I am an artist, who started drawing and painting at a very young age. At 6 or 7,  I was already doing portraits. I excelled in art and took lessons from local artists. I exhibited my work with ACME INC in Los Angeles, and Hackett Projects in Santa Fe and was represented in New York City by Kornblee Gallery, Sandra Gering Gallery, Bertha Urdang Gallery, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Barbara Gladstone/Villani Gallery, Ruth Siegel Gallery; and in Chicago with Marianne Deson Gallery. My work is in the public collections of the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; The Museum of Art & Design, NYC; Palm Springs Art Museum; Bard College’s Hessel Museum for Curatorial Studies/NYC; Rose Art Museum/Brandeis University; San Francisco MOMA; Chase Manhattan Bank.

I was exhibiting in New York and married an Art Historian, whom I later divorced. After that, I had to make a living and education was the way to go. I was a Professor of Art and Women's Studies at Penn State University for 26 years, am now retired and still painting and exhibiting.

I received a BFA from Boston University and an MFA from Boulder, University of Colorado.. Additionally, in younger years, I took many private lessons from artists..

While in Graduate School, I was showing in New York in 1974.  I was asked to represent the Western States and became involved with feminists. I moved to Colorado: there was one woman on the faculty. 

 In NY there were very few women showing and in Academia there was a huge resistance towards women. I left Colorado and became Chairperson, Professor of Art at Wichita (Kansas) State University, as the first woman faculty member hired. I was told I would be watched carefully and felt I had to work twice as hard to prove my ability.

My greatest strengths are my confidence, perseverance and being a proponent of diversity.

I have shown in a lot of wonderful places, but the exhibition at the Chelsea Center for Jewish History In New York City was an outstanding accomplishment. Being of Spanish-Arab Jewish origin I had an outbreak program and at the time showed in Blue Chip galleries. I saw a video of busloads of kids arriving from Catholic Schools, in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. I saw that they loved the work I had done and stayed longer than expected because the show was about people from diverse ethnic backgrounds illustrating how they and society impacted each other.

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I aspire to create music with readings and painting and exhibiting my paintings and glass portrait heads.

 I get up every morning and swim, then I start painting!

What inspires me most is my overwhelming passion, love and sadness for things not being what they should be. It makes me laugh, cry and create.

My students tell me that I gave them a larger vision of what art could be and gave them courage to do what they could do; that's my legacy.

• Pennsylvania Women for Environmental Justice
• College Art Association
• Women's Caucus for Art

• Habitat for Humanity
• St. Jude's Children's Hospital

I love to swim, read and go to movies.