Vito Acconci was born in 1940 in the Bronx. He received a BFA from the Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts and an MFA from University of Iowa, Iowa City. Acconci began his career as a poet. In his first work in a visual art context in the late 60's and early 70's, Acconci used his own body as a subject for photography, film, video and performance. In the mid 70's, he created audio/visual installations that turned exhibition spaces into community meeting places, and in the 80's Acconci invited viewers to create artwork by activating machinery that erected shelters and signs. He also turned to the creation of furniture and to prototypes of houses and gardens in the late 80's. Most recently, Acconci has focused on architecture and landscape design that integrates public and private space. As a group, the Acconci Studio designs and builds public projects in parks, city streets and buildings. Most recently, Vito Acconci/ Acconci Studio (Design/ Architectural Implementation) and Robert Punkenhofer, ART & IDEA (Concept/Curatorial Development) received approval to create an artificial island on the river Mur in Graz, Austria. The opening is scheduled for January, 2003 within the framework of the celebration of "Graz 2003 - European Capital of Art." The project includes an interactive, multifunctional piazza for the new millennium with a floating theatre, playground and cafe/bar for approximately 350 visitors. Alice Adams was born in New York City and studied at Columbia University receiving a BFA in 1953. From 1953-1954 she was a student at L'Ecole Nationale d'Art Decoratif in Aubusson, France. Alice Adams' numerous awards and grants include: a Guggenheim Fellowship, NEA grants in sculpture, and the American Academy and institute of Arts and Letters Award in sculpture. Adams has taught at Manhattanville College, Pratt Institute, and the School of Visual Arts. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. She has completed sculptural works for the Denver International Airport, Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and the River View Hospital for Children and Youth in Middletown, Connecticut. Adams has also been involved in mass transit projects for the Downtown Seattle Transit Project, St. Louis Metro Link, New York City MTA Percent-for-Art, and the Midland Metro in Birmingham, England. In the spring of 2000 a retrospective of Adams' work was exhibited at the Lehman College Art Gallery. Herbert Adams, founder and three times president of the National Sculpture Society was born in Vermont in 1858 and died in New York in 1945. Adams was educated in a "common school," attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Normal Art School and taught at the Art School of Pratt Institute. Portrait busts of women were his first most praised achievements. Adams was widely recognized for his medallions and reliefs. Among the artist's public commissions on view in New York are the William Cullen Bryant statue in Bryant Park; two bronze doors for the Vanderbilt Memorial in St. Bartholomew's Church; the statue of Solon along the Madison Avenue side of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court building at 25th Street; the doors leading to the gallery at the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the figures of Plato, Phidias, Praxiteles and Demosthenes, right of the pediment on the frieze on the exterior of the Brooklyn Museum, the Hoyt Memorial in Judson Memorial Church; the Pratt Memorial Angel at the Baptist Emmanuel Church, Brooklyn; the bronze portrait relief of Joseph H. Choate in the Union League club; four portrait busts of John Marshall, Joseph Story, William Cullen Bryant and William Ellen Channing at the Hall of Fame of Great Americans, Bronx Community College; and the bronze doors for the Collis P. Huntington mausoleum at Woodlawn Cemetery. Adams was the recipient of honors including the gold medals of the Philadelphia Art Club, Charleston Exposition, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, of the National Academy of Design, National Institute of Arts and Letters, medal of honor Panama-Pacific Exposition. Adams was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letter in 1899 and the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1912. John Ahearn and Rigoberto Torres began their collaboration in 1979. They met at Fashion Moda, a South Bronx alternative space where Ahearn was producing a collection of plaster cast busts of people from the neighborhood. Rigoberto Torres was one of Ahearn's subjects. Torres also worked with plaster casting to create religious statues and copies of famous works of art in his uncle's shop. John Ahearn was born in Binghamton, New York in 1951. He received a BFA degree from Cornell University, Ithaca in 1973. Ahearn began making life casts in 1979 while working in Manhattan with an artists' collective called Colab and soon found new subjects in the South Bronx. Ahearn's work was exhibited at Fashion Moda in 1979 in an exhibition entitled South Bronx Hall of Fame, a reference to the Hall of Fame for Great Americans at Bronx Community College. Groupings of his figures have been cast in fiberglass and are on view in public places throughout the South Bronx. Since 1979 Ahearn has often collaborated with Rigoberto Torres. Ahearn has exhibited widely including Fashion Moda; The Con Edison Building, Bronx; Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany; Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York; the Bronx Museum of the Arts; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. The artists have participated in a wide range of group exhibitions throughout the country. Most recently their work was included in Experiencing Sculpture: The Figurative Presence in America 1870-1990 at the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers; The Decade Show, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art; The New Museum of Contemporary Art; and The Studio Museum in Harlem, 1990. Charles Alston, an African-American painter, sculptor, graphic artist, illustrator, photographer and educator was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1907. He received his BA and MA degrees from Columbia University and also studied at New York University. Alston taught at the Harlem Community Art Center, Harlem Art Workshop, Pennsylvania State University and was associate professor of painting at The City University of New York. Alston worked as a muralist for the WPA/FAP during the Great Depression. His two-panel mural of that period, Magic and Medicine, can be seen at Harlem Hospital, at Lenox Avenue between 137th and 138th Streets. Two abstract mosaics, Equal Justice Under the Law, 96" x 432" on the first floor lobby of the Criminal Court and The Family 144" x 264" located in the first floor lobby of Family Court were commissioned from the artist by the Department of General Services/FA panel. Other works by Alston are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art and in public and private collections throughout the county. Alston was a member of the Board of Directors of the National Society of Mural Painters and an active member of Spiral, an artists' collaborative in the 60's. As an educator he influenced a number of artists including Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden. Alston was selected by the Museum of Modern Art and the US State Department to be coordinator of the children's creative center at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair. Alston died in 1977 in New York City. Candida Alvarez Born in Brooklyn, NY, Candida Alvarez studied at the Mohegan School of Painting and Sculpture and received her MFA from the Yale University School of Art. Her solo exhibitions include “Paradise” at the Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA; “Polytychs” at the June Kelly Gallery, NY; and “Recent Paintings” at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY. Alvarez has participated in group exhibitions including “Bronx Bound” at the Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY; “All the Things We Love” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, and “Splat, Boom, Pow: The Influence of Cartoons in Contemporary Art” at the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX. Her work is in many collections including The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; El Museo del Barrio, NYC; The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC, and The Printmaking Workshop, NYC. Alvarez’s recent public art commissioned by the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s Arts for Transit program is installed at the Bronx Park East Station of the 2 and 5 lines in the Bronx. Lisa Amowitz, who lives in the Bronx, received her BFA in Illustration from the Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh and currently teaches in the Department of Art and Music at Bronx Community College, NY. Amowitz, a graphic designer, illustrator, painter, and children’s book writer, received a Masters Degree in Painting from Lehman College and was awarded a BRIO Award for Painting from the Bronx Council on the Arts. She received a public art commission from the Metropolitan Transit Authority Arts for Transit Program to install a permanent work at the Bronx Park East train station in the Bronx. Nils Folke Anderson was born in Washington, DC in 1971, and now lives in Brooklyn, NY.  He studied at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, and later received an MFA from Hunter College.  As a cofounder of the two-artist collaborative Big Hands, he facilitated numerous community based public art projects.  His work is in a number of public and private collections including NASA's permanent collection at the Kennedy Space Center.   Tomie Arai, born in New York, is a visual artist and printmaker concerned with issues of cultural identity. Arai, who lives and works in New York, is a third-generation Japanese American, grandaughter of Japanese farmers who settled in the U.S. in the early 1900’s. She began her career as a muralist and then used printmaking as a way to investigate cultural imagery and the representation of Asian Americans. Arai’s collaborative installations employ autobiography, family stories, photographs, historical material and oral histories in an examination of cultural diversity. Arai has participated in numerous residencies and completed pubic art projects throughout the United States. She has created outdoor installations in New York including “Back to the Garden,” a faceted glass panorama of indigenous seasonal plants and trees, commissioned by the MTA Arts for Transit Program and permanently installed at the Pelham Parkway Station, Bronx, NY. Arai has also designed public art works for Creative Time, the National Endowment for the Arts, and The General Services Administration’s Art in Architecture Program for which she designed a mural to commemorate the African Burial Ground in NYC. Her work is included in collections including the Library of Congress, the Avon Corporate Collection, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Japanese American National Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. She has exhibited widely including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY; Chinatown History Museum, New York, NY; Wave Hill, Bronx, NY; Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY; and the CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Her awards and residencies include the Longwood Cyber Residency and Exhibition Program; the Anonymous Was A Woman Award; the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship for Works on Paper; and the Creative Time Citywide Grant, Memories of New York Chinatown Banner Project. Andrea Arroyo Mexican-born artist Andrea Arroyo who lives and works in New York City, is a self-taught visual artist with a background in contemporary dance. Her artwork has been exhibited, published and reviewed extensively and is featured in public and private collections in the US, Mexico, Brazil, Europe and Japan. Arroyo was named the “Official Artist of the 7th Annual Latin Grammy Awards.” Her recently completed public art projects include a 1,000 foot mural, NYC; a faceted glass artwork permanently installed at the Gun Hill Road train station in the Bronx through the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s