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AWARDS, HONORS
AND SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2008 Guest, “Full Bloom,” Television interview with Zita Christian, CT
2008 Guest, “Pet Talk,” Television interview on Channel 12, CT
2007 Canadian Artisans Conference, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
2006
Keynote speaker, West Hartford Rotary Club, West Hartford, CT
2005 Keynote
speaker, Gift Fair, Atlanta, GA
2005 Corporator, St. Francis Hospital, Hartford,
CT
2004 Guest speaker, Savings Bank of Rockville, South Windsor, CT
2004
Keynote speaker University of Connecticut Career seminar, Voices from the Field:
Visual Arts
2004 Featured artist Connecticut Building, Eastern States Exposition,
West Springfield MA
2004 Nawbo Artist of the Year 2004, Connecticut Chapter
2003
Recognized by New Orleans City Council for contribution to the Artist's Foundation
Collection
2003 Keynote speaker, "HOT" Schools Conference, Connecticut
Commission on the Arts
2003 Panel discussion leader, NAWBO Connecticut Business
Expo, Hartford, CT
2003 Remarkable Woman In Business Award, Hartford Business
Journal, Hartford, CT
2002 Keynote speaker, Connecticut Art Educators Association
Conference
2002 Grand opening of the Karen Rossi Gallery, A Special Place,
East Windsor, CT
2002 Nova Award for Best Overall New Product for 2002, Canadian
Gift & Tableware Association
2002 Featured appearance on QVC
2002
A First Experience in Creativity exhibitor, First Experience Communications, Glastonbury,
CT
2001 Connecticut Bloomer Award, Northeast Magazine, Hartford, CT
2001
Featured appearance on QVC
2001 Thematic images & pyrotechnic display,
Mark Twain Days Fireworks Show, Hartford, CT
COMMISSIONS
AND COLLECTIONS-RECENT 2007 “My Friends Place”, Boundless Playgrounds, South Windsor, CT
2007 “Better Beginnings”, Saint Francis Hospital, Hartford, CT
2007 “Jerusalem”, Philip Brody, Ridgewood, NJ
2007 “Asian Girl,” Pearl River, New York, NY
2006
"Wedding Chuppah", Denise Rosenberg, New York, NY
2005 Pine Grove
Elem. School, Together We Share, Discover, Create & Achieve, Avon, CT
2005
South Windsor Library, Angels of Culture, South Windsor, CT
2005 "Garden
Arch", Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, New Haven, CT
2005 Evergreen Walk,
The Gabriels II, South Windsor, CT
2005 "Mosaic Throne", collaboration
with Terra Gardens for Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford,CT
2004 If I Were a Rich
Man….Or Woman…Or Beastie, Beastie Beat, Milwaukee, WI
2003 "Holiday
Festivities" and "Fifties Girl" canvas murals, Silver Dollar City,
Branson, MO
2003 "Uncle Sam" and "Lady Liberty" metal
sculptures, Veterans Memorial Park, West Hartford, CT
2003 "RossiLand
Mural," Wagon Road Camp Children's Aid Society, Chappaqua, NY
2002 Art
sanctuary gate, Artists' Foundation Collection, A Studio in the Woods, New Orleans,
LA
2002 "To Life," Beastie Beat, Milwaukee, WI
2001 Mark Twain
House Ornament, White House, Washington, DC
2001 Mercy Health Care Community
Wall Sculpture, WI
2001 "Uncle Sam" and "Lady Liberty"
canvas murals, 225 Fifth Avenue, New York City, NY
2001 "Adam and Eve,"
University of Nevada School of Medicine, Las Vegas, NV
2000 "Our World
Revolves Around Kids," Baystate Hospital, Springfield, MA
2000 "To
Life," Bieber Memorial, St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford,
CT
1999 "Places to go, People to see," St. Francis Hospital and
Medical Center, Hartford, CT
1999 "Pittsfield Community," Berkshire
Medical Facility, Pittsfield, MA
1999 "Aquarium," Boston Children's
Hospital, Boston, MA
1998 Triptych for Farmington Valley Women's Health &
Resource Center, Avon, CT
1998 "Springfield Vignettes," Baystate
Hospital, Springfield, MA
1998 "Aquarium," Baystate Hospital, Springfield,
MA
1997 "Angels on My Shoulder," St. Francis Care, Hartford, CT
1997 "Fit For Life," St. Francis Care, Hartford, CT
1997 "Baltimore
Wall Sculpture," The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, MD
1997 "Flying Shoppers,"
Shop Rite of Lacey, Lanoka Harbor, NJ
1996 SAKS Fifth Avenue Mobile, New York,
NY
1996 "Chef," Collection of Rocky H. Aoki, Benihana, Japan
1996 "Animal Wall Sculpture," Linda Carter and Robert Altman, Washington,
DC
1995 "Born to Shop," Lucy Arnaz, CA
1995 "Hillary,"
The White House, Washington, DC
SOLO
EXHIBITIONS-RECENT
2008 Center Framing, West Hartford, CT
2007 Wave Gallery, New Haven, CT
2007 “Tea Ladies,” Mainly Tea, Wethersfield, CT
2007 Farmington Valley Art Center, Farmington, CT
2005
Terra Gardens, Vernon, CT
2002 CT Commission on the Arts, Visual Arts Showcases,
Bradley Int'l Airport, Windsor Locks, CT
2001 Artful Hand Gallery, Copley
Place, Boston, MA
2001 Paul Brent Gallery, Panama City, FL
2000 Ferrin
Gallery, Northampton, MA
2000 Heather Gallery, Aspen, CO
2000 Zona, New
York, NY
1999 "Artwalk," Pippens, New Orleans, LA
1999 "Retrospective,"
Saint Francis Hospital
1998 "Karen Rossi Recent Work," Ferrin Gallery,
Northampton, MA
1998 Delind Fine Art, Milwaukee, CT
1997 Zyzyx, Festival
at Woodholme, Baltimore, MD
1997 "The Art of Giving the Giving of Art,"
Fischer Gallery, Avon, CT
1997 "People and Places," 100 Pearl Gallery,
Hartford, CT
1997-1992 "Great Circus Parade Mobiles," Delind Fine
Art, Milwaukee, WI
1995 "Twain's World - A Mobile," Hartford Courant,
Hartford, CT
1995 "V.S.A. Mural," Special Olympics, New Haven, CT
COMMISSIONS
AND COLLECTIONS-OTHER
1995/1990 "ISG Mobile Installations", Booz, Allen & Hamilton; Dallas,
New York, and London
1994 "A Mirrored Jungle", Howie Mandell, Boston,
MA
1994 "Ariel, A Mermaid", University of Connecticut Health Center,
Hartford, CT
1994 "Siren's Song", Hasbro Children's Hospital, Providence,
RI
1993 "Circus Parade", Ernest & Tova Borgnine, Beverly Hills,
CA
1993 "The Oysterman", City of New Haven, Quinnipiac River Park,
New Haven, CT
1992 "La Sirena", Spoleto's Restaurant, Northampton,
MA
1992 "Fountain of Teeth and Heart", Lobby Sculpture, Buckland
Farms Medical Offices, So. Windsor, CT
1992 "The Oyster Man", Bronze
Public Sculpture, New Haven, CT
1990 "Hartford", Theatre Works,
Bronson and Hutensky Theater, Hartford, CT
1989 "Hartford Buildings",
Colonial Realty, CT
1988 "School of Fish", Site-specific Mobile,
Stamford Transportation Center, Stamford, CT
1987 "Wheels on Whalley",
Whalley Avenue Special Services District, New Haven, CT
1987 "Happy Birthday",
Lady Liberty", Wall Sculpture, Ellis Island Museum, New York, NY
1986
"Engine 84", Hartford Steam Boiler Company, Hartford, CT
SOLO
EXHIBITIONS-OTHER
1994 "Tropic of Capricorn", Pavo Real, Boca Raton, FL
1994 "Holiday
Celebration", Neiman Marcus, White Plains, NY
1994 /1993 "New Orleans;
Masked/Unmasked", Wyndy Morehead Fine Art, New Orleans, LA
1992 "Tall
Ships Celebration Mobiles", Artful Hand, Boston, MA
1991 "An American
Birthday Celebration", Gallerie Maas, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1990
"Silver and Steel", Manchester Community College, Manchester, CT
1989 "Angels and Faeries", Holiday Window Exhibition, Bergdorf Goodman,
New York, NY
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
2008 Teacher – Brookfield Craft Center
2008 Teacher – Guilford Art Center
2008/2007 Teacher - Creative Art Ways, New Haven, CT
2007 Teacher – Wesleyan Potters
1999
Teacher - Neighborhood Studios, Greater Hartford Arts Council
1999 Teacher
- The Center for Health Enhancement, St. Francis Hospital
1998-1999 Artist
in Residence - Saint Francis Hospital
1990 Lecturer - Penland School of Crafts,
Penland, North Carolina
1988 Artist in Residence - Artpark, Lewiston, New
York
1984 Adjunct Professor - Southern Connecticut State College, Connecticut
EDUCATION
1980 B.A., Southern Connecticut State University
1984-1986 Additional studies
include: Penland School of Crafts, NC; University of Massachusetts, MA; Parsons
School of Design, NY, NY; Brookfield Crafts Center, CT
COMMUNITY
PROJECTS-RECENT
2007 Cow Parade, West Hartford, CT
2007 Bear Affair, Norfolk, CT
2007 Whaler’s Whale, South Windsor, CT
2007 “My Friend’s Place” Boundless Playgrounds, South Windsor, CT
2006
"A Modern Tea", Acrylic Illustration, Community Health Network of CT,
Inc.
2006 "Summer of Hope", Acrylic Illustration, Channel 3 Kids
Camp
2006 "Find a Furrever Home", Acrylic Illustration, CT Humane
Society
2006 "In the Company of Women", Acrylic Illustration, YWCA
of the Hartford Region
2006 "Hartford," Acrylic Illustration, 2006
United Arts Campaign, Greater Hartford Arts Council
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