Artodyssey: 18/04/10

Michelle Muennig

Education

* Tulane University New Orleans, Louisiana — M.F.A. in glass, May 1991
* California College of Arts and Crafts Oakland, California — B.F.A. in glass, December 1988

Professional Experience

* Instructor—Amsterdam Art, Berkeley, CA, 1998-Present: Conduct workshops in alternative painting techniques
* Instructor—Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, CA, 1997-Present: Conduct courses in multimedia art
* Instructor—Telluride Academy, Telluride, CO, 1998: Conducted workshops in art
* Instructor—Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, 1990-1992: Conducted the Foundations of Art and intermediate glass courses; Teaching duties included operating and maintaining the glass studio
* Instructor—The New Orleans School of Glass Works, 1991-1992: Conducted the glass casting course, taught private lessons, and provided workshops for various schools
* Designer/Contractor—Oakland, CA, 1988: Designed and fabricated a fountain for a private residence in Oakland, California. Materials used: bronze, glass, concrete, found objects
* Partner in 'Wind Studios'—Monterey, California, 1981-1983: Worked free-lance and on a commission basis

Linda Pearlman Karlsberg

Education

* MFA, Painting magna cum laude, Boston University School for the Arts, Boston, MA. Studied with James Weeks, Philip Guston
* BFA, Painting magna cum laude, Boston University School for the Arts, Boston, MA. Studied with David Aronson, Arthur Polonsky
* Tufts University, Medford MA, Fine arts major program with the Boston Museum School, Boston, MA

Teaching and Professional Experience

* Co-owner and Director, Studio Eleven, Inc. Photographic studio, Newton, MA 1976-present
* Associate Professor, Drawing and Painting, Boston University
School for the Arts, Boston, MA 1975-1978
* Associate Professor, Drawing, MA Bay Community College,
Watertown, MA 1976
* Associate Professor, Drawing and Design, Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA 1973-1974
* Graduate Teaching Fellow, Drawing and Painting, Boston University
School for the Arts, Boston, MA 1973-1975
* Teaching Assistant, Boston University School for the Arts, Boston, MA 1972-1973

Awards

* Juror’s Award of Merit, 2010, The Painting Show, Still Point Gallery, Bangor, ME
* Juror’s Award of Merit, 2009 Members’ Juried Exhibition, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
* Juror’s Award of Merit, 2008 Members’ Juried Exhibition, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
* Molly M. Canaday Memorial Award for Works on Canvas, 2008 NAWA Annual Exhibition, Goggleworks, Reading PA
* Juror’s Award – Best of Show representational work “2007 Annual Members Juried Exhibition,” Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
* Juror’s Award “2007 National Small Works Painting Exhibition,” The Main Street Gallery, Groton, NY
* Juror’s Award, “NAOPS Exhibit 2006” Bolivar, MO
* Juror’s Award “American Landscape 2005”, MFA Circle Gallery,
Annapolis, MD
* Juror’s Award “ Photography, Drawing and Print Show” 2000, Artworks Gallery, Hartford, CT
* Juror’s Award, “All New England Color Show” 1997 SSAC Bancroft Gallery, Cohasset, MA
* Graduate Fellowship, Boston University School for the Arts, Boston, MA
* Stein Memorial Award for Merit in the Arts

Burton Silverman

Mr. Silverman has had 31 solo shows in New York, Boston, Philadelphia Washington, D.C. and San Francisco He has appeared in numerous national and international exhibitions including the National Portrait Gallery, the National Academy Annuals, the Mexico City Museum of Art, the Royal Academy of Art in London and the Butler Midyear Annuals, He has won 37 major prizes and awards from such annual exhibitions and the National Academy Musuem has honored him with 9 awards including the Ranger Purchase Awards in 1983 and 1965.

* His paintings are represented in nearly two dozen public collections including the Arkansas Art Institute, the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the New Britain Museum, the Mint Museum, the Denver Art Museum, the National Museum of American Art, the Delaware Art Museum, the Columbus Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. His work is included in numerous private collections both in the U.S. and Europe.
* In 2006 A retrospective exhihibit of the Intimate Eye; the Drawings of Burton Silverman opened at the Brigham Young Museum of art and traveled to the Butler institute of American Art and the Lyme Academy College of Art in 2007
* February 2005 he was awarded the 7th Annual Excellence in the Arts Award from the Newington Cropsey Cultural Foundation .
* May and June of 2004 the Delaware Art Museum hosted the exhibiton "Glorious Dignity: Drawings of the Montgomery Bus Boycott by Harvey Dinnerstein and Burton Silverman" and a sequential loan exhibit of these works has been shown in a 50th Anniversary Exhibition: Protest in Montgomery at the Montgomery Museum of Art in 2006.
* In May 2004 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Portrait Society of America for lifetime achievement in figurative art in 1999 received the John Singer Sargent Medal from the American Society of Portrait Artists for a similar career of disitinction.
* In 2002 he received an Honorary Doctorate from the Academy of Art College in San Francisco.
* In February of 1999, the Butler Institute of American Art held a 25-year retrospective exhibition of his work titled Sight and Insight; the Art of Burton Silverman. The exhibit also traveled to the Brigham Young Museum in Utah (May, 1999.) A full monograph and catalog accompanied this exhibition
* In the Spring of 1995 he conducted a seminar at the National Academy entitled "The Realist Alternative" that probed the possible reemergence of realism as a viable alternative to modernist art. It included Tom Wolfe, Sidney Goodman and Harvey Dinnerstein.

Burton Silverman

Troy Crisswell

artist...oil and watercolor paintings...guitar player and songwriter.

Troy Crisswell was born in Birmingham Alabama. His interest in drawing became apparent in his early teens as he and his good friend spent summer hours cartooning cynical and exaggerated figures. He began taking art classes in high school and college. Later he would attend a “life drawing” group. He drew there weekly over the next twenty two-years.

“I’m a figure drawing fan, so a lot of figures show up in my pictures - family members and people I know most often”.

In 1987 he began exhibiting his pen and ink drawings and watercolor paintings.

“With watercolors I’m thinking tight drawing, loose painting...”

In 1991 Troy became a full time, self-employed artists. His painting continued to develop steadily and around 1997 he started to explore painting with oils. By the next year he was selling oil paintings along with watercolors.

“Oil paintings are done on Masonite board or canvas, I normally use a transparent glazing technique.”

Troy creates a sort of mood in his paintings by using realistic and surrealistic elements. He has won many awards in the shows around the Southeast in which he participates.