Creation Art Studio

EDUCATION

MFA American University, Washington, D.C.

BFA University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. (Studied with Rackstraw Downes and Neil Welliver)

BA Gettysburg College (Studied with Ingolf Qually who earned MFA and BFA degrees from Yale University)

TEACHING

Art Institute of Pittsburgh (Life Drawing, Graphic Design, 2012-2015 until closed)

Carnegie Mellon University / School of Drama (Adjunct Professor, Drawing, ‘09,’10)

Carnegie Mellon University /Pre-College Program (Painting & Drawing, 2003-2013)

Carnegie Museum of Art (Adult Figure Painting and Drawing, 1998-2013)

International Workshops

ASSOCIATIONS BY JURY

Salmagundi Art Club (NYC), Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, NAWA and NAWAMA,

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

• Art Complex Museum, Juried Exhibit, (NAWAMA)’, Duxbury, MA Apr.28-Sept.1, 2024

• Ceres Gallery , Chelsea, NYC, ‘Tapestry of Nature III / Endangered’, Apr. 23- May 18, 2024

• Arc Gallery, Ceres Group Exhibition, Chicago, May 2-25, 2024

• Scollay Square Gallery, The Galleries at Boston City Hall, Boston Muse: Womxn’s Art, Boston, MA. (NAWAMA), March 4-April 14, 2024.

• Ceres Gallery, 40th Anniversary Group Exhibit, Chelsea, NYC, January 2024

• Jack Tomayko Foundation, Permanent Collection Opening, Pittsburgh, PA December 2023

• Rockport Art Association & Museum, National Juried Exhibition, Juror: John C. Traynor,

Rockport, Massachusetts, Sept 30-Nov 3, 2023

• Crary Museum Art Gallery, Solo Invitational Exhibit, Curator: Thomas Paquette, Warren, PA.,Oct 2023

• Cotuit Center for the Arts, Group Juried Exhibit (NAWAMA), Cotuit, MA, May-June 2023

• Mark Rengers Gallery, Solo Invitational Exhibit, Sewickley, PA, Spring, 2023

• Spinning Plate Gallery, Group A, Curator: Nicole Capozzi of Boxheart Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA Dec.2022

• Salmagundi Art Club, Juried Spring Auction, 2022

• Ceres Gallery, Solo Exhibit, ‘Tapestry of Nature II (Endangered)’, Chelsea, NYC, Mar.31- April 23, 2022

• Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, 26th Annual Juried Exhibition, Juror: Thomas Paquette, Ligonier, PA, Ned J. Nakles Memorial Award / Second Place Award, Nov.2021 thru Jan.2022

• Spinning Plate Gallery,Group A, Juror: Prof. Patricia Bellan-Gillen,Carnegie Mellon Univ.,Pittsburgh,June 2021

• Ceres, Artsy, Pachamama (Mother Earth) Artsy Exhibit, NYC, May 2021

• Salmagundi Art Club,Juried Annual Members Exhibit, D.Wu&Elsie Ject-Key Memorial Award, NYC, May, 2021

• ArtHouse, Curator: Marcene Glover, Johnstown, PA, May 2021

• Salmagundi Art Club, Juried, ‘Black & White’ Exhibit, NYC, March, 2021

• Salmagundi Art Club, Juried ‘Figuratively Speaking’ Exhibit, NYC, Feb.2021

• Living with Art, Curator: Stacey Weiss, AAP online Exhibit, 2020

• Salmagundi Art Club, Juried Annual Members Exhibit, NYC, Fall, 2020

• Denise Bibro Fine Art Gallery, Curator: Denise Bibro, Chelsea, NYC, Sept. 2020

• Avelon’Arts, Curator: Marcene Glover, Lavelanet, France, Nov-Dec., 2020

• See / Me Online Exhibit during Covid 19. Jurors: Jerry Saltz (Art Critic of the Village Voice & Author), Christine Kuan, Marine Tanguy, Brendan Ciecko, and Poppy Simpson. May 2020.

