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I have been working as an artist, and
teaching art, for most of my adult life. I enjoyed a wonderfully
satisfying career as a teacher/artist. During that time I showed my
work regularly throughout Long Island. I retired from teaching as an
advanced drawing and painting instructor, on the high school level, in
January 2005. I am currently a faculty member at the Art League of
Long Island in Dix Hills where I teach workshops in fused glass. I
present glass workshops in school districts throughout Long Island
through the BOCES Arts-In-Education program. I have been a member of the
Long Island Craft Guild for 22 years and currently am media chair of
the “Glass” group. I am an active member at the Phoenix Gallery in
Bellport, New York and Women Sharing Art organization.
My media of choice is glass: both stained
and fused. I have also enjoyed drawing and include this medium in works
that I present to galleries. For a period of about 7 years, I
concentrated with the forms of ponies and carousel motifs in my fused
glass designs. Although I am continually moving into new concentrations,
I have a persistent fondness for the “carousel series”. They are
whimsical, joyful, and include in them a playfulness that I do not carry
through to my other works.
I also present imagery that depicts my
life issues. The content is passionate and personal. As with life, my
beliefs may change but they are crystallized in the art representing
them at the moment of their creation.
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