Neal Spitzer: Artist
Realist Painter of People
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Camino Paintings

Teaching
Instructor, Pratt School of Professional Studies, New York City, 1991 – 96
Adjunct Professor, Art Department, City College, CUNY, New York City, 1990 through 1991

Education
Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, Denison University, Granville, Ohio
Master of Arts in Fine Arts, Hunter College Graduate Division, City University of New York
Masters of Fine Arts in Poetry, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY, 2004

Special Projects
As a member of the Artist's Housing Committee, in 1966 I helped start the first artist's co-op in New York City

Guest Curator, New Art from Photosensitive Materials, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1972–73

Poetry in Public Places, origination and implementation of poetry cards on mass transit, 1974–75

American Artists in Exhibition, placed poetry posters in public spaces throughout New York State, and began to develop the concept of traveling art exhibits for local accessible sites, 1975–78

Consultant to the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for a project to develop a traveling art exhibition system for the state, 1996 – 1998.

Poetry in Public Places; Poster Project, origination and implementation of a program that will every month place a poetry poster, with curriculum, in 8000 classrooms throughout Westchester, Putnam, and Rockland Counties, 2004 – continuing. This is a bad time for funding this project.

Honors
CAPS (Creative Artists Public Service), Fellowship in Graphics, 1973-74
NEA (National Endowment for the Arts), Artists Fellowship in Printmaking, 1974
Certificate of Merit, for Poetry in Public Places, Municipal Arts Society of New York, 1975
MacDowell Colony Fellow, Peterborough, N.H., 1977

Solo Exhibitions
The Everson Museum, 1972, Syracuse, New York
SUNY at Buffalo, 1973, Buffalo, New York
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1973, Colorado Springs, Colorado
The Phoenix Art Museum, 1973, Phoenix, Arizona
The Berkshire Museum, 1974, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
The Delaware Art Museum, Downtown Gallery, 1976, Wilmington, Delaware
The Picker Art Gallery, 1976, Dana Arts Center, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
The Nicholas Roerich Museum, 1987, New York City
The Art Partners Program, 1993, New York City

Selected Group Exhibitions
Hundred Acres Gallery, 1971, New York City
Vassar College Art Gallery, 1973, Poughkeepsie, New York
The Hudson River Museum, traveling 1973 and 1974, Yonkers, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, 1973, Caracas, Venezuela
City University Graduate Center, Two Man Exhibition,1974, New York City
Portfolio Gallery, 1974, 1975, and 1976, Dusseldorf, Germany
Media, The Printmaking Workshop, traveling 1974 and 1975, New York City
Art Today: U.S.A., 1975, Teheran, Iran
Contemporary American Painting, 1975, LeHigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Deson-Zaks Gallery, 1975-76, Chicago, Illinois
Art Today: U.S.A., II, 1976, Teheran, Iran
American Art in '76, 1976, Hamburg, Wuppertal, and Berlin, Germany
Contemporary Portraits from the Northeast, 1987, juried by Philip Pearlstein,
0000Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT
Casolo Gallery, The Art Lofts Cooperative, Peekskill, NY, 2003
Open Studios, Peekskill, NY, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006
Sense of Self, Westchester Community College, Peekskill, NY, 2005

Selected Collections
The Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York
The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Kamran Diba, Teheran, Iran
Her Imperial Majesty, Teheran, Iran

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Neal Spitzer, artist, realist painter of people, paintings, portraits, portrait commissions, limited edition archival prints Poetry in Public Places Neal Spitzer, artist, realist painter of people, paintings, portraits, portrait commissions, limited edition archival prints Poetry in Public Places Neal Spitzer, artist, realist painter of people, paintings, portraits, portrait commissions, limited edition archival prints Poetry in Public Places Neal Spitzer, artist, realist painter of people, paintings, portraits, portrait commissions, limited edition archival prints