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ELIZABETH H AGRESTA, ARTIST


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EDUCATION

The Art Students League of New York

Silvermine Art

University of British Columbia


AFFILIATIONS

2020 The Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society

2018 The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators

2017 The New York Society of Women Artists (NYSWA)

2016 The Federation of Canadian Artists

2016 Board Member & Fundraising Chair (2017) The Loft Artists Association, Stamford, CT (2016-19) 2015 President (2019~) The Fairfield County Plein Air Painters (2016~)

2007 The National League of American Penwomen

2007 The Greenwich Arts Council

1998 The Art Society of Old Greenwich

1990 The Greenwich Arts Society


PRINT PUBLICATIONS

2020 Demystifying Diversity: Embracing Our Shared Humanity by Daralyse Lyons (contributor)

2018 Celia and the Glue Man (Illustrator)

2018 I’m Mixed (Illustrator), 2018 Skipping Stones Honor Award Winner

2012 Images of Greenwich Point (Feature)


TV/WEB MEDIA

2019 USA Network: Chrisley Knows Best: “I’m Mixed!” storyline feature

2018 ConversationsLIVE! Cyrus Webb “I’m Mixed!” author/illustrator podcast interview


AWARDS

2021 3rd Place Colors of Autumn Charvin Paints

2020 2nd Place Rooted to Hope Stamford Art Association

2018 Best in Show Capturing Waveny The New Canaan Carriage Barn Plein Air Paint Out

2018 Winner Skipping Stones Honor Award in Children’s Literature


SPECIAL ACQUISITION

2021 United States National Parks “Under the Japanese Lilac” Mather Homestead, Darien, CT


SHOWS

2022 Evolution/Revolution. NYSWA @ Taller Boricua Gallery, NYC

2022 Lockwood-Mathews Museum, Norwalk, CT

2022 Searchlight The Art Students League of New York, Chashama Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2021 National Parks Mather Homestead, Darien, CT

2021 Holiday Show GR Art Gallery, Stamford, CT

2021 Plein Air Paintout Carriage Barn Arts Center, New Canaan, CT

2021 History Through the Artist’s Eye Stamford Historical Society, Stamford, CT

2021 Summer Show GR Art Gallery, Stamford, CT

2021 Rise The Art Students League of New York at the 2021 Affordable Art Fair

2021 Color Blind Cultural Alliance of Western Connecticut

2021 Spring Stamford Art Association

2021 Women on the Edge of Time NYSWA@Taller Boricua Gallery, NYC

2021 Memory NYSWA Online Show

2020 Rooted to Hope Stamford Art Association

2020 Female Gender Identity and Equality NYSWA, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY

2020 Bring a Friend to the LAA guest of Mark Macrides, LAA President, Stamford, CT

2019 The Primacy of Color NYSWA Group Show, Blue Mountain Gallery, NYC

2019 Lockworks The Loft Artists at the Stamford Museum, CT

2018 Open Studios The Loft Artists Association, Stamford, CT

2018 Bubbles & Bites Luxe Magazine & White Birch Studio, Westport, CT

2018 Progressive Art Tour Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County, Stamford, CT

2018 Loft Artists: Then & Now, 40 Years of Art, Stamford Museum, CT

2018 Stamford and the LAA University of Connecticut, Stamford, CT

2018 Summer Time GR Art Gallery, Stamford, CT

2018 Art and Soul NYSWA, Prince Street Gallery, NYC

2018 Into the Mist A 3-person show, GR Art Gallery, Stamford, CT

2018 Art As Sanctuary NYSWA, M Zakin Gallery, NJ

2018 Bring a Friend to the LAA w/Yoshiko Agresta, Stamford, CT

2018 Color Fields The Loft Artists, Stamford, CT

2018 Art Pop! At the Infinity Building, Harbor Point, Stamford, CT

2018 Art Pop! at the Ridgefield Playhouse

2018 New Year, New Art Loft Artists Association, Stamford, CT

2017 Bubbles & Bites Luxe Magazine & White Birch Studio, Westport, CT

2017 Art as Sanctuary St. Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington Ave, NY, NY

2017 The Primacy of Color NYSWA@Carriage Barn Arts Center, Westport, CT


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017 The Loft Artists Association, Stamford, CT

2016 Because Moments Matter Cos Cob Library

2016 Lillian August, Greenwich, CT

2011 Home of Regis and Joy Philbin, Greenwich

2011 Sotheby’s, Greenwich


MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

2021 National Parks Mather Homestead, Darien, CT

2020 The Hammond Museum and Japanese Gardens

2018 Bendel Gallery, Stamford Museum, CT

2016 Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT

2011 Bush-Holley House Museum, Cos Cob, CT

2010 Lockwood Museum, Norwalk, CT


JUDGE/JUROR

2018 Brushwork Rowayton Arts Center, CT

2017 Rowayton Arts Center Plein Air Open Competition, CT

2016 The Sidewalk Art Show Children’s Division, Old Greenwich, CT