Greenwich Art Society, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Library “Brush with Fate” Juried Show, June/July 2011.
“A Daisy in the Life” - drawing and collage, Art Society of Old Greenwich, Riverside Yacht Club, February 2011.
“Tod’s Point #1” – gouache painting, Christ Church Greenwich Art Show “Spirituality in the Arts: Reflections during Lent.”
“Remember Me” – pastel, Second Prize – Pastel Category, Art Society of Old Greenwich, Flinn Gallery, Greenwich Library, Juried Show “Exploring Luminosity,” August 2007. “An Illuminated Moment” gouache painting, Greenwich Art Society, Hurlbutt Gallery, Greenwich Library, “78th Annual Juried Exhibition 1995.
“Ida’s Pond” gouache and acrylic painting, Greenwich Art Society, Hurlbett Gallery, Greenwich Library, “76th Annual Juried Exhibition,” 1993.
“Lemonade” gouache painting, Robert S. Haas Memorial Award for Watercolor
The 30th Annual Fairfield Festival of the Arts, Oak Room Exhibition & Auction, Fairfield University Campus Center, Fairfield CT, Juried Show, June 1992.
“Bridgeport Gothic” watercolor gouache painting, Honorable Mention, New Canaan Society for the Arts “Spectrum 1992” Waveny Carriage Barn, Waveny Park, New Canaan CT, Juried Show, April – May 1992.
“Still Life in Black and White” acrylic painting, Carlson Gallery/Arnold Bernhard Center, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport CT “Annual Student Show,” 1992.
“Corner Grocer, Bridgeport” gouache painting, 1st Place Watercolor Category, New Canaan Society for the Arts “Spectrum 1991” Waveny Carriage Barn, Waveny Park, New Canaan, CT, Juried Show 1991. “A Still Life” acrylic painting, Westport Arts Center, “Bridgeport Hilton Hotel Exhibition Artists Showcase” 18 Westport Artists Invitational Exhibit” Juried Show, 1989.
Three paintings required, submitted and accepted – still life and landscape subjects.
Gallery 26, Ridgebury Congregational Church, Ridgefield, CT, “Professional Invitational Exhibition of Art” Juried Show, July 1988, two paintings submitted and accepted – still life and cityscape subjects.
Gallery 88, The Young Women’s League of New Canaan, Inc. New Canaan, CT Juried Show1988, “Compo Gate” photo silk screen print, Awarded 1st place in photo/print category.
University of Bridgeport 1988 Annual Student Exhibition, Bridgeport, CT, 1988
“Van Gogh in New York” gouache painting, Best in Illustration Award,
Carlson Gallery/Arnold Bernhard Center, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport CT “Annual Student Show,” 1986.
Still Life in Colored Pencil, 1st Prize Drawing Category , Waveny House, New Canaan, CT “30th Anniversary Art Show” Juried Show, 1985.
“The Blue Pitcher” watercolor, 2nd Place Amateur Category, Gallery 84 Waveny House, New Canaan, CT “New Canaan Art Show” Juried Show, 1984.
“Daisies” Pencil Drawing, 1st Prize Amateur Category, Gallery 5, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, CT Solo Student Exhibit, by faculty invitation, 1984.
Professional Memberships
Greenwich Art Society
Old Greenwich Art Society
Greenwich Arts Council
Docent Bruce Museum
American Society of Interior Designers, President Elect, CT Chapter 2011-2012
Education
University of California, Berkeley CA – BA, Art History Major, History Minor, 1965
University of California, Berkeley CA – Teaching Credential in Elementary Education, 1966
New York School of Design, New York, New York, Certificate in Interior Design, 1978
University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport CT, BFA, Illustration Major, 1992
Selected Exhibits Solo Shows: Action Art Gallery, 2008
Arcadia Coffee Gallery, 2006
Gertrude White Gallery, Greenwich YWCA, 2005
Lobby of the Empire State Building, 2002
Greenwich Arts Council, 1998
Selected Exhibitions/Recognitions
Revington Arthur Award for Excellence in Painting, Stamford Museum
Grumbacher Silver Medallion, Greenwich Art Society
Painting chosen as cover for Greenwich Magazine
corporate collections include: American Express, GTE, General SignalCorp, Bendheim Cancer Center
public collections include: Cos Cob Library, Greenwich Library Lending Art Collection
Professional Memberships
Pastel Society of America
Life Member Art Students’ League
Center for Contemporary Printmaking
Greenwich Art Society
Selected Publications/Exhibits/Performances
Psychotherapist, psychoanalyst and hypnotherapist in private practice, New York City
Writer of published screenplays, poetry, and stories; a frequent feature poet at live venues and on cable TV; participates in charity events for human rights, ecology, nature, and animal rights; organizes psychoanalytic workshops on human rights, disarmament, and social structures related to education and welfare; exhibit and signing of poetry book Reframe , New York;
