WEDU/PBS VIDEO

This episode of Arts Plus features a great interview with me and Father Chris from Saint John’s Tampa, FL. I hope you like it! WEDU/ PBS Link

GUIDEPOSTS ARTICLE

THIS is an article where I share the story of how I got into writing icons. This is something people are always asking me, and the article tells the story in a way that gives the glory to God’s intervention in my life! (This is just one of the many times that God has quite literally saved my life!!☺️)

EDUCATION

2011 Florence Academy of Art, Florence, Italy

2011 Iconography study with Stephan Rene, London, UK

2004 Prosopon School of Iconology

2005 Nuns of New Skete Iconography Study

2006 Iconographers Tour of Russia

1998 College of New Rochelle, NY, M.S. Art Therapy

1996   St. George des Gardes, France, Icon study Introduction

1981 Massachusetts College of Art Boston, MA BFA

1984 Art Students League, NY, NY, Raphael Soyer 

1984-1989 National Academy of Art & Design, Printmaking

1978-2015 Ballet and Modern Dance, Alvin Ailey, Joffrey, School of American Ballet, Merce Cunningham, Broadway Dance, Marcus McGregor, Sarasota Ballet

CONTACT CHRISTINE

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CHRISTINE SIMONEAU HALES

Graduating from Massachusetts College of Art in Boston in the early 80’s’s, after receiving the painting award for outstanding achievement, Christine travelled to England to follow the work of Francis Bacon and other English painters. Hales taught drawing workshops in Plymouth, and eventually settled in Cornwall.  Here she became familiar with the work of the St. Ives artists.

Eventually returning to Massachusetts, Hales got an artist’s grant from the Nantucket Arts Council and worked there for one year.  She then moved to New York City to continue her study of classical ballet and maintained a loft in Chelsea for painting for the next thirteen years.

She holds a BFA n Painting and Art Education from the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, and an MS in Art Therapy from the College of New Rochelle, NY, and has studied at the Artists League of New York, The National Academy of Design NY,NY, and Institute of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy.

Her paintings and icons have been in many national group exhibitions as well as several one person exhibits in New York. Reviewed in the New York Times and featured in Hudson Valley Magazine, Christine’s landscapes reflect the artist’s love of nature and transformation. Her work as an iconographer is in many churches, public, and private collections. Please view her CV for a more detailed list. She now lives and works in Sarasota, Florida with her photographer husband, Mick Hales.

AWARDS, GRANTS, & RESIDENCIES

2015 Founded American Association of Iconographers

2016, 2015 Community Arts Grant, Greene County Council of Arts

2011 Ordained non denominational Minister, Global Awakening

2005 Art Therapy Certification Board and NY State License, ATR-BC

2005 Artist in Residence Houghton College, Rochester, NY

2004 GIG Grant, Maine Commission on Art

2002 Artist in Residence Grant, Greene County Council on the Arts, Catskill, NY

2001, 1999 International Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnston, VT

1994 Fourth Annual Hudson Valley Painting Exhibition: First Prize, Painting

1992 Putnam Arts Council, Mahopac, NY Best in Show Award, Painting

1989 Poughkeepsie Art & Science Center, Hudson, Valley: First Prize Painting

1984 National Academy of Art & Design, NY, NY: Printmaking Award 

1978 Nantucket Arts Council, Nantucket, MA, CETA, Grant

1977 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA: Outstanding Achievement in Painting