HARRIETTE JOFFE

Harriette Joffe

22 River Street, Great Barrington, MA 01230

413-528-0780

Education

1981 MFA/MA, Art History and Museology, City College of New York; studied with Irving Kaufman, E. Goosen, and Milton Brown.

1978 BA, Fine Arts, Upsala College, East Orange, NJ

1974 Certification in Art Therapy, State of New Jersey

1952-1954 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Awards/Commissions

1991 New Mexico Arts Commission: Site Specific Sculpture: Chrysalis

1990 Academic Through Art and the Humanities: In-Service Seminar, Ramah

1990 Elementary School, Gallup, NM - McKinkley School District

1989 Art and the Environment; Smith Lake Elementary School, Thoreau, NM

1988 Nominee, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

1975 Upsala College Departmental Award in Painting, East Orange, NJ

1964 National Award in Painting, Motorola Corporation

Teaching and Related Work

2009-present: Special programs for Kolburne School-multi-media Creative Arts Facilitator (paint, music, dance)
2009 Berkshire Community College South. The Power of Flow: Drawing and Painting to Music and Dance.
2009 Berkshire Community College South: Art as Celebration-intuitive painting using music and dance as catalyst for creativity.
2005-2007 University of Illinois Chicago. Santa Fe, NM. Biographer and videographer for Keith Boyer Biography Project.
1990-present: Express Yourself. Santa Fe, NM. Facilitator and owner of multi-dimensional creative arts studio focusing on learning and healing through music, dance and visual art.
2005-2006 Organized and Developed the Los Alamos National Laboratory Medal Nomination for Physicist Keith Boyer. Santa Fe, NM. Coordinated and marshaled resources required to secure the nomination and award for Dr. Boyer; organized and prepared Dr. Boyer for award ceremony and presentation of paper.

1994 8 week seminar/collaborations in art with the elderly - Open Hands, Santa Fe, NM

1994 8 week seminar/collaborative art for the elderly - Open Hands Center at Horizons Nursing Facility, Santa Fe, NM

1991 College of Santa Fe, NM. Seminar and slide talk

1986-1987 Master Workshops in Painting, Long Island University, Southampton Campus, NY

1981-1982 Adjunct Professor in Art, William Patterson College, NJ

1980-1981 City College of New York Graduate Program, New York, NY

1980-1981 Assistant to Curator, Jewish Museum, New York, NY

1980-1981 Assistant to Director, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY

1980-1981 Graduate Assistant to Professor Irving Kaufman, City University of New York, NY

1978-1980 Adjunct Professor in Art, Upsala College, East Orange, NJ

1974-1976 Young Women’s Hebrew Association, Art Faculty, West Orange, NJ

1968-1970 Jewish Community Center Art Department, Bridgeport, CT

1968-1969 Director of Art Therapy, Miriam Hospital, Providence, RI

1954-1957 Painting Instructor, Art Department, Jewish Community Center, Providence, RI

Lectures and Special Projects

2000 La Casita School, Santa Fe, NM , special project, “Art is Happening for Children”

1998 Smith Gormley School, Santa Fe, NM, in service training, “The Story of Me”

1993 Martinez Elementary School, Santa Fe, NM, Environment and Sculpture Project

1993 Jacket Art: International Auction for Kitchen Angels

1993 Umbrella for Design Project International/Kitchen Angels

1992 Los Angeles Convention for Research on Crypto-Jews: Slide lecture: “The Cross, the Crown, the Star of David”

1992 Martinez Elementary School, Santa Fe, NM, Environment and Sculpture Project

1990 Curator, Anonymous Bosch Exhibition, Santa Fe, NM

1986 Parrish Museum, Southampton, NY

1985 East Hampton Center for Contemporary Art, East Hampton, NY

1984 Friends of Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY

1982 Women in Social Change, Hartwick College, Oneonta, NY

1980-1982 Art Director: Art Lover’s Odyssey, New York, NY (Series of lectures and tours; off-beat perspective of the New York Art World)

Represented by:

Joseph Gierek Fine Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma,

Selart, Dallas, Texas