Diane Edison, Professsor   Drawing and Painting

EDUCATION:

1986 Master of Fine arts, Painting, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1984 Artist Residency, Skowhegan School of Painting and Scupture, Skowhegan, ME

1976 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, The School of Visual arts, New York City,
New York.

FACULTY AND ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS

2009  Chair Drawing and Painting

2009 Study Abroad Maymester Ghana

2007 Walter Gropius Master Artist Series workshop, Huntington Museum of Art, WV http://www.hmoa.org/pages/workshops-galleries.html

2004-2007 Co-Director, Ghana West African Study Abroad Program

2004-2006 Elected to the executive, Finance and Budget Committee of the College
Art Association serving as Vice President for Committees, Chairing the Nominating
Committee

2002 Elected to the Board College Art Association

1997-Present Professor of Painting and Drawing, University of Georgia

1997-1999 Associate Director, Lamar Dodd School of Art

1997 Associate Professor of Painting and Drawing, University of Georgia,
Athens, GA

93, 97, 03 Faculty Cortona Study Abroad, Cortona Italy

1992-1996 Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing, University of Georgia,
Athens, GA

1990-1992 Assistant Professor of Foundations, Savannah College of Art and Design,
Savannah, GA

REPRESENTED BY THE GEORGE ADAMS GALLERY, 525 WEST 26 STREET,
NEW YORK CITY, NY 10001  

WWW.GEORGEADAMSGALLERY.COM/

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2007 “"Diane Edison: “Black & White”
At the George Adams gallery during April and May of 2007, will travel to the Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina (June - August), and to the Huntington Museum of Art in West Virginia * (September - November). An illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition with an introduction by Tom Styron, director of the Greenville County Museum of Art.

2007 Introductions: Diane Edison, Survey of drawings and painting from 1996-2007. September, 2007 through January, 2008.) , Curated By Paula Katz of the Columbus Museum in Columbus *

2003 “New Drawings,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

2002 “Diane Edison,” Broad Street Gallery, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA

2000 “A Second Look,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

1998 “My Mothers Daughter,” Macon Museum of Arts and Sciences, Macon, GA, brochure

1997 “Portraiture and Self Portraiture,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

1995 “Autobiographical Narratives,” Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, brochure

1995 “Drawings and Paintings,” Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, LaGrange, GA, brochure

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

   
2009            "Get with the Program" Group Show George Adams Gallery NYC, NY

'08-"09        ” Looking Ahead:  Portraits from the Mott-Warsh Collection”, Flint, Michigan,  exh. cat,

'07-'0808     “Visions: Contemporary Drawings from the James T. Dyke Collection” Naples Museum of Art,  Naples, Florida

2007 “The Feminist Figure” Forum Gallery, New York City, NY

2007 “What F Word” Cynthia Broan Gallery New York city New York*

2006 “ Collector's Show & Sale," Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR, 2006.

2006 “OMAA, Figure in American Painting and Drawing 1985 – 2005” at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art Ogunquit, Maine

2006 “In the Gallery” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

2005 “Ghana West African Study Abroad Exhibition” University of Georgia

2005 “Body Language” George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY

2005 “In Ever Greater Measure” 90 years at the Philadelphia Art Alliance,
Collections from the Rittenhouse Square Area,” Philadelphia, PA

2005 “Refusing to Dance Backwards” The Spruill Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2004 “Collectors Exhibition,” Arkansas Art Center Little Rock, AR

2004 “BUSH-WACK,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

2004 “Anima of The African Diaspora: The Feminine Presence,” Clark Atlanta University,
Atlanta, Georgia

2003 “Modern & Contemporary Portraits,” Forum Gallery, New York, NY

2003 “Collectors Exhibition,” Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

2002 “Collectors Exhibition,” Flint Institute, Flint, MI

2002 “Collectors Exhibition,” Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

2002 “About Face: Self Portraits From the Collection of Jackye and Curtis Finch,” The Von Liebig
Art Center, Naples, FL, exh. cat.