Arts for Transit program, NYC, and a commission for the Florida’s Art in State Buildings Program, Tampa, FL. Inspired by mythology and women throughout history, Arroyo’s paintings depict strong women and use the vibrant colors typically found in Latin cultures. Her work has been shown at ArtHaus, San Francisco, CA; Latin Collector Gallery, NYC; Mexican Cultural Institute of New York Gallery, NY; and is in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, The New York Public Library, and the Ellis Island Foundation, NY. Monica Banks was born in New York City in 1959. Her work has have been widely displayed in both solo and group exhibitions at sites in New York such as the Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY; Lizan Tops Gallery in East Hampton, NY; The Smithtown Township Arts Council, Smithtowwn, NY; the Eureka Joe Coffee House in New York City; and the University Gallery of the Fine Arts Center at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA, among others. Banks has participated in lectures at Parsons School of Design in New York City and Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY. Banks earned an A.B. in Philosophy with departmental honors in 1981. Richmond Barthé (1901-1989) was born in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. He studied painting at the Art institute of Chicago after being refused admission to a New Orleans academy on the grounds of race. Much of Barthé's work revolves around themes regarding religion, race, the theatre, and portraiture. Under the guidance of Jo Davidson, Barthé turned from painting to sculpture. In 1939, his work Mother and Son was featured at the New York World's Fair. Richmond Barthé's bust of Booker T. Washington was installed at the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1946. In 1964, Barthé was presented with the keys to the city of Bay St. Louis for his bust of Thelma Landry, whose mother was the librarian at Bay St. Louis. The bust of George Washington Carver, also sculpted by Barthé, was installed at the Hall of Fame for Great Americans in 1977. His other works include portrait busts of Sir John Gielgud, Katherine Connell, Maurice Evans, Rose McClendon, and Gypsy Rose Lee. A sculpture of the American eagle at the Social Security Building in Washington is attributed to Barthé. His works have been exhibited at Oberlin College's Allen Memorial Art Museum, the Chicago Historical Society, The National Portrait Gallery, The New York Metropolitan Museum, The Phillips Galleries, and the Grand Central Galleries in New York City, among others. Ronald Baron was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1957, and in 1984 he graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He studied at the University of California where he received his MFA in 1987. Baron's bronze sculptures have been widely displayed in both solo and group exhibitions at sites in New York such as Exit Art, White Columns, and the Sculpture Center. His work can be seen in both public and private installations including Lehman College and the Estee Lauder Co. Headquarters in New York. Laura Battle received her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and her MFA from the Yale School of Arts, NJ. Her commissions and awards include a permanent installation at the Burnside Avenue train station on the Bronx 4 train line through the MTA Arts for Transit Program; a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, MacDowell Colony residency; and a Fulbright Scholarship (Cairo). Her past exhibitions include Argazzi Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, RKL Gallery, Lehman College Art Gallery, Wheelock College and Pace University Gallery. Battle currently lives and works in Rhinebeck, New York, teaching painting and drawing at Bard College where she has been since 1986. Romare Bearden was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1911. He completed his undergraduate education in New York City and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Bearden graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from New York University. During this time, Bearden supplemented his income by playing semiprofessional baseball and publishing political cartoons. Following his graduation from NYU, Bearden attended the Art Students League. Bearden later joined the Harlem Artists Guild, where he immersed himself in studies of cubism, Chinese landscape painting, the Italian Renaissance, and social realism. In the 1930s he exhibited in several shows at the Harlem YWCA and the Harlem Art Workshop while employed as a case worker for the New York City Department of Social Services. In 1940, Bearden enjoyed his first solo exhibition. From 1942 to 1945 he served in the United States Army. Upon the end of his military career, Bearden returned to art and began to explore different mediums and styles. He is best known for his work in collages, photomontages, watercolors, paintings and prints. Bearden was a talented teacher, art historian, author, and composer. His interests included literature, history, mathematics, music, and the performing arts. Bearden drew inspiration from various historical, literary, and musical sources throughout his lifetime. However, many of his artworks were inspired by his experiences while in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, Harlem and Pittsburgh. He was cofounder of the Cinque Gallery in New York City (with Ernest Crichlow and Norman Lewis). Bearden's work has been exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; and the Studio Museum in Harlem, NY, among others. Retrospectives about Romare Bearden were held at the Museum of Modern Art (1971), The Mint Museum of Art (1980) and the Detroit Institute of the Arts (1986). He received the prestigious Mayor's Award of Honor for art and culture and the President's National Medal of Arts. Bearden was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Romare Bearden died on March 12, 1988 at the age of 76. Amir Bey Mixed media sculptor, Amir Bey lives and works in New York City. His work is in the collections of the Lower East Side Printshop, NYC; The Mwanga Collection, Oakland, CA; The Printmaking Workshop, NYC; and The Schomberg Collection, NYC. Bey’s work has been included in numerous exhibitions including “Sheidas,” Galeri X, Instanbul, Turkey; “Flying Loa,” Suffolk County Community College; “The Faces of Giza,” the Egyptian Embassy, Washington, DC; “Bronx Bound,” Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY; and “Whirlers,” Gallery X, NYC. His public art is installed at the Mount St. Eden train station commissioned through the Metropolitan Transit Authority Arts for Transit program. Bey has also curated exhibitions at the Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY and The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY. Karl Bitter (1867-1915) was born in Vienna and studied at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts before coming to the United States in 1889. During his first ten years as a United States citizen, Bitter provided sculptural enhancements for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Trinity Church in New York City. In the Bronx public art collection he created the design for the Henry Hudson Memorial Column. The column was completed after Bitter's death by his student Karl Gruppe. Ilya Bolotowsky was born in Petrograd, now St. Petersburg, Russia in 1907. He came to the United States in 1923 and became an American citizen in 1929. Bolotowsky studied at the College of St. Joseph in Istanbul, Turkey and at the National Academy of Design with Ivan Olinsky from 1924-30. He joined the United States Air Force in 1942. As an artist and teacher, Bolotowsky has taught at Black Mountain College, the University of Wyoming, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, the State University of New York at New Paltz, Long Island University, Wisconsin State College, University of New Mexico and Queens College. He conducted a Master easel and mural course for the Federal Arts Project and also produced 16 millimeter films. Bolotowsky was cofounder, charter member and past president of American Abstract Artists and cofounder and charter member of the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors. Ilya Bolotowsky is a member of the AAAL. Bolotowsky's commissioned works include one of the first abstract murals for the Williamsburg Housing Project, 1961; murals for the New York World's Fair, 1929; Hospital for Chronic Diseases, 1941; Theodore Roosevelt High School., 1941; Cinema I, 1962; Long Island University, 1968; North Central Bronx Hospital, 1973; First National Bank, 1974; a tile mosaic mural for P.S. 72 Brooklyn, 1974; and a mural for the New York City Passenger Ship terminal in 1978. Helene Brandt, a former dancer, graduated with a Masters degree in Fine Arts from Columbia University in 1975. Known for her interactive sculptures, Brandt draws upon her dancing experiences—particularly the sense of space and equilibrium—to create her artworks. her work has been widely exhibited in the United States, England, Italy, Holland and Mexico. Her one-person shows include exhibitions at the Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia; Atelier Scuderi, Florence, Italy; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY; as well as the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA among many others. Brandt has work in several private and public collections including the Isreal Museum in Jerusalem and public spaces at such as Sacred Heart University, the Staten Island Children's Museum, Long Island University, and the Ward's Island Sculpture Garden. A 40-year Riverdale resident, she has received such honors as a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Endowment Fellowship, the Betty Brazil Memorial Award, and the BRIO Award for Excellence in the Arts. Michele Brody Born in Brooklyn, NY, Michele Brody studied theater and set design before receiving a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL. Now living in New York, Brody also lived and worked in France, Costa Rica, California, and Germany. Brody creates site-specific, mixed media installations and public art works. Her work includes site-generated walk-ways, public art, ephemeral installations, and living sculptures using glass, concrete, steel, copper pipe, fabric, paper, light, water and growing plants. Her one-person shows include Littlejohn Contemporary in NYC, Dina4 Projekte in Munich, Germany, the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporaneo in San Jose, Costa Rica, and Le Quai de la Batterie, Atelier-galerie d’Art Contemporain in Arras, France. Brody’s public art includes a series of faceted glass windscreens installed at the Allerton Avenue train station, and commissioned by the MTA Arts for Transit program, and a tile mural for a new school through the Public Art for Public Schools. Bill and Mary Buchen have collaborated in the creation of works dealing with the synergy of the sonic and visual arts since 1972. Their pursuit has led them to travel throughout the world researching sonic phenomena and making field recordings. Sound Playground took two years to complete. The Buchens, whose sonic sculptures have been exhibited nationwide, see Sound Playground as a play space which encourages active exploration of sight and sound. In 1996 they completed a permanent public art work for the New York City schools called Sound Carnival. Their work can also be seen at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens. In addition to numerous shows and exhibitions, the Buchens have also created other sound parks and wind harp installations for outdoor sites across the country. Dina Bursztyn received her MA from Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina and currently divides her time between New York City and Catskill, NY. Her work includes sculpture, prints, drawings, and artist’s books. Bursztyn, whose work travels between dreams and nightmares, conceives most of her pieces as contemporary artifacts that include gargoyles, shrines, drums, icons, and machines. Her work is in the collections of the New York City Central Library; Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY; the NYC Public Schools Collection; and El Museo del Barrio, NYC. Her exhibitions include “Bronx