Academic

Bachelor of Arts degree, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, 1950.
Major in visual arts. Sculpture w/ Simon Moselsio.
Painting, design & art history seminars w/ Paul Feeley.
Life drawing & graphics w/ Daniel Shapiro & George Holt.
Costuming w/ William Bales & Martha Hill.

Fellowship, Black Mountain College Art Institute, Black Mountain, North Carolina, 1944.
Color theory, design & matiere w/ Josef Albers.
Life drawing & fresco technique w/ Jean Charlot.

Exhibitions - Solo & Duo

Solo Retropsective - Mystic Art Center - Mystic, CT 2003 First Prize Winner - Connecticut
"Upclose, Nearby, Afar: a 50 year Retrospective", The Burnished Chariot Gallery, New London, Connecticut, 2000
"Fashioned From Snippets: Cloth Dolls and Paper Collages," Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 1991.
Slater Museum, Norwich Connecticut, 1965, 1981, 1985.
Mystic Art Association, Mystic, Connecticut, 1957, 1965, 1990.
Morris Gallery, Waverly Place, New York, New York, 1960.
John Slade Ely House, New Haven, Connecticut, 1978.

Exhibitions - Group

Invitational, "Bringing Art to the Research Environment", Pfizer, Inc., Groton, Connecticut, 1997, 1998, 1999.
Invitational, Woman Painters of Connecticut, Slater Museum, Norwich, Connecticut, 1994.
Invitational, 80th Anniversary show, Mystic Art Association, Mystic, Connecticut, 1993.
Invitational, "Art for Children," Slater Museum, curated by Joseph Gualtieri, 1991.
Slater Museum: Annual Connecticut Artist juried, theme & invitational shows, 1960 to present.
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut:
Lions Gallery of the Senses, Artists' Toys, 1984.
Collectors corner, 1956.
Mystic Art Association Active Artists Members', regional, juried & invitational shows, 1957 to present.
Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, Connecticut.
De Cordova Museum, Lincoln Massachusetts, 1964.
Silvermine Guild of Artists, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1952.
American Federation of Arts touring USA College Art, curated by Bartlett Hayes, 1950.

Affiliations

Mystic Art Association, active artist member 1957 to present.
Mystic Art Association board member, 1966 through 1970.
Connecticut Woman Artists, Inc., 1977 to present.
ART IS Group, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 1980 through 1989.
"Stills Group," New London, Connecticut, 1989 through 1993.

Awards

First Prize Winner- Mystic Art Center - Mystic CT 2003 - Connecticut Artist
Honorable Mention, 42nd Regional Exhibition, Mystic Art Association, Juror: Jeffery Anderson, 1998.
First prize, "Art in Motion" theme exhibition, Mystic Art Association, Juror: Peter McClean, 1992.
Honorable Mention, "Sea Worthy" theme exhibition, Mystic Art Association, Juror: Daniel Dubois, 1992.
Second prize, painting, 62nd Annual Connecticut Woman Artist, Inc. Juror: Anne Tabachnick, 1991.
Second prize, painting, 34th Annual Regional, Mystic Art Association, Juror: Deborah Frizzell, 1990.
Third prize, "Seasons of New England," Mystic Art Association, 1990.
Third prize, Connecticut Woman Artists, Inc. members show, 1989.
Second prize, 43rd Annual Exhibition of Connecticut Artists, Slater Museum, Juror: William McCloy, 1986.
Landscape painting selected by Connecticut Commission on the Arts w/ Mrs. William O'Neill for exhibition of Connecticut artists at the Governor's Mansion, 2 rotations, (1 year period) 1983.
One Woman Show award at John slade Ely House, New Haven, Connecticut, Connecticut Woman Artists, Inc., Slater Museum, Juror: Leo Manso, 1978.
Graphic Artists Supply Award, Connecticut Woman Artists, Inc., 1977.
Grumbacher Award, Connecticut Woman Artists, Inc., Slater Museum 1973.
Honorable Mention citation by Dorothy Adlow, art critic, The Christian Science Monitor, Mystic Art Association Regional show, Mystic Connecticut, 1959.
Fellowship, Black Mountain College Art Institute, Black Mountain, North Carolina, 1944.

Publications

Documentary "Upclose, Nearby, Afar: A Conversation with Paintings", by Bret Farrar, 2000.
Black Mountain College: Sprouted Seeds -- An Anthology of Personal Accounts, ed. Mervin Lane, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, 1990.
"Consider the Edifice Builders," Drawing and essay, The Day, New London, 2:6:87.
"Always Another Story to Tell," Interview with John Kelly, Norwich Bulletin 9:27:81.
"One Artist Speaks of Life," Interview with John Kelly, Norwich Bulleti, 6:13:81.
"Rebirth of Union Station," Drawing and Essay, The Day, New London, 2:15:78.

Career Related

"Artist in the Classroom," Creative Arts in Education Program, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Waterford, Connecticut, 1980 to 1995.
"Angle and Arabesque, An Oeuvres Overview," lecture,slide presentation, East Lyme Art League, 1992.
Juror, 48th Annual Exhibition of Connecticut Artists, Slater Museum, Norwich, Connecticut, 1991.
Independent work/study/homestay, Tokoname, Japan: ceramic temple dogs, slab method building & glazing, limited editions, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1991, 2001.
Costume design & construction, Student theater productions: The Williams School, New London, Connecticut, 1983-1984.
Community Theater Project for CPTV: Scenes from six Greek plays w/ Paul Weidner, Bernard Knox & Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, mask, costume design & construction, 1967.
Designer, finishing/paper mache, window display studios:
Timely Service, Inc., Brooklyn, New York, 1951-1953
Zaria Display, New York, New York, 1950-1951.
Docent, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, 1990 to present.