the Arts Festival, Colorado Mountain College, Aspen, CO

 

Panelist, “What Enables Creativity?” and “Issues – 1979,” Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Denver, CO

 

Guest Speaker, “My Own Work and the Landscapes of the West,” Yuma Arts Association, Yuma, CO

 

Guest Speaker, “Review of 10 Years and My Attraction to the West,” Denver University, Denver, CO

 

Guest Lecturer, “My Work Since Skidmore,” Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; in conjunction with the First Distinguished Alumni Award Exhibit

 

Guest Panelist, “Artists Talk on Art Series: Why Make Art in New York?” Landmark Gallery, New York City

 

Participant as a Fellow, Fall Program, “Literature and the Visual Arts: The American Landscape,” Lilly Foundation, Pennsylvania Program

 

Guest Lecturer, “Review of Work,” Beaver College, Glenside, PA

1978

Guest Lecturer and Visiting Artist, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

 

Guest Lecturer, Visiting Artist and Panelist, “The Dealer and the Artists,” Arizona State University; with Marian Locks, Leonard Lehrer and Muriel Magenta

 

Panelist, “20 Landscape Painters,” Summit Art Center, Summit, NJ; with Alan Gussow, Wolfe Kahn, Karl Schrag, Peter Homitzkg and Ted Christenson

 

Guest Lecturer and Visiting Artist, “Summer Six Program,” Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

 

Panelist, “Three Philadelphia Realists,” Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia, PA; with Edith Neff and Arlene Love

1977

Panelist and Moderator, “Artists as Humanists Today,” College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, CA; with Audrey Flack, Elenore Antin, John Moore, Phillip Pearlstein and Cindy Nemser

 

Panelist, “Philadelphia Women Artists,” National Art Education Association, National Convention, Philadelphia, PA

 

Guest Lecturer and Visiting Artist-Critic, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

 

Guest Lecturer, Yavapai College, Prescott, AZ

 

Guest Lecturer, Sedona Arts Center, Sedona, AZ

 

Panelist and Guest Artist-Critic, “Contemporary Landscape – Image and Idea,” Queensboro Community College, Queens, NY; with Philip Pearlstein, Bill Richards, Marcia Resnick, David Hendricks and Lenore Malen.

 

Panelist, “Who Cares About the Arts?” Radio Station WCAU, Philadelphia, PA

1976

Panelist, “Changing the Art World Structure,” College Art Association Conference, Chicago, IL; with Alice Baber and Dorothy Gillespie

 

Visiting Artist, Cheltenham Adult School, Cheltenham, PA

 

Guest Lecturer, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA

 

Symposium Participant, “Humanizing the Art World,” Pleiades/Cloud Gallery, New York City, Association of Artist-Run Galleries; with Jacqueline Skiles, Jonathan Price, Richard Kerp and Joellen Bard

1975

Symposium Participant, “Women in the Arts: Our Status Today,” New York University, Loeb Student Center; with Dorothy Gillespie, Mary Garrard, Cindy Nemser and Vivian Wechter

 

Guest Speaker, Arts and Humanities Committee Conference for the President’s National Commission on the Observance of International Women’s Year, State Department, Washington, DC; with Lila Katzen, June Wayne and Mary Garrard

 

Guest Artist, Interview, Radio Station WBAI, New York, NY.

 

Guest Lecturer, Celebration of the Arts, sponsor: National Council of Jewish Women; Cherry Hill Jewish Community Center, Cherry Hill, NJ

1974

Guest Speaker and Visiting Artist, National Conference, “Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts,” Beaver College, Glenside, PA

 

President, Organizer and Coordinator, “Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts,” and Panelist, “Radical Alternatives,” with Arlene Raven, Lucy Lippard, Ann Sutherland Harris, Pat Maniardi and Mary Beth Edelson

1973

Panelist, “Contemporary Approaches to Realism,” Alliance of Figurative Artists, New York City; with Chuck Close, John Moore, Janet Fish, Miriam Levin, Cindy Nemser and Gregory Battcock


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C O M M U N I T Y   S E R V I C E

                       Board Member, Philagrafika, 2006 – Present.
                       Board Member, Fleisher Art Memorial, 2007 – 2009.
                       Member, Committee on Women in the Arts, College Art Association, 2006 – 2009.
                       Board Member, College Art Association, 1994 – 98.
                       Member, Philadelphia Art Commission, 1992 – 96.
                       Member, Mayor’s Cultural Advisory Council, 1987 – 91.
                       Member, Morris Gallery Committee, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1988 – 91.
                       Board Member, Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, 1985 – 89.
                       Board Member, National Women’s Caucus for Art, 1984 – 87.
                       Vice President for Planning and Development, WCA, 1984 – 86.

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