2002 “Me Myself and I,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

2002 “The Art Show: Henry Street Settlement Benefit,” Art Dealers Association of America,
New York, NY

2002 “9-11-01 Gallery Artists Respond,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

2001 “I love New York Art Benefit” Art Dealers Association, George Adams Gallery New York City

2001 “Mercury One” (inaugural exhibition), Mercury Art Works, Athens, GA

2001 “Figure/Disfigure,” University of Rhode Island, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Kingston, RD, brochure

2001 “Advancing Traditions,” Clark Atlanta University Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA

2000 “Self Portrait,” Art in the Embassy Program, American Embassy, N’djamena, Chad

2000 “The Likeness of Being,” DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, exh. cat.

1999 “New Realism for a New Millennium,” University of Rochester, Memorial Gallery, Rochester, NY, brochure, poster

1999 “Local Figures 1999,” Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA, brochure

1999 “Large Drawings (1996): Traveling exhibition,” Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, GA

GA (January-March), sponsored by the Arkansas Art Center Foundation, exh. cat.

April-May Butler Institute of American Art,

2001 Washington State University of Art Pullman, WA

2000 Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN

2000 Center for the Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College, Denver, CO

2000 Georgia Museum of Art Athens, GA

1999 Youngstown, OH

1999 Mississippi Museum of Art, Jacksonville MS

1999 Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA

1998 “Faculty 98,” The Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA

1998 “Luminosity,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

1998 “In Her Voice: Self Portraits by Women,” The Berman Museum, Collegeville, PA, Brochure, poster

1998 “In the Name of the Place,” Grand Arts Kansas City, MO, GALA Collaborative Art Committee

1998 “Self Portrait Diane Edison,” Art in the Embassy Program, American Embassy, Moscow, Russia

1997 “‘Uncommonsense:’ In The Name of the Place,” The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, exh. cat

1997 “Mixing Business with Pleasure,” Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

1997 “Drawing From Life,” Tatischeff & Company, Inc. York, NY

1997 “A Show of Hands,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

1997 "‘In the Name of the Place GALA Committee:’ Unmapping the Earth,” KwangJu Biennale,
KwangJu, Korea, exh. cat.

1996 “Portrait Exhibition,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

1996 “It Figures,” SFA Gallery, Nacogdoches, TX

1996 “Women Artist/ Educators,” Agnes Scott College, Atlanta, GA

1996 “Gallery Exhibition,” George Adams Gallery, New York, NY

1995 “Summer Exhibition,” Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY

1995 “Collectors Exhibition,” Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

1994 “Diane Edison: Recent Work,” Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA

1994 “Around the House,” Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, NY,

1994 “Collectors Exhibition,” Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR

1994 " SAF/NEA Exhibition,” Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston- Salem, NC,exh. cat.

1994 “National Drawing Invitational,” The Arkansas Art Center Little Rock, AR, exh. cat.

1994 “Reaffirming the Media,” University of Missouri Kansas City, MO, exh. cat.

1994 “Figurative Drawings,” Charles More Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1994 “With Our Own Eyes,” Georgia Artist Registry Atlanta, GA

1994 “Collectors Exhibition,” The Arkansas Arts Center Little Rock, AR

1992 “Diverse Directions: School of Art Faculty Exhibition,” The Georgia Museum of Art,
Athens, GA, exh. cat.

1992 “Collectors Exhibition,” The Arkansas Arts Center Little Rock, AR

1992 “Large Scale Drawings,” Frumkin/Adams Gallery New York, NY

1992 “Figurative Drawings,” Frumkin/Adams Gallery New York, NY

1992 “Beyond The Innocence,” The St. Louis Artist Guild, St. Louis, MO, brochure

1991 “Speaking for Myself,” The Rotunda Gallery, New York, NY

1990 “The Figure Now,” The Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York City, NY

1990 “Women Native Other,” The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College,New York, NY, brochure

1989 “Personae: Contemporary Portraiture and Self Portraiture,” Islip Art Museum Brookward Hall New York, NY, brochure

