Highland Park Artists' Collective
Ana Eloisa Soto-Canino
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Director, Academy of Art of Highland Park and Gallery
Ana & Student
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Ana
directs her private teaching
studio in Highland Park, NJ, where she teaches the theoretical and
craft fundamentals of over 20 different media on paper and canvas. Many
of her students have become award winning and competition circuit
artists. She is a classically trained artist with two decades of studies
in private ateliers in Puerto Rico, the United States, and Italy. The
artist also explores alternative and non-European art during art
sabbaticals around the world. Her latest works on paper portray highly
endangered plants of the Caribbean and feature a radical new way of
envisioning scientific illustration. Ana
holds a BSc from Princeton University in Psychology, with a
specialization in Visual Perception, a Masters degree in Urban Policy
and Planning, and partial PhD studies in Political Theory from the New
School, NYC. She has worked as professional journalist and museum
administrator. Ana donates art and proceeds to coral reef conservation
programs and stray dog charities. Her Academy sponsors free art lessons
for children from immigrant and low-income families at the Academy, and
she serves on the Highland Park Arts Commission.
The artist loves dogs, dancing, swimming, sailing and sport
flying, backyard astronomy and trekking across arid lands. ALLERGY
ALERT: Joining
the studio? Welcome! If you suffer allergies, or have fear of animals,
please note we have a studio mascot, Jauria, a shorthaired Black Lab
mix. Jauria is kept in his kennel whenever a student requests it. Ana
suffers a violent allergy to cat hair that rapidly induces asthma
attacks. Please take measures to avoid exposing her to this unfortunate
hazard. Cat hair may be in your hair, clothing, and gear. Thank You!
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