Bound,” Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY; “Moving Targets,” Universitat Der Kunste, Berlin/Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland; “Contemporary Women Artist: New York,” Indiana State University; and “Unexpected Visitors,” Maxwell Fine Arts, Peekskill, NY among many others. Bursztyn was commissioned by the Metropolitan Transit Authority Arts for Transit Program to install a permanent piece at the 170th Street train station in the Bronx. Naomi Campbell Canadian-born Naomi Campbell studied at the CEGEP de Champlain, Lennoxville, et de Valleyfield, Quebec and University of Guelph, Ontario before moving to New York in 1994 where she studied painting, printmaking and drawing at The Art Students League of New York. Campbell’s work explores the expressive nature of the materials valid to each piece. It has been included in many group exhibitions including the Japanese Contemporary Prints Invitational, Gallery of Graphic Arts, NYC, PaineWebber UBS Art Gallery, NYC, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY, The Gallery on Lafayette, Trenton, NJ, and Heidi Cho Gallery, NY. Her work is in public collections including Animal Tracks, Arts for Transit, Division of the MTA of New York; American University Public Gallery, Washington, DC, the 2000 Cow Parade of New York at 1251 Avenue of the Americas, NYC; and most recently at the #2 line East Tremont / Bronx Zoo train station commissioned by the MTA Arts for Transit program. Alfredo Ceibal Self-taught artist, Alfredo Ceibal was born, raised, and educated in Guatemala. He has lived in New York for the last ten years. His work has been seen in galleries, including: O.K. Harris South, Miami, Florida; the Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, Illinois; Moss Gallery, San Francisco, California; The Capitol Building, Washington, D.C.; the Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas; MARCO, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico. In New York City he has shown at: The Rotunda Gallery; BACA Downtown; INTAR Latin American Gallery; The Urban Gallery, and Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY. Ceibal’s work is in public art collections including The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; The Smithsonian Institution’s American Art Museum, Washington, DC; The Center for Contemporary Art, Osaka, Japan; and the School Construction Authority /the Department of Education. He has recently completed a public art commission for the Metropolitan Transit Authority Arts for Transit program at the 241st Street station of the 2 line, Bronx, NY. Ivan Chermayeff was born in London, England in 1932. He studied at Harvard University, the institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, and the Yale University School of Design. Chermayeff has been trustee and committee member for the painting and sculpture, film and design departments of the Museum of Modern Art; a Vice President of the Yale Arts Association, Member of the committee of arts and architecture, Yale University Council and a member of the committee for visual and environmental arts, Harvard University, Board of Overseers. Chermayeff has been an instructor at Brooklyn College and at the School of Visual Arts, New York. He has been awarded the Industrial Arts medal from the American Institute of Architects, 1967, and Gold Medal, Philadelphia College of Art in 1971. Chermayeff is a member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts where he has acted as vice president, president and member of the board of directors; the International design Conference of Aspen, CO, acting as vice president and co-chairman and as member of the board of directors; Industrial Designers Society of America; Alliance Graphique International, and the Benjamin Franklin Fellow Royal, Society of the Arts, London. Important commissions include Exploding Triangles (Shaped canvases) IBM Data Processing Headquarters, Harrison, NY; Dimensional Abstractions (plastic laminate wall construction), Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation, Columbus, Indiana; Abstraction I (Aubusson Tapestry), Westinghouse Electric Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA; Abstraction II and III, Philip Morris Incorporated, Richmond,VA; and Construction (wall with painted steel components), American Republic Insurance Company, Des Moines, OH. Chermayeff was commissioned by the Department of General Services, New York to create a blue painted steel concrete sculpture for the 49th Police Precinct, Eastchester Road and Pelham Parkway as well as an abstract fiber banner for Family Court, 900 Sheridan Avenue. Béatrice Coron was born and raised in France and studied at the University of Lyon III, France, and Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. After living in Egypt and Mexico, she found her creative home in New York City. Coron is an internationally exhibited artist who uses the cutout method in her art. Often created as multiples, the works are hand-cut from Tyvek. First introduced to the cutout method in her native France, Coron was further exposed to cutting techniques while living in China. In the last ten years, Coron has established herself as a full-time artist, and has refined her self-taught cutout technique. Usually working in the book arts, her work can be found in museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Bibliotheque Nationale of France. She has received numerous public art commissions including the Burke Avenue train station, NYC through the Metropolitan Transit Authority Arts in Transit, NYC; and the Kostner subway station, Chicago, ILL through the Chicago Transit Authority Commission administered by the City of Chicago’s Public Art Program. Noel Copeland Born in Jamaica, West Indies, Noel Copeland studied at the Jamaica School of Art, Kingston, and received his MFA in Sculpture and Ceramics from the Pratt Institute, School of Art and Design, Brooklyn, NY. He presently lives and works in New York. Copeland, who uses stylized figurative imagery with abstract elements from nature, patterns, and textures, explores the cultural ties of his Caribbean background using diverse materials including painting, drawing, sculpture and ceramics. His work has been included in numerous exhibitions including “Tradition and Innovation,” Bronx Arts Center, NYC; “Tribute to Black History Month,” Gallery Annex, NY; and “Viva MoNoCo,” Kiabundo Gallery, Kobe, Japan. Copeland’s public installations include “Myth Animals: Forty Ceramic Plaques,” at PS 212, Jackson Heights, NY; “Displacing Details,” MTA-Creative Award, a ceramic mural installation at the East Broadway F Station, NYC; and most recently “Leaf of Life” a faceted glass installation at the Nereid Avenue train station commissioned by the Metropolitan Transit Authority Arts for Transit program. He is the recipient of many awards including the Arts for Transit Award, Metropolitan Transit Authority, NYC and the Gregory Millard Fellow, New York Foundation for the Arts. George Crespo grew up in Puerto Rico and New York. He received his BFA from Parsons School of Design, NY and his MA from Lehman College, CUNY. Crespo constructs mixed media installations using materials indigenous to Puerto Rico. He is a published author and illustrator of children’s books that feature Puerto Rican folktales. Crespo has had solo exhibitions at El Museo del Barrio, NY and the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, NY. He has participated in group exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY and The National Black Theater, NY and is a graduate of the Artist in the Marketplace Program, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY. Crespo’s recent commission from the MTA Arts for Transit program is a permanent installation on the Jackson Avenue Station of the 2 train line that represents stories from six different areas of Latin America. Marcia Dalby was born in Philadelphia in 1958. She graduated summa cum laude from Hartford Art School, University of Hartford and in 1980 she was a Fellow, Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Studio Program, New York. In 1982 Dalby received an MFA degree from Rutgers University in New Jersey and has taught at Brown University, Rhode Island. Dalby received the Beard's Fund grant for 100 small figurative works; the New York City Public Library/Parkchester, commission for three permanent outdoor sculptures; and won the New York City Art Commission 1983 Excellence in Design Award. She completed a commission for a 24-piece outdoor installation for the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers in 1985 and two permanent outdoor sculptures for the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, Riverside Park in 1989. Dalby has designed three large-scale fiberglass creatures for the Parkchester branch of the Public Library. In 1990 and 1992 she was the recipient of the Chautauqua County Arts Fund Individual Artist Grant and in 1993 she won the commission for a permanent indoor installation for the Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, Massachusetts. Dalby has participated in group exhibitions throughout the United States. In the New York area her work has been included at Franklin Furnace; 14 Sculptors Gallery; McGraw-Hill Building; Robert Freidus Gallery; Ericson Gallery; Ronald Feldman Gallery; and Artists Space. Solo exhibitions in the New York area include Artists Space Gallery; Daniel Wolf Gallery; and the Hudson River Museum. Agustin M. de Andino was born in 1952 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He studied at the University of Puerto Rico and the University of Denver and received his MFA in Ceramics at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Andino has taught at the League of Art Students, San Juan, Puerto Rico, and at the Inter-American University, San German, Puerto Rico. Currently, he has a studio in Brooklyn, NY, and is teaching at Kingsborough Community College, Brooklyn, NY, and at Parsons/New School, New York, NY. Daniel Del Valle grew up in the South Bronx, studied painting in Paris and Italy and received his B.F.A. from the Parsons School of Design, NY. His work has been exhibited at the Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY; the Nuyorican Poets Café, NY, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY; and the Bronx River Gallery, Bronx, NY, among others. Del Valle has received awards and commissions including the MTA Arts for Transit subway commission at the 174th Street train station, NY; a BRIO Award from the Bronx Council on the Arts; and a New York City Arts Commissioned mural for the Davison Center, NY. Andrea Dezso Romanian born, New York-based artist Andrea Dezsö is a storyteller whose visual content is drawn from her life. She received her BFA in Graphic Design and Typography and her MFA in Visual Communication from the Hungarian University of Design, and was Artist-in-Residence at Tamarind Institute in New Mexico and at The Center for Book Arts in NYC. Dezso’s visual sources range widely from advertising graphics and folk art to the comics. Her work includes colorful drawings, constructions, and painted journals that combine imagery and materials in unexpected ways and 3-dimensional hand-cut, hand-stitched paper shadow books that are illuminated with LED diodes to create tableaux of fantastic open-ended tales and embroidered fabric wall hangings that combine words and images. Dezso’s work has been included in exhibitions at the Jack Titon Gallery, NYC; Studio of the Young Artists’ Black Gallery, Budapest, Hungary; Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY; and Gallerie Pont Neuf, Paris, France. Her awards include a Special Studies Grant from the Soros Foundation and a Hungarian State Grant awarded by the Hungarian Ministry of Culture. Dezso received a public art commission from the Metropolitan Transit Authority Arts for Transit Program for a permanent installation at the Bedford Park Boulevard train station, 4 line in the Bronx. Burgoyne Diller, an abstract painter and associate professor of art at Brooklyn College, was born in 1906 in New York and died in 1965. Diller, who began to paint at the age of 14, studied at Michigan State College and the Arts Students League. He headed the mural division of the New York Federal Arts Project in 1940. In World War II Diller was director of art for the New