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Marion R. Behr
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| Title: |
Owner |
| Industry: |
Publishing |
| Type of Organization: |
Publishing Company |
| Major Product/Service: |
Publishing books |
| Expertise: |
19 years experience; Publisher, Compiler and Illustrator responsible for writing and publishing books and articles; Taught at Rutgers, F.I.T. and Kean University; Co-inventor of ElectroEtch, a non toxic form of printmaking; 60+ years experience as exhibiting artist; Created first national study of women who work at home in 1978; Coined phrase “home-based business”; Presidential Appointment to White House Conference on Small Business by President Regan, 1986 |
| Geographic Area of Distribution: |
National |
| Affiliations: |
Founder, National Alliance of Home-Based Business Women; Women's Caucus for Art; Audubon Artists; National Association of Women Artists; Society of American Graphic Artists |
| University/Degree: |
B.A., Education, 1961; M.F.A., Painting, Syracuse University, 1962 |
| Born: |
September 12, 1939, Rochester, New York |
| Hobbies/Sports: |
Photography, gardening |
| Honors & Awards: |
Featured in one-woman shows featuring paintings, prints, and sculptures, including at Douglass Residential College in 1983, Pargot Gallery in 1989, B. Beamesderfer Gallery in 1992, El Dorado Gallery in 1992, Hunterdon Art Museum in 1993 and 1998, and the Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano in 1999; One-woman shows include Discover Jersey Arts in 2005, Steeplechase Cancer Center in 2008, Center for Contemporary Art 2002, and the show was sponsored by Ortho-McNeil in 2009, National Association of Women Artists Inc. Gallery in 2010, OSI Pharmaceutical Gallery in 2010 and Walter Meade Gallery in 2012; Received, Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh Foundation Humanities Grant for Arts and Humanities; Rotary International's Best of Branchburg Visual Artist Award; Honored, Audubon Artists Merit Award and the Purchase Award, American Impressions Ben Shahn Gallery at William Paterson University; Artist of the Month of August in 2005, New Jersey State Council on the Arts; Selected, Woman of the Year in Business and Industry, Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce; First runner up, Woman of the Year, SBA; Granted three medals including IPPY Gold in Health and Fitness |
| Published Works: |
Co-author “Women Working Home, The Home Based Guide and Directory” 1983,1986; Compilor, Illustrator, "Surviving Cancer, Our Voices and Choices," 2014; Illustrated "The Jewish Holiday Book" for Doubleday, 1977; Featured, radio and t.v. shows including "Donahue," "AM America," and "Good Morning America"; Featured, Collections: Smithsonian, Queen of Thailand, Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano, Centro de Las Artes de San Agustín, Etla. Mexico, Bethanian Gallery, Berlin; Multiple group shows including Contemporary American Artists 1964, Kanagawa Prefectural Gallery , Washington Sq. East Gallery 1990, Lever House 1995, Stark and Stark 1998, National Academy of Design 1998, Grounds for Sculpture 2001, German Architectural Center 2004, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum (Rutgers University) Ortho Gallery 2006, and Ben Shahn Gallery 2006, 2011. |
