Bio
| SELECTED ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2017 | "Music Transparencies", Duncaster Art Gallery, Bloomfield, CT |
| 2016 | “FEEL THE HARMONY”, St Francis Hospital Center for Integrative Medicine, Hartford, Ct |
| 2009 | "ENSEMBLE'', Greater Hartford Arts Council, Hartford, CT. |
| 2008 | "MUSIC SERIES" Unitarian Meeting House Gallery, West Hartford, CT |
| 2007 | "MODULATIONS", Alexey von Schlippe Gallery, University of Connecticut, Avery Point Campus, Groton, CT. |
| 2005 | "CONCERNING CHORDS", Exposure Gallery - Manchester, CT |
| 2005 | "IN ABSTRACT", Whistler House Museum, Lowell, MA. |
| 2005 | "ENCORE" University of Connecticut (Stevens Gallery) Storrs, CT |
| 2004 | "IMPROVISATIONS-POLYPHONY IN PAINTING" Artworks Gallery, Hartford, Ct. |
| 1996 | "PROGRESSIONS" Ellen Traut Collection, West Hartford, Ct. |
| 1994 | "MUSIC SERIES" Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Ct. |
| 1984 | Visual Images Art Gallery, Wellfleet, Ma. |
| 1983 | Visual Images Art Gallery, Wellfleet, Ma. |
| 1982 | Visual Images Art Gallery, Wellfleet, Ma. |
| 1981 | Visual Images Art Gallery, Wellfleet, Ma. |
| 1976 | John Slade Ely House, New Haven, Ct. |
| 1976 | Left Bank Gallery, Welifleet, Ma. |
| 1976 | Gallery Five East, East Hartford, Ct. "The Hartford Symphony...A Visual Interpretation" |
| 1975 | The Gallery, G. Fox and Co., Hartford, Ct. |
| 1970 | Northwestern Connecticut Community College, Winsted, Ct. |
| 1969 | Canton Gallery on the Green, Canton, Ct. |
| 1967 | Phoenix Mutual Gallery, Hartford, Ct. |
| 1965 | Gallery I, Hingham, Ma. |
| 1964 | Fine Arts Foundation, Hartford, Ct. |
| ART FESTIVALS | |
| 2010 | Paradise City Festival 'Music Series" Northampton, MA |
| 2011 | Westport Fine Arts Festival, Westport, Ct. |
| SELECTED SMALL GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2009 | "VARIATIONS'" Concord Library, Concord, MA Two Person Exhibition |
| 2006 | "IN ABSTRACT'', Whistler House Museum, Lowell, MA ( five featured artists) |
| 2002 | "NEW MEMBER SHOW' Artworks Gallery, Two Person Exhibition |
| SELECTED INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2016 | Center for Contemporary Printmaking Norwalk, Ct. Members Annual Exhibition, Juror, Gary Lichtenstein |
| 2015 | New Britain Museum of American Art Spring Gala (benefit exhibition for NBMAA) |
| 2014 | New Britain Museum of American Art Spring Gala (benefit exhibition for NBMAA) |
| 2013 | New Britain Museum of American Art Spring Gala (benefit exhibition for NBMAA) |
| 2015 | Monotype Guild of New England- Annual Exhibition- Zullo Art Gallery, Medfield, Ma |
| 2014 | Monotype Guild of New England- Annual Exhibition- Zullo Art Gallery, Medfield, Ma |
| 2013 | Monotype Guild of New England - Annual Exhibition- Zullo Art Gallery, Medfield, Ma. |
| 2011 | Monotype Guild of New England - Annual Exhibition- Belmont Media Center, Belmont, Ma |
| 2009 | Monotype Guild of New England - Annual Exhibition- Plymouth Art Center, Plymouth, Ma |
| 2011 | Westport Arts Center Group Show Westport, CT |
| 2009 | Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford, Ct, Benefit Childrens Art Program |
| 2007, 8, 9 | Farmington Valley Arts Center , Farmington CT, Winter Holiday Shows |
| 2008 | Sagemark Consulting Benefit exhibition for McClean Health Care Simsbury, CT |
| 2008 | Whitespace Gallery, New Haven, Ct. "All Small Things" |
| 2007 | Whitespace Gallery, New Haven, Ct. |
| 1979 | Brandeis Studio Art Tour |
| 1978 | Springfield College, Springfield, Ma. |