York WPA War Service section and then served as a lieutenant in the Navy. A retrospective exhibition of his work was held in 1961 at the Galerie Challette. Diller was credited with being the first American painter to practice geometric abstraction in the manner of Van Doesburg and Mondrian. His work is in many public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York University Art Collection, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Diller received the Ford Foundation Purchase Award for his painting First Theme at the Biannual Exhibition of American Painting at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., in 1963. He was assistant technical director for Alfred Floegel for the mural paintings The History of the World and Constellation (1941) for the DeWitt Clinton High School, Bronx. Nicky Enright was born in 1971 in Guayaquil, Ecuador. He earned a BFA from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, and studied art at L’Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, France. Mr. Enright creates mixed-media art which has been published and reviewed in The New York Times, Art Calendar, The New York Daily News, Public Art Review, and The Riverdale Press. Enright is cofounder of the two-artist collaborative, Big Hands, and has executed over 50 public and private commissions. He has been awarded Artist’s Residencies from The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and from The Atlantic Center for the Arts, a Studio Residency from the Bronx Council on the Arts, and a printmaking grant from the Manhattan Graphics Center. John Fekner is a New York artist living in Long Island City. He received a BFA from New York Institute of Technology, and an MFA from Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx. Fekner has had many one-person and group exhibitions including the Bronx Museum of the Arts; New Museum of Contemporary Art; and Exit Art-The First World Gallery. His work has been exhibited internationally in Austria, Canada, Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Russia and Sweden. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and New York Foundation for the Arts. Fekner's work is in several museum collections in New York and abroad including the Museum of Modern Art, NY; Vassar Art Museum, NY; Helmond Museum, The Netherlands; and Malmo Museum, Sweden. Jackie Ferrara was born in Detroit, Michigan. Her public architectural and landscape works can be seen throughout the United States and England. At the new gymnasium at Lehman College, Ferrara has designed a concrete walkway which straddles 114' of Lehman's College Walk, 20' of which are on the new gymnasium plaza. The walkway was sponsored by Percent for Art Commission. Other works by Ferrara in the New York area can be seen at The Brooklyn Museum of Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art; and Whitney Museum of American Art. Rafael Ferrer was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1933. His work has been presented in solo and group shows both nationally and internationally. One-person shows in New York include the Castelli Gallery, the Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Museum of Modern Art, El Museo del Barrio, and Hamilton Gallery of Contemporary Art. Group exhibitions include Martha Jackson Gallery, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, Museum of Modern Art, The New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, Hudson River Museum, Hamilton Gallery, Independent Curators, Inc., Nancy Hoffman Gallery, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ferrer's work is in national and international public collections including the Chase Manhattan Bank, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the New York State Facilities Corporation, and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. Ferrer is the recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, 1972, '78, and '89 and received a Guggenheim Award in 1975. He has been a Visiting Professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and has taught, lectured and held seminars extensively throughout the country. Anne Finkelstein graduated Hunter College, City University of New York in 1987 with an MFA in painting. She has exhibited primarily in New York at Arts-in-General, Bronx Museum of the Arts, and Clocktower Gallery. New York City is the chosen subject matter in Finkelstein's work which starts with a photographic research of buildings and streets in the city, followed by acrylic painted studies on paper. She plays with elements of the immediate surroundings, transferring them in their fragmentary state to the canvas, often overlapping each other. The fragments of buildings, sometimes the same building seen from different angles, coexists simultaneously. It is by combining several images into overlapping compositions, that Finkelstein achieves a dreamlike notion in her paintings. Alfred Floegel was born in Germany in 1894. He was the son of a lithographer and at the age of 14 Floegel worked for a church decorating company which traveled throughout Germany. At 15, he worked on a freight ship sailing to Philadelphia and during off hours would paint watercolors of what he saw from the deck. Floegel later sold these watercolors to German magazines. In 1913, when his ship docked in New York, he decided to stay, earning money by peddling his watercolors on Fifth Avenue. Later he was employed as a church decorator during the day and studied at the New York School of Industrial Art at night. Floegel also took classes in life painting at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design where he won several medals. In 1922 he won a Fellowship in painting from the American Academy in Rome which permitted him to study in that city for 3 years. His mural, The History of the World and Constellation, 1941 is at DeWitt Clinton High School, Mosholu Parkway and Paul Avenue, Bronx. A native of New York City, Ricky Flores began his interest in photography while visiting Puerto Rico. He attended Empire State College, where he began formalized training in photojournalism. Flores has published freelance work for the Village Voice and The New York Times and is currently a staff photographer for Gannett Suburban Newspapers, The Journal News. Most recently, Ricky Flores was very involved in the coverage of the New York City World Trade Center September 11th disaster. Walton Ford was born in Larchmont, New York. Ford has exhibited around the country in galleries such as the McNay Gallery, the Bess Cutler Gallery, the John Berggruen Gallery, and the Kohn Turner Gallery. Walton Ford took part in a group exhibition in 2000 at the Katonah Museum of Art and has been represented by the Paul Kasmin Gallery. One of his most recent solo exhibitions, Brutal Beauty (2000) at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine, showcased Ford's exploration of the natural and animal worlds. Helen Frankenthaler was born in New York City in 1928. She received a BA degree from Bennington College and has continued an active participation in the academic community. Frankenthaler's work has been exhibited widely and is in numerous museum collections including the Brooklyn Museum, Cooper-Hewitt Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art. Frankenthaler is also the winner of numerous awards including National Institute for Arts and Letters, American Academy, 1990; Vice-chancellor of the American Academy, 1991; and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1991. Frankenthaler, who is primarily a painter, works in many mediums. She has also designed stage sets and participated in films and video productions. Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) studied sculpture in Boston and abroad in Florence, Italy. Among his most important and famous commissions is the statue of Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. Other works include The Minute Man; General Grant (Philadelphia); General Washington (Paris); Mourning Victory, Melvin Memorial (Concord, MA.); and John Harvard and the bust of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Harvard University, MA). Sandy Gellis grew up in the Bronx and studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology, as well as the School of Visual Arts, New York. She works in sculpture, drawing, photography and printmaking. Gellis' public art projects deal with environmental issues. In a conceptual landscape piece from 1992, she collected 150 samples of soil from different places around the world (Morocco, Greece, Iceland, Egypt ) and arranged them in a cartographic grid on the wall in a gallery space. Another project dedicated to the Hudson River consisted of a combined photographic record as well as samples of soil collected from the Hudson River near Lower Manhattan. In her work, Gellis places us in a context of something natural and temporary. She combines water, oxygen and minerals and utilizes them as metaphors for natural processes. Kristen Jones and Andrew Ginzel have worked together since 1983. Jones received her B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design, and her M.F.A. from Yale University in 1983. Ginzel attended Bennington College. As collaborative artists they create installations that combine diverse materials and elements that question memory, time, and reality. Jones and Ginzel’s installations have been exhibited throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Recent site-specific commissions include: “Oculus,” at the World Trade Center Station through a commission from the Arts for Transit program of New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority; “Apostasy,” the 1996 Olympic Arts Festival in Atlanta; “Interim,” a project for the Next Wave Festival of the Brooklyn Academy of Music; “Mnemonics,” a commission for the Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Program for Stuyvesant high School in battery Park City, NY; and “Encyclic,” a stainless steel marble, glass, and mixed media installation at P.S. 102 in the Parkchester area of the Bronx, through Percent for Art, NY. Josie Gonzalez who lives and works in New York, received her B.A. from Queens College, CUNY. She is a painter and muralist who is interested in imagery that shows people in the everyday community. Gonzalez has collaborated on public works for arts organizations, community groups, schools and businesses throughout the New York area. Among her public art commissions is a faceted glass window installation at the Woodlawn Avenue station in the Bronx commissioned by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority: Arts for Transit program; a collaborative design translated into a ceramic tile installation for the NYC Department of Education Sites for Students Program, P.S. 54, Bronx, NY; and an installation for The New York Public Library, Chatham Square Branch, NY. Gonzalez has participated in exhibitions including “Employee Art Show,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; “Bronx Bound,” Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York; “Post Platano,” Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, New York; “Creative Collaborations,” Rush Art Gallery, New York; “Aficionado III,” The Point Gallery, Bronx, New York; “HHC Heritage Show I,” Lincoln Hospital, Bronx, New York; and “HHC Heritage Show II,” Elmhurst Hospital, Queens, New York. Bertram Goodman was born in New York in 1904. He studied at the School of American Sculpture from 1923-24 and at the Art Students League in 1925. Goodman has been the recipient of numerous awards: First prize water color, Screen Publicists Guild, 1946; Purchase prize, Abraham Lincoln Gallery, 1947; Joe and Emily Lowe Prize, 1956. He is a member of the Artists Equity Association of which he was Director from 1955-56; Brooklyn Society Artists and American Society of Graphic Artists. His work is in the public collections of the Brooklyn Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, as well as at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Abbott Laboratories, Chicago, and the Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio. Goodman has exhibited extensively in one-person and group shows including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The painting, Evolution of the Book at Theodore Roosevelt High School in the Bronx was commissioned from the