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I graduated from Wellesley College in 1962, majoring in Art History. I was most influenced by late medieval and early renaissance art and of course, modern art and architecture. For the latter, the great John McAndrew, the first curator of architecture at MOMA, was my professor. Another revered teacher was Eugene Carroll who specialized in Renaissance and Mannerist art. Drawn to children’s art, I became a middle school art teacher at the Hudson School, in Hoboken, New Jersey, followed by twenty years at Fieldston Lower School in Bronx, New York. While at Fieldston, with much help and support from the parents and administration, I developed the International Children’s Tile Project installed in Van Cortlandt Park. Children and their art became my teachers. Today I live in Nyack, NY with a studio at the magnificent Garner Arts & Historical Center in West Garnerville, a complex of pre-civil war buildings originally a textile factory. I paint in a building where dye was set into fabric and the hand-hewn beams of the ceiling arch to 36 ft.