| 1972 | Slater Memorial Museum "Watercolor and Sculpture Exhibition" |
| SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS |
| New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Ct. |
| Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York |
| SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTION |
| Gerber Scientific, Inc., South Windsor, Ct. |
| SELECTED JURIED EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS (partial list) | |
| 2016 | Connecticut Academy of Fine Art 105th Anniversary Exhibition, Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, CT GRAPHICS AWARD Jurors, Will Lustenader and Darby Cordonsky |
| 2016 | Connecticut Women Artists, Slater Memorial Museum Norwich, CT, Juror, Min Jung Kim, Director, New Britain Museum of American Art |
| 2016 | Connecticut Watercolor Society Silpe Gallery, University of Hartford Juror, Theresa Donsen Feder |
| 2013 | Connecticut Watercolor Society, Juror, Dennis Nolan, Saltbox Gallery West Hartford, Ct |
| 2012 | Connecticut Academy 100 Anniversary Exhibition, Jurors, Anne von Stuelpnagel and Joy Pepe, Mystic Art Association, Mystic, CT |
| 2011 | Connecticut Watercolor Society, Juror Chet Kempczynski, Saltbox Gallery, West Hartford, Ct |
| 2012 | New Britain Museum of American Art Annual Exhibition Juror, Robert Burns, Director Mattatuck museum of Art, Ct |
| 1979 | New Britain Museum of American art Friends Exhibition HONORABLE MENTION- Juror, Charles Ferguson, Director of New Britain Museum |
| 1977 | New Britain Museum of American Art Friends Exhibition BEST GRAPHIC |
| 1976 | New Britain Museum of American Art Friends Exhibition BEST GRAPHIC - Juror, Charles Ferguson, Director of New Britain Museum |
| 1975 | Mystic Art Association Mystic, Ct. HONORABLE MENTIO |
| 1975 | Connecicut Society of Women Painters THE GRAPHICS AWARD |
| 1974 |
Essex Gallery Essex, Ct. GRAPHICS AWARD Jurors, Allen Tompkins, Former Director, Hartford Art School and Cynthia Eckstrom, Instructor, Painting, Pair School of Art The New Group New Haven, Ct. AWARD Juror, Sister Thoma Awanson Chairman, Art Department, Albertus Magnus College Canton Gallery on the Green 13th Anniversary Show WATERCOLOR AWARD Juror, Frank Casa Instructor, Central Connecticut State College Connecticut Watercolor Society CONNECTICUT WATERCOLOR SOCIETY AWARD Juror, Ruth Gikow |
| 1972 |
Canton Gallery on the Green 11th Anniversary Show G. FOX & CO. AWARD Connecticut Watercolor Society PAST PRESIDENTS PRIZE Juror, Julia Pearl |
| 1971 | Connecticut Society of Women Painters JESSIE WATERS PRIZE FOR A WATERCOLOR Juror, Joseph Gualtieri, Director, Norwich Academy Art School and Museum. |
| 1970 |
Canton Gallery on the Green 10th Anniversary Show AWARD Juror, Joseph Gualtieri, Director Norwich Academy Art School and Museum New Haven Paint and Clay Club BEST PORTRAIT OR FIGURE COMPOSITION Jurors, Herbert Gute and Robert Vickrey Trinity Church Exhibition, Hartford, Ct - .BEST IN SHOW |
| 1969 |
Bristol Chrysanthemum Festival HONORABLE MENTION Juror, Charles Ferguson, Director New Britain Museum of American Art Benedictine National Competition FINALIST CERTIFICATE Jurors, American Federation of Arts Canton Gallery on the Green 8th Anniversary Exhibition ART FRAMING AWARD Juror, Charles Ferguson, Director New Britain Museum of American Art |
| 1967 |
Enfield Art Festival Enfield Ma FABERS CARPET AWARD Canton Gallery on the Green 6yh Anniversary Exhibition CITIZENS AWARD Juror, Allen Tomkins, Dean. Hartford Art School |