• Denise Bibro Fine Art Gallery, Boros VII Exhibit, Curator: Denise Bibro, Chelsea, NYC, Jan.-Feb.4, 2020

• Ceres Gallery, Solo Exhibit, “Tapestry of Nature (Endangered body of work), Chelsea, NYC, September 2019

• Salmagundi Art Club, Annual Members Juried Exhibition, NYC, May 2019

• Denise Bibro Fine Art Gallery, Boros VI Exhibit, Curator: Denise Bibro,Chelsea, NYC,Dec.20,’18 -Feb.4, 2019

• BE Galleries, Curated 40th Anniversary Exhibition, Curator: Joy Borelli Edwards, Lawrenceville, PA. Dec. 2018

• Salmagundi Art Club, Juried Thumb Box Exhibition, Jurors: Exhibition Committee, NYC, December 2018

• Salmagundi Art Club, Annual Members Exhibition, Henry Nordhausen Memorial Award, NYC, August 2018

• Ceres National Open Competition, Juror: Sara Softness, Assistant Curator of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Award, June – July 2018

• Salmagundi Art Club, Juried Group 100th Anniversary Exhibit and the Annual Juried Group Exhibit, February and March, 2018

• Thompson Gallery, Juried Group Exhibition (NAWA), Curator: Todd Bartel, Gallery Director,Cambridge School of Weston, MA., December 2017- Spring 2018“Seeing Complementaries (Diversity body of work)” was used for Advertising / Invitation

• Denise Bibro Fine Art Gallery, Boros V Curated Exhibit, Curator: Denise Bibro, Chelsea, NYC, November 2017-January 2018

• Sylvia Wald/ Po Kim Gallery, National Association of Women Artists (NYC), Group Exhibit, “The Vision (Endangered body of work)”, Medal of Honor for Painting & Elizabeth Stanton Blake Award, NYC, Fall, 2017

• Salmagundi Art Club, Juried Group Nautical Exhibit, NYC, July 2017

• Mansion at Strathmore, Juried Group Exhibit, ‘Rise Up’, Honorable Mention, Bethesda, Maryland, September-November 2016

• The Mansion at Strathmore, Juried Group Exhibit ‘Rise Up’, Honorable Mention, Bethesda, Maryland, September-November 2016

• Salmagundi Art Club, Juried Group Exhibit, ‘Urban’, NYC, May 2016

• Carnegie Museum of History, (Discoverers Group), Artist’s Talk and Presentation of ‘Endangered’ work,

Curator: Dr. Richard Moriarty, Pittsburgh, PA., April 2016

• NAWA Gallery, Small Works, NYC, July 2016

• Salmagundi Art Club, Winter / Spring Exhibitions, NYC, 2015

• BE Gallery Solo Exhibition, ‘Endangered / Between the Lines’, Pittsburgh, PA, September-October, 2015

• Morris Museum of Art, Juried Group Exhibit (NAWA), Morristown, NJ, 2014

• Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Juror: Barbara Jones, Westmoreland Museum of American

Art, Greensburg, PA. 2014

• Sylvia Wald/Po Kim Gallery, NYC, Fall 2014

• Point Park University, Juried Group Exhibit (NAWA), Pittsburgh, PA, 2014

Juror: Sarah Hall, Director of Curatorial Affairs, Frick Museum of Art

• Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Instructors Exhibition, Step Up/Step Down, PA, 2014

• Salmagundi Art Club, Juried Group Exhibit, Noble Nocturnes, NYC, 2014

• Viridian Gallery, Juried International Competition, NYC, August 2013

Juror: Elisabeth Sussman, Curator,Whitney Museum of American Art, First Place International Award,

• Borelli Edwards Gallery, Solo Exhibit ‘ENDANGERED’, Lawrenceville, PA, 2013

• Williamsburg Art and History Center, Annual Exhibit, Brooklyn, NYC, 2013

Curator: Yuko Nii

• Viridian Gallery, International Photography Director’s Choice Exhibit, Chelsea, NYC, 2013

• Westmoreland Museum of Art, Juried Group Biennial and Artist’s Talk, Greensburg, PA, Summer, 2012

• Amarillo Museum of Art, National Juried Figure Drawing Competition, First Place National Award, TX, 2011

Juror: Martha Mayer Erlbacher, MFA Department Head / New York Academy of Art & Professor of Anatomy

