Overview with some things left out.
E. Tobin Eckian
Newton, NH & Newburyport 2011
“Daily drawing and painting give form and expression to other parts of my self as well as real clues to order and design of my eternal divinity” e. tobin eckian January 29, 2011.
Schooling:
art therapy -Lesley College, Mass- Graduated with Batchelor of Science in Expressive Therapies 1983
art history – Boulder, Colo. University of Colorado 1980
environmental science major/sculpture – Westminster college, PA 1979
drawing and sculpture – Seton Hill College, PA 1978
Self Taught Painter – began with pounding sandstone and mixing pigments in third grade, melting crayons as an attempt to do encaustics, and jumped off a paint by number velvet horse craft project to complete as if by magic and wondered how I knew how to do that age 9.
Work and Experiential art process in the field:
Earth Journeys- visioning type quests – co leader and art process 1985 -1988
Massachusetts Arts Council – elected officer North Reading, MA 1987 and 1988
Community Health and Alternative Services Lynn, Mass. – art therapist and Clinical Coordinator 1986 -1991
Home Schooler – my two sons and other groups of children. art, music, science…process of learning and self directed study (the unschooling approach) 1990-2000 Unity Center Children’s Minister and Children’s Choir initiator and music conductor, Amesbury, MAss. 1998 – 2000
Art Curator – Licorice and Sloe, Newburyport, MA 2004-05
Music & Art Instructor – Private Studio {2004 – present) and every grade level in the public schools as a Substitute Teacher, Sanborn Regional Schools, Kingston, NH – 2004 – 2008
Private Counseling – art process therapy and transactional analysis. 1980′s – present
Professional Fine Art Painter 1996 – present
Web Presence since 1993, ongoing Art Website since 1995 to Present.
Businesses :
Luna Silks – silk painting and clothing design 1983-85
Rainbow Visions- Store Front Harvard Square, Cambridge, Ma and Alston, MA tshirt design 1985-1989
SingingLand Studios 1996 – present art, music, classes and professional paintings and performance
Liberty St. Counseling
Galleries:
Liberty St. Studios Newburyport studio gallery open to public 2000 – present
Chameleon Gallery – established gallery business 2005 – present
Newburyport Art Association – showing member
awards –
first place watercolor senior year 1978 Neshannock High School, New Castle, PA
Massachusetts art grant for painting of life size endangered species on silk show on top of Ledge Mountain, Liberty, Maine – 1987
Published –
“Art & Wellness: Loving the Dream Awake” by E. Tobin Eckian
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/art-wellness-loving-the-dream-awake/2330936
Shows:
The Garage – Harvard Sq. Cambridge Mass.
The Firehouse – Newburyport
Three Graces Gallery – Portsmouth
The Art House Co op – Sketchbooks cataloged in the Brooklyn Art Library
The Salon – Ipswich Mass. 2005 – 2010
The Howling Wolf – Salem, Mass
Ledge Mountain, Maine
Newburyport Art Association
Governor Dummer – Newbury
The Dragonfly – Byfield
The North Reading Library
the Newton Library
The Byfield Library
The Yellow Schoolhouse
The Rowley Library
Scotland July 2011 – Trees for Life Exhibition
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