lecture about sexual abuse at Society for Modern Psychoanalysis, 2007
Selected Recognition/Awards
The Ruth Steinkraus-Cohen Memorial Outstanding Women of Connecticut
Script writer of short film "Happy Birthday", nominated at festivals in US and around the world,
recipient of the Gradiva award
Professional Memberships
CJ Jung association
National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis
Mid Manhattan Institute
Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society
National Association of Forensic Counselors
Selected Publications/Exhibits
Over thirty books published (many as illustrator), recent publications: Amazing Popup Egypt and Popup Rome (three-dimensional and mostly in Europe at present)
Generally show artwork with Silvermine Artists In Residence exhibits, Norwalk, CT
Selected Recognitions/Awards
Stephen Dohanos Medal, Society of Illustrators
Various ALA outstanding book awards
NY Academy of Sciences Best Science Book
Book of the Month Club
Appearance on Today Show for Twelve Days of Christmas: A Celebration and History
Professional Memberships
Society of Illustrators, NY
Mirella Joakim Hajjar
Selected Publications/Exhibits
Brownson Gallery, Manhattanville College, Group Exhibit, September, 2007
Library at Manhattanville College, Group Exhibit, April, 2007
Articles and press releases published monthly in all local newspapers for exhibits at Les Beaux-Arts Gallery for which Mirella is the art curator
Selected Recognition/Awards
Distinguished Service award from Westchester Community College, Valhalla for curating their annual art exhibit which included around forty artists each time, 2002 - 2007
Professional Memberships
Adjunct professor of history of photography and Photography at Manhattanville College
Profession
Founder and President of Lyrics Unlimited, which provides personalized lyrics, limericks, songs, poems, tributes, toasts, and speeches for all occasions.
Writing experience
Marcia has worked with individuals and groups, as well as corporate executives, politicians and party planners. She has created toasts and tributes delivered at small gatherings as well as for large parties, banquets and balls.
Some of her many accomplishments include:
Wedding toast at a reception for 350 at The Pierre Hotel, New York City
Gala 50th Birthday Party for 100 at The Breakers, Newport, Rhode Island
60th Anniversary celebration at The Ritz Hotel, New York City
Farewell party for a cabinet member, Washington, D.C.
Lyn S. Harmon, Ed.D.
Writer, Artist, and Psychotherapist
Education Boston University: ED.D 1984
Pi Lambda Theta: National Honor And Professional Association in Education; Alpha Gamma Chapter
New York Theological Seminary: Master of Professional Studies 1981
Guild of Spiritual Guidance: Apprentice
Post Graduate Study in Florence Italy in Psychosynthesis and Art 1986-87
Art Education 1970-1974 The Art Students’ League
1975-1980 The School of Sacred Art in NYC with Professor Zhang
1988-91 The Silvermine School of Art, Norwalk, CT
Watercolor with Edgar Whitney at RHCC
Exhibits
Scarsdale Library, Women and Art, Westchester Women’s Task Force, sponsored by NOW, October 1978
Silvermine Guild Art Center, Student Art Show, Honorable Mention, David Dunlop, Fall 1998
Flynn Gallery, Black, White, and Gray, juried by Janet Baldi, Landscape 1, August 2006
Flynn Gallery, Art Society of Old Greenwich, In the Mood for Color, juried by Patti Mollica, Summer Garden, August 2009
Flynn Gallery, Greenwich Art Society: Left Brain, Right Brain, Conjuring up our Creativity, show juried by George Rush, Professor at Yale School of Art, Wild Grasses, July 2009
Publications Clyde's Clam Farm by Lyn S. Harmon, J.B. Lippincott &Co. 1966
(An Author's Guild backinprint.com 2000) Flight to Jewell Island by Lyn S. Harmon, J.B. Lippincott &Co. 1967
(An Author's Guild backinprint.com 2000)
Recognition
The Illinois Reading Service adopted FLIGHT TO JEWELL ISLAND for 1968-1969 list
Professional Memberships
The Author's Guild
Greenwich Art Society
The Art Society of Old Greenwich
The Greenwich Arts Council
Work Worked in mind-body private and group practice
1980 At the Russo Clinic at Albert Einstein Hospital
1981-6 Worked with Dr. Bernie Siegel in New Haven and then started his groups in New York
1987-2004 Private Practice in New York City and Greenwich CT, taught classes, gave workshops and lectures all over the Northeast
Selected Publications Five Days to an Organized Life (Dell) 365 Ways to Save Time (Wm Morrow) 365 Ways to Save Time with Kids (Wm Morrow) 365 Ways to Save Money (Wm Morrow) Get Organized in the Digital Age (NAL)
Professional Memberships Entrepreneurial Women's Network
Greenwich Arts Council
Installation artist, using painting, assemblage sculpture, and photography to create joyful spaces.
