Karen Williams Edelmann
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Karen Williams Edelmann was born in mid-western Ohio, grew up with her Staubach siblings in Cincinnati and later moved to Virginia to be closer to the sea.

Today she lives and works in the Hudson Valley
admiring the tidal river and flights of eagles from her new studio on the edge of Ossining.



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EDUCATION
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1988 to 1990
Syracuse University,
Syracuse, NY
Master of Fine Arts Degree
Highest Honors, Vis. Communications

1979 to 1986
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA
Dept. of Painting and Printmaking
Graduate work, Painting

1974 to 1978
Virginia Commonwealth University
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree
Highest Honors, Comm. Arts and Design,  1978
Elected Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society

Awards, Grants and Honors

2015 Selected Juror.
Congressional Arts Competition. NY 

2004 Juror. Hopper House Art Ctr. NY 

2004 Elected Member. National Arts Club. NY 

2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
Who’s Who Among American Teachers.

2001 Artist in Residence. Living Desert Museum, Palm Desert, CA 

2001 Grant. Faculty Development.
St. Thomas Aquinas College, NY 

1999 Artist in Residence, Les Amis de le Grande Vigne. Dinan, France 

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2012 to Present
Rockland Center for the Arts
Nyack, NY
Painting Faculty

2011 to Present
Emerita Professor of Art
St. Thomas Aquinas College,
Sparkill, NY

1995 to 2011
St. Thomas Aquinas College,
Sparkill, NY,
Humanities Division. Art,
Full Professor, Tenured.

1993 to 1995
Virginia Commonwealth University,
School of the Arts, Richmond, Virginia
University Honors Program Faculty

1988 to 1995
Virginia Commonwealth University,
School of the Arts, Richmond, Virginia
Assistant Professor

1980 to 1984
Virginia Commonwealth University,
School of the Arts, Richmond, Virginia
Instructor, Full time
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Art Workshops 
Summer 2006, 2007, Workshop: Painting
Todi, Italy
Summer 2004, Art. St John’s University
Rome, Italy
Summer 2002, Workshop: Painting –
Brittany, France
Summer 2001, Workshop: Painting –
St. Remy en Provence, France

SOLO EXHIBITIONS selected
Images Gallery, Briarcliff, NY 2021
Vertical Skies at Sweetgrass. Tarrytown, NY 2018
ArtSpace Gallery. Richmond, VA. 2016

Corner Frame Gallery. Nyack, NY. 2015
Rentz Gallery. Richmond, VA. 2006
Red Wing Gallery. Tarrytown, NY. March 2004
Living Desert Museum. Palm Desert, CA. 2001
Azarian-McCollough Gallery. Sparkill, NY. 2000
Brazier Fine Arts Gallery. Richmond, VA. 1999
Allen Sheppard Gallery. Piermont, NY. 1998
Brazier Fine Arts. Richmond, VA. 1997
Pelham Manor Club, Pelham, NY. 1996
Mabey Gallery. Richmond, VA. 1995
The Malton Gallery. Cincinnati, OH. 1995
Clark Pollock Gallery. Richmond, VA. 1994
Nationsbank Gallery. Richmond, VA. 1994


JURIED, GROUP AND INVITATIONAL selected

Upstream Gallery. Small Works,Hastings, NY 2020
Hastings on Hudson. Art Commission. 2017, 2019
Lagstein Gallery, Nyack, NY 2018
Thomas Cole House. Catskill, NY. 2017
Renaissance Fine Art, Orangeburg, NY 2011, 2016, 2017, 2018

Hopper House Art Center. Nyack, NY 1997, 2009, 2014 to 2019
Azarian-McCullough Gallery. Sparkill, NY 2010 to 2016
Rockland Center for Art. Nyack, Ny 2012 to 2021
Ossining Art Council. Ossining, NY 2013 to 2017
Mamaroneck Art Gallery. Mamaroneck, NY 2015
Outside in Piermont. Piermont, NY 2011, 2012

Silvermine A G. Art of the Northeast. Silvermine, CT. 2011, 2013
Renaissance Fine Art.  Orangeburg, NY. 2011
Dominican College. Rockland, NY. 2009 and 2010
National Arts Club. New York, NY. 2006 to 2010
Ridgefield Gallery. Ridgefield, CT. 2009
National Association of Women Artists. New York, NY 2009
Katonah Museum at No. Westchester, Mt. Kisco, NY 2008, 2009
Mikhail Zakin Gallery, Demarest, NJ 2008
Katonah Museum of Art. Katonah, NY 2008, 2013
Upstream Gallery. Hastings, NY 2008, 2019
Art6 Gallery. Small. International. Richmond, VA 2007-2015
Shelbourne Farms. 20th. Shelbourne, VT 2007, 2009, 2011
Renaissance Gallery. Five. Blauvelt, NY 2006
Center Gallery. Old Church, NJ. 2006
Academy Art Museum. Easton, MD. 2005
Martha Mabey Gallery. Biloxi, MS. 2005
Howland Cultural Center. Beacon, NY. 2005
Brazier Fine Arts Gallery. Richmond, VA.  2003 to 2005
Allen Sheppard Gallery. New York, NY. 1999, 2002
St. John's University. Queens, NY. 1996
Shockoe Arts Center. Richmond, VA. 1995
James Center Atrium. Richmond, VA. 1994
Malton Gallery. Cincinnati, OH. 1993
Gallery West. Alexandria, VA. 1993
Greater Reston Arts Center. Washington, DC. 1993
James Center. Richmond, VA. 1993
Mc Neese Gallery. Lake Charles, LA. 1993
Mabey Gallery West. Richmond, VA. 1993
The Maybe Gallery. Richmond, VA. 1993
National Woman's Caucus for Art. Seattle, WA. 1992            
Arlington Arts Center. Washington DC area. 1991
Anderson Gallery. Richmond, VA. 1991-1994
Randolph Macon College. Ashland, VA. 1991


CORPORATE / MUSEUM COLLECTORS include
Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val-kill. Hyde Park, NY
​Living Desert Museum. Palm Desert, CA
Les Amies de La Grande Vigne. Dinan, France
Wm. Stevens and Co. Richmond, VA
Ethyl Corporation. Richmond, VA
Marks, Goldsmith and Weiner, Attorneys. Cincinnati, OH
Wheat First Union Corporation. Richmond, VA
St. Thomas Aquinas College. Sparkill, NY
Medical College of Virginia. Richmond, VA
Florence, Gordon and Brown, Attorneys. Richmond, VA
Wheat First Butcher Singer, Securities. Richmond, VA
Lakota School District. West Chester, OH
Champion Paper Company. Hamilton, OH
Meridian Diagnostics. Cincinnati, OH
American Annuity Group. Cincinnati, OH
The Martin Agency. Richmond, VA
Fultz and Associates. Richmond, VA
Northwest Memorial Hospital at Arlington. Chicago, IL 

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