Curriculum VitaeBRENDA HEIFNER DELLE ARTIST CURRICULUM VITAE
Born: May 18, 1943, Chickamauga, Georgia Education: B.S., University of Chattanooga, 1965
Business Education Awards and Honors: 2006 Purchase Award, Artists Guild Unlimited, Morgan City, LA
Judge: Melody Guichet, Professor of Painting and Drawing, Louisiana State University 2004 Judge, High School Artistic Achievement Awards Competition,
Overture to the Cultural Season,Delgado College, New Orleans, Louisiana 2003 Honorable Mention, Artists Guild Unlimited Show, Morgan City, Louisiana 2003 Purchase Award, Artists Guild Unlimited Show, Morgan City, Louisiana, Judge: Sara Parker, Artist, Lafayette, Louisiana 2003 Honorable Mention, 40th Terrebone Fine Arts Guild Spring Art Show,
Houma, Louisiana 2003 Merit Award 40th Terrebone Fine Arts Guild Spring Art Show, Houma, Louisiana
2002 Featured Artist for October, Jefferson Art Guild, Jefferson, Louisiana 2002 Best of Show, Artists Guild Unlimited Show, Morgan City, Louisiana
2002 Purchase Award, Artists Guild Unlimited Show, Morgan City, Louisiana
Professional Credits:
2007 Private Figure Drawing Studies of Henry Casselli, New Orleans Museum of Art,
New Orleans, Louisiana 2007 Portraiture Study, Leslie B. Demille, Master Pastellist, Albuquerque, New Mexico 2007 Private Study of Post Impressionism and Charcoal Drawings Based on
Sculpture, Rima Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
2007 Private Study of Carved and Bronze Figures, Torremolenos, Spain
2007 Private Drawing Studies, Picasso Museum, Malaga, Spain
2006 Figure Drawing Studies, Carol Peebles, Master of Fine Arts, University of
Pennsylvania, New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana
2006 Advanced Figure Drawing, Auseklis Ozols, Master of Fine Arts, University of
Pennsylvania, New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana
2005 Landscape Drawing, Doug Dawson, Pastel Society of American, Master Pastellist,
New Orleans, Louisiana
2005 Mountain Majesty Master's Clinic, William Arthur Herring, Cloudcroft, New
Mexico
2004 Figure Drawing Studies, Kaitlin Gergo, New Orleans, Academy of Fine Art, New
Orleans, Louisiana
2004 Mountain Majesty Master's Clinic, William Arthur Herring, Cloudcroft, New
Mexico
2004 Color and Design, Auseklis Ozols, Master of Fine Arts, University of
Pennsylvania, New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana
2003 Mountain Majesty Master's Clinic, William Arthur Herring, Cloudcroft, New
Mexico
2003 Special Studies, Color and Composition in Pastel, Kitty Wallis, Pastel Society of
America, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2002 Special Studies, Color and Composition in Pastel, Sally Strand, Pastel Society of
American, New Orleans, Louisiana
2002 Special Studies, Facial Construction in Charcoal, Dan Thompson, New Orleans,
Louisiana
2000 Special Studies, Architectural Drawing in Pastel, Alan Flattmann, Pastel Society of
America, Master Pastellist, New Orleans, Louisiana
2000 Special Studies, Floral Drawing and Composition in Pastel, Christina Debarry, Pastel
Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana
1999 Special Studies, Open Color Expressionism, William Arthur Herring, New Orleans,
Louisiana
1999 Special Studies, Landscape in Pastel, Joyce Nagel, Pastel Society of America, New
Orleans, Louisiana
1998 Special Studies, Landscape in Watercolor, Jeanne Dobie, American Watercolor
Society, New Orleans, Louisiana
1996 Special Studies, Portrait Painting in Pastel and Oil, Robert Maniscalco, New Orleans,
Louisiana
1995 Landscape Studies in Watercolor, Milford Zornes, NA, American Watercolor
Society, New Orleans, Louisiana
1995 Special Studies, Floral Painting in Pastel, Urania Christie Tarbet, Pastel Society
of America, New Orleans, Louisiana
1993 Figure Drawing, Dell Weller, New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, New Orleans,
Louisiana
1993 Special Studies, Portrait Drawing in Pastel, Darryl Brown, New Orleans Academy
of Fine Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana
1992 Special Studies, Life Drawing in Watercolor, Kathleen Trampoline, New Orleans
Academy of Fine Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana
1991 Life Drawing in Watercolor, Kathleen Trampoline, New Orleans Academy of Fine
Arts, New Orleans, Louisiana
1990 Life Drawing, Dell Weller, New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, New Orleans,
Louisiana
1989 Life Drawing, Dell Weller, New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts, New Orleans,
Louisiana
Professional Organizations: (Elected)
Degas Pastel Society, New Orleans, Louisiana,
Metairie Art Guild, Metairie, Louisiana
Jefferson Art Guild, Jefferson, Louisiana
New Orleans Art Association, New Orleans, Louisiana
Selected Private Collections: Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brennan, Seattle, Washington
Dr. Mark Joseph, Morgantown, West Virginia Dr. Russell Chrisman, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Passey, Phoenix, Arizona
Dr. and Mrs. Louis Escalada, Kenner, Louisiana Dr. Eleanor Krimmerman, New Orleans, Louisiana
Ruth Zatarain Collection, Slidell, Louisiana
Mrs. Penny Baghoose, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Dr. Susan Blackwell, Metairie, Louisiana
Mr. and Mrs. N. Folse, Destrehan, Louisiana
Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Moran, Metairie, Louisiana Mr. and Mrs. Craig Cross, New Orleans, Louisiana
Mr. and Mrs. James Darragh, Slidell, Louisiana
Distinguished Corporate Collections: Sunrise Senior Living, Inc., Baton Rouge, Louisiaa
Invitations: Selected Exhibitions 2007 Three Person Show, Crescent City Brewhouse, New Orleans, Louisiana
2007 Poydras Home Art Show, New Orleans, Louisiana
2006 Poydras Home Art Show, New Orleans, Louisiana
2006 Group Exhibition, Barnes & Noble, Metairie, Louisiana
2005 CCB Group Art Show, Crescent City Brewhouse, New Orleans, Louisiana
2004 WYES Art Auction, New Orleans, Louisiana
2005 Poydras Home Art Show, New Orleans, Louisiana
2001 Group Exhibition, Crescent City Brewhouse, New Orleans, Louisiana
2003 Poydras Home Art Show, New Orleans, Louisiana
2003 Degas Pastel Society, 14th Member Juried Exhibition, Frank Federico, Juror, New Orleans,
Louisiana
2003 Solo Show, The Gallery at Millbrook, Picayune, Mississippi
2003 Ochsner Foundation Art Walk, New Orleans, Louisiana
2002 Group Exhibition, The Gallery at Millbrook, Picayune, Mississippi
2001 Featured Artist, The Gallery at Millbrook, Picayune, Mississippi 2001 Featured Artist, First Annual Militon Festival Art Show, Donaldsonville, Louisiana
2001 Two Person Show, Rivertown Fine Art Gallery, Kenner, Louisiana
2001 Degas Pastel Society, 12th Membership Exhibition, John R. Kemp, Art Critic and
writer, Juror, New Orleans, Louisiana
Current Studio Address:
653 Petit Berdot Drive
Kenner, Louisiana 70065
504 466-0811
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