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"Maxine Nodel is an award-winning, versatile visual artist, published writer, and dedicated art educator. She holds a B.F.A. from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Brooklyn College where she studied privately with Beat poet Allen Ginsberg. Maxine exhibits and sells her art nationally and internationally, and her work is on public display in the NY metropolitan and Hudson Valley area. Maxine also gives public talks about her metaphorical art. She is a member of the Salmagundi Art Club in NYC., the Edward Hopper House in Nyack, NY, Arts Westchester, PelhamArt Center, Rye Arts Center, and the Blue Door Art Center.
In 2003, Maxine founded Millennium Art Academy (MAA), a high school for Bronx students she created with Bill and Melinda Gates, Carnegie, and Annenberg Foundation Grants. In 2009, MAA received the Lincoln Center Institute First-Place Award for Most Imaginative Curriculum in New York City. She currently teaches art workshops for c adults throughout Westchester, NY."
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EXHIBITIONS | AWARDS | PRESS
Fall 2025: Croton Review:
Published drawing and poem, Unnamed Woman 2025 and Meditation for 2025
Fall 2025: Pelham Art Center:
Gave lecture on the metaphorical underpinnings of my design drawing
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Fall 2024: Art Expo NYC:
Art displayed in public exhibition in Times Square
Spring 2023: Arts Westchester Gallery:
Group Show Celebrating 22 notable Westchester artists
Winter 2021: iL Centro Tirreno.it:
Featured in an online cultural arts journal article, Visions from Infinity, about my nature painting written by cultural journalist, Ippolita Sicoli- Calabria, Italy
Spring 2020: New Rochelle Council on the Arts:
Black and White Group Show at the Rotunda Gallery in New Rochelle
Fall 2019: Salmagundi Club, NYC:
Awarded the Gwynne Lennon Prize for black and white drawing
Fall 2019: Blue Door Art Center, Yonkers, NY:
1st-Place Award – Annual Members Juried Exhibition
Spring 2018: Edward Hopper House Art Center:
Invited to give a public talk about my design project, Eyes on America
Fall 2018: National Art League, NYC:
Silver Medal Recipient for Mixed Media Drawing
Fall 2017: National Art League, NYC:
1st-Place Award for Drawing
Fall 2016: National Art League, NYC:
Gold Medal Recipient for Drawing
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Winter 2015: Upstream Gallery, Dobb's Ferry, NY
Juried Group Show
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​Fall 2014: Highline Loft Gallery, NYC:
Juried Group Show
Summer 2013 – 2015: Beekman Street Banner Project, Beacon, NY:
Public display of my mixed media drawing, Life Cycle
Spring 2013: Edward Hopper House Art Center:
Artist of the Month
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Spring 2013: Catalyst Art Gallery, Beacon, NY:
Juried Group Show