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Florence Weisz has been a professional artist for over four decades. She continues to seek new challenges and the further development of her creative energies. After earning a degree in Fine Art from Douglass College, Rutgers University, she has lived, studied and created art in NYC, Northern New Jersey, Paris, and in Jerusalem, where she taught art in special education programs for eight years. Recently she joined the Philadelphia art community and appreciates the warm welcome she has received. Florence has become a juried member of ARTsisters, Da Vinci Art Alliance, InLiquid, Tri-State Artists Equity, CFEVA, MCGOPA, and the Main Line Art Center. In 2022, when the art world came out of Covid seclusion, her work was included in 21 juried and invitational group shows in PA, NJ and NY. She has exhibited her art in over 30 solo shows, including among other venues, the Newark Museum, Jersey City Museum, and Johnson & Johnson Headquarters. Her artworks are in the collections of The NJ State Museum, IBM, Port of Authority of NY and NJ, Citibank, Warner Lambert, Gibraltar Securities, Ciba-Geigy, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and University of Pennsylvania Hospital, among others. She is a recipient of a NJ State Council Fine Arts Fellowship Award. Florence enjoys the challenge of site-specific commissions and has created new artwork for private homes, corporate and public spaces including, Chubb Insurance, PSE&G, Centocor, Schering Plough, Merck Sharp and Dohme, Three Stamford Plaza and the Municipality of Beer-Sheva, Israel.
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