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Get Involved!
Call for Committee Members
Have experience with fundraising? Want to get more involved with Forum activites? The Fundraising Committee
needs your help
raising funds for the upcoming Inspiring Figures exhibit. Contact the Cecilia Beaux Forum Coordinator
Laren at
lauren@portraitsociety.org
for more information.
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Chair
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Judith Carducci, Cecilia Beaux Forum Chair
Judith began formal art study at age five under Blanche Whiting
, receiving a classic art education in the tradition of European
realism and studied sculpture with Bashka Paeff, watercolor
with Melvin Chevers, landscape and abstract composition with
C.A. Brodeur, and pastel with Albert Handell, Charles Basham
and Daniel Greene, N.A. Among her awards are Best of Show, Portrait
Society of America; Award of Excellence, Degas Pastel Society;
Finalist, Washington Society of Portrait Artists; and First
Prize, LaFond National Competition. |
Committee Heads
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Kay Polk, Mentoring Program Committee Head
Kay Polk is an award winning portrait artist with more than
thirty years of experience in portraiture and fine art. Working
out of her home studio in Dallas, Texas, Ms. Polk is nationally
known for her charming portraits of children and signature art
style in the mediums of oil, pastel and charcoal. Professional
accomplishments include achieving signature status in Knickerbocker
Artists in New York, The Pastel Society of America in New York,
and the Portrait Society of America. Kay is also a past president
of the Pastel Society of the Southwest, and, for a number of
years, had her own teaching Atelier in Dallas and Houston. |
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Teresa Spinner, Exhibition Fundraising Committee
Head
A native of New Haven, Connecticut, Teresa Spinner studied
with Ken Davies at the Paier School of Art and with painters
on the faculty of Yale University including Deane Keller and
Rudolph Zallinger, as well as with Burton Silverman in New
York City. She attended the National Academy of Art, the Art
Student's League in New York City and the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts where she was awarded the Landscape Prize
in 1989. Recently returned to the United States after ten
years painting abroad and traveling with her husband, Terry
divides her time between her studios in Sarasota, Florida
and New Hampshire. She produces videos of well-known artists
with whom she has studied and markets them internationally
through her company, Signilar, Inc.
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Lisa Gleim-Jonas, Exhibition Planning Committee
Head
Atlanta native, Lisa Gleim-Jonas is an award winning portrait
artist and a graduate of the prestigious Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts. Her highly sought after portraits of children
and pets can be found in private collections throughout the
country, including Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, the
Court of Chancery in Wilmington, Delaware and Astra-Zeneca Pharmaceutical
Company, to name a few. Lisa is a founding member of the Portrait
Society of America, a founder of the Atlanta Fine Arts League,
Inc., a Juried Associate of the Pastel Society of America, a
member of the Southeastern Pastel Society, the Catherine Lorillard
Wolfe Arts Club and Daughters of the American Revolution. She
has over 8 years experience with managing and producing fine
art exhibitions. |
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Luanna Luconi Winner, Literature Committee Head
A founding member of the Portrait Society of America, Luana
Luconi Winner was schooled in Rome, Florence, Switzerland, and
the USA, and currently resides in North Carolina. Luana's portraits
and murals hang in corporations, universities, and residences
on both sides of the ocean. |
Committees
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Exhibitions
Lisa Gleim, Head
Marietta, Georgia
Leah Hopkins Henry
Atlanta, Georgia
Alexandra Tyng
Narbeth, Pennsylvania
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Exhibition Fundraising
Teresa Spinner, Head
Sarasota, Florida
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Literature
Luana Luconi Winner, Head
Raleigh, North Carolina
Linda Lawler
Marshall, Virgnia
Pat Aube Gray
Blairsville, Georgia
Terry Howell Stanley
Green Bay, Wisconsin
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Mentoring
Kay Polk, Head
Dallas, Texas
Julia Bythewood Hodges
Atlanta, Georgia
Ellen Moore
Dallas, Texas
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