EDELWEISS CALCAGNO

Art Restorations, Creations, and Assessments

 

 

EDUCATION

Associates of Arts (Fine Arts) end 2013 - Montgomery College, Silver Spring/Takoma Park, Maryland, 2010 – Present, GPA 4.0; Member of Phi Theta Kappa; recipient of the 2012 Dr. Harry Harden Jr. Student Academic Excellence Award

 

Certificate in Restoring Paintings on Canvas and Wood (High distinction) - Italian Institute for Art and Restoring Art, Rome, Italy, 2003; Academy Constantin Meunier, Brussels, Belgium, 2001. Certificate in Paintings and History of Art (high distinction)

EXPERIENCE

Student job - Physics Department at Montgomery College, January 2013 – June 2013

·         Creation of outdoors sculptures, paintings and prints to represent the 8 planets and Pluto in physics circuit of the planets.

 

Student job: Ophelia Vintage, Rockville, MD

 

·         Art Construction (Steam-punk Style). Creation of sculptures, accessories, clothing and jewelry, 2012-2013

 

Honors Internship –Montgomery College partnership with AHCMC (Art and Humanities Council of Montgomery County), Silver Spring, MD, 2012

 

·         Controlled actual condition, inventory and survey of Public Art (sculptures, paintings and murals outdoors or in schools) in Silver Spring, Takoma Park and Rockville

 

·         Evaluated safety and repair requirements to preserve and display artworks; updated database for inventory

 

Volunteer (Montgomery College Phi Theta Kappa project)

 

·         Restoration and conservation of original artworks (3-D paintings and murals), created by prisoners incarcerated in Washington, DC

 

Art restoration (Private Contractor, Private Consultant) – Silver Spring, MD; Rome, Italy; Brussels, Belgium, 1998-Present

 

·         Responsible for restoration work with paintings, frames, small sculptures for private collectors; projects included cleaning and restoration for paintings by Anthony Quinn

 

HONORS AND AWARDS

 

Area  405, 2013

·         Sculptures selected, national college competition at Gallery Area 405, in Baltimore.

 

Sligo Journal 2013

·         Painting appeared in the Maryland Sligo Journal of Montgomery College in January 2013.  This competition is open to Montgomery County, with 3 months exhibition at Montgomery College.

 

Montgomery College Annual Exhibition June 2012

·         Two sculptures and five paintings were selected for this annual exhibition.

Speech Honors 2012

Honors Internship –Montgomery College partnership with AHCMC (Art and Humanities Council of Montgomery County), Silver Spring, MD, 2012

English 102 Honors 2011

Oscar For Visual Art - February 2003, Castrocaro Terme, Italy

·         The New Art Promotion competition awarded me with the Oscar in Art.  This award is semi-annual.

First Price Golden Mercury for Art,- November 2002 Porto Venere, Italy

·         This award was given for “High quality demonstrated in her artistic work.

 

 

First Prize, Prize Cote d’Azur, September 2002, Nice, France

·         “For her high artistic talent” International exhibition of paintings.

 

First prize, Prize “Lights and Colors of the Sea”, August 2002, Cesenatico, Italy

 

·         International competition of paintings and sculptures, “Best artistic tendency”, in the Salon of Paintings.

 

First Prize, Prize of Menton, July 2002, Menton, Costa Azzurra, France

 

·         International exhibition at the International Salon of Paintings, Sculpture and Photography, Aurelia 2002

 

August 2001, representing the gallery Artconnexion, Brussels and Mons, Belgium

 

·         TV news on channel “T Brussels”, “TV Mons”.

 

International Encyclopedic Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary art 2001/2002. “Prize of career in Paintings”, Ferrara, Italy

 

·         Selected by the editors (Casa Editrice “Alba”), and publication in the International Encyclopedic Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art 2001/2002.

 

Single Market News n. 27, July 2001, European Commission

 

·         Article by Ms. Geraldine Fages on Rights of Painters (copyrights)

 

TV news on Channel “TV Brussels”, June 2001

 

·         Representing “K Gallery”