artist around 1936 by the Board of Education and the WPA/FAP. Robert Goodnough, widely known as an Abstract Expressionist and Color-field painter and selected by Time Magazine as one of the "100 most important artists in the United States in 1964" was born in Cortland, New York in 1917. He studied at Syracuse University, New York earning a Hiram Gee Fellowship in 1940, the year he received his BA degree. From 1941-1945 he served in the US Army. After returning to this country he studied at the New School for Social Research, New York University where he received his MFA degree, the Ozenfant School of Art, and the Hans Hoffman School of Art. Goodnough was employed as critic for Artnews from 1950-51 and acted as Secretary for "Documents of Modern Art," New York, a symposium for First General Abstract Expressionist Painters. He also taught art at New York University, 1953; Fieldston School, Riverdale, 1953-60; and Cornell University, Ithaca, 1960. Goodnough is the recipient of the Ada S. Garrett Prize, Art Institute of Chicago, 1961 and the Ford Foundation Prize, 1963. He received a National Council of the Arts Grant, National Institute of Arts and Letters prize, John Solomon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. His commissions include a 32' x 9' painting, Form in Motion, for the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Office on Fifth Avenue, NY, and a 200' mural in Cor-Ten steel for the Shawmut Bank of Boston, MA. His tapestry, Development With Red & Blue, 1976 was purchased for Family Court, Family & Criminal Court Building, Bronx. Goodnough's work can be seen in major public collections throughout the United States: in New York City at The New York University Art Collection; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Museum of Modern Art; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Goodnough began exhibiting in 1950 at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York. Since 1984 his work was seen in one-person shows in the New York area at Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1985, '86, '89; The Gallery at Lincoln Center, 1987; Shippee Gallery, 1988; Greenbert-Wilson Gallery, 1990; and ACA Galleries, 1991, '92, '93, and '94. Goodnough has participated in group exhibitions The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX and L'Amerique aux Independents, Grand Palais, Paris, France. Karl H. Gruppe was born in Rochester, New York in 1893. At 12, Gruppe's father entered him in the Royal Academy at Antwerp, Holland where he studied sculpture for four years under Belgian sculptor Frans Joris. Gruppe was chief sculptor for the New York Department of Parks from 1934-1937. His work can be seen at City College and at the Numismatic Society. Frank Leslie Hampton is a graduate of Lehman College, CUNY. He won the Puffin Foundation individual artist award for his solo exhibition Black History Art Show in Binghampton, New York, in 1998. Jonathan Scott Hartley was born in New York City in 1845 and died in Albany in 1912. He studied in New England, Paris and Rome and was a member of the National Academy of Design, the Society of American Artists, National Sculpture Society, Architectural League of New York and the Salmagundi Club of which he was a founding member. Hartley exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo and the National Academy of Design. As the son-in-law of the famous landscape painter, George Inness, Hartley sculpted the bust of Inness at the Hall of Fame of Great Americans on the campus of Bronx Community College. Hartley is also the sculptor of the Sullivan Fountain in Van Courtlandt Park, dated 1906. One of the earliest American sculptors of animal figures is the Ohio born sculptor, painter, and illustrator, Eli Harvey (1860-1957). As a young man he taught himself to draw and later studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy. Harvey perfected his skills as a sculptor in Paris 1889-1900 by studying at the Academie Julian and the Academie Delecluse. He worked with animal sculptures for the Paris Zoo, the Jardin des Plantes, under the direction of Fremiet; exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1899; and won a gold medal at the Paris-Province Exhibition of 1900. After exhibiting his animal models in Paris salons Harvey entered the competition for the sculptures to adorn the Lion House at the Bronx Zoo. In 1901 the 2 great lions in limestone that flank the entrance to the Lion House at the Bronx Zoo were commissioned from him by the New York Zoological Society. His bronze eight-foot tall bear became the mascot of Brown University; his sculpture of the elk represents the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks; and a medal that the American Numismatic Society issued in 1917 commemorates America's entry into World War I. Harvey's work can be seen at the American Museum of Natural History and the American Numismatic Society. Skowmon Hastanan was born in Thailand, raised in Bangkok, and in 1973 moved to New York City where she currently lives and works. Hastanan, who received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts, is a mixed media artist who has won several public art commissions including a faceted glass design project for the 233rd Street train station of the #2 and #5 Bronx subway lines, New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA)/ Arts for Transit; In/Flux, an installation project for Asian Arts Initiatives, Chinatown, Philadelphia; and a float-glass painting project at PS 228 in Queens for the New York City Board of Education, a Percent for Art. Hastanan has participated in group and one person exhibitions including the Monk Gallery, NYC; the Center of Photography at Woodstock (NY), Pier 2 Arts District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan; Jamaica Center for Arts, NYC; Gallery 4A, Sydney, Australia; Longwood Art Gallery, NY; The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; and The New Museum, NYC. She is a member of Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network and has collaborated with EMPOWER Foundation, Thailand, a center for the protection of the rights of women in the entertainment sector. James Monroe Hewlett (1868-1941), architect and artist, was a descendant of an old Long Island family for which the village of Hewlett was named. Hewlett graduated from Columbia University in 1890 and entered the architectural firm of McKim, Mead & White. After studying in Paris, Hewlett returned to New York in 1894 to help found the architectural firm of Lord & Hewlett that designed a number of buildings, notably Brooklyn Hospital (1920);Danbury, Connecticut Hospital, St. John's Hospital (now the Citicorp office building in Long Island City), Brooklyn Masonic Temple (1909), briefly the Medgar Evers Community College; and the Senator Clark mansion on Fifth Avenue. A mural and set designer as well as an architect, Hewlett painted murals for the Willard Straight Memorial at Cornell University, for the Elihu Root Memorial at Washington, D.C.; the eight historical murals for the Bank of New York and Trust Company building at William and Wall Streets; the George Washington Bicentennial frieze, Washington and His Friends at Mount Vernon (1932), at Mount Vernon; and the four murals in the Veterans' Memorial Hall at the Bronx County Building. Hewlett was president of the Architectural League of New York and headed the Society of Mural Painters. He was elected to the National Academy of Design, was a vice president of the American Institute of Architects, and a director of the Fontainebleau School in Paris. In 1932 Hewlett was appointed resident director of the American Academy in Rome. Malvina Hoffman was born in 1887, the youngest child of a concert pianist. By age 14, she was already studying art at the Art Students League and attending both the renowned Brearly Finishing School and the Women's School for Applied Design. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum (of Mt. Rushmore fame) encouraged her to submit work for the National Academy exhibition. In 1910, Hoffman went to Paris to study sculpting with Auguste Rodin, working with him until the onset of WWI. Shortly after returning to the USA, Hoffman met Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. They became friends, and Hoffman was often invited to rehearsals where she would use the ballerina and her colleagues as models for her sculptures. By the 1920's Hoffman was enjoying a successful career and a new marriage. In 1929, she received a commission by Chicago's Marshall Field Museum to portray "the races of mankind" for the 1933 World's Fair. Throughout her life, Hoffman continued to create portrait sculpture of friends, celebrities, and historical figures until her death in 1966. Wopo Holup, a New York resident from California, studied at the University of Texas and received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MA from Mills College and has exhibited her work since 1977. She is the recipient of grants from Con Edison and the National Endowment for the Arts, and was a CAPS Fellow. Holup's public commissions include a bronze bas relief honoring the Vietnam and Korean veterans for William Penn Park, in Pennsylvania; a cement relief wall for the Rehabilitation Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, New Brunswick, New Jersey; sculptures for seven stations on the Broadway #1 line in New York City commissioned by the MTA Arts for Transit program; and a tile and sealed cement wall sculpture for P.S. 92 in Queens, commissioned by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs/Percent for Art program. Born at Versailles, 1741, Jean-Antoine Houdon is considered to be among the greatest sculptors of the eighteenth century. Houdon studied sculpture under Slodtz and Pigalle and, by age 20, won the Prix de Rome. In 1771, he was made an associate of the Academy for his statue Morpheus and became a full member of The Salon in 1775. He was soon appointed teacher at the Academy and received commissions that included sculpting the busts of Catherine II of Russia, the Dukes of Saxe-Gotha, and actress Sophie Arnould. In 1778 Houdon went to Ermenonville to make a death mask of the French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau, which was then used for the bust of Rousseau at the Louvre. In 1780, Houdon was commissioned to create the bust of Marquis de Lafayette that stands today at the State House in Richmond, Virginia. In 1784, Houdon won the commission to sculpt a marble statue of General George Washington. That next year, Houdon sculpted the work Frileuse as a companion piece for his Summer statue. Before the end of his career, Houdon sculpted portraits of King Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and other members of the French Court. His last works included depictions of French Emperor Napoleon and Empress Josephine de Beauharnais. He died at the age of 87. Christopher Janney grew up in Washington, D.C. in the 1950's. He studied architecture at Princeton University, music at the Dalcroze School of Music, and Environmental Art at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was Janney's interest in both jazz and architecture that encouraged him to fuse the conventions of sound and space into interactive art work. Since 1978 Janney has produced a number of sound / architecture installations, many of which are permanently installed in urban areas throughout the country. Two of these installations are located in New York, Sonic Pass Blue at Lehman College, City University of New York, and Reach-New York, at the 34th St. subway station, commissioned in 1993 by the MTA. Noah Jemisin studied art at the University of Iowa. His work has been exhibited nationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Above Midtown Gallery, NY; N.A.M.E. Gallery, CI; and The Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, NY. Jemisin has been a visiting artist at the University of Iowa and the Art Institute of Chicago, among others. Jemisin's artistic style has incorporated realist approaches and themes of nature as well as the freehand style he observed in use by children. Kristen Jones and Andrew Ginzel have worked together since 1983. Jones received her B.