1989 “Contemporary Self Portraits Ten Women Artists,” Marymount Manhattan College Gallery, New York, NY

COLLECTIONS:

Mott-Warsh Collection”, Flint, Michigan

James Dyke Little rock, AR

Clark Atlanta University Atlanta, GA

The Leeway Foundation Philadelphia, PA

American Embassy N’Djamena, Chad

American Embassy Moscow, Russia

Malcolm Holzman New York, NY

The Arkansas Arts Center Foundation Collection, Little Rock, AR

Curtiss Finch Jr.
Little Rock, AR

Virginia Bailey
Little Rock, AR

Dr. Robert Porter Little Rock, AR

Arthur Kaplan Philadelphia, PA

Ellen Oppenheimer Oakland, CA

Dr. Kay Turner Austin, TX


REVIEWS / ARTICLES / CATALOGUES / INTERVIEWS:

Art In America July 2007 The Feminist figure

Art 21 PBS “Melrose Place” GALA COMMITTEE 2004

Atlanta Journal Constitution: “Anima of The African Diaspora" The Feminine Presence,”
Clark Atlanta Gallery 2004

Walter Robinson, Artnet.com Weekend update, November 2004 Exhibition: “Bush-Wack,”
George Adams Gallery

Steven Vincent, Vitriolic Hate Through Paint, National Review Online "Bush-Wack" November 16 2004
“Bush-Wack” at George Adams Gallery

Peter Schjeldahl, “Diane Edison at George Adams,” New Yorker Magazine January 2003

Townsend Wofe, About Face: Collection of Jackeye and Curtis Finch, exh. cat. Arkansas
Art Center, Little Rock, AR, 2002

Lisa hoashi, “About Face" Collection of Jackeye and Curtis Finch,” American Artist
Magazine, (Special Issue on Drawing) 70 (May 2002)

Ken Johnson, “Diane Edison/James Mcgarrell, at George Adams Gallery,” New York Times, February 25, 2000

Kathleen Baxter, “Drawing Attention to Museum Collections" (Art Reproductions)” American
Artist Magazine, (Special Issue on Drawings) 64 (January 2000)

Judith Stein, The Likeness of Being, exh. cat., DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, 2000

Grace Glueck, “The Likeness of Being,” New York Times, January 21, 2000

Carol Diehl, “The Likeness of Being,” Art News (April 2000)

Robin Cembalest, “The Likeness of Being,” ELLE (January 2000)

Paula Routly, “The Likeness of Being,” Back Talk, January 19, 2000, 7

Joyce B. Korotkin, “The Likeness of Being,” The New York Art World.com.nyaw.com (February 2000)

Rachel Youens, “The Likeness of Being,” NY ARTS, Vol. 5, Number 1 (2000)

Edward J. Sozanski, “Viewing Women Artists Looking at Themselves,” The Philadelphia Enquirer,
January 1999

Jerry Cullum, “Celebrating Local Figures Nexus Biennial,” Atlanta Journal Constitution, 1999

Candy Haas-Simmons, “Self-portraits at Berman are enigmatic windows to the soul,”
The Arts Connection, Collegeville, PA, February 1999

Marguerite Devers Green, “In Her Voice: Self-portraits by Women,” Hearthstone Town
& Country, Pennsburg, PA, Jan. 14, 1999

“Ursinus Exhibit Looks at Contrast in Portraiture,” The Mercury, Collegeville, PA, January 29, 1999

George Adams, "My Mother’s Daughter", brochure, Macon Museum of Art, Macon, GA, 1998

Jim Murphy, “‘Her Mother’s Daughter:’ Artist Explores Herself, Others in Powerful Portraits,” Macon Dispatch, January 1998

Joshua Decter, “Primetime: ‘In the Name of the Place’ of Art and Television,” The
GALA Committee Grand Arts Brochure, Kansas City, MO, 1997

