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~ RESUME ~

~ Resume 2023~ 

Outdoor Monuments:

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  • Emlen Tunnell, 7 foot high bronze New York Giants football player, first African American football player to be inducted into the NFL football hall of fame, Installed at the Radnor TWP Building, Radnor, PA,  Emlen Tunnell was born and raised in Radnor and is Delaware County’s most honored football player and a highly decorated World War II Veteran; dedication, June 2, 2018

  • History of Negro Baseball League, Pop Lloyd Committee to Restore Pop Lloyd Stadium, 6 ft x 8 ft bronze bas relief, for the entrance of Sand Castle Stadium, Atlantic City NJ, 1999; Richard Stockton College, Pomona, NJ, Athletic Department, 2013

  • Kean University, New Jersey State Council for the Arts One Percent for Arts awarded out of 3,000 applicants. Two 5-foot diameter bas-reliefs of university mascot and school seal. Ten bas-relief plaques of Kean Family Crest that surrounded the two larger bas-reliefs, poly-resin, 1999

  • 100th Anniversary Monument, Press of Atlantic City, 12 feet high, stainless steel, 1996

  • Glenside Then and Now, Glenside, PA, commissioned by Cheltenham Township, sculpture honoring the town’s unique history, people, buildings, and  “sense of place”, 2007

  • Memorial Park Cross with Dove, St. John’s Presbyterian Church, Devon PA, 2006

  • Tiger, Holy Family University, 6-foot-high poly-resin cast of the school mascot, Philadelphia, PA, 2000

  • Culinary Institute of America, Bronze Bas-Relief of Anthony Bourdain, CIA Alumni ‘78, Hyde Park N.Y. 2019

  • Culinary Institute of America, Vintner Hall of Fame Inductees, 4 bronze bas-relief sculptures of  

Cesar Chavez, Robert M. Parker Jr., Meredith “Merry” Edwards, and Frank Schoonmaker, St. Helena, CA 2015

  • Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Durham, NC, a sculpture marking 5th anniversary, 2012

  • Father Sean Sullivan, Founder, Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA, bronze bust, 2011

  • Dave Poulin, Ron Hextal, and Dave Schultz, Eric Lindros, Eric DesJardins, Dave LeClaire,

Philadelphia Flyers Hall of Fame, bronze portrait bust and figure sculptures, 2004, 2009 and 2010 and 2015

  • Raven, life-size, bronze, Gerald Kress, Plymouth Meeting, PA, 2006

  • Horace Bryant, bronze-like size portrait bust, Carnegie Library, Atlantic City NJ, 2004

  • Eagle, bronze life-size, Triumph Group, Wayne, PA, 2003

  • Dr. James Kitchen, life-size bronze bust, Lankenau Hospital, Lower Merion, PA, 2001

 

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Education:

  • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1980-1984

  • Frudakis Academy of the Fine Arts, Advanced Studies in Sculpture, 1981-1985

  • University of the Arts, Ceramic Program, 1987-1988

Studied ceramics, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, 19

  • Montgomery County Community College, Women-Owned Business Course, Certificate Program, Certified, 2006

  

 

Group Exhibitions:

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  • Southern Alleghenies Museum of the Arts, Group Show, 2013

  • Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Juried Annual Exhibition, 1984

  • Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia PA, 1984

  • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Annual Students Exhibition, 1984

  • National Sculpture Society, Juried Annual Exhibition, NYC, 1985

  • Allied Artists of America Annual Exhibition, NY, 1985

  • National Academy of Design, Juried Annual Exhibition, NYC, 1986

  • Women Artists of Atlantic County, Atlantic Community College, NJ, 1993

  • Ocean City Art Show, Ocean City NJ, 1995

  • Greater Norristown Arts League, Juried Sculpture Show, Norristown, PA, 2006

  • Audubon Juried Group Show, Audubon PA, 2006

  • Southern Alleghenies Museum of the Arts, Bi-Annual Exhibition, 2013

  • Art of the Barn, Bucks County Audubon Society annual fundraiser exhibition, 2017 and 2018

  • 41st Annual Bucks County Sculpture Show, Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce, 2018

 

Awards:

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  • Allied Artists Juried National Exhibition, Gold Medal of Honor, NYC, 1984

  • Helen Foster Barnett Youth Award, Best in Show, National Academy of Design, NYC, 1986

  • Women Artists of Atlantic County, First Prize Sculpture, Atlantic Community College, 1993

  • Great Norristown Arts League, Juried Sculpture Show, Best in Show, Norristown PA, 2006

  • Audubon Juried Group Show Award, Audubon PA, 2006

  • Cheltenham Township Main Street Award, for contributing time and talent to develop public art in town, Glenside PA, 2007

  • 41st Annual Bucks County Sculpture Show. 1st Place; Central Bucks Chamber of Commerce, 2018

 

Teaching:

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  • Wayne Art Center, Wayne PA; Sculpture, adult portrait and figurative classes 2005-Present

  • Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education, adult and children’s art and nature programs mixed media and environmental science classes and tours, 2006-2012

  • Ocean City Arts Center, Ocean City N.J. Sculpture, 1985, 1995-96

  • Ventnor Arts Center, Ventnor N.J. painting and sculpture, 1993-1995

  • Atlantic Community College, New Jersey,  mixed media, 1995-1996

  • Private sculpture lessons in Bas-Relief, John Shafer, Shafer Vineyards, Napa Valley, Ca. 2019

 

Additional Experience:

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  • Pathway School, Norristown Pa. three 5’ x 7’ Bronze Donor Tree’s, 2019

  • Visiting Artist, Swarthmore-Rutledge School, “Wishing Tree” 8’ permanent installation, 2011

  • Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA, Weekend Manager, 2014-2016

  • Dragon Boat participant, Philadelphia, PA, 2010

  • Visiting Artist at Penn Charter  Elementary School, Philadelphia, PA, 2006 and 2007

  • The Savoy Company, Assisted in creating the sets and backdrops for The Yeomen of the Guard, 2005,

  Performed at the Academy of Music, Philadelphia PA, and Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, PA

  • Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum Education Department assistant to Director, 1982-84

 

Born: 1961, Atlantic City, NJ. Mother of two children, Laura, and Jason. Husband Paul Petry.

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