CAROLE ROBB

(Program Director and Painting Instructor)

Carole Robb is Head of Atelier (Painting) at the New York Studio School. She has taught at the Slade School of Fine Art, Camberwell School of Art & the Royal College, London, UK. A winner of the Rome Prize in Painting (1980), a Fulbright Scholar, and member of the National Academy, New York; Ms. Robb was born in Scotland and studied painting at the Glasgow School of Art and the University of Reading England (MFA 1979). She studied with Sir Terry Frost. Robb has worked in Rome, Venice, and London and currently lives in New York, where she is represented by the Robert Steele Gallery. Her work is in both private and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Imperial War Museum, London.

www.carolerobb.net

MARK PULSFORD

(Drawing Instructor)

Mark Pulsford, born in Edinburgh, was educated at Edinburgh College of Art and Sittingbourne College. Pulsford currently lives and works near Canterbury; he also has a studio in the artists’ town of Saint Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex. Exhibitions include Foyle’s Gallery, London and the Galerie Alphonse Chave, Vence, Alpes Maritimes, France. Pulsford has taught at Kent Institute of Art & Design in Rochester and London Metropolitan University’s Sir John Cass Institute. His work is represented in public and private collections in the UK and France. This is Pulsford’s second year teaching with the Rome Art Program.

www.paddyshouse.co.uk

DANIEL ABRAMS

(Drawing Instructor)

Daniel Abrams, born in Los Angeles, graduated with a BFA from Brandeis University and a MFA from New York Studio School, where he studied drawing with Graham Nickson. In addition to residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Chautauqua Institution, Abrams was the recipient of numerous awards and grants during his undergraduate and graduate years. He has exhibited in Seattle, Louisiana, Chicago, Vermont, Boston, and New York, where his work was shown at the Denise Bibro Gallery. He currently lives and works in New York City. This is Abrams’s second year teaching with the Rome Art Program.

www.paintingabrams.com

PETER BENSON MILLER

(Art Historian – Rome)

An independent curator and specialist of nineteenth–century painting and sculpture and modern art from Europe and the United States, Peter Benson Miller received his Masters in Art History from Williams College and his Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts/New York University. He has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Samuel F.B. Morse Fellowship from the Institute of Fine Arts, the Theodore Rousseau Fellowship from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Robert Sterling Clark fellowship from Williams College. His essays have appeared in art journals and catalogues to major exhibitions. Miller worked at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris for eight years as the coordinator of guest lectures and scholarly symposia. Currently, he is preparing an exhibition of American artist Philip Guston’s Roma series for the Museo Carlo Bilotti in Rome. He has lived between Paris and Rome since 1992.

ELIZABETH ANN BUTLER

(Art Historian – Florence)

Elizabeth Ann Butler received her Masters degree in Florentine Renaissance Art from Syracuse University, Florence. For over five years, Butler has developed and taught art history seminars for various universities and institutions in Florence. Her expertise in Florentine art history ranges from ancient art and antiquity to Medieval and Renaissance fine art. Butler’s interests also include the history of women, including their contributions to the art world through the ages, particularly the artistic output of women in convents.

JOANNE FREEMAN

(Visiting Artist)

Joanne Freeman received a BS in Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin and an MA in Studio Art from New York University. She has taught painting and drawing at New York University, the New School for Social Research, and the Chautauqua School of Art. Her work has been shown extensively in solo and group shows, including one-person exhibitions at Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York; Au 9 Galerie d'Art, Casablanca; Massachusetts College of Art, Boston; Bess Cutler Gallery, New York; Marc Jancou Gallery, Zurich; White Columns, New York; and the Queens Museum, Flushing. In the fall of 2009 Freeman co-curated with Kim Uchiyama the group show "Color-Time-Space", which opened concurrently at the Lohin Geduld Gallery in New York City and the Janet Kurnatowski Gallery in Brooklyn. Freeman has been a visiting artist and lecturer at the New York Studio School and the Massachusetts College of Art, and an artist-in-residence at the BAU Institute, Otranto, Italy.