Selected Exhibitions
Juried shows:
Greenwich Art Society, Art Society of Old Greenwich
Bendheim and Flinn Galleries in Greenwich
Westport Art Center in Westport
Selected Solo installations:
"Not Just For Kids Anymore" 2010 and "Magic and Imagination of Childhood" 2009 at YWCA Greenwich "Treehouse: a Metaphor for the Artist Studio" 2007 at Greenwich Art Society Gallery
Recognitions and Awards
Host of Pen Women Cable TV show "Creative Women Today" for five years.
Host and editor of of Cable TV interview show "Ageless" for three years. Second place in CT Press Club 2011 for TV Talk Show.
Taught creativity classes for artists for Greenwich Art Society for two years.
Professional Memberships
Greenwich Art Society
Art Society of Old Greenwich
Artist Member Westport Art Center
Publications/Exhibits/Performances
Over 45 children's books published
Children's Theatre: "The Pocket People," seven years during '60's and '70's
Dramatic poetry performance: "Sisters Across the Centuries," during '80's LB-Kids Hachette Book Group USA= a video containing an interview and some comments about her two about-to-be-published books
Recognitions/Awards
National Book Award for A House Is A House For Me, Viking/Penguin, 1983
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Excellence in Children's Poetry Award, 2003
Smith College Medal, 2006
National Children's Poet Laureate, 2008
Selected Exhibits
Dearfield Medical Building, Greenwich, CT, March through June, 2008
Greenwich Art Society, 92nd Annual Juried Show, March, 2008
Greenwich Art Society President’s Choice Solo Show, “Ode to the Women”, February, 2008
Greenwich Art Society President’s Choice Solo Show, “Oliofolio”, November, 2004
Selected Recognition/Awards
Fisher Prize for Art History Writing, Purchase College Department of the Humanities, 2007
Norwalk Community College Annual Student Show Best in Show, 2004
Blue dot recognition at two annual student concourses at the Art Students’ League of New York, 1997, 1999
Professional Memberships
Greenwich Art Society
Art Society of Old Greenwich
Member, Art Students’ League of New York
Former member Portrait Society of America
Selected Exhibits
Third one person show at the Beaux Arts Gallery, Round Hill Community Church, CT, 2007; three person show at the Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT, 2006; "New Works" one person show at the Trimbur Henry Gallery, Doylestown, PA, 2005; Tenth International Botanical Art Exhibition, (group show) Hunt Institute, Carnegie Mellon, PA, 2001
Numerous group shows at the Park Slope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Recognitions/Awards
First Place for Watercolor and Honorable Mention for mixed media, "Art in Nature" Greenwich Art Society exhibitions
Professional Memberships
American Society for Botanical Artists
Publications A Parent’s Guide to Prayer; The Mustard Seed Series Sunday School curriculum
Recognitions and Awards
Church leader of Teacher Training workshops, adult forums, congregational meetings, and small group discussions
Greenwich Pen Women’s Owl Award, 2005
Contact Information: anitakeire@gmail.com www.anitakeire.com
www.mustardseedseries.com and www.LeaderResources.org
Shashi Shobha Khorana, Ph.D
Selelected Publications
Columnist for Little India magazine
Asian American Writers Workshop, Works in Progress Readings
Professional Memberships
Asian American Writers Workshop
Sarah Sanderson King
Selelected Publications/ Exhibits / Performances
Author of Effective Communication Skills: An Interactional Approach (McGraw Hill). Human Communication as a Field of Study (ed) and co-author or ed. for eight books for SUNY Press. Communication Best Practices –GE, Microsoft and Monsanto and High-Speech Management: The Role of Communication in Continuously Improving an Organization’s Performance were the result of over 20 years of research, scholarship, and consulting with organizations. Consulted widely in Europe and Asia for businesses and government organizations. Now working on writing poetry.
SelectedRecognitions/Awards
Been the recipient of approximately $400,000 in grants from NIMH, NEH, State of CT, East-West Center, Harvard U., and U. of Hawaii to investigate such areas as the role of communication in alleviating stress, training programs for managers of minority programs, alternatives on development, location decision making for organizations, and multicultural curricula. Awards include Fellowships or Research Positions at the University of Chicago, Ohio State University, University of Hawaii and Harvard University.