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design, and her M.F.A. from Yale University in 1983. Ginzel attended Bennington College. As collaborative artists they create installations that combine diverse materials and elements that question memory, time, and reality. Jones and Ginzel’s installations have been exhibited throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Recent site-specific commissions include: “Oculus,” at the World Trade Center Station through a commission from the Arts for Transit program of New York’s Metropolitan Transit Authority; “Apostasy,” the 1996 Olympic Arts Festival in Atlanta; “Interim,” a project for the Next Wave Festival of the Brooklyn Academy of Music; “Mnemonics,” a commission for the Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Program for Stuyvesant high School in battery Park City, NY; and “Encyclic,” a stainless steel marble, glass, and mixed media installation at P.S. 102 in the Parkchester area of the Bronx, through Percent for Art, NY. Lithuanian-born Alexandra Kasuba received her education in art at The Art Institute, Kaunas, Lithuania and the Academy of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania. Kasuba has been an Artist-in-Residence at both the Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science, Philadelphia as well as the Cranbrook Academy of Art. She has had individual exhibitions in galleries including the University City Science Center, Philadelphia; The Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum; and The Waddell Gallery, NYC. Kasuba has also participated in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; The Brooklyn Museum, NYC; The Philadelphia Art Alliance, PA; and the Knoxville Museum of Art. Native New Yorker Charles Keck (1875-1951), studied at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League with Augustus Saint-Gaudens. He spent a number of years at the Academy in Rome, as well as working in Greece, Florence and Paris. Keck was a member of the National Academy of Design, the Architectural League of New York, the Numismatic Society, American Federation of the Arts, the National Sculpture Society, the National Arts Club, and the Century Association. Keck's sculptures can be seen throughout the United States including the frieze on the facade of the Bronx County Building in New York. Keck designed three busts for the Hall of Fame of Great Americans: James Madison, Elias Howe and Patrick Henry. Perhaps his most famous work is the Liberty Statue in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil which was presented as a gift to the Brazilian government from the American Chamber of Commerce on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the Republic of Brazil. Keck also designed coins and medals including the US Panama-Pacific Exposition gold dollar, 1915; the Vermont Sesquicentennial half dollar, 1927; the Lynchburg Sesquicentennial half dollar, 1936; The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Tribute to William Barton Rogers medal, 1916; the Vermont Sesquicentennial medal, 1917; and the Lewis Stephen Pilcher medal, 1916. He is also the designer of the Great Seal of the state of Virginia created in 1931. Belle Kinney (1890-1959) was born in Nashville, TN and at age 7 won first place for a bust of her father at the Tennessee Centennial Exposition. By age 15, the Art Institute of Chicago recognized her talent and she was awarded a scholarship there. In 1907 Kinney received her first commission to sculpt the statue of Jere Baxter, organizer of the Tennessee Central Railroad. Kinney later won a competition that allowed her to design the monument Confederate Women (1926). In 1925, Kinney completed work on The Bronx County War Memorial, a Corinthian column surmounted by a marble and bronze statue. She and her husband, sculptor Leopold Scholz, designed Victory Statue (1929) in the War Memorial Building court at Legislative Plaza, Nashville, TN. In 1933 Kinney and her husband created the bronze figure of Victory for the WWI Memorial in Pelham Bay Park. Statues of Andrew Jackson and Tennessee's first governor, John Sevier, stand in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. The statue of Richard Owen, which stands in the Indiana State Capitol, is also ascribed to Belle Kinney. Belle Kinney died in Boiceville, Ulster County, New York. Joseph Kiselewski (1901-1986) was a native of Minnesota and a graduate of the Minneapolis School of Art. Kiselewski won the prestigious Prix de Rome (1926) and Parisian Beaux Arts (1925) competitions. He designed the US Army Good Conduct medal (1942); the Army Medal of Honor (1862-1896); and the Army Medal of Honor (1896-1904). The American Defense Service Medal was designed by Joseph Kiselewski and sculpted by Lee Lawrie. Sculptor Samuel Kitson was born in England in 1848 and died in New York in 1906. Kitson studied in Rome where he became imbued with a religious spirit which marked much of his later work. After having won many prizes in Europe, Kitson emigrated to America in 1878 where he modeled busts of Longfellow, Bishop Potter, Ole Bull, and Samuel J. Tilden, and executed the statuary and bas reliefs for William K. Vanderbilt's house. Among his other works are the Sheridan Monument at Arlington, Virginia; the frieze of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument at Hartford, Connecticut; and the Medallion for the Holy Cross Cathedral in Boston. Kitson's bust of Orestes A. Brownson on the Fordham University campus was commissioned in 1899. Charles Robert Knight (1874-1953) was born in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of six Knight began copying animals from the dictionary. His fascination of animals evolved and by age nine he was already drawing animals from life at the Bronx Zoo. At the age of twenty, Knight received his first commission by the American Museum of Natural History to paint a watercolor of the Elotherian, a prehistoric animal that lived 30,000,000 years ago. Knight studied in both France and the United States. In Paris he was a student under Fremiet and Gerome, and in the United States he studied under George De Forest Brush. The body of his work include large murals, paintings, bronzes, drawings and lithographs. Knight has been considered the most eminent artist in his field for his very lifelike portraits of prehistoric human beings and the animal world. Perhaps his most important work is the large series of murals at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Knight's work however was commissioned for a number of museums and institutions throughout the country, among them the Rose Kennedy Center (formerly Hayden Planetarium), New York, NY; Los Angeles County Museum, California; Chicago Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois; National Museum, Washington, D.C.; Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; The National Park Zoo, Washington, D.C.; National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C.; Carnegie Institution, Washington, D.C.; and the Newark Museum, Newark, New Jersey. Knight, drew from life, rendering every particular animal with the same incisiveness and individuality as if he had been drawing or painting a human being. Numerous illustrations appeared in practically every important magazine or newspaper in towns and cities throughout the country: National Geographic Magazine, World's Work, McClures, Century Magazine, Outdoor Life Magazine, Natural History Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Scientific American, The New York Herald Tribune and Sunday Magazine, The New York Times and Sunday Magazine, The New York Evening Sun, The New York Post, The New York Daily News, The Chicago Tribune, and The Washington Post among others. Knight was also a devoted lecturer whose talks were illustrated with color slides of his very own paintings and drawings. Reproductions of Knight's paintings, murals and drawings occur in hundreds of textbooks, scientific articles and scientific books. Among his later books are the following titles: Animal Drawing; Before the Dawn of History; Life through the Ages; and Prehistoric Man. Knight believed he was born with a prophetic interest in animals, which only increased and grew over the years. His work in the Bronx is interestingly at the place where he began his earliest renderings: on the north side of the Elephant House at the Bronx Zoo. Vitaly Komar was born in 1943 in Moscow, Russia. He studied at the Moscow Art School and the Stroganov Institute of Art and Design. Komar's first collaborative lecture/performance with Alexander Melamid was in 1965 and since that time they have worked together and exhibited widely both in this country and abroad. Liberty as Justice and Liberty can be seen in the main lobby of the new Bronx Housing Court. Other works by Komar and Melamid are in New York collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Henry Kreis (1899-1964) was born in Essen, Germany. He was apprenticed to a stone carver after leaving high school and later studied art at the State School of Applied Arts in Munich. Kreis came to the United States in 1933 where he earned his living as a stone cutter and studied at the Beaux Arts Institute of Design and later with Paul Manship. During the Great Depression he participated in the Work Progress Administration. Kreis was a member of the National Sculpture Society, Architectural League of New York and the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts and became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1951. He received a number of prizes for his work and exhibited at the National Sculpture Society; Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts Architectural League; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Whitney Museum of American Art; National Academy of Design; and the Art Institute of Chicago. His sculptures are on view on public and private buildings in Washington and New York. Kreis' interest in the design of coins and medals won him the Saltus Medal from the American Numismatic Society. Among the medals Kreis designed are those commemorating the Connecticut Tercentenary and the New York Worlds Fair, as well as coins for the United States. For a number of years Kreis was on the faculty at the Hartford Art School. Justen Ladda was born in West Germany in 1953 and has lived and worked in Manhattan since 1978. He is known for his on-site projects designed for alternative spaces, such as The Thing, installed in an abandoned public school auditorium in the Bronx in 1981, as well as more recent installations at Artists' Space, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. Ladda won the 1992 Art Commission Award for Excellence in Design for the project at Public School 7 in the Bronx which is his first permanent public commission. Gregg LeFevre graduated from Boston University in 1969 with a BA in Philosophy and his work has been exhibited throughout the country. Before creating his project for P.S. 209, LeFevre worked with five at-risk high school students from Roxbury, Massachusetts to create bronze manhole cover reliefs. These manhole cover reliefs were for the sidewalks of revitalized Cedar Square Park in Roxbury, Massachusetts. In his work, LeFevre attempts to capture the essence of the neighborhoods in which his art resides. Other projects include the Waukesha History and Culture Map in Wisconsin and the California Native Species Map. Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City in 1923. He studied painting at the Art Students League with Reginald Marsh and at the School of Fine Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, later receiving BFA and MFA degrees from Ohio State University. Lichtenstein received an Honorary Doctorate degree from Ohio State University in 1987. During World War II he served with the US Army based in Europe. In the early 1950s Lichenstein began work in printmaking and worked as a graphic and engineering draftsman, window designer, and sheet metal designer and also began making woodcuts and etchings. Lichtenstein has taught at Ohio State University, the State University of New York at Oswego, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey and at the University of California, Irvine. His paintings, prints, ceramics and sculptures have been exhibited extensively both in the United States and abroad, in solo and in group shows. Since the 1950s Lichtenstein's work has been exhibited at the Leo Castelli and, Castelli Graphics Galleries as well as at the Brooke Alexander, Mary Boone, Carlebach, Rosa Esman and Marilyn Pearl, Ferus, Fischer, Larry Gagosian, Judith Goldberg, James Goodman, Hamilton, John Heller, Blum Helman, Hirschl & Adler, Phyllis Kind, Pace, Getler Pall, Condon Riley, 65 Thompson Street, Holly Solomon, and Sperone Westwater Galleries; at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, School of Visual Arts Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum, Jewish Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Many public and private institutions have commissioned works, among them the Family & Criminal Court Building in the Bronx. Lichtenstein's works are represented in most of the major museums and galleries of the world. A major Lichtenstein retrospective exhibition was held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1993-94. Evelyn Beatrice Longman [Batchelder] (1874-1954) was a widely known Connecticut sculptor during the first half of the 20th Century. In 1904 she participated at the St. Louis Exposition with her sculpture, Victory. Highly regarded among fellow artists, Longman assisted the sculptor Daniel Chester French with the design and execution of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. In 1919 she became the first woman elected to the National Academy of Design. Longman's works are represented in private and public collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Portrait Gallery, the Wadsworth Atheneum, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Her most important public works include: bronze doors for the Memorial Chapel of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland; the Great Bronze Doors for the Horsford Library of Wellesley College at Wellesley, Massachusetts; The Genius of Telegraphy for the AT& T Building later adopted as a logo for the AT& T Corporation; and a 12-foot-high bust of Edison standing in front of the Naval Research Laboratories in Washington, D.C. Steve Mayo, during a collaborative SITES project, recently created a ceramic mural for a permanent installation at I.S. 246 with children in arts-in-education programs. He taught the intermediate school students mold and tile making which enabled them to create the ceramic mural. He has been involved in educational projects which benefit children for several years. Howard McCalebb received a BA in Sculpture from California State University at Hayward in 1970 and an MFA in Sculpture from Cornell University in 1972. He has taught at colleges and universities throughout the United States and his work has been exhibited widely. McCalebb has completed several commissions and is a strong advocate for public art. His work is represented in collections in the United States, Latin America and Europe. Helen Farnsworth Mears (1872-1916) was born in Wisconson. As a young girl, Mears worked on sculptures in the woodshed at home creating a 9' tall statue entitled Genius of Wisconsin which was chosen for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. The sculpture was later executed in marble. Mears, who began her studies at the Art Students League in New York, became one of the favorite pupil of Augustus Saint Gaudens who supported her studies in Europe: in Paris with Puesch, Merson, Charpentier and Colan, and later in Italy for galleries run under the direction of Saint-Gaudens himself. In 1904 Mears won a silver medal at the St. Louis Exposition for her sculpture Fountain of Life. She became a member of the National Sculpture Society in 1907 and is represented in private as well as public collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, Madison Art Association, Milwaukee Public Library, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Mears' public work is located at Eau Claire, Wisconsin (Adin Randall Fountain,1914) and the Hall of Fame in Washington, DC (statue of Frances Willard). Alexander Melamid was born in 1945 in Moscow, Russia and trained at the Moscow Art School and the Stroganov Institute of Art and Design. Melamid's first collaborative lecture/performance with Vitaly Komar was in 1965 and since that time they have worked together and exhibited widely both in this country and abroad. Liberty as Justice and Liberty can be seen in the main lobby of the new Bronx Housing Court. Other works by Komar and Melamid can be seen in New York at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Mario Muller received his Bachelor of Science in Radio, TV and Film from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL and studied at the National Academy of Design, NYC, Master Class with Wayne Thiebaud. His work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at DCKT Contemporary, NY; Deemer Gallery, Louisville, KY; Michael Shapiro Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Dieu Donne Papermill, NY; and Deutsche Bank, NY. Muller’s work is included in the permanent collections of The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY; University of Louisville, KY; and Northwestern University, Evanston, IL. In 2005 Muller received a public art commission from the Metropolitan Transit Authority Arts for Transit to complete a permanent installation for the Kingsbridge Road train station in the Bronx. James Michael Newell was born on February 21, 1900 in Carnegie, Pennsylvania and was enlisted in the Marines during World War I. Moving to New York at age 23, he studied at the National Academy of Design and at the Art Student's League. Newell studied painting at Academie Julian, fresco at Beaux Arts, and later, Renaissance frescoes in Europe. Newell returned to the United States in 1913, and was soon commissioned by the Potomac Electric Power Company to paint large-scale murals in the lobbies of Washington, D.C. offices. He was drafted into the Army during World War II and served for two years. After the war, Newell became an illustrator at Sperny Gyroscope in Brooklyn, NY and also created illustrations for the Mobil Company. William Clark Noble, who was born in Gardiner, Maine, was inspired to become a sculptor at the age of eight after reading the life story of the Danish sculptor Berthel Thorvaldsen. Noble studied art under the American painter Franklin Pierce and the American sculptor Richard Greenough. In 1879 he opened his first studio in Newport, Rhode Island and in 1892, moved to New York City where he opened a studio. Noble's most famous monumental sculpture works are The Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument in Newport, Rhode Island; The Phillips Brooks Monument in New York; and the portrait bust of General Potter in New York. Noble also executed monumental statues of Napoleon Bonaparte, Thomas Jefferson, and Anthony Wayne. Tom Nussbaum, who works primarily in sculpture, has completed a number of public art commissions around the country. His work can be found at the Metro North Railway Stations in Hartsdale and Scarsdale, New York, and St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital in New York City. Tom Nussbaum lives in Montclair, New Jersey. Conceptualist artist, Dennis Oppenheim was born in Electric City, Washington and lived in Honolulu, California before moving to New York in 1966 where he continues to live and work. He received his BFA from the School of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California, and his MFA from Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Oppenheim was influenced by Earth Art that relied on photography for physical and ephemeral communication that he believed was essential to the era and work of the 1960s, the decade that he came into prominence. He is considered a pioneer in conceptual, earthworks, body art, video and sculpture. Oppenheim’s work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Lumier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO; the Kunshaus, Zurich, Switzerland; the Musee National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France; the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; and the Tate Gallery, London, England. His work has been presented in many exhibitions including “Documenta X,” Kassal, Germany, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY; and the 1997 Venice Biennale. Oppenheim has received numerous commissions from public and private institutions. Among his many installations is “Rising and Setting,” commissioned by the MTA Arts for Transit Program and permanently installed at Metro North’s Riverdale Train Station. José Ortega received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He has been featured in magazines such as Graphis and Advertising Age. Ortega's work has been used for magazine illustrations, Bloomingdale's shopping bags, and numerous textile designs. His work Una Raza, Un Mundo, Universo was dedicated to his mother. José Ortiz received his BFA from the School of Visual Arts, NY. He participated in the Bob Blackburn Printmaker’s Workshop, NY; the Performance /Visual Artist, Josefina Baez, and the 3rd International Ay Ombe Theatre Retreat, Santiago, Chile. Ortiz, who uses his art as a way of communicating past, present and future creates his paintings through a process of layering using photography, printmaking, collage, and paint. His exhibitions include “Latino History Month Exhibition, NY; “Unbridled,” Inspiration Fine Art, NY; “Bronx Bound,” Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY; “JUMP IT UP: Bronx Artist Spotlight,” The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; and “Entitled,” A.I.R. Gallery, NY, among many others. Ortiz’s public artwork commissioned by the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s Arts for Transit is installed at the 183rd Street train station of the 4 line in the Bronx. A native of Wichita Kansas and a student of the Arts Students League in New York, Tom Otterness is a founding member of Collaborative Project, Inc. Since the early 1980's, his work has been exhibited in numerous group shows and one-man exhibitions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Marlborough Gallery, and the Brooklyn Museum. William Ordway Partridge was born in Paris in 1861 of American parents. Returning to America after the overthrow of the French Empire of Napoleon III, Partridge attended Columbia University. After a short experimental year with the stage, Partridge went abroad to study sculpture. He also published articles on esthetics and verse novels, Angel of Clay, and the Czar's Gift. Partridge lectured at Stanford University; and was a professor at George Washington University, Washington, D.C. He was a member of the Sons of the Revolution, Veteran Corps of Artillery and the Architectural League and an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects and of the Royal Society of Arts, London. Among his principle works that can be seen in the New York area are: the statue of Samuel J. Tilden on Riverside Drive at 113th Street; the sculptures of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, as well as the bust of Dean van Amringe at Columbia University; the heroic marble Pieta at St. Patrick's Cathedral; the equestrian statue of General Grant in Brooklyn; the bust of Theodore Roosevelt at the Republican Club; the marble "Peace Head" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and the Joseph Pulitzer Memorial in Woodlawn Cemetery, the Bronx. Partridge died in New York in 1930. Best known for carving the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., the six Piccirilli Brothers immigrated to New York City in 1867 (just one year after the star sculptor in the group, Attilio, was born). All six were trained as sculptors, and worked remarkably well together in their family studio setting. They considered the achievements of one the achievements of all. The Lincoln Memorial and many other well known public sculptures were actually carved in the Piccirilli Brothers' 142nd street studio in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx. They carved numerous other artists' designs as well, including J.Q.A. Ward, A. Saint Guadens, and R.I. Aitken. At the pinnacle of their success in the early 20th century, the Piccirillis were commissioned to work on such famous Manhattan landmarks as the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the New York Stock Exchange, the United States Custom House, the New York Public Library, and City Hall Park. These opportunities came about largely as a result of the national