Brinah Bank Kessler Resume
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS and AWARDS
1996 Art in City Hall: "Sport Illustrated" Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1995 Art in City Hall: "City Views" Philadelphia, PA
1995 Carol Schwartz Gallery: "The Art of Ballet" Chestnut Hill, PA
  Cassatt Mansion: "Christmas Invitational" Berwyn, PA
1991 Childs Gallery: "Art Boston 1991" Boston, Massachusetts
1990 Childs Gallery: "Front & Center of Contemporary Art 1990" New York, New York
1987 Fleisher Art Memorial, Annual Group Exhibition Solo Pastel Exhibit: "Family Attire"
1987 Roland Rice Award

1987 Memorial Drawing Award
Philadelphia, PA
  Gross/McCleaf Gallery: " A Summer Place" & "The Family" Philadelphia, PA
  Lighthouse Gallery: "Winter Invitational" Jupiter, Forida
1987- 1985 Main Line Center of the Arts, Open Juried Exhibitions
1985 Dr. & Mrs. Reid Daitzman Award
1986 Mr.& Mrs. Mac Gibbs Award
1987 Rita Beyer Judges Award
Philadelphia, PA
  Norton Gallery: "Spring Invitational" West Palm Beach, FL
  Pastel Society Of America: "Members Exhibit" New York, NY
  Perkins Center for the Arts: " Juried Exhibition "
1986 Captain B. Russel Henry Award
Moorestown, NJ
  Philadelphia Sketch Club: "The Still Life in Art" & Juried Pastel Exhibitions
1985 Honorable Mention
1987 Honorable Mention
Philadelphia, PA
  Roundabout Theatre Gallery: "New York Now And Then" - Two Person Show New York,  NY
  Summa Gallery: Solo Exhibition and Group Shows Manhatten & Brooklyn Heights, NY
  Somerville/Manning: "Christmas Invitational" & "For the Children" Greenville, Delaware
  Tiffany & Company: "At the Beach, Summer Windows 92"  
  Woodmere Art Museum: Juried Exhibitions & "Sport in Art" Philadelphia, PA
CORPORATE COLLECTIONS
AIG Insurance Lesser & Karp
Arco Chemical Marriott Executive Offices
Bell Atlantic J.P. Morgan Trust
Blue Cross Nutri/Systems
Cofco Inc The Pew Trust
Core States Philadelphia National Bank
Crown, Cork & Seal Price/Waterhouse
Day and Zimmerman Reliance Life Insurance
E.I. dupont de Nemours Rod Metals
Fox, Roffichild, O'Brian & Frankel Richard I Rubin Organization
Glenmede Trust Sterling Drugs
Gladstone Collection of Baseball Art Towers,Perrin, Foster & Crosby
H.I. Etelman Enterprises Wilner Real Estate
Keane Tracers Wolf, Block, Shore and Solis-Cohen
KoKa Media, Paris Collection of Bill Murry
PUBLICATIONS
June, 1988 Artspeak:  "Summer Dreams at Summa Gallery" New York, NY
1991, 1992 Inside Magazine:  "Inside Summer" 1991
"Insiders" 1992
Philadelphia, PA
1993 Los Angeles Dodger's Year Book Los Angeles, California
November 1991
January, 1996
Philadelphia Inquirer: "House of 90 Artists"
"Philadelphia Views"
Philadelphia, PA
Fall 1991 Temple Review:  "Brinah Kessler: The Good Old Days Reclaimed" Philadelphia, PA
February 1992 Welcomat:  "Family Outings" Philadelphia PA
1994 American Heritage Desk Diary:   "Baseball Dreams"
1995 The Art of Ballet: Rock School of the Pennsylvania Ballet Philadelphia PA
EDUCATION
1959 BFA Tyler School of Fine Art, Temple University Philadelphia, PA
1975 M.Ed. Temple University Philadelphia, PA
1980 Philadelphia College Of Art Philadelphia, PA
1986 Pennsylvania Academy of Art Philadelphia, PA
WORK HISTORY
Art Teacher School District of Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA
Art Teacher Our Mother of Sorrows School Philadelphia, PA
Art Therapist Miseracordia Hospital Philadelphia, PA
Artist in Residence Forging Partnerships; The Pennsylvania School Age Child Care Project.
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