Meryl Taradash

Sculptures of Light and Wind

Lectures

2022                Sisyphus, Personal Structures Exhibition “Reflections,” Marinaressa Gardens in Venice, Italy


2018                 Whirlwind: Art in Motion Artists’ Symposium, Nerman Museum,
                          Johnson Community College, Overland Park, Kansas

2013                 Kinetic Sculpture, Connections Sculpture Institute, Grounds For Sculpture

2011                  Artist’s Talk, Salon Series, Grounds For Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ

2010                 Kinetic Sculpture, Mobiles Workshop, Long Island Children’s Museum

2007                 Wind and Light: The Materials of Sculpture, Summer Institute, Jewish

2006-7             Center of East Hampton, NY Artists’ Talk, Open House in Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts, NYC

1998                  Artist’s Talk, Montclair Art Museum, NJ

1997                  Artist's Talk, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA

1985                  Free-lance Art, Panel, Pratt Continuing Education, NYC

1980                 Meet the Artists, Panel, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
                          Robert Rauschenberg, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ

Awards

2018-19         Juror, A Cache of Kinetic Art: Tiny Intricacies, Morris Museum

2017,15           First Prize International Kinetic Art Competition,Kinetic Art Org.

2014-15         Local Arts Panelist, NYSCA Visual Arts Panel Brooklyn Arts

2014               Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York

2013-14         Community Awards Panelist, Brooklyn Arts Council

2009              Wind Dancing , Purchase and Restoration, Long Island Children’s Museum

1992               Sculpture Panelist, New Jersey State Council on the Arts (NJSCA)

1988               Experimental Arts Panelist, New Jersey State Council on the Arts

1985               Post-Production Video Funds, NJSCA, Light Dance Documentary

Collections

The Newark Museum                                                           The Sculpture Foundation
NJ State Council on the Arts                                             NY State Legislature
The Music Center at Strathmore                                       AT&T Longlines
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories                                      Passaic General Hospital
The David Bermant Foundation                                        Stony Brook Hospital
University of Virginia, School of Nursing                        Rhodes/Nadler Collection
Grounds For Sculpture                                                        University of Oklahoma
White Sands Cottages By The Sea                                   Bellevue Hospital
Clifton City Hall Sculpture Park                                        Colgate Palmolive
Hebrew Union College Museum                                        Aetna Insurance
Veterans NY Harbor Health                                               Grounds For Healing

Education

MFA Pratt Institute, with Honors Brooklyn, New York, 1978 Painting

1977-78         Ford Foundation Grant, New York for MFA Studies at Pratt
1976-78         MFA Assistantships, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn

BFA Pratt Institute, with Honors Brooklyn, New York 1974 Painting/Drawing/Undergraduate work at
Connecticut College, New London, CT, Banff School of Fine Arts, Alberta, Canada