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Paula DiSanto Bensadoun is a scientific illustrator specializing in biological, medical and botanical subjects. Before embarking on a career in illustration she pursued graduate work in Zoology at Cornell University. Her thesis was published in the Journal of Morphology as, “Anatomy and Histochemistry of the Salivary Glands of the Vampire Bat, Desmodus rotundus murinus.” She was awarded a Fulbright fellowship for study at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles medical school in Belgium. Upon her return she worked as staff illustrator in the Zoology Department at Cornell University and then, while raising a family, as a free-lance illustrator during which time she illustrated many textbooks, laboratory manuals and research publications.
Paula has given presentations of her work at local schools and has contributed illustrations in a variety of media to an anthology of children’s literature. She has taught workshops in drawing, carbon dust rendering, landscape drawing, and in the distant past, copper enameling. Her recent work involves explorations of botanical subjects in watercolor and in colored pencil. She is particularly interested in process how plants grow and change. Her work has been exhibited locally and in New York City.
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Karen Brummund is a visual artist who explores ideas about drawing and architecture. She creates interventions on buildings and dialogues in communities. Photographs and videos of these interventions have shown in venues like The Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, New York (2008) and the East End Film Festival in London, England (2007). In 2009, she worked with Pezo von Ellrichaussen Architects and received the Light Work Grant in photography. A few upcoming installations include the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY; the Burchfield-Penney Art Center in Buffalo, NY; and the Sirius Art Centre in Ireland. Brummund received her Masters of Arts in Fine Arts from the University of East London and is a New York Foundations for the Arts 2010 Fellow in Architecture/Environmental Structures.
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Graduated from College du Vieux Montreal
in Canada with a bachelor in Fine Arts. She furthered her studies
at Universite Laval in Quebec City and through two masters of watercolor
in California. She has been teaching at CSMA for ten years, at the
Plantations Botanical Garden for two and privately since 1993. She
is the president of the Finger Lakes chapter of the Guild of Natural
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Frances Fawcett majored in fine art in the late 60s, early 70s era of anything goes (except, it seemed, realism!). While that was fun and even educational, she continued to pursue her interest in the realistic portrayal of the natural world on her own. When she moved to Ithaca in the early 80s, she turned to scientific illustration after participating an a Guild of Natural Science Illustrators summer workshop at Cornell. She has worked ever since for the Cornell Department of Entomology as both a permanent employee and a freelancer. She specializes in the carbon dust medium although she also works frequently with pen and ink on scratchboard. Her illustrations of insects have appeared in numerous entomological journals and other publications. For many years she co-taught the Cornell Summer School Course in natural science illustration with the botanical artist and long time GNSI member, Bente King. Frances has recently returned to her first medium of choice from her abstract painting years, acrylics, and is presently engaged in illustrating the insect fauna of milkweed. She is an artist member of the State of the Art Gallery in Ithaca and has exhibited both regionally and nationally, most recently in the Focus on Nature IX Show at the NYS Museum in Albany. |
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Studied art
at the American University in Rome and the New York Studio School
where she was nominated for a scholarship to Skowhegan, Maine. Artist
in residence at Miss Porter's school in Farmington, CT, and Loomis
Chaffee in Windsor, CT. Attended Birdcliff artist colony and The
Vermont Studio Center. Painted with Wolf Khan in summer program
at Santa Fe Art Institute. Shows in NYC, London and Ithaca. Represented
by Paris gallery, Envie d'Art. |
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Karen Kucharski holds an MFA in printmaking from Syracuse University and a BA from Binghamton University. She has taught at Cornell University and Dartmouth College, among other universities and colleges, and in studio and workshop settings, including The Ink Shop Printmaking Center in Ithaca and Two Rivers Printmaking Studio in White River Junction, VT.
Karen works with light and movement, fire and water, in her drawings, paintings, and hand-pulled prints. She is inspired by the landscape, cultural diversity, and dance forms, such as the Argentine Tango. Karen exhibits regularly during Ithaca's Gallery Night and Binghamton's First Fridays. National exhibitions include the North Bank Artists Gallery (Vancouver, WA), Fridholm Fine Arts Building (Asheville, NC), and onstage with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra at Artpark (Buffalo, NY). Internationally, Karen’s art has been exhibited in Osaka, Japan, and Toronto, Canada.
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B.A. in Drama, University of Illinois,
Chicago. Honors degree in painting, Lancashire Polytechnic, Preston,
England. Extensive teaching experience with students of all ages
as well as with learning difficulties. Also teaches Drawing and
Painting at Tompkins-Cortland Community College (TC3). Co-director
of The Main Street Gallery in Groton. |
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