Leonard Merlo

South Plainfield, NJ

Prints

Biography

I am a full-time artist living and working in South Plainfield, NJ. I have 25 years of experience teaching art in NJ Public Schools and have taught workshops in printmaking, ceramics, and sculpture. I have served on the Board of Directors at The Print Center of New Jersey, and The Arts Guild of New Jersey. I am also a member and workshop instructor at Frontline Arts.

My prints are meditations on memories, time, place, and perception. I work intuitively, reacting to the environment, nature, and the mysteries of perception.

EDUCATION:
Bowling Green State University
San Francisco Art Institute
Kean University
Art Students League of New York

AWARDS
• Fine Arts Work Center: Provincetown Mass. Fellowship August 2004
• Fulbright Memorial Fund Teacher Program: Japan Nov.-Dec. 2002
• Vermont Studio Center: Artist Residency: July 2002
• National Galley Teacher Institute Summer 2000: Educational Fellowship
• Earthwatch Education Award: Ecuador Cloud Forest Expedition: August 1997
• Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship 1995

Rock Face #2, 12 x 19″, monotype with chine collé and drawing
Spring Thaw, 12 x 19″, monotype with chine collé and drawing
Swirling River Current, 12 x 19″, monotype with chine collé and drawing