public recognition Attilio won for his work on the Maine Monument at Columbus Circle (on the southwest side of Central Park). By the 1930's the status of sculpture had changed, and commissions dwindled for the brothers. Presumably, their studio complex (142nd St. between Willis and Brook Avenues), which had grown to four buildings during the course of their lives and included adjacent row houses, was demolished sometime during the 1960s. What happened to the documents and possessions contained within still remains a mystery. Howardena Pindell is the recipient of numerous awards and grants for work in a variety of media and techniques. Her work, which deals with the notion of "divine" expression through visual beauty, clearly drawing on numerous nonwestern sources, is widely exhibited both nationally and internationally. Paintings and prints by Pindell are on view in the New York area at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. Maurice J. Power (1838-1902) was born in County Cork, Ireland in 1838. He immigrated to the United States with his parents when he was 3 years old. At the age of 12, Power began to study monumental sculpture in stone and continued in this profession for 20 years. Power, who was active in the Democratic Party, was appointed Police Court Justice by Mayor Cooper; United Stated Shipping Commissioner for the Port of New York by President Cleveland; and Aqueduct Commissioner by Mayor R.A. Strong. In 1868 Maurice Power established the National Fine Art Foundry on East 25th Street in Manhattan. Among the notable pieces of bronze sculpture produced by the foundry were battle monuments at Trenton and Monmouth, New Jersey; Newburg, Albany and Buffalo, New York; Augusta, Maine; Manchester, New Hampshire; Clinton, Holyoke, Lawrence and Springfield, Massachusetts; and others in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina. Power's sculpture Reverend John Hughes, 1891 is located at at Fordham University, Bronx. Alexander Phimister Proctor (1862-1950) was born in Ontario, Canada. After finishing school in Denver, Colorado, Proctor attended classes at the Art Students' League and the National Academy of Design in New York City (1888-1889). In the early 1890s he moved to France on an extended Rinehart scholarship where he studied in the studios of the French Beaux-Art artists J.A. Injalbert and C. Puech. It was in Paris that Proctor met the American sculptor Augustus Saint Gaudens, later returning to New York to work with him. Proctor's work was exhibited at the World's Colombian Exposition in 1893: on the north side of the Grand Basin in front of the Manufactures Building, his heroic sculpture Statue of Labor; and next to the golden door to the Transportation Building, his work titled The Indian. All of the ornaments on bridges and balustrades of the Exposition were entrusted to Proctor. Proctor won gold medals for works exhibited at the St. Louis Exposition (1904) and the San Francisco Exposition (1915). He was prominent among the artists who decorated the buildings at the Bronx Zoo: the antelope heads and frieze at the Small Deer House; the elephants decorating the Elephant House (1907); the decorative work at the Lion House (1903); at the Main Bird House; the animal frieze at the Monkey House (1901); and the frieze at the Reptile House are still greatly admired. Among his best known works are The Circuit Rider commemorating the work of the itinerant preachers of the old Northwest; the Princeton Tiger, the Bengal tigers at Sixteenth Street Bridge, Washington, D.C.; Four American Bison at the Q Street Bridge, Washington, D.C., The McKinley lions at Buffalo; a memorial to President McKinley; and the Pumas in Prospect Park Brooklyn. Faith Ringgold is a painter, mixed media sculptor, performance artist, writer and teacher. She received both her BS degree and her MA degree in Art from City College, City University of New York in 1955 and 1959. Ringgold is a professor of art at the University of California in San Diego. Her work has been exhibited in museums and galleries nationally and in Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa. Ringgold's work is included in many private and public collections. Bob Rivera, a native of NYC, attended the School of Visual Arts and Cooper Union in New York and received his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Rivera, who founded the Graffiti Alternatives Workshop in Philadelphia, has a long involvement with public art. He has created numerous site specific sculptures and installations in both Pennsylvania and New York. In recent years Rivera's work has been seen at El Museo del Barrio, Studio Museum in Harlem, NYNEX Corporation, Tyringham Gallery and at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. Rivera's public art commissions include the Bronx Council on the Arts/Hunts Point Sculpture Garden; Artists in the Garden/Operation Greenthumb; the Friends Central School in Philadelphia; and a monumental wall sculpture for Hostos Community College in the Bronx. Freddy Rodriguez, who comes from a family of artists, moved to NYC from the Dominican Republic when he was 18. He studied painting at the Art Students League and the New School for Social Research, and textile design at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Rodriguez was named "Gregory Millard Fellow in Painting" in 1991 by the New York Foundation for the Arts and a New York State Council on the Arts Artist in Residence at El Museo del Barrio in 1992. Rodriguez, who represented the United Stated at the IV Painting Biennial in Cuenca, Ecuador, has lectured on art throughout Central and South America. Tim Rollins was born in Pittsfield, Maine in 1955. He received a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 1978. Rollins later studied at New York University, Department of Art Education and has taught art in a number of schools. Rollins was a cofounder of Group Material (1979), a collective of socially committed artists. He began his teaching career with "Learning to Read Through the Arts," an arts and literacy program which brought him to many of the city's poorest neighborhoods. In the early eighties Rollins began working in the Bronx as a school teacher at I.S. 52, teaching emotionally handicapped and learning disabled students. Art-making provided a teaching strategy, and the collaborative process of Tim Rollins + KOS grew out of this pedagogical model. Rollins began to work with the students during lunch hour and after school which resulted in the founding of KOS (Kids of Survival) and the Art and Knowledge Workshop in 1982. At this point he took up residence in the Longwood Arts Center. The imagery for the group's paintings is generally derived from texts of great works of literature which are read aloud. These images are developed individually, then distilled into a collective work, and often painted onto a grid of pages from the books, which have been glued to the canvas. Dominican artist, Moses Ros, lives and works in New York City. He studied at the Lower East Side Print Shop, the Bronx Printmakers Workshop, the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, and a received a Bachelor of Architecture degree from Pratt Institute. As an architect, Ros designs for public buildings and schools. As an artist he creates paintings, murals, prints, and sculpture. His work has been exhibited at El Museo del Barrio, NY, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, and El Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, among many other galleries and museums. Ros has received many public art commissions including the Bronx Council on the Arts, Percent for Art; the NYCHA, Bronx, NY; and a permanent installation at the Fordham Road train station of the Bronx 4 line through the Metropolitan Transit Authority’s Arts for Transit Program. Charles Rudy, who was born in 1904 in Pennsylvania, studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. He was a member of the National Sculpture Society and the American Federation of the Arts. Rudy exhibited at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts; The Whitney Museum of American Art; Carnegie Institute; the Art Institute of Chicago; National Academy of Design; and the American Federation of Art Traveling Exhibitions. In 1944 Rudy's work won a prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He participated in the American exhibition at the New York World's Fair in 1939. Rudy taught for many years at the Cooper Union Art School, New York. Carl Rungius (1869-1959) was born in Germany and spent his early years at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts where, in 1894, he attended a course in animal drawing and developed a love for animal subjects. This led him to teach himself animal anatomy. Traveling to the United States in 1884, Rungius spent that first summer on Long Island drawing birds and insects from nature. In 1910 he discovered the Canadian Rockies which had a lasting effect on his painting, and for the remainder of his life he alternated between summers in Banff and winters in New York City. During the 1890's Rungius was a respected illustrator for various sporting magazines. His early paintings and illustrations focused on the theme of animals engaged in combat, portraying the agony of defeat, or the heroic stance. Rungius was a member of the Salamagundi and Boone and Crockett clubs. The trustees of the New York Zoological Society accumulated a large collection of his paintings and later through a private fund of $250.00 a year, the artist was commissioned to produce one large painting a year. He was also commissioned to paint the scenic backgrounds in the outdoor cages of the Bronx Zoo. Christy Rupp, born in Rochester, New York, began her career as an artist in the 1980's at Fashion Moda, an alternative space in the South Bronx where artists made art, exchanged ideas and exhibited. She graduated Maryland Institute College of Art, Rinehart School of Sculpture in 1977 with an MFA in Sculpture. Rupp has taught in a number of universities including Bard College, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, School of Visual Arts, Brooklyn College, and Lehman College, City University of New York. She has been involved in a number of public art projects and commissions. Rupp's sculptures incorporate the science of animal behavior with metaphoric allusion of isolation and alienation, and her compositions are often related to environmental issues. Augustus Saint-Gaudens was born Dublin, Ireland in 1848. His family brought him to New York and at the age of 13 Saint-Gaudens began an apprenticeship as a cameo cutter. He earned his living at this craft while studying during the evening at Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design. In 1867 Saint-Gaudens went to Paris where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-arts. Three years later he traveled to Rome where he supported himself by doing cameo cutting and working on copies of famous classical statues. Saint-Gaudens returned to New York in 1875, a recognized sculptor. In his middle period (1880-1897) Saint-Gaudens executed most of the well known works that earned him recognition and honors. Many of Saint-Gaudens' reliefs, sculptures and portraits can be seen in New York in the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art including two caryatids originally created for a fireplace in the Cornelius Vanderbilt residence (1881); at Cooper Union, the statue of Peter Cooper (1894, installed 1897); at the Church of the Ascension at Fifth Avenue and 10th Street, the marble altar relief; at Madison Square Park, Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street, the statue of Admiral David G. Farragut, (1880); the statue of Peter Cooper at Cooper Square South of East 7th Street,(1897); works inside the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, Columbus Avenue and 60th Street; the statue of General William Tecumseh Sherman (1892-1903) at the West side of Fifth Avenue, North of Central Park South; the red fireplace mantle with marble figures above it representing Joy, Hospitality and Moderation at the Villard Houses (1886; McKim, Mead and White) now the Helmsley Palace Hotel at 50th Street and Madison Avenue; and work on a number of the monuments at Woodlawn Cemetery, the Bronx. Saint-Gaudens also designed of a number of medallions and