biography of Arlene (Joyce) SKLAR-WEINSTEIN (1931)

Birth place: Detroit, MI

Addresses: Hastings-on-Hudson, NY

Profession: Painter, printmaker

Studied: Parsons School Design; MoMA (scholarship); Bernard Pfreim; Albright Art School; New York Univ. with Hale Woodruff (B.A., 1952; M.S., art educ., 1955); Pratt Graphics Center with Andrew Stasik.

Exhibited: Regional Juried Graphics, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1952; The Visionaires, East Hampton Galleries, New York, 1968; Juried Regional, Yonkers AA, Hudson River Mus., 1970 & 1971; Juried Nat., NAWA, Lever House, New York, 1972; Evolutions, Hudson River Mus., 1971 (solo); West Broadway Gallery, 1972 (solo). Awards: Geigy award for painting, Ciba-Geigy Corp, 1969; first prize, Regional Juried at Hudson River Mus., Yonkers AA, 1971; award at print competition, Gestetner Corp., 1971.

Member: Yonkers AA, Hudson River Mus. (pres., 1970-72); Women in Art (rotating leadership, 1972); NAWA

Work: MoMA; NYPL Permanent Print Collection; Grace Gallery, NYC Community College, Brooklyn; Hudson River Mus. Permanent Collection, Yonkers, NY; Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., Mount Vernon, NY.

Comments: Preferred media: acrylics. Positions: visual arts coordinator, Council Arts Westchester, White Plains, NY, 1969-70. Teaching: chmn. dept art for jr. h.s., Plainedge Schools, Farmingdale, NY, 1953-56; instructor of art & director art school, YM-YWHA, Inwood-Wa Washington Heights, NY, 1956-58; coordinator-instructor art workshops, H. Hastings Creative Arts Council, NY, 1962-68.

Sources: WW73; Masters & Houston, Psychedelic Art (Grove, 1968); H. H. Arnason, History of Modern Art (Abrams, 1969); Barry N. Schwartz, introduction to catalogue (Hudson River Mus., 1971).