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Maureen Zeglen ('06) Receives a Brodsky Center Residency.

June 11, 2007 - Donald Taglialatella (juror) and founder of World House Editions, in collaboration with Edition Copenhagen, selects recent Centenary College Art & Design graduate - MAUREEN V. ZEGLEN '06 to receive the Brodsky Center Residency Prize at the 51st Annual National Juried Print Exhibition, Hunterdon Museum of Art, for her submission of "Connections", an etching, with multiples processes.
 
Selection to the National Juried Print Exhibition is highly selective and each year the juror disseminates 6 coveted awards.  The most prestigious award is a one-week residency at the Judith Brodsky Center for Innovative Print and Paper of (Mason Gross School of Art) Rutgers University. This year, Maureen Zeglen was the recipient of this award.  This is a phenomenal honor, as participation to the Brodsky Center is exclusive & by "invitation only"-  somewhat akin to a "lifetime achievement" award in printmaking!
 
In 1986, Brodsky started the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, from humble beginnings. Early on, she envisioned the center as an internationally recognized magnet for distinguished printmakers who could create prints in collaboration with master printmakers. It would serve as an educational resource, where students could learn the complexities of printmaking.
 
Twenty years later, most of Brodsky's goals have been realized, from  the caliber of artists attracted to the center each year, to it's solid, international reputation in the world of contemporary printmaking. Prints created  at the Brodsky Center are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art,  Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian, as well as the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
 
Further, Brodsky holds degrees from Radcliffe and the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Before joining Rutgers in 1978, she chaired the Rutgers-Newark Art Dept. and served as Associate Dean and Associate Provost, while also teaching in New Brunswick. Brodsky has also presided over many organizations, including ArtTable, The College Art Association, and the National Women's Caucus for Art. In addition, she is already helping to plan the Center's 25th anniversary celebration in 2011, which will include an exhibition at the MoMA.
 
Accordingly, Maureen Zeglen, will in turn join "the ranks" of exceptional printmakers in this one-week residency fellowship at the Brodsky Center.