Education

• New York Academy of Art, Graduate Program in Figurative Art, New York, NY, Masters of Fine Art cum laude, May 2007.

• Awarded two merit scholarships in 2005 and 2006.

• Awarded a one-week workshop with noted British painter Jenny Saville.

• Art Students League, New York, New York., 1995-2001

• Bologna University, Bologna, Italy, Superior School for Anatomical/Surgical Drawing, degree in Anatomical/Surgical Drawing, with honors, 1982.

• State Institute of Art, Bologna, Italy, Diploma in Art, 1973-1978.

Teaching

·       Coordinator of the Drawing and Figure Anatomy Program at the University of the Arts, 2014- ongoing

·       University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, Full Time Visiting Professor 2011-2012; 2012-2013; 2013-2014.

·       Interactive on line instructional video “Figure Anatomy for Artists” with “Craftsy” 2013, ongoing.

·       University of the Arts, Senior Artist Lecturer in Figure Anatomy, 2006-2011

·       New York Academy of Art, New York, NY.

·       Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

·       Drew University, Caspersen Graduate School, Madison, New Jersey

·       Bloomfield College, Bloomfield, NJ 2003-2015.

·       Workshops at The New York Academy of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Studio Incamminati, the Princeton Academy of Art and the Townsend Atelier