Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts – Philadelphia, PA
Master of Fine Arts, May 2016
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts – Philadelphia, PA
Post Baccalaureate Certificate, May 2014
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts – Philadelphia, PA
Certificate in Painting, May 1973
University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, PA
Criminology Studies, September 2016 - 2019
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts – Philadelphia, PA
President, Alumni Association Council
06/2016 to Present
• Alumni Council President is appointed by the Dean of the School. Chairs the Council meetings and represents the council when necessary, including serving as an ex-officio member of the Board of Trustees.
Camden County Cultural and Heritage Commission – Blackwood, NJ
Commissioner & Vice President
10/2018 to 09/2024
• Commissioner serves on Committee for Camden County Teen Arts at Camden County College. Serves on the Committee for static planning.
• Liaison to Camden County Historical Society, Camden, NJ
• Assessed and cataloged the art collection owned by Camden County, NJ.
• Coordinated the annual Teen Arts Festival.
Honorable Mention
The Philadelphia Sketch Club – Philadelphia, PA
Works on Paper
2024
Honorable Mention
The Philadelphia Sketch Club – Philadelphia, PA
Absolutely Abstract
2009
Prize Winner
The Plastic Club – Philadelphia, PA
The Unbroken Line
2004
Best of Show
The Pavilion Art Gallery At Virtua-Memorial Hospital – Mount Holly, NJ
The Still Life
2001
Recognition Award
Camden Co. Cultural & Heritage Comm. – Camden, NJ
Trinity United Methodist Church, Merchantville
1991
Residency at Bancroft School
Camden Co. Cultural & Heritage Comm. in conjunction with Symphony in C – Haddonfield, NJ
1985
Artist in Education Fellowship
New Jersey State Council on the Arts – NJ
1984
Artist in Education Fellowship
New Jersey State Council on the Arts – NJ
1983
Fellowship in Painting
New Jersey State Council on the Arts – NJ
1980
Grant
New Jersey State Council on the Arts – NJ
1979
Honorable Mention
El Paso Museum of Art – El Paso, TX
20th National Sun Carnival Art Exhibition
1978
Purchase Award
El Paso Museum of Art – El Paso, TX
19th National Sun Carnival Art Exhibition
1977
Bertha M. Goldberg Award
The Museum of the Philadelphia Civic Center – El Paso, TX
The Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Annual Fellowship Exhibition
1974
Schiedt Memorial Traveling Scholarship
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts – Philadelphia, PA
1973
Thoron Prize for Composition
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts – Philadelphia, PA
1973
Cerulean Arts – Philadelphia, PA
The Cootie Killers Theatre Productions
2024
Cerulean Arts – Philadelphia, PA
The Cootie Killers Theatre Productions
2024
Cerulean Arts – Philadelphia, PA
The Death of the Button Man
2023
Cerulean Arts – Philadelphia, PA
The Final Days
2022
Cerulean Arts – Philadelphia, PA
The Death of the Button Man
2021
Cerulean Arts – Philadelphia, PA
Residents of Slumberland
2020
Cerulean Arts – Philadelphia, PA
Family Outing Trip to Coney Island
2019
Cerulean Arts – Philadelphia, PA
Crimes Scens & Criminals
2018
Highwire Gallery – Philadelphia, PA
Artist in the Studio
2011
Highwire Gallery – Philadelphia, PA
Process Not Product
2010
Home Fine Art Gallery – Mt. Holly, NJ
Dog Days
2009
Highwire Gallery – Philadelphia, PA
This is my Wonder, This is my Visible Man
2008
Muse Gallery – Philadelphia, PA
Self Portraits from the Black Hole
2007
Roswell Museum & Art Center – Roswell, NM
Boundary Crossing
2004
Highwire Gallery – Philadelphia, PA
McMansions to Go
2002
Highwire Gallery – Philadelphia, PA
When Pain Becomes Joy
2001
Gallery X – Harlem, NY
The Sound of Many Birds: An Installation
2001
Highwire Gallery – Philadelphia, PA
Painfully New Work, Puppets, Marionettes, and Paintings
1999
Highwire Gallery – Philadelphia, PA
Without Fences
1998
Hopkins House Gallery of Contemporary Art – Haddon Township, NJ
The Heat’s On - Art to Warm a Winter’s Day
1988
Carson Sapiro Gallery – Denver, CO
New Work
1986
Washington Congressional Office of Congressman James J. Florio – Washington D.C.
