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a national organization to show and promote works by professional women artists founded in 1896 |
Board of Governors
| Maryann Burton, President Maryann graduated from the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art. Her professional career includes Ziff Davis Publications, Park Avenue, New York, in the Advertising Department. Owner and operator of MBurtonArt Studio & Gallery in Moonachie, NJ, she teaches Watercolor classes, and hosts other artist’s workshops. She also enjoys teaching Plein Air painting at different locations. Maryann is the recipient of many awards and accolades that include Manhattan Arts International “Outstanding Woman Artist Achievement Award”. She has attained signature status in The New Jersey Water Color Society, North East Watercolor Society, and the Hudson Valley Art Association. An elected member of the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, serving as a board member and Chair of its Benefit Reception for the Metropolitan Museum of Art American Wing Travel Fund, a fellow with the American Artists Professional League, and the Pennsylvania Watercolor Society. She has also served as a curator and awards judge for many exhibitions. |
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| Rebecca Rosenheck, 1st Vice President, Annual Juried Exhibition Chair Rebecca Rosenheck is an award-winning artist that paints from life and tries to capture the light. Working primarily in pastel and oil, Rebecca paints the luminous colors she sees, which can’t be discerned from photographs. Rebecca is an associate member of Pastel Society of America and a signature member of Pastel Society of New Jersey. For CLWAC, Rebecca held the position of Co-chair of the Annual Open Exhibition in 2022. Rebecca holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Lafayette College. Her engineering background informs and enhances the drawing and spacial ability seen in her paintings. She has studied pastel painting with Catherine Kinkade, PSA at the Montclair Art Museum and she has studied oil painting with Rebecca Jean Leer, OPA at the Ridgewood Art Institute. |
| Susan Jarecky, 2nd Vice President, Annual Juried Exhibition Co Chair Susan Jarecky has been a professional artist for 42 years. She began her career as an architectural illustrator and worked on projects around the world for over 30 years. In 2011, Susan retired from illustration to focus on oil painting. She has a passion for her subject matter which include rural and landscape genres. Susan is an impressionist painter and is adept in “alla prima” technique (wet into wet paint). She is known for her color sensibility, strong compositions, and brushwork skills. She adores plein air painting and has learned the true palette of nature by being out doors and painting the many layers of what she sees. Susan is currently gallery represented in Colorado, and is an award winner in many regional and national art shows. She is a member of American Impressionist Society, Oil Painters of America, and Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, and was a 13 year exhibitor in the Festival of Arts, Laguna Beach, CA. “Paint truly from your heart and the wonder of your eyes, and the viewers will be delighted” Susan Jarecky sjarecky@gmail.com |
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Therese (Terry) Urban, Recording Secretary Therese (Terry) Urban is a New York native. Her formative years of school - from post-war Queens, rural Long Island waterfront, affluent Suffolk County LI, multi-cultural midtown Manhattan, to the orange groves of a still-segregated and rural Central Florida - gave her child’s eye a varied perspective on people and their values, as well as a sense of mutable landscape. As a teenager in Florida, her paintings earned local accolades and helped fund her return to NYC in 1966. She worked in public relations and the music industry until earning a Paralegal Certificate from LIU, Brooklyn. Later, while raising a family on Long Island, Terry graduated SUNY Empire with a B.A. in Visual Arts under the mentorship of painter, Dee Shapiro, and printmaker, Anne Tuttle. Being an artist was always her passion! With the children grown and the family’s return to Brooklyn, Terry resumed an art practice that employs painting, printmaking and mixed media. All of her images engage color with the layers and edges of the natural environment and the subtleness of off-season variety. They often incorporate elements of collage and chine colle, with the occasional figurative infusion. Her work has won numerous awards and enlivened many private collections. Since 2008, Terry’s been an active member and 14-yr Board Member of BWAC (Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition) in Red Hook, showing her own work, chairing numerous shows, and curating the presentation of many national juried shows. Since 2019 she is a member of their Advisory Board, active on the Governance and Strategic Planning Committees. Terry is also a juried, and award-winning, member of The Salmagundi Club since 2017, serving on the 2021-23 Curatorial Committee, and a juried member of The Pastel Society of America since 2021, winning an award in their prestigious 50th Anniversary Exhibition in 2022, her first juried pastel exhibition! Terry also became a juried, and award-winning, member of CLWAC in 2024. |
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