Primetime Contemporary Art: "Art By the GALA Committee as Seen on Melrose Place",
auction catalogue, Sotheby’s Auction House, Beverly Hill, CA, 1998

Ca. Carr, “A Brief History of Outrage” (GALA Collaborative Art Committee), Village Voice,
September 22, 1998

Roberta Smith, “‘a lot to see (But Not an Artwork in Sight):’ GALA Committee Art View,”
New York Times, 1997

Ca. Carr, “Masterpiece Theater: Artists imbed secret messages in Melrose Place", Village Voice, New York City, NY, April 22, 1997

Christopher Knight, “The Social-Art Genre,” GALA Committee, The Los Angeles Times, March 18, 1997

“GALA Committee Art Reproductions” Sculpture Magazine, 3, 21, 42, 57, 58, 62, 81

Julie Lazar, “In the Name of the Place” Uncommonsense, eds. Tom Finkelpearl, et
al., exh. cat., Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1997, 2-23

“In the Name of the Place,” Unmapping the Earth" Kwangju Biennale, exh. cat.
(Kwangju: Biennale Press, 1997), 244-47 and 460

Arlene Raven, “Diane Edison", in Large Drawings and Objects from The Arkansas Art
Center Foundation Collection, eds. Townsend Wofe, et al, exh. cat. Little Rock, AR, 1996, 157-160

"Diane Edison: Paintings and Drawings", Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum, brochure, February1995

Cathy Downey, “Diane Edison: Autobiographical Narratives", Nexus Contemporary Art Center,
brochure, 1995

Jerry Cullum, “Diane Edison in ‘Drawings and Paintings’” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
Atlanta, GA, February 17, 1995

Carol May, “Diane Edison,” in Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment For The
Arts", 1994, Regional Arts Fellowships, exhibition eds. Lisa Richman, et al., exh.
cat., Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, 1994

Alice Thorson, “Reaffirming the Media” The Kansas City Star, April 17, 1994

Townsend Wolfe, National Drawing Invitational, exh. cat., The Arkansas Arts Center Foundation,
Little Rock, AR, 1994, 12, and 33-35

CompHealth/Kron Locum Tenens, recruiting brochure, “Art reproduction,” Salt Lake City, UT, 1994,

Tom Patterson, “‘Eye On Art,’ Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts,”
Winston-Salem Journal, NC, December 11, 1994

William U. Eiland, “Diverse Directions,” School of Art Faculty Exhibition, ed. William
Squire, exh. cat., Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, 1992

Esther Iverem, “Works by Three Women at Brooklyn’s Rotunda Gallery,” New York Newsday,
January 29, 1992

Leon Hicks, Beyond the Innocence, brochure, St. Louis, MO, 1992

Maureen Zegel, “Beyond the Innocence,” Webster-Kirkwood Times, St. Louis, MO, January
24, 1992

Robert W. Duffy, “Beyond the Innocence,” St. Louis Dispatch, St. Louis, MO, January 29, 1992

Katherine Sherman, “Portrait of a Young Woman,” The Georgia Guardian, Savannah, GA, January 17, 1992

Karen Shaw, “Personae: Contemporary Portraiture and Self-Portraiture,” Islip Art Museum, brochure, September 10, 1989

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2009 CAA Round Table Moderator Annual Conference Los Angeles, CA

2008 CAA Round Table Moderator Annual Conference Dallas Texas

2007 Public Lecture, Greenville County Museum of Art

2007 Public lecture, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Georgia

2007 “Walter Gropius Masters Workshop”, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia

2004-Present

 "Dynamic color Painting For the Beginner",North American publication: Harry H. Abrams Inc. New York City, NY, United Kingdom, Laurence King publishing Ltd, London England. Release date March, 2008, with subsequent publication in China and South Korea

