Occupation: Painter, Lecturer Media: Acrylic, Oil. Born Malta; United States citizen.
Education Art Students League. New Sch, New York. Pratt Inst, New York. Parsons Sch Design, New York. Moore Coll Art, Philadelphia.
Teaching Positions Instr drawing & painting & art director, Studio 733 Art Sch, Great Neck, New York, 63-67; instructor life drawing, Hussian Col Art, Philadelphia, 70-71; instructor drawing & painting, America Studies Center, Naples, Italy, 72-73 & Northern Atlantic Treaty Organization Hq, Naples, 72-73; adjunct lectr painting, Brooklyn Col, 74-76 & Hofstra Univ, Hempstead, New York, 77; instructor, Cooper Union, New York, 86.
Business and Professional Positions Exec coordinator, Women in the Arts Found, 75-77; spec appt 5-mem advisor comt, White House, Washington, DC, 3/77.
Public Works Mus City New York; Virginia Center Creative Arts; Metropolitan Museum of Art; New York Public Library; Nat Museum of Fine Arts, Malta.
Exhibitions Faces, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 71; Works on Paper, Women Artists, Brooklyn Museum, New York, 75; Solo exhibs, Virginia Center Creative Arts, 81 & Elaine Starkman Gallery, New York, 86, Citicorp Center, New York, 88-89, "Z" Gallery, New York, 91, Sweet Briar Col, Virginia, 93, Trinity Col, Hartford Connecticut, 96, A/E Gallery, New York, 96 & Myung Sook Lee Gallery, New York, 97-98, Retrospective: Four Decades of Painting, Westbeth Gallery, New York, 2000, St James Cavalier Center for Creativity, Malta, Europe, 2002; Group exhibs, Bayly Mus, Charlottesville, Virginia, 86 & Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 86; New Acquisitions, Mus City New York, 94.
Bibliography Joan Marter (author), Pasture forms, Arts Mag, 2/79 & exhib review, 5/79; Shiela Elliot (author), The Allure of Shifting Light, Artists' Mag, 9/87; book/catalog, Malta: Memories and Explorations, 89-2001; Tracy Cochran (author), profile, Ms Mag; catalog, A Retrospective, Four Decades of Painting, 2000.
Publications Isolation as Inspiration, Women Artist' News, 81; coauthor (with Edwin Honig), Cow-Lines, Copper Beech Press, 82; author, Day in the life, Artists Mag, 9/85; author, Winged Spirits, Bayeux Arts Publ, 95; Catalog 2000 Four Decades of Painting - A Retrospective Exhibit, 2000; book/catalog, Malta, Memories and Explorations, 2002.
Honors and Awards Virginia Center Creative Arts Fellow, 75-2007; Susan B Anthony Award, Nat Organization Women, New York, 86; Ragdale Fellow, 86-2007; MacDowell fellow, 70-2007; Gold medal Int Women's Art Festival, Cannes, France, 70.
Memberships Women in the Arts; New York Artists Equity.
Arranged Collections Pfizer Inc, Cargill Ltd.
Areas of Interest music; writing.
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