Monoprints
1982
The Barron Arts Center in Woodbridge – Woodbridge, NJ
The Pueblo Series
1982
Los Llanos Sante Fe – Sante Fe, NM
Paintings
1982
Lenore Gray Gallery – Providence, RI
Acrylic Paintings Recalling S.V. Junk
1981
Blair Galleries, LTD. – Sante Fe, NM
New Paintings
1980
Union Exhibition Gallery at the University of Texas at El Paso – El Paso, TX
Return to Plaza Southwest
1979
Stewart Gallery at the Philadelphia Sketch Club – Philadelphia, PA
A Survey of Work by Members of the Alumni Council of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
2025
The Philadelphia Sketch Club – Philadelphia, PA
Works on Paper
2024
Studio Montclair – Montclair, NJ
5th Annual Greetings from Montclair Postcard Exhibition
2021
Barrett Art Center – Poughkeepsie, NY
Fun House: Art of the Surreal, Fantastic, + Bizarre
2021
Cheltenham Center for the Arts – Cheltenham, PA
78th Annual Painting Show
2021
Main Line Art Center – Haverford, PA
Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition
2010
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport – Atlanta, GA
The Canvas Project, Volume 2
2009
Gallery 125 – Trenton, NJ
Conflict
2009
The Plastic Club – Philadelphia, PA
Small Worlds Exhibition
2008
Hopkins House Gallery of Contemporary Art – Haddon Township, NJ
34th Annual Juried Exhibition
2008
Fusion Gallery – Collingswood, NJ
Small Works
2008
Seeber Fine Art Gallery – Philadelphia, PA
Highwire Gallery Group Show
2007
High Street Design – Millville, NJ
The Drawing Room
2004
The Plastic Club – Philadelphia, PA
Religion in Art
2000
Fringe Festival – Philadelphia, PA
Puppets from Trash
1999
Highwire Gallery – Philadelphia, PA
New Members Show
1999
Stedman Art Gallery – Camden, NJ
Southern New Jersey Artists IV
1998
The Hollybush Festival, Glassboro State College – Glassboro, NJ
The 3rd Hollybush Invitational Art Exhibition
1985
The Pavilion Art Gallery At Virtua-Memorial Hospital – Mount Holly, NJ
Portraits of New Jersey Harvesting and Hunting
1983
Abilene Art Museum – Abilene, TX
37th Annual Painting Competition
1981
New Jersey State Museum Trenton – Trenton, NJ
NJ State Council on the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship Recipients 1978-1980
1980
Allentown Art Museum – Allentown, PA
15th Annual Juried Exhibition
1978
The Philadelphia Art Alliance – Philadelphia, PA
Regional Oil and Acrylic
1975
Discover the HeArt of Mount Holly - As Featured Artist, 2025
The Residents - As Artist, 2021
By Turning We Come Round Right - As Director, Producer, Actor - Feature Length Documentary, 2016
Haddonfield Symphony: The Flight of the Bumble Bee & Waltz of the Flowers - As Instructor, Puppeteer, 1999
First Night: Impulsive Puppets - As Instructor, Presenter, 1998
Little Sunbeams: The Story of the First Children’s Day, June 10, 1866 - As Illustrator, Author, 1991
“Come What May for May’s First Friday” - Strauss, R.B., Weekly Press, April 30, 2008, 12
“The New Art Season Starts NOW!” - Strauss, R.B., Weekly Press, September 5, 2007, 9,10
“Show offers cautionary tale about South Jersey” - Boatman, Gail T., Burlington County Times, November 3, 2002, D1,D5
“Full color expression” - Art Matters, September 2002, 17
“Come on in!” - Baxter, Robert, Courier-Post, May 7, 1999, 6
“Children enchanted by symphony, garden” - Baxter, Robert, Courier-Post, April 1999
“Ready for ‘First Night’” - Cohen, Ruth Alsher, The Haddon Herald, November 19, 1998, 3,8
“Creating puppets for First Night” - What’s On Haddonfield, September 4-18, 1998, 1,2
“Exhibition-Ists” - Art Matters, March 1998, 24
“Neighbors in the News” - The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 10, 1988, 20CH
“The Hollybush Festival, Glassboro State College” - Fairfield, Deborah, Art Matters, June 1985, 5,
“Exhibitions in Sight” - Wasserman, Burton, Art Matters, May 1985, 8
“Painting by the notes, not the numbers” - Courier-Post, July 12, 1984, 5CH
“Artists’ Works Bring Colorado Scenes to Appel Farm Theatre” - The Sampler, May 9, 1984, 17
Arts of NJ - NJN, 1984
“The steps to art” - Today’s Sunbeam, April 30, 1984, 3
“Lydia Hamilton Artist” - The All New Retrospect, October 21, 1982, 1
“Barron Arts Center Slates Indian Artwork Exhibition” - Atom Tabloid, August 4, 1982, 22
“It’s Still the Best Policy” - Zwinger, Susan, The Santa Fe Reporter, April 14, 1982, 25, 27
“Lydia Hamilton at Blair” - The Santa Fe Reporter, May 5, 1980, 36
“Area lures artist” - The Prospector, Septermber 28, 1979, 10
“Grants to local arts groups are up this year” - Baxter, Robert, Courier-Post, August 25, 1979, 10D
Philip & Esther Klein Collection - Philadelphia, PA
Gerald Peters Collection - Sante Fe, NM
El Paso Museum of Art - El Paso, TX
Camden Co. Cultural & Heritage Comm. - Camden, NJ
Project Renewal - New York, NY
Quarropas Restaurant - White Plains, NY
Union Planters National Bank - Memphis, TN
Hickory Farms Corporation - Toledo, Ohio
Cigna Corporation - Dallas, Texas
Jeffrey Kesper, Director of NJ State Council of the Arts Collection - Trenton, NJ
Symphony in C Collection - Camden, NJ