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Featured in the May 01, 2003 Exhibit

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Don Berry's paintings and drawings have been shown in the Brattle Gallery, Boston; the Margaret Brown Gallery, The Museum of Fine Arts, the DeCordova and Dana Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Joseph Heller Gallery and the Poindexter Gallery all in New York. At present, he is working in collage. The pieces are abstract and although there are images and ideas in them, he'd rather that viewers make their own discoveries so they have not been titled.

Tom Cuchara My interest in nature photography was sparked by watching eagles soaring over the Shepaug dam in Southbury, CT. Over the past 15 years, my love of capturing unique animal behavior on film has taken me to exciting locations such as Africa, Alaska and Maine, among other places. It is a challenge for me to capture on film the essence of animals and their relationship to the environment. At times, the environment itself has drawn me to seize the opportunity to capture that one magical moment in time.

Valerie Degley Office Assistant, Department of Orthopaedics has always been interested in painting and drawing and has dabbled in watercolors. She has had a love for dolls since she was a little girl. and now has the opportunity to combine both loves into one wonderful project, reborn Berenguer Dolls. She says, "I love creating these dolls".

Marjorie Jacobs has taught art and art history in the New Haven Public Schools and at Hopkins Grammar School. Her oils and watercolors incorporate brilliant colors and intricate patterns in still lifes with landscape scenes from foreign travel and collages of famous artists. In addition to participating in many group shows in New Haven, Hartford, Nantucket, New Britian and Westport, she has had ten one-women shows. She is a member of the Connecticut Women Artists, the Connecticut Watercolor Society, The Guilford Art League and the Madison Art Society, where she has received several awards.

Bruno Lucchesi was born in Lucca, Italy in 1926. He moved to New York City in 1959, where he began teaching at the National Academy of Design and at the New School of Social Research.

Since 1961, Lucchesi has had many one-man shows at the Forum Gallery in New York City. He has received several commissions from large corporate companies to create sculptural images representing their goals and products. His works are part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney, Museum of the City of New York, Brooklyn, Smithsonian Hirshhorn, Dallas, Ringling and other museums. Lucchesi has been the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship Award, Gold Medals from the National Sculpture Society and National Academy along with Honorary Doctorate Degrees from Cedar Crest College and Lyme Academy of Fine Arts.

There are four published Lucchesi books: "Sculptor of the Human Spirit", "Terracotta", "Modeling the Figure in Clay", and "Modeling the Head in Clay".

Ilene Mahler has been working in porcelain and stoneware for 20 years and has been a member of the Wesleyan Potters for 18 years. Her extraordinary "one of a kind" vessels utilize crystal glazes to create effects which evoke images of hand-painted flowers, lichen and snowflakes in multitude of colors. She recently received a second place award in the clay category at the Glastonbury on the Green Art Guild Show and has sold her work in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Juan J. Moreno has been living in Connecticut since 1986. Some of his fondest memories studying art have been at the Taller de David Manzur in Santa Fe de Bogota, Colombia, and at the Art Students League of New York, where he is a life member. He began painting traditional portraits, then experimented with landscapes focusing on color relationships, and now approaches his paintings using the balance of color, value contrast and composition.

James Pappas, retired barber and father of 5 children, 2 boys and 3 girls, has been working in ink and pencil for three and a half years. Most of his work is done on cardboard and light paper. In the upcoming year, he will be doing more work in oils and canvas. These pieces are done when he sits in the kitchen smoking a cigarette or two. All of his work is one-of-a-kind and all are done free-hand. Nothing is used but the pen or pencil he is working with.

Julie Perrone is a licensed minister with Faith Christian Fellowship/Mighty Warriors in New Haven, Connecticut and is a home school parent. Her passion for sewing, quilting and embroidery was inherited from her mother and grandmothers, all of whom invested their time and talents in her. Julie loves color and the challenge of creating a piece that is truly unique. She says, "It's like putting a puzzle together; all the pieces have to fit together and then the finished product has to minister to the soul."

Ann Rosow-Lucchesi was born in Hartford, Connecticut. After receiving two Bachelor Degrees of Science and Fine Arts, she moved to New York City in 1997. She spends half of each year in Italy, sculpting in clay and bronze. Ann has shown her works in various exhibits across the nation and has received many distinguished awards.

David Ross is a 4th year student in the M.D./Ph.D. program at Yale. He is currently working on his dissertation exploring how the brain processes music. Since the arrival of his three kittens last summer, he has rediscovered his passion for photography.

