Linda Gissen works with sponsoring organizations and individuals in conceiving and developing the design for sculptures and functional works for indoor or outdoors sites.


 

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   (selected list)

Who's Who of American Women
2000 Sculpture Award - Portsmouth Museum
1997  People's Choice Award – Norfolk  Waterfront Festival, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition
1996  Merit Award – Peninsula Glass Guild
1995  Sculpture Award – Charles Taylor Art Show, Hampton, VA
1993  Best in Show – Stockley Gardens Art Show, Norfolk, VA
1992  Bronze Award – American Interfaith Institute
1991  Merit Award – WHRO, Norfolk, VA
1989  Woman of Achievement Award – Beth-El Congregation, Richmond, VA
1984  and 1987  Sculpture Ribbons – Metropolitan Artists Association, Richmond,  VA
1984  and 1986 Blue Ribbons – Jewish Community Center of Richmond, VA
1972  Sculpture Award – Morristown Art Show, Morristown, NJ

(selected list   *indicates one-person show)
American Artists Professional League - NJ
American Craft Council
American Interfaith Institute
* Bergen Community Museum – Bergen Co., NJ
* Beth Ahabah Museum – Richmond, VA
Chrysler Museum – Norfolk, VA
Contemporary Art Center of Virginia – Virginia Beach, VA
Handworkshop – Richmond, VA
* House of Living Judaism (UAHC) – NYC
Hebrew Union College - NYC
Inter-Faith Forum on Religion, Architecture and the Arts
*Jewish Museum Design Shop – NYC
Ma'yan Invitational Miriam Cup Exhibit – NYC
Metarco Gallery – Madison Ave,  NYC
National Jewish Museum - Washington, DC
National Press Club – Washington, DC
National Museum of American Jewish History – Phil., PA
Newark Museum – Newark, NJ
Noyes Museum of Art – Oceanville, NJ
*Paterson Museum – Paterson, NJ
Penninsula Fine Art Center  - Newport News, VA
Portsmouth Museum - Portsmouth, VA
Sculpture Center – NYC
Skirball Museum - Cincinnati, OH
Smithsonian Museum and S.O.S - National. traveling show
Suffolk Museum, Suffolk, VA
University of Virginia Art Museum - Charlottesville, VA
Valentine Museum – Richmond, VA
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT

(selected list)
American Interfaith Institute – Philadelphia, PA
American Jewish Museum - Pittsburg, PA
American Jewish Society for Service – NY, NY
B'nai B'rith International – Washington, DC
B'nai Israel Congregation – Norfolk, VA
Beth Ahabah Museum – Richmond, VA
Beth Sholom Congregation – Teaneck, NJ
Beth-El Congregation – Tyler, TX
Beth Chaverim - Virginia Beach, VA
Congregation Beth Am – Teaneck, NJ
Congregation Beth El – Williamsburg, VA
Congregation Neve  Sholom – Metuchen, NJ
Congregation Beth Sholom – River Edge, NJ
Diocese of Virginia, Sacred Heart Cathedral  - Richmond, VA
Emek Sholom Cemetery – Richmond, VA
Jewish Federation - Detroit MI
Infilco Degremont Corporation – Richmond, VA
Keneseth Beth Israel - Richmond, VA
Newark Museum - Newark, NJ
Northeast Synod United Presbyterian Church USA
Ohef Sholom - Norfolk, VA
Old Dominion University - Norfolk, VA
Prince of Peace Catholic Church - Chesapeake, VA
Rockford Art Museum -Rockford, IL
Rodef Sholom - Waco, TX
Sacred Heart Church - Norfolk, VA
Skirball Museum - Cincinnati, OH
Teaneck Township - Teaneck, NJ
Temple Emanuel - Winston Salem, NC
Temple Emanuel - Livingston, NJ
Temple Israel - Norfolk, VA
Temple Mickve Israel - Savanah, GA
Virginia Home Builders Association – Richmond, VA
The White House – Washington, DC
Women's American ORT
Zonta International - NJ\ NY     

(selected list)

Jeannie Baliles
Theodore Bikel
Senator Bill Bradley
President George H. W. Bush
Fred W. Friendly
Althea Gibson
Frances and Sydney Lewis
Edwin Newman
Dr. Albert B. Sabin
Congressman Robert Scott
Attorney General Mary Sue Terry
Dr. Elie Wiesel
Governor L. Douglas Wilder

(selected list)

Artists Confronting the Inconceivable – Award Winning Glass Sculpture
A Comprehensive Guