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Riva Blumenfeld Wed, Sep 18, Oct 16, Nov 6, Dec 4
Thu, Sep 19, Oct 17, Nov 7, Dec 5 (Please note Nov 7 class will meet 11:30-1pm)
Anthony DiPaola Fri, Sep 27, Oct 18, Nov 1, 15, Dec 6
Donna Harkavy Wed, Sep 25, October 23, Nov 13, Dec 4 Thu, Sep 26, October 24, Nov 14, Dec 5 Fri, Sep 27, October 25, Nov 15, Dec 6
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Riva Blumenfeld received her M.A. from Hunter College, New York City, in 1984, and her B.A. from Washington University, St. Louis, in 1976. Blumenfeld leads tours and workshops at the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art for school groups K-12. She has taught at the Brooklyn Museum and the St. Louis Art Museum. Blumenfeld curated Totem, drawings by Tom Burckhardt at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY, which received an AICA award for best “emerging artist” exhibition, 2002. She served as a consultant to UNICEF and Binney & Smith, where she researched the viability ...
Riva Blumenfeld received her M.A. from Hunter College, New York City, in 1984, and her B.A. from Washington University, St. Louis, in 1976. Blumenfeld leads tours and workshops at the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art for school groups K-12. She has taught at the Brooklyn Museum and the St. Louis Art Museum. Blumenfeld curated Totem, drawings by Tom Burckhardt at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY, which received an AICA award for best “emerging artist” exhibition, 2002. She served as a consultant to UNICEF and Binney & Smith, where she researched the viability of a Crayola sponsored children’s museum, which has since been built. She has guest lectured at the Print Club, Philadelphia, on contemporary prints and multiples, and at the Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, on collecting contemporary art. She organized seminars on contemporary printmaking and collecting for the Encino Print Workshop, and on realism in contemporary printmaking for Pasadena Prints. Blumenfeld is the New York Chapter Chair and a member of ArtTable, a national organization for women in leadership roles in the visual arts. She is also an active board member of Lower Eastside Printshop, a printmaking shop focused on teaching the craft to artists and school children in New York.
Contemporary Art Scene
The Venice Biennale Unveiled
Donna Harkavy is a New York-based independent curator. She received her M.A. in Art History from Hunter College and her B.A. in English from Tufts University. She began her curatorial career at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and later worked as Exhibitions Coordinator at ICI in New York. From 1990-1995 Ms. Harkavy was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, where she founded the contemporary art program. She is currently on the Board of Trustees of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Foster Pride, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Projects and the Rao ...
Donna Harkavy is a New York-based independent curator. She received her M.A. in Art History from Hunter College and her B.A. in English from Tufts University. She began her curatorial career at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and later worked as Exhibitions Coordinator at ICI in New York. From 1990-1995 Ms. Harkavy was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, where she founded the contemporary art program. She is currently on the Board of Trustees of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute, Foster Pride, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Projects and the Raoul Hague Foundation. In addition, she serves on the Museum Advisory Board of the Munson-Williams-Procter Arts Institute Museum of Art and the Education Advisory Committee at The Jewish Museum.
Anthony DiPaola is an American painter who lived in Germany for a decade and recently returned to New York where he lives and works. He holds a BFA and MFA in painting in addition to an MA in Philosophy. He has had international solo exhibitions, primarily in nonprofit spaces and various college and university galleries including the Ruhr-Universität (Bochum, Germany), Gudelsky Gallery (Maryland College of Art and Design), Harry Wood Gallery (Arizona State University) and was included in a group exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery (Washington DC).
In 2019 Anthony received a project ...
In 2019 Anthony received a project grant for a large street art mural near the UN Campus in Germany highlighting their Sustainable Development Goals. In 2020 he received a stipend for artists awarded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. His conceptually motivated artwork is a blend of abstract form, text based images and figurative references using various media including painting, work on paper, video and animation.
www.anthonydipaola.com
Figure and Portrait Drawing Combined
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Portrait Drawing Intensive
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