2004 Appointed to nominating committee College Art Association

2004 Outside evaluator, University of Wisconsin Green Bay “Tenure and Promotion Consideration”

2004 Appointed to the conference committee College Art Association

2004 Chair of the Career Development Workshop, College art Association

2004 Visiting Artist, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

2002 Elected to the board of the College Art Association

2002 Outside Evaluator, University of Texas, Arlington, TX, “Tenure and Promotion Consideration”

2002 Outside Evaluator, Bowling Green State University, “Tenure and Promotion Consideration"

2002 Elected Board Member, College Art Association, New York, NY

2001 Appointed Member, “Art’s Place” Task Force, College Art Association,

2001 Panelist Grantee “Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation” Baltimore, MA

2001 Attendee, “Print Odyssey,” Cortona International Print Symposium, Cortona, Italy

2000-2001 Portfolio Review Committee Athens, GA

2001 “Art’s Place” Task Force College Art Association, Appointment New York, NY

2000 CO/Chair Search Committee Digital Media Athens, GA

2000- 2000 Deans Forum, University of Georgia Athens, GA

2000- 2003 Graduate Dean search committee, University of Georgia Athens, GA

2000 Online Mentor for “Student and Emerging Professional Committee,” College Art Association,
New York, NY

2000 Committee Member,” Services to Artists,” College Art Association, New York, NY

1999-Present Mentor, Career Development Workshop, College Art Association New York, NY

1999 Outside Evaluator, The Pennsylvania State University, “Tenure Consideration,”
University Park, PA

1998 Outside Evaluator, Kansas State University, “Tenure Consideration,” Manhattan, KS

1997 Panelist, The Mid America Southeastern College Art Association, “The Crit, The Object and the Grade,” Richmond, VA

1997 Panelist, Grand Arts, “Sisters of Sam,” Kansas City, KS

1997 Panelist, Women’s Caucus for Art National Conference, “Expanding the Creative Interval,Philadelphia, PA

1997 Search Committee Director for the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia Athens, GA

1997 Panelist “Sisters of Sam” Mel Chin and the GALA Committee Kansas City, KS

1996 Panelist, Large Drawings and Objects from The Arkansas Art Center Foundation, Little Rock, AR

1996 Search Committee Drawing and Painting UG Athens, GA

2005 Travel Grant For my Graduate Assistant to attend the Ghana West Africa Study Abroad

1999 Senior Faculty Research Grant, Athens, GA

1997 Research Travel Grant, Kwang Ju Biennale, Kwang Ju, Korea

1995 Milton Avery Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY

1994 Sal/National Endowment for the Arts, New York, NY

1993 Junior Faculty Research Grant, Athens, GA

1993 Georgia Council for the Arts Grant, Athens, GA

RECOGNITION OF OUSTANDING ACHIEVEMENTS ARTIST RESIDENCIES, PRIZES:

1997- “Who’s Who of American Women,” “Who’s Who in American Art,” “Who’s
Present Who in the World,” “Who’s Who in the Southeast,” Marquis Publishers

1997 “Georgia Women in the Arts,” Recognition Award, Atlanta, GA
1996 Artist Residency, Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY

1995 Artist Residency, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY

PROFESSIONAL UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

2007 Program Review Committee, Lamar Dodd School of Art

2007 NASAD Self study group

2007 CO Chair Visiting Artist and Dodd Chair Committee


2005-2006 Co/Chair Program Review Committee for Textiles, Merchandising and Interiors

2005 Junior Faculty Research Grant Committee Centers for Humanities and Arts

2004-present Co/Director “Ghana West African Study Abroad Program

2003 “Is Marketing Killing the Arts?” Panel with Kunal Basu, CHA Visiting Scholar

2004-Present University Council

2004-Present University Council, Faculty Benefits Committee

2004-Present Promotion and Tenure Review Committee Franklin College of Arts and Sciences

2004-Present Graduate Faculty Promotion Review Committee

2003-Present Honors Faculty Mentor Program for Honors Students 1997-2003 Portfolio Review Committee

