Zerbe Sodervick
Zerbe moved to Florida five years ago. After living three years on Anna Maria Island, she chose to relocate her studio to 1361 Blvd of the Arts, and neighboring residence the Rosemary District, Sarasota. Retired from a 35 year teaching and administrative career at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York, Zerbe now exchanges her professor and university administrative commitments for her long aspired desire to focus on creating fine art: encaustic (beeswax) prints and mixed media sculpture. Her goals to become an established FL Gulf artist is a natural extension of her Upstate NY activities, where she maintained a high profile on the university campus, directed GALLERY r, a student run, metro art gallery and learning laboratory that bridged university and the cultural public through an ambitious calendar of artistic events.
Sodervick taught studio arts and art gallery management within the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology; Associate Director College of Imaging Arts & Sciences, tenured faculty National Technical Institute for the Deaf, served on the President’s Advisory Board for Women, Chairperson Extended Studies (adult learning), chair for summer adult ed., High School Portfolio Prep, summer faculty drawing institute, managed seven university gallery sites for showcasing faculty and student work, co-curated four retrospective exhibitions at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Zerbe actively participated in university committees, student advisement, recruitment and graduate thesis reviews.
Awards: New York Foundation for the Arts grant board; residencies with Vermont studio; Judith Brust studio. Nantucket, MA and Captiva, FL Haystack, ME, Print residency Captiva FL; Buffalo NY Arts studio, Special Opportunities from New York Foundation for the Arts, University of Buffalo summer studio, Centrum Arts/Artist of Port Townsend WA, Artist Residency Exchange, Western NY, ArtPark Papermaking, Lewiston, NY, Halo Arts residency, Sarasota, FL; Anna Maria. She has won 5 Best of Show Awards and 15 Juror’s Choice Awards for submissions in museums, university and commercial galleries. Zerbe has taught workshops throughout the country, and is represented in corporate and private collections in the United States, Canada and Europe.
Arts studios: Myrtle Avenue Printmakers, Brooklyn, NY; Main St. Art Studios, Sodus /Williamson, NY; Sodus Art Bank, Sodus, NY; Gallery r, Rochester, NY; Canal Street Encaustics, Rochester NY; Z Art Works-10th St., Palmetto FL, Blvd of the Arts, Sarasota FL; St. Boniface Church Arts Studio, Siesta Key, Sarasota, FL; 5th St. Rosemary, District/ Z Art Works Studio.
Education: BFA University of Nebraska-Omaha, MFA Pratt Institute – Brooklyn NY; Post graduate studies Columbia University – New York, NY; University Hawaii, Rochester Institute of Technology and NTID, Rochester, NY.
Full Vita/ catalogue upon request Zerbe Sodervick: [email protected]
Sodervick taught studio arts and art gallery management within the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at Rochester Institute of Technology; Associate Director College of Imaging Arts & Sciences, tenured faculty National Technical Institute for the Deaf, served on the President’s Advisory Board for Women, Chairperson Extended Studies (adult learning), chair for summer adult ed., High School Portfolio Prep, summer faculty drawing institute, managed seven university gallery sites for showcasing faculty and student work, co-curated four retrospective exhibitions at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf. Zerbe actively participated in university committees, student advisement, recruitment and graduate thesis reviews.
Awards: New York Foundation for the Arts grant board; residencies with Vermont studio; Judith Brust studio. Nantucket, MA and Captiva, FL Haystack, ME, Print residency Captiva FL; Buffalo NY Arts studio, Special Opportunities from New York Foundation for the Arts, University of Buffalo summer studio, Centrum Arts/Artist of Port Townsend WA, Artist Residency Exchange, Western NY, ArtPark Papermaking, Lewiston, NY, Halo Arts residency, Sarasota, FL; Anna Maria. She has won 5 Best of Show Awards and 15 Juror’s Choice Awards for submissions in museums, university and commercial galleries. Zerbe has taught workshops throughout the country, and is represented in corporate and private collections in the United States, Canada and Europe.
Arts studios: Myrtle Avenue Printmakers, Brooklyn, NY; Main St. Art Studios, Sodus /Williamson, NY; Sodus Art Bank, Sodus, NY; Gallery r, Rochester, NY; Canal Street Encaustics, Rochester NY; Z Art Works-10th St., Palmetto FL, Blvd of the Arts, Sarasota FL; St. Boniface Church Arts Studio, Siesta Key, Sarasota, FL; 5th St. Rosemary, District/ Z Art Works Studio.
Education: BFA University of Nebraska-Omaha, MFA Pratt Institute – Brooklyn NY; Post graduate studies Columbia University – New York, NY; University Hawaii, Rochester Institute of Technology and NTID, Rochester, NY.
Full Vita/ catalogue upon request Zerbe Sodervick: [email protected]
Christine Hales
Christine Simoneau Hales holds a BFA in Painting and Art Education from Massachusetts College of Art and an MS in Art Therapy from the College of New Rochelle, NY, and has studied with the Art Students League in New York, the National Academy of Design, New York City, and Institute of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy. She has also studied the art of iconography with many master iconographers in this country and abroad and travelled to Russia in 2006 to see Icons in icon studios, churches and museums.
Her paintings and icons have been in many group exhibitions as well as in several solo exhibitions in New York and Florida. Reviewed in the New York Times, and featured in Hudson Valley Magazine, Christine’s landscapes reflect the artist’s love of nature and transformation. Her work as an iconographer is in many churches and in public and private collections.
Christine currently has a large retrospective of her icons at Saint Peter’s Cathedral, Saint Petersburg, Florida until April 29.
Her paintings and icons have been in many group exhibitions as well as in several solo exhibitions in New York and Florida. Reviewed in the New York Times, and featured in Hudson Valley Magazine, Christine’s landscapes reflect the artist’s love of nature and transformation. Her work as an iconographer is in many churches and in public and private collections.
Christine currently has a large retrospective of her icons at Saint Peter’s Cathedral, Saint Petersburg, Florida until April 29.