• St. Vincent’s University Museum Gallery, Invitational “20 x 2 Notable Regional Artists”, PA, Fall 2011

• Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, NAWA, Audrey Hope Shirk Award (2011), SOHO, NYC, Fall 2011, 2012

• Village Studio, Delray Beach, Honorable Mention, Florida, 2011

• Carnegie Museum of Art, 2-Minute Film Competition, Pittsburgh, PA, Summer 2011

• Carnegie Museum of Art, Annual Juried Group Exhibit (AAP), Pittsburgh, PA 2010

Jurors: Al Miner (Curatorial Asst. Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington.,D.C.,Donald Miller

• Salmagundi Art Club, Artist’s Talk with Digial Presentation of Work, NYC, Spring, 2010

• Point Park University, “Four Artists”, Curated, Pittsburgh, PA, Summer, 2010

• University Exhibits, Traveling , (AAP), Juror’s Award, PA, Summer, 2010

• World of Artists, ‘International Women’s Exhibit’, Beacon, NY, 2010

• Cultural Trust, AAP Presidents Choice Exhibition, Invitational, Pittsburgh, PA., Summer, 2010

• Art Institute of Pittsburgh, 100th Anniversary AAP Group Exhibit, PA, 2010

• National Arts Club Gallery, NAWA Annual, Jeffrey Childs Willis Memorial Award, NYC, 2010

• State Museum of Pennsylvania, ‘Art of the State Juried Exhibit’, Harrisburg, PA., 2009

• Fein Gallery, Generation to Generation, AAP Juried Group, Pittsburgh, PA, 2008 & 2009

• Frank Melega Art Museum, Solo Exhibit, Brownsville, PA 2007

• American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Juried Group Exhibit,

Washington, D.C. 2007

• Mendelson Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA., Solo Exhibit, ‘US’, 2007

• Regina A Quick Center for the Arts Museum, St. Bonaventure University, Solo Exhibit, St. Bonaventure, NY

• State Museum of Pennsylvania, Juried Group Exhibit, Harrisburg, PA 2006

Juror: Susan Fisher Sterling, Chief Curator, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington,D.C

• Dimensions 2006,National Juried Exhibit, First Place National Award, Winston-Salem, NC, 2006

Juror: Brooke Davis Anderson, Director and Curator of the American Folk Art Museum, NYC

• Westmoreland Museum of Art, Biennial AAP Exhibition, Greensburg, PA.,2006

Juror: Virginia Mecklenburg, Curator: Smithsonian American Art Museum

• Carnegie Museum of Art, AAP Group Juried Exhibit, Pittsburgh, PA., 2005

Juror: Douglas Fogle, Curator, Carnegie Museum of Art

• Southern Allegheny Museum of Art, Annual Juried Group Exhibit, First Place Award, Ligonier, PA., 2006

• Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, Juried Group Exhibit, New Castle, PA, 2005

• Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Solo Exhibit, Pittsburgh, PA., 2004

Juror: Liz Thomas, Assistant Curator, Carnegie Museum of Art

• Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, Group Juried Exhibit, New Castle, PA. 2004

Juror: Kurt Shaw, Art Critic, Pittsburgh Tribune Review

• Ceres Gallery, Invitational from 2002 National Exhibition Artists, NYC, 2003

• Ceres Gallery, National Juried Art Exhibition, NYC, 2002

Juror: Charlotta Kotik,Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Chairperson/Dept.

Painting & Sculpture

SELECTED AWARDS

SELECTED AWARDS

• One Art Space, National Assoc. of Women Artists, Tribeca, Bobbi Mastrangelo Environmental Art Award, NYC, October, 2022.

• Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition, Wide Open 12, Award, Juror: Sadaf Padder, NYC, June /July 2022

• Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Ligonier),Juror:Thomas Paquette, Award,Nov.2021-‘22

• Salmagundi Art Club, Annual Juried Exhibition, D.Wu&Elsie Ject-Key Memorial Award, NYC, May,2021

• Salmagundi Art Club, Annual Exhibition Henry Nordhausen Memorial Award, NYC, August 2018

• Ceres National Open Competition, Juror: Sara Softness, Assistant Curator of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Award, June – July 2018

• Sylvia Wald/ Po Kim Gallery, NAWA NYC, Group Exhibit, “The Vision (Endangered body of work)”, Medal of Honor for Painting & Elizabeth Stanton Blake Award, NYC, Fall, 2017

• Strathmore Mansion, Honorable Mention, Bethesda, Md., Fall, 2016

• Salmagundi Art Club, Auction Exhibit, Patrons Award, 2014

• Viridian Gallery, Juried International Competition, NYC, August 2013

Juror: Elisabeth Sussman, Curator,Whitney Museum of American Art, First Place International Award

• Amarillo Museum of Art, National Juried Figure Competition, First Place National Award, Texas, 2011

Juror: Martha Mayer Erlbacher, MFA Department Head / New York Academy of Art, Professor Anatomy

• Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, NAWA Annual Exhibition, Audrey Hope Shirk Award, NYC, 2011

• National Arts Club Gallery, NAWA Annual Group Juried Exhibition, Jeffrey Child’s Willis Award, NYC, 2010

• Pennsylvania Traveling University Exhibit, AAP, Juror’s Award, 2010

• Village Studio, Group Juried Exhibit, Honorable Mention, Delray Beach, Florida, 2010

• Dimensions 2006,National Juried Exhibit, First Place National Award, Winston-Salem, NC, 2006

Juror: Brooke Davis Anderson, Director and Curator of the American Folk Art Museum, NYC

• Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Juried Group Exhibition, First Place Award, PA, 2005

• Artistic Merit and Community Activism:

Congress of the United States of America

Pennsylvania House of Representatives

Pennsylvania State Senate

SELECTED REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS

• The Bradford Era, October 2023 https://www.bradfordera.com/news/endangered-species-bright-characters-at-crary/article_584efbfc-500c-11ee-9a90-bb2fbfdccb97.html

• The Jamestown Gazette October 2023 https://jamestowngazette.com/endangered-species-and-zany-characters-can-be-found-at-the-crary-art-gallery-on-october-7th/?amp=1

• Erie News, October 2023 https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/49636631/new-crary-art-gallery-exhibition-features-endangered-species-and-zany-characters

• Times Observer, October 2023 https://www.timesobserver.com/news/local-news/2023/10/crary-art-gallery-to-open-new-exhibit-in-october/

• Your Daily Local https://yourdailylocal.com/new-exhibition-set-to-open-at-crary-art-gallery-on-oct-7/

• Pittsburgh Quarterly, Online, May 1, 2023

• Antiques and The Arts Weekly, Female Artists Drive Up Bids at Salmagundi’s Spring Auction, April 29, 2022

• Liveauctioneers.com, Story and Image of ‘Tree of Knowledge Aflame (Endangered)’, March 28, 2022

• Arts Magazine, Lavelanet, France, Fall 2020

• How Art Heals, a book by Andra Stanton. Among other works, Ms. Stanton also authored, Dimension Cloth: Sculpture: by Contemporary Textile Artists, Schiffer Publishing. ‘Finished?(Endangered body of work)’ and “Ivory-Billed Woodpecker (Endangered body of work)” are to be included in the Art of Connection. May 2021

• With Eyes Open, by Todd Bartell, Paperback,122 pages, (EMC’s,“Seeing Complemetaries” painting is the Front Cover) 2018

http://www.highbrowmagazine.com/7477-national-association-women-artists-celebrating-years-art (March, 2017)

https://artsy.net/post/thenawa-visions-and-revelations-at-point-park-university 4/3/14

http://www.arttimesjournal.com/pdfs/Art_Times_Sept_Oct_2012.pdf

http://mazurkraemer.wordpress.com/2011/04/04/business-spotlight-elizabeth-myers-castonguay-accomplished-pittsburgh-artist/

http://www.pittsburghsocietyofartists.org/correspondence/093011.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrailsofhistory/sets/72157620248812574/detail/?page=4

http://www.popcitymedia.com/features/ECastonguay0418.aspx

http://old.post-gazette.com/pg/08090/868486-58.stm

http://www.pittsburghartistregistry.org/elizabethcastonguay

http://www.niagarapumphouse.ca/instructors.html

http://www.feinartgallery.com/newshow.php?SID=13