2000 Co-chair, Search Committee Digital Media

1999 Dean’s Forum, The University of Georgia

1998 Search Committee, Drawing and Painting, Assistant Professor

1997 Search Committee for New Director of Lamar Dodd School of Art

1993-1995 Grantee, Georgia Council for the Arts, Atlanta, GA

1995 Faculty Committee on Basics Courses, Lamar Dodd School of Art

1994 Visiting critic for senior painting students, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA

1993 Panelist, Georgia Museum of Art, “Guerrillas in our Midst” (The Guerrilla Girls)

1993 Search Committee, Sculpture, Assistant Professor Athens, GA

1992-Present Biannual Jurist for students entering BFA painting program


MAJOR RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTS

I have exhibited in eleven solo exhibitions, and seventy group exhibitions in my seventeen years of teaching. I am represented by the George Adams Gallery at 525 West Twenty Second Street in New York City, NY. I am most proud of my association with this gallery that has spanned fifteen years bringing national prominence to my career. My other New York exhibitions have been the Henry Street Settlement Benefit at the New York Armory, the DC Moore Gallery, group Exhibition of Contemporary Self Portraits by women titled “The Likeness of Being,” and Tatischeff & Company, Inc. titled “Drawing from Life”. My exhibition record has been national, regional and international. The group exhibition “Large drawings from the Arkansas Arts Center foundation” traveled to eight different venues including the Georgia museum of Art. My paintings have been exhibited in the official residence of the American Ambassador in Moscow, Russia, and The American Embassy in N’djamena, Chad. My solo and group exhibitions in combination have been reviewed twenty-seven times in venues as varied as the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer Art News, the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the Los Angeles Times and the St. Louis Dispatch. As a result of my reputation as an artist who is also committed to academia,

I was selected as an outside tenure evaluator for the University of Texas at Bowling Green State University, The Pennsylvania State University and Kansas State University. I have been invited to be a visiting artist at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg, SC and most recently a Walter Gropius Master work- shop instructor. My artwork is in collections as varied as the John T. Dyke Collection, Leeway foundation, Philadelphia, PA, Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA, The Arkansas Arts Center foundation Collection and Malcolm Holzman of NY. My textbook, “Dynamic Color Painting For Beginners, is being published by Harry N. Abrams Inc, in New York City with a publication date of spring 2008. The textbook will additionally be published in the United Kingdom, China and Korea through Laurence King Ltd in London England In 2002 I was elected to the board of the College Art Association and elected in 2004 to the executive committee as Vice President for Committees.

In 1997 I became involved with a group collaborative project spearheaded by the artist Mel Chin titled “In the Name of the Place” which was selected to travel from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, to the Kwang Ju Biennial in South Korea, and the Grand Arts Art Center in Kansas City, MO.
This group piece was featured on National Public TV in 2004. I was awarded a travel grant to attend both the openings in Los Angeles and South Korea. This collaborative art piece included professional artists, writers, Art Historians, anthropologists and most importantly Students from the California Institute of Art and the Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia. There were over one hundred participants in this collaboration with prime time television (Melrose Place) and in what became known as the GALA committee. The acronym stands for “Georgia and Los Angeles” where most of the participants came from. In cooperation with spelling productions we were given access and encouraged to create objects and props for the television show “Melrose Place.” Over three hundred paintings and props were included in televised episodes of the series. Included and active in this collaboration were, the Executive Producers of Melrose Place, Frank South, Deborah Siegel, Set designer for Melrose Place and Co executive producer and writer Carol Mendelson who is most recently known as the executive producer of the CSI television series. What made this so unusual a project was that we as group worked together as equally as was possible. These objects and art pieces were eventually auctioned off at Sotheby’s in Los Angeles, CA, on November 12, 1998, by Co-chairs Susan Deal and David Booth, Sean Kelly, Susan Bay and Leonard Nimoy, Dr. Eugene P. Odum (in memory of his artist wife, Martha, REM, and Margaret Hall Silva with the proceeds going to Fulfillment Fund, Los Angeles, CA, and the Jeannette Rankin Foundation, Athens, Georgia.