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photo courtesy of David LaBianca |
The Music and Arts
Center for Humanity is proud to announce that Ms. Steffi Friedman,
renowned Westport artist and teacher, has been selected as this year's recipient of the Pat
Hart Service Award. Since 1998 the award, named for MACH founder
Patricia Hart, has been given annually in recognition of an individual's, or an
organization's, generosity and dedication to arts education.
"We are
extremely delighted to Honor Steffi Friedman as the sole recipient
of the 2008 Pat Hart Service Award," said Executive Director/CEO Dr.
Donald Rainone. "Rarely do you find a volunteer with the artistic
talent and teaching experience Ms. Freidman possesses. She has
displayed an unmatched willingness to share her valuable time
and to conduct herself in the most caring and professional
fashion as she labors to develop the talents of our
young artists. She is a treasure and we are blessed to have her as
one of our 3-D instructors."
A graduate of the Pratt Institute, with
post-graduate work at Columbia University and the Silvermine School
of Art, Ms. Friedman is known as a sensitive artist who focuses on
motion and emotion. Versatile in her choice of medium, she is well
known for her portraiture and figurative sculpture.
Ms. Friedman is a
member of the International
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Sculpture Center, a
board member of the Society of Ct. Sculptors, an Associate Member of
the National Sculpture Society, was featured in Who's Who of
American Women 1995 and1996, and has taught privately in her own
studio for thirty years.
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Ms. Friedman
began teaching sculpture at MACH as an experiment. She knew a
little about the Music and Arts Center for Humanity located in
Bridgeport, but had never met any of the students, nor seen the
facility. Harold Levine, then Chairman of the Board of Directors of
MACH, convinced her to give it a try. The class was a part of the
Neighborhood Studios program which provides gifted and talented
Bridgeport area teens with professional training in the arts. The
six students in Ms. Friedman’s first class had no prior experience
with the various sculpture medium, however given their artistic
gifts and their instructor’s own talents, the results were
magnificent. In a 2007 interview with the Connecticut Post, Ms.
Friedman described her MACH students as "... more gifted than
anything I've seen in a long time. They're all outstanding,
hardworking young people." |

photo courtesy of Shelly
Cryan |
Ms.
Friedman will receive her award at MACH's Pat Hart Service Award
Luncheon, held at noon on October 29th at Testo’s. The luncheon helps raise the funds necessary to support MACH’s
arts programs for the children of the greater Bridgeport area.
Honorary co-chairs for this year's luncheon are Claire Gordon and Carol Hallac.
For further information about the Pat Hart Luncheon or for tickets,
please call 203-366-3300, extension 230.
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