Education
School for International Training, Graduate Institute, Brattleboro, VT
Master of International and Intercultural Management (MIIM),
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT)
Tufts University, Medford, MA
Bachelor of Science (BS)
Continuing education
Worcester State University, Department of Visual and Performing Arts
Field Naturalist Certification, MA Audubon Society
Certification, Massachusetts Master Gardener Association
Certification, Permaculture Design
Practitioner, Hong Taiji, Yang Taiji
Praying Mantis Kung Fu, Black Belt
Certificates in Herbalism and Aromatherapy
Exhibits
Fitchburg Art Museum, Regional Craft Biennial; Honorable Mention, Sculpture
Arts Worcester, Material Matters, Call and Response
Arts Worcester, All My Relations (Material Needs Grant recipient)
Arts Worcester, The Annual One
Arts Worcester, Portraits
Lotus Rising, an installation, Dolphin Gallery
Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery, Worcester, MA
Studio Textile Artist, New Haven, CT
Created, exhibited and sold hand-dyed, hand-woven ikat fabric nationally and in Europe.
Received numerous special recognition awards for design excellence.
Special Exhibits (partial list)
Connecticut Artists Showcase, Bradley International Airport
IKAT, National Invitational, Brookfield Craft Center, CT
Espace Benezet, Avignon, France
Peters Valley Craft Center, Layton, New Jersey
Showcase in a Showplace, Shubert Theatre, New Haven, CT
Rhode Island School of Design, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence
Incorporated Gallery, NYC
Special Recognition and Arts Awards
Regional Crafts Biennial, Fitchburg Arts Museum, Honorable Mention, Sculpture
Arts Worcester, Material Needs Grant
Rhode Island School of Design, Graduate Assistantship
Artist Cultural Exchange, New Haven, CT and Avignon, France
Designer, Objet d’Art for Arts Council of Greater New Haven, gifted to Yale Repertory Theatre director, Lloyd Richards
Work selected for FiberArts Design Book I
Consultant to New Haven, CT— Leon, Nicaragua Sister Cities Women’s Weaving Cooperative.
Shops and Galleries (partial list)
Henri Bendel, New York
Surroundings, New York
Latitudes, Greenwich, CT
Gabberts, Dallas
Bazaar del Mundo, San Diego
Smithsonian Museum Shop, Washington, DC
Twenty-Four Collection, Miami
Arts Educator
Visual arts educator at all grades from kindergarten through graduate school.
Developed an integrated arts curriculum for teachers using indigenous world cultures as a steppingstone.
Teaching Experience (partial list)
Rhode Island School of Design
Southern CT State University
Fairfield University, Graduate School of Education
University of New Haven
CT Commission on the Arts, Visiting Artist in the Schools
Dozijntje Ambacht, The Hague, Holland
Director, Garden for All Ages Teaching Garden, Worcester, MA
Created and transformed an abandoned urban lot into a cross cultural, cross generational teaching garden involving children at Chandler Magnet School, Worcester State University students and elders at a nearby housing project.
National and International Work
Director, United Nations Office, New York, NY
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
(WILPF— an international non-governmental organization (NGO) in Consultative Status with ECOSOC at the United Nations)
Addressed international UN conferences and forums; worked collaboratively with UN organizations; served on executive of UN-NGO committees.
Presented NGO briefings; organized international seminars; developed educational programs; prepared articles for US and international publications; speaker at international events and universities.
Author of numerous articles and publications.
Coordinator, Northeast Southern Africa Solidarity Network
Travel Grants
UN Centre Against Apartheid, grant to participate as invitational observer in first time elections in South Africa and Mozambique
Invited to participate in delegation to Iraq to assess the effects of the Gulf War on women and children (awarded by WILPF)
Invited to participate as observer to first-time elections in Nicaragua