Grace Braitwaite

St. Albans, New York

E-mail: gbraith@msn.com

 

           

A Celebration

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Don't You Hear the Music

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Brooklyn Botanical Gardens

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Learning at the Feet of the Master

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Carousel

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The Hat

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Nude Redhead

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Iris and Caladiums

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African Dignitaries

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Raindrops

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French Lavender Bags

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Paris Landscape

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Beach Umbrella

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The Beach

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The Port of Nice, France

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Immovable Feast

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Giverney, France

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Harlem's 7th Avenue

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Monaco's Roof Tops

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Flushing Boat Basin

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Floral Bouquet

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Josephine Baker &

Ernest Hemingway

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Looking Down Thru Ages

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Harlem Renaissance in France

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Sunflower in African Vase

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Music and art have always been a part of my life.  Early on while in Public School, I won a third prize medal for drawing from the John Wannamaker Foundation and third prize in the Queensboro Art Society competition. I was awarded a scholarship to Howard University for classical voice.  I attended Brooklyn College and Queens College majoring in accounting and minored in art.  Studied at the Art Students League with Vincent Malta and Earnest Crichlow.  Attended seminars and workshops under instruction of Elton Fax, artist and writer  at the Langston Hughes Library.  I also took courses at the American University, Aix-en-Provence, Southern France.

Submitted Grant application to nonprofit organization, which assisted in establishing  Arts and Crafts in Queens.  Established an Art Gallery with the help of Corine Jennings of Kenkebla Gallery and created “Gallery Talk and Art Activity for youngsters at the Family Life Center in St. Albans.  Lectured at State and City conference, docent at Queens Museum, showed  work and spoke at Career Day at local school.  Creator of “Amazing Grace” a Black rag doll.  Art work selected for Greeting cards, and Calendar. Featured on cover of QPTV Guide for the month of April 1999.  Interviewed on QPTV May 20 1999 and has aired several times since then.  Flushing Council on the Arts and Culture used my work as publicity for invitations and newspapers. 

INDIVIDUAL   EXHIBITIONS -  St. Albans Family Life Center Gallery, Lamu Gallery of Contemporary African Art, New York

TWO MAN SHOW - Community Folk Art Gallery, Syracuse, N.Y.

 GROUP EXHIBITIONS - Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago 1997, St. John’s University 1993, Plandome  Gallery 1991,  Hudson Guild Gallery 1993, 1994,  Great Neck Library Exhibit 1993,1994,1997, Hempstead Town Hall 1993,  Alliance of Queens Artist Gallery 1993, 1994,     Suffolk County Community College 1992, Islip Art Museum 1992, Avon Corporation 1992, Corcoran Gallery, Lincoln Center 1992. York College, Jamaica, N.Y 1992,1993,  Association of Caribbean Artists 1992,  Manhattan College 1992, Suffolk County Executive Office 1992,        Port Authority Gallery 1990,l991,  African American Museum, Hempstead, Annually, Marymount College 1988, New York Telephone Co 1988,   Atelier Marchutz Gallery, France 1985, Ashawag Hall, East Hampton 2000,2003, Kenkeleba Gallery 2002,  Musee Granet Aix-en-Provence 2000, Cornell Weill Library 2004.

 

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