Publications
Publicist, Koenigpr.com: Publicist to companies that produce, score, animate, and create visual effects for commercials, film, and new media
Recognition
Placements in national, international and trade electronic and print media such as Adweek, Advertising Age/Creativity, New York Times, Hollywood Reporter, and others
Professional Membership
New York Women in Film and Television
Publications West Point and the Hudson Valley USNA: A Pictorial Celebration of 150 Years
Recognitions/Awards
Alumni Medallion, The College of William and Mary in Virginia
Professional Memberships
Sisters in Crime
Joanne Kuebler, Ph.D.
Selected Publications Richard Pousette-Dart: The New York School and Beyond, Sam Hunter and Joanne Kuebler, editors Skira, Milan, 2005 Richard Pousette-Dart , Joanne Kuebler and Robert C. Hobbs, with essays by Donald C. Kuspit and David Miller, exhibition catalogue, Indianapolis Museum of Art in collaboration with Indiana University Press, 1990
Recognition
Adjunct Professor of Art History at Manhattan College, Riverdale, NY, present job
Kathleen (Kay) Langan
Publications/Exhibits/Performance
Co-author of Your Job in Distribution, McGraw-Hill, 1968, revised as Your Career in Marketing, 1976; author of articles in Greenwich Magazine, The Vassar Quarterly, The Woman MBA and Forum, as well as newspapers in Westchester and Fairfield counties.
Recognitions
Phi Beta Kappa
Betty Hinckley Award from the Junior League of Greenwich
Outstanding Service to Vassar Award
Professional Memberships
Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators
American Historical Association
Selected Exhibits
President's Choice Solo Exhibition, Greenwich Art Society Gallery, 2007
Winners Circle, Greenwich Art Society Gallery, 2006
Greenwich Art Society Juried Exhibitions, 2000 to 2005, 1999, 1998, 1995
Silvermine School of Art Student Juried Exhibitions, 2001, 2000, 1998
Art Society of Old Greenwich Juried Shows, 2007, 2006, 2003, 2002, 2000
Selected Recognitions/Awards
Greenwich Art Society, Alice T. Queenan Award 2003, Allan Bernard Award 1995; Silvermine School of Art, First Prize Faculty Award 2001, First Prize Watercolor 2000, Toulmin-Rothe Memorial Award 1998; Art Society of Old Greenwich, Chesbrough-Ponds Award 1992; Greenwich Art Society Art & Nature Shows First Watercolor 2004, 2001
Professional Memberships
Greenwich Art Society
Art Society of Old Greenwich
Sarah Darer Littman
Selected Publications Life, After (Scholastic Press, 2010)
Columnist: Hearst Newspapers (CT)
CTNewsJunkie.com
Confessions of a Closet Catholic (Dutton Children's Books, 2005) Purge (Scholastic Press, 2009)
Selected Recognitions/Awards
Bank Street College of Education Best Books of 2010
Sydney Taylor Book Award for Older Readers 2006
2008 Iowa Children's Choice Award nominee
2007 YALSA Popular Paperback for Young Adults 2006 International Reading Association Children's Choice list
2006 Chicago Public Library "Best of the Best" list
Professional Memberships
Greenwich Pen Women
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
The Authors Guild
Publications No Idle Hands: The Social History of American Knitting (Ballantine/Random House) Feminine Ingenuity: Women and Invention in America (Ballantine/Random House) Perrot: The Story of a Library (Perrot Press)
Magazine articles in Vogue Knitting, Cast On, Knitting, Interweave Knits
Selected Exhibits
Juried Shows: New Haven Paint & Clay Club; Ridgefield Guild of Artists
Spectrum; New Canaan Society for the Arts; Greenwich Art Society; Flinn Gallery; Bendheim Gallery; Art Society of Old Greenwich
Solo/Two Persons Gallery Shows: Our World Gallery at the Stone Studio, Stamford, CT; Greenwich YWCA; Garden Education Center, Greenwich; Atwood Gallery, New York City; Greenwich Art Society; Arts to the Avenue; Action Arts Gallery, Old Greenwich
Recognition/Awards
Teaching Abstract Impressionistic Watercolor
Greenwich YWCA, Greenwich Art Society
Professional Memberships
Greenwich Art Society
Art Society of Old Greenwich
Publications
"Racing Team", Highlights for Children, December, 2004
"No Petting the Orangutans, Please", Stepping Stones, July, 2006
"Mystery Killer--A Lobster Whodunit", Greenwich Magazine, March, 2004
"What's Killing all the Lobsters?", Greenwich Historical Society, July, 2004 To the Tower--A Greenwich Adventure (Plenum, 2002) Paraverbal Communication: Not Through Words Alone, 1990
Recognition/Awards
Helen Gratz Rockefeller Outstanding Volunteerism Award from Family Centers, Greenwich, CT, 2007
“Racing Team”, Best in Issue Award, Highlights for Children, 2004
Bank Street College Doctor of Humane Letters, Honoris Causa, 1991
Professional Memberships
Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
American Psychological Association
Margaret Mills
Selected Publications/Performances
Three solo piano CDs and two chamber music CDs
Performances as solo pianist in Europe, the United States, and China
Selected Recognition/Awards
Frances Walker Piano Prize, Vassar College
National Endowment of the Arts Recording Grant
Contemporary Record Society Prize
Manager, Faculty Artist Series, Third Street Music School Settlement
Professional Memberships
International Association For Women In Music
New York Musicians Club
The Schubert Club
Selected Exhibits Numerous art exhibits including solo shows at Coral Springs Museum of Art, FL; UMA Gallery, New York City; Treasure Room Gallery, Interchurch Center, New York City; Art/Place Gallery, Southport, CT
Group shows with Greenwich Art Society, CT; National Association of Women Artists, NY; Art/Place Gallery, CT; Art of the Northeast at Silvermine Gallery, CT
Traveling shows in the U.S. and abroad
Selected Recognitions/Awards
National Association of Women Artists (NAWA), Gold Medal Award for outstanding service to the arts, and various exhibition awards; founder of the NAWA permanent collection at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum in Brunswick, NJ; founder of the NAWA Florida Chapter, FL; Greenwich Art Society, CT, various exhibition awards; and the NLAPW Owl Award
Professional Memberships
National Association of Women Artists, New York City, former president; Greenwich Art Society, CT, director and former president; Silvermine Guild of Artists, CT; Stamford Art Association, CT; New York Society of Women Artists
Selected Publications/Exhibits
2110 NLAPW Biennial Juried Arts Competition, Arkansas Heritage Museum
2009 DISPERSION, CWOS Juried Exhibition. Art Space, New Haven, CT
2008 Exhibition Catalogue 91st Juried Show Greenwich Art Society; The Advocate & Greenwich Sunday Time; The Greenwich Post; The Greenwich Citizen; New York City Hotel Guide; The Vassar Quarterly; Greenwich Magazine; The New York Daily News; New York Newsday; Harlem Episcopal School; Granville County Historical Society Museum, Oxford, NC; Faces of Photography, Wilton Arts Council, Wilton, CT; Photography Club of Fairfield County at Greenwich Audubon Center Gallery; Westchester Photographic Society at Pleasantville, NY Library; Main Street Studio Fine Art Photography Gallery, Jamaica, VT
Selected Recognitons/Awards
2010 Greenwich Art Society Flinn Gallery Juried Exhibition, Ruth and Robert Newman Award for Photography
2010 30th Annual Photography Show, Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan, CT, First Place Award
2008 28th Annual Photography Exhibition New Canaan Society for the Arts, Honorable Mention; 2007 Ridgefield Guild of Artists, 30th Juried Exhibition, First Place Award; 2007 Greenwich Art Society Juried Summer Exhibition, Best in Show, The Louis M. Hipp Jr. Memorial Award, Flinn Gallery;
2007 58th Art of the Northeast, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT, The Christine Dombrowski Award; Greenwich Magazine Editor's Choice Award, Founder's Choice Award:
Canon USA Award; Girl Scouts of the USA Award; Freeport, NY; Arts Council Juried Show First Place B & W; Nassau County Parks and Recreation Photography Exhibit, Best in Show
Professional Memberships
Photography Club of Lower Fairfield County
Publications
Magazine features and articles: Home, Natural Home, Down East, Westchester Home, At Home in Fairfield County, Westport The Owner-Builder Organizer (Alpha/Penguin, 2008); The Complete Idiot's Guide to Simple Home Repair (Alpha/Penguin, 2007); TheHouse That Jill Built (Gibbs Smith, 2005), Painting Rooms (Rockport, 2001)
Co-author of : Painting Your House Inside & Out, with Bonnie Rossler Krims (Thunder Bay, 2003); Painting Kitchens, with Steve Jordan (Quarry, 2004)
Professional Memberships
Society of Environmental Journalists
American Society of Journalists and Authors
Profession
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