Caren
Calafati, Watercolorist Grantham, New Hampshire and Hilton
Head Island South Carolina. Master of Arts at Dartmouth
College Hanover, New Hampshire.
Specialty
area is the watercolor medium
employing varying techniques and other medium such as
varnish with watercolor. As part of her Master of Arts
degree,
Caren majored in art history and created a national touring
opera company
Through the Opera Glass.
Her
graphic designs and set designs for this project have won
national awards and recognition.
The watercolors have been displayed in juried exhibits
such as the
Coastal Art Museum of Hilton Head Island (juried by
the Telfair Museum of Savannah, Georgia). She has exhibited
in numerous gallery
locations primarily in the Northeast and the Southeast.
This
summer, art was exhibited at the Red Roof Gallery in Enfield,
New Hampshire for the annual flower art show and
featured
in Art in Bloom, a gardener’s showcase. Other current shows
include: The Inn at Marshland Farm in Vermont through the fall,
and winter gallery exhibits include the ‘Paradise’ series
created on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina and
the Members Show at AVA Gallery in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
During the
winter/spring of 2009 Caren will teach at the Elderhostel
programs in South
Carolina. Caren is in the application process for
artist in residence at Acadia National Park, Maine
-summer 2009.
Instructors
beyond graduate school have included Nita Engle and Chris
Unwin at the Hilton Head Art
League.
A complete list of
exhibitions and instructors is available from the
artist.
Caren
is a certified art teacher and has taught art appreciation
and art history at various schools
and
universities and
most currently, for Elderhostel in South Carolina.
Voice
Lessons: Caren also teaches singing at TOG Productions
Vocal Studios. For more information
Click
Here.
Professional
Affiliations:
National Association
of Teacher’s of Singing,
Northeast Division and Southeast Division New
Hampshire State Council on the Arts, Touring
Artists and Artist in Education Roster South
Carolina Arts Commission, Touring Artist Roster
William Glasser Institute, Los Angeles/Beverly
Hills, California Who’s Who in American
Entertainment, Marquis Edition State of Vermont-Certified
in Performing Arts, Visual Arts and Integrative
Learning Professional Women’s Singers
Association, New York City, Vermont Watercolor
Society, AVA
Art Gallery, Hilton Head Island Art League