Judy Sirota Rosenthal, is an artist, photographer and healer in Hamden. Her work has been featured in numerous museums around the country. The work in this exhibit relates to her understanding that human beings can experience moments of wholeness when receiving a blessing and offering a prayer. The visual images convey an evocative counterpart to the words.

Wayne O. Southwick, M.D. Professor Emeritus, was Chief of Orthopaedic Surgery at Yale from 1958 to 1979. Dr. Southwick began studing sculpture at the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts in 1979 .  As a generous repeat contributer to Art Place exhibits he has earned the honorary title of "Sculptor in Residence". 

Studio Art Quilt Associates (SAQA) is an International not-for profit organization that was founded in 1989 to serve artists working in the art quilt medium. Studio Art Quilt Associates is dedicated to establishing the place of art quilts among contemporary fine art, documenting the historical significance of the art quilt movement, educating the public, serving as a forum for the professional development of quilt artists and acting as an informational resource for curators, dealers, consultants, teachers, students and collectors.

Jaime L. Ursic holds an MFA in painting and printmaking and is presently working in the education department at the Yale University Art Gallery. She is interested in automatic mark-making as an involuntary action bordering on an obsessive need to infect the surface of a canvas. She struggles to facilitate each mark in finding its place, while simultaneously maintaining that every mark, if not every thing, is no more than a memory of something, a trace. Each mark begs the question, "Is it a gesture that lacks a story or an epic memorialized by a story-less hand?"

Harry Wasserman is a largely self-taught painter, who throughout his scientific career in Yale University's Chemistry Department, has remained active in the field of art. His watercolor and ink landscapes have illustrated the catalogue covers and posters of Yale's Summer and Special Student programs, and his paintings have been exhibited in shows sponsored by the New Haven Foundation, the Artists Signature Gallery, the Starlight Festival of Music, the Washington, Connecticut association, the New Haven Graduate Club and the Sandpiper Gallery in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Recently, the Barnes & Noble/Yale Bookstore located in New Haven, has incorporated a 65-foot long mural in the ceiling façade above the store's Café, reproducing Wasserman's impressionistic watercolor landscapes of Yale and New Haven.

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Aaron Huston is a RN at the Yale Emergency Department and a second year student at Yale School of Nursing, where he is pursuing both Family Practice and Acute Care Nurse Practitioner training. These photos were taken during a community health rotation at a clinic that sees primarily migrant workers and their families.

Annette Milliron is a first year student at Yale School of Nursing.  Her specialty will be in Women's Health.  She graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Utah with a BA is Social and Behavioral Science: Women's Studies. She spent four year's as a Certified Professional Midwife before enrolling at Yale School of Nursing.

Anna Maria Speciale is a third year Midwifery student at Yale. Her background is in International Economic Development.  The photographs of her neighbors were taken while she was living in Axtla, Mexico.

Angela Rogers, a third year student at Yale School of Nursing, caught the travel bug at 19 when she lived in a small Indian village as an anthropology student. She has been traveling ever since and is interested in combining her experience in anthropology, public health, human rights and nursing to promote community health and development both here and abroad. Research interests and a never ending thirst for adventure have taken her to over 30 countries worldwide, including Vietnam, East Timor, Nicarua, South Africa, China, and Mongolia.

Andrew Yim is a third year student at Yale School of Nursing, a graduate of the Yale School of the Yale School of Public Health, and floor nurse at the Hospital of Saint Raphael. From 1993-1997 he traveled and worked throughout the republics of the former Soviet Union, including Kazakstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Krygyzstan. The photos are part of a larger project, undertaken in the winter of 2000, to map and document the availability of food items, alcohol and cigarettes in Almaty, Kazakstan, one of the larger cities in Central Asia.

 

Beaded Works

Five artists know for their work in graphic design, collage photography, painting, illustration and ceramics have come together here to display new works in glass, bone, metal and stone. Sometimes as a group, more often in stolen moments, these artists create a variety of jewelry pieces. Simple to complex, ethnic to vintage, colorful to quiet, the hand made jewelry of Beaded Works artists reflects the taste and talent of five women and their exploration of beading materials. What began as a small pleasure has become a collection. The artists are Sandra Chen, Diane Felber, Julie Fraenkel, Linda Hali Zucker, and Gale Zucker.

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