Ana on art sabbatical in Italy

Ana Eloisa Soto-Canino, Director
email: art@academyartnj.com
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Art Education

2002 Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy. Four-week course in fresco painting.
2001 Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy. Four-week course in fine drawing, including visits and lectures at major Florentine and Roman art collections.
2000 Art and Politics Through the Ages, six-part lecture series with art historian Janetta Rebold Benton, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY.
1985 Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. B.A. in Psychology (specialization in Visual Perception). Four years of courses in Art History (Western and Asian Art). Four years of studio training (drawing, painting, sculpture, computer art, etching, lithography, intaglio).
1983 Parsons School of Design, NY, NY. Summer program, oil painting.
1982-1982 Art Student League of Old San Juan, PR. Silk screening and watercolors.
1979-1980 Jorge Rechany Studio, San Juan, PR. Drawing and painting.
1975-1978 Clara Schwabe Studio, San Juan, PR. Drawing, painting, sculpture, art history and theory.
1972 Montclair State Museum, Montclair, NJ. Painting for children.


Work Experience in the Arts

Current Founder/Director/Instructor, Academy of Art of Highland Park and Gallery, NJ.
2002 Member, Arts Commission, Highland Park, NJ
2001 First Instructor, The Drawing Club for Children. Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey.
1987-1991 El Museo del Barrio, NY, NY. Manager of Public Relations and Membership program for largest Hispanic museum in the USA.
1985 Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY. Assistant producer of Biennial '85 video, and intern for the museum's Department of Education.
--- National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC. Intern of the Office of Museum Programs. Developed proposal for the 1992 Quincentennial Festival of Hispanic Arts.
--- Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. Illustrator for stadium cups.
1978-1983 A. Cordero Badillo, Inc., Catano, PR. Artist for the corporation's new headquarters.
1982 Club Caborrojeno, Guaynabo, PR. Muralist.
1981 Academia San Jorge, San Juan, PR. Muralist.


Publications and Presentations

2000 "Dotty about the art of drawing and painting." Featured artist, newspaper article. The Home News, Thursday, March 16, 2000, p. D11.
1998 Three-hour Drawing Demonstration and Class. Creative Expressions, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.
1997 "Highland Park artist punctuates creations." The Star Ledger, NJ. Featured artist, newspaper article, Thursday, December 4, 1997.
1996 Sea Wind, Bulletin of Ocean Voice International (Canada) 10 (3) July-September. Cover art.
1995 Sea Wind, Bulletin of Ocean Voice International (Canada) 9 (3) April-June. Cover art.
1985 The Nassau Literary Review, Princeton, NJ. Fine drawings.
1983 The Progressive Review, Princeton, NJ. Guest illustrator.
1982 Thoughts - - The Journal of the International Center, Princeton, NJ. Fine drawings.
  Moonlighting Magazine, Princeton, NJ. Illustrator.


Exhibitions

2003 Black Dog Dreaming. Solo show; a charity pro stray dog rescues. Ink wash drawings. Hazel and Hannah's Pawtisserie, Princeton, NJ.
2000 From Student to Professional. Solo show. Watercolors and drawings. North Brunswick Public Library, NJ.
1999 Recent Drawings. North Brunswick Public Library, NJ.
1998 11th Annual Open Juried Art Exhibit. Piscataway Cultural Arts Commission, Piscataway, NJ.
1998 Women's Life Paths. Middlesex County College Gallery, Edison NJ.
1997 Artist-In-Residence, Highland Park Public Library, NJ. Two-day show and workshop for children.
1997/8 She shows: NOW. Cork Gallery, Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, NY, NY
  Creative Space, New Brunswick, NJ/ Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ.
1994 Creative Encounters of the Healing Kind. Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ.
1986 26th Annual Atlantic City-on-the-Boardwalk National Professional Art Show. Atlantic City, NJ
1984 Worldmaking.
  Spring Show, Visual Arts Program, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
1985 Spring Show, Visual Arts Program, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
  First Symposium on Caribbean Studies and Art Exhibition, Seton Hall University, NJ.
1983 First Salon of Puerto Rican Drawing, Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena, San Juan, PR.
--- International Center Art Exhibition, Princeton, NJ.
--- Third World Center Art Exhibition, Princeton, NJ.
--- Princeton Inn College Art Exhibition, Princeton, NJ.
--- Galeria Wilfredo Labiosa, Old San Juan, PR.
1980 Mobil Oil Youth Art Expo, Old San Juan, PR
1979 Royal Bank of Canada Youth Exhibition, San Juan, PR.


Art Awards

2000 Drawing Glass Demonstration. North Brunswick Public Library, NJ. Paid presentation hosted by the Visual Arts League and the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission.
1998 Drawing Demonstration. Solo presentation at the Old Bridge Public Library, NJ. Paid presentation hosted by the Visual Arts League and the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission.
1997 Artist in residency grant. Awarded by the Visual Arts League and the Middlesex County Cultural and Heritage Commission, NJ.
1987 Editorial Excellence Awards. Princeton Packet Publications, Inc., Princeton, NJ. Awarded for Graphics and writing appearing in a Packet newspaper.
1982 Art scholarship. Awarded by the Art Student League of Old San Juan, PR.
--- Capuchin Grant for Young Artists. Awarded by the Capuchin Monks of Old San Juan, PR.
1980 Honorable Mention. Unesco, San Juan, PR. Pro Arte Musical poster contest.


Publications and Writing Awards

2001 2nd Place, "Florence, City of Gentle Intrusions", International essay contest on the City of Florence. Sponsored by Turizmonotizie Magazine, Florence, Italy
1994 Honorable Mention, New Letters Literary Awards, Univ. of Missouri, Kansas City
1987-1991 Staff writer / Editor, El Museo News, bilingual newsletter of El Museo del Barrio, NY, NY
1986-1987 Staff writer, The Cranbury Press, Princeton, NJ.
1987 Editorial Excellence Awards, Princeton Packet Publications Inc.
1986 1st Place, The 1986 Robert P. Kelly Award, and 3rd Place, Spot News Reporting and Writing Award. (New Jersey Press Association)


Art Group Affiliations (former and current)

The Arts Commission of Highland Park * The Visual Arts League * The Colophon Society of Princeton University * Friends of Princeton Art Museum * Instituto de Cultura Puertorriquena * Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico * The China Institute