| 1966 |
Berkshire Annual (Berkshire Museum Lenox Ma.) AWARD Juror, Daniel Cotton Rich, Director, Worcester Art Museum Enfield Art Festival Enfield Ma MOUNTAIN LAUREL AWARD |
| 1965 |
Canton Gallery on the Green 45h Anniversary Show THIRD PRIZE Juror, Peppino Mangravite, Former dean and Professor Emeritus of Columbia University Art School Berkshire Art Association Berkshire Art Museum Lenox, Ma. ADAMS SUPERMARKET AWARD Juror, Gordon Mackintosh Smith, Director Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York Essex Annual Essex, Ct. AWARD Jurors, Wick Knaus. Donald Thompson, Frederick Endrich Enfield Art Festival Enfield Ma. BIGELOW SANFORD AWARD Juror, Paul Zimmerman, Professor of Painting, Hartford Art School East Hartford Art Festival BEST IN SHOW Juror, Mitchell Pappas, Professor of Painting. Head of Art Department, Trinity College |
| 1964 | Manchester Lions Club Exhibition Manchester, Ct. AWARD |
| 1961 | Canton Gallery on the Green 1st Anniversary Show BEST IN SHOW |
| SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (partial list) |
| Wilson, Mary, "Estelle Laschever Community Canvas" Hartford courant "I- Towns" Nov.23, 2008 |
| Weiss, Tracey "Music is at the Heart and Soul of Estelle Laschever's Art" West Hartford Life Feb. 5, 2005 Vol 7 Issue 10 |
| Kores, Noal, "Polyphony" The Hartford Courant CAL Nov 4 - 10 |
| "Music For our Eyes" Portrait ARTistic FX Magazine October-November 2004 Vol.4 Issue 2 |
| "Music To Your Eyes". The Hartford Courant Calendar October, 1994. |
| Biser, Jeremy. "Images of Music Powerful, Evocative, Harmonizing.Music, Art Flow together at Jorgensen Gallery exhibit'. The Daily Campus University of Connecticut, November, 1994. |
| Silver, Ruth Lee. "Her Art Expresses Essence of Music". West Hartford News January, 1985 |
| Seaver, Margaret. "Laschever work Evokes Music; Artist Produces Music Series". The Provincetown Advocate August 1984. |
| Review. Cape Cod Guide August, 1984. |
| Abell, Mary. "Laschever, Spontaneous, Lighthearted". The Provincetown Advocate August, 1983. |
| Smith, Rosalind. "Estelle Laschever'. Provincetown Magazine August, 1983. |
| Rae, Betsy. "Estelle Laschever's New Work at Visual Images Art Gallery in Wellfleet". Nauset Weekly Calendar August, 1980. |
| Review. "The Only Symphony With a 'Painter in Residence'". West Hartford News April 1976. |
| Goldenthal, Jolene. "Sounds Translated Into Color". The Hartford Courant April, 1976 |
| Berkman, Florence. Review. The Hartford Times April, 1976. |
| Jouett, Sara. "Art Abstracts". The Hartford Courant 1968. |
| Matesky, Ross. "Local Talent". The Hartford Times February, 1968 |
| PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS |
| Connecticut Academy of Fine Art, Member, Board of Directors 1974-1976 |
| Monotype Guild of New England |
| Connecticut Academy |
| Connecticut Watercolor Society |
| TEACHING |
| New Britain Musem of American Art Collage and Mixed Media Collage and Collagraph Printmaking |
| 1.Private instruction a. Individual (all levels) b) Portfolio Preparation (for high school students working towards college portfolio presentation) |
| 2.Instructor, Manchester Community College (Continuing Education Department) Drawing Painting (Oils, Acrylics, Water Based Oils) Collage and Mixed Media Workshops |
| EDUCATION |
| Art Students League (study with Will Barnett and Yasuo Kuniyoshi) |
| Cornell University, Bachelor of Fine Arts |
| Masters of Art Education, University of Hartford |