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Newsletter
December
2006
Letter From
The Editor
Hello and Happy Holidays from
The Plate Lady
®
of Tampa Bay and staff,
We hope you are enjoying the season and not letting the
cold weather dampen your spirits. We are hard at work this
month trying to fill orders as quickly as possible. Although
weather conditions and the tremendous workload of the season
have slowed shipping down a little, there is still a spirit
of optimism and cheer as we continue to provide personalized
service to each and every one of our customers. We are always
happy to put a rush on new orders, with no extra charge,
and to check on the status of orders for customers who have
already ordered. There will, however, be a cut off point
for getting packages out before Christmas, so please place
your order early to avoid any delays.
You may have noticed that there was not a November Newsletter
published. We have decided to only publish newsletters every
two months from now on, due to time constraints, however,
we will continue to provide artist's profiles with our newsletters,
for your reading enjoyment.
Our Artist of The Month for December is Edna Hibel. You
can read her Artist’s Profile below to learn more
about her life and her art. You can also view a selection
of her art on our Edna Hibel Art Plate Gallery webpage at
http://theplatelady.com/hibel.html
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Artist's
Profile: Edna Hibel
Edna
Hibel was born in Boston, Massachusetts,
in 1917. Edna is an internationally
renowned artist best known for
her sensitive portrayals of women
and children from all cultures.
Her art can be found in many of
America’s most outstanding
universities and public museums.
Exhibitions of her work can also
be found in major museums and
galleries throughout the world.
Edna Hibel graduated from the
Boston Museum School of Fine Arts
in 1939 and in 1940 the Boston
Museum of Fine Arts purchased
one of her paintings for its permanent
collection, making Edna the youngest
artist at the time to be so honored
by a major American museum. A
lifelong student of art, she uses
the mediums of oil painting, drawing,
lithography, serigraphy, etching,
and sculpture in bronze, crystal,
and porcelain to create her exquisite
creations.
Edna has been exhibited in prestigious
museums and galleries all over
the world under the royal patronage
of Count and Countess Bernadotte
of Germany, Count Thor Bonde of
Sweden, Prince and the late Princess
Rainier of Monaco and Her Majesty
Queen Elizabeth II of England.
In her nearly 8 decades as an
artist, Edna has received many
awards including the Leonardo
da Vinci World Award of Arts,
the Lifetime Achievement Award
from “Women in the Visual
Arts,” the Ruth B. Sturtevant
Traveling Fellowship for study
and painting in Mexico, and many
humanitarian honors for her more
than one half century in raising
donations for children’s
and medical charities as well
as medals of honor from Pope John
Paul II and the late Belgian King
Baudouin. She is the only living
American woman to have a non-profit
public museum dedicated to her
art.
Edna’s fine art and humanitarian
awards also include medals of
honor and citations from numerous
heads of state, academic institutions,
and religions. She is widely known
as an ambassador for world peace,
using her humanistic and compassionate
work to bring peace through cultural
understanding between China and
the United States, Yugoslavia
and the United States and Russia
and the United States with her
“Golden Bridge” and
“Peace Through Wisdom”
exhibits in those countries.
Edna is also the only foreign
artist to twice exhibit her work
in the Soviet Union, and the only
foreign woman to produce a television
documentary in that country, “Hibel’s
Russian Palette”. That documentary
was developed during her trips
and art shows in Leningrad, now
St. Petersburg. She was also recognized
for promoting love and understanding
throughout the world, with an
honorary doctorate degree from
the University for Peace in Costa
Rica.
Edna Hibel is one of our good
neighbors here in Florida. She
has been a resident of Palm Beach
County for the past 35 years and
she appears at book signing events
throughout America on a regular
basis. For information about Edna
Hibel Art Exibits and her personal
appearances call 1-800-275-3426,
1-561-848-9633, or go to http://www.hibel.com
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