 a r t i s t o f t h e m o n t h
Dolores Valenza, as featured
artist of BTDesign Art Gallery (Faenza, Ravenna, Italy) in
September of 2008 has participated the fifth edition of the
Master Art Award of BTDesign, "The Master of 2008". Dolores is
the winner of the Best Sculpture award! Her artworks and
website www.doloresvalenza.com have been judged the best in
the Sculpture category.
By the time Dolores Valenza began to pursue her love of art in about 1960, she and husband Larry already had 2 of their 4 children. Her first teacher was to be Pascal Rocco, a local Gallery owner and framer who also a very well trained and talented artist. Finding Dolores an apt pupil, Pascal Rocco eventually advised her to go to the Brooklyn Museum Art School for further training in a formal school setting.
At Brooklyn Museum Art School, Dolores studied under Isaac Soyer among others. Her hard work paid off when four of the works Dolores created at the Museum School went into an exhibition at Pascal Rocco's Gallery. One of these early works sold! This was great encouragement -- truly a thrill for a budding artist!
Art calls to art. A trip with friends to see the Mona Lisa at a traveling exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, lead to lunch at a restaurant one block down from the Museum that happened to exhibit paintings. Dolores bravely asked if they'd exhibit her works, too. They would! And her paintings sold off the wall, again and again, for several years. Many became wonderful additions to fine collections.
Meanwhile, two more children were born to Larry and Dolores. Dolores managed to continue her art studies and career while passing a love of art along to her children (three of whom make their livings in various art fields). Dolores preferred working at night when everyone was asleep. That time was hers and did not detract from the day to day
Demands of motherhood.
Dolores went on to study at Pratt Institute, and exhibited there with her fellow classmates. She studied etching at Low Beer Studios. During these years, Dolores taught at the Island Celebration of the Arts in Vermont, gave seminars at various studios and Trade shows, eventually teaching private classes from her studio in NYC. She accepted a more formal teaching position and kept it for 11 years at
I.R.P.E. (The Institute of Retired Professionals and Executives) at Brooklyn College where she taught Illumination Techniques Updated. All the while Dolores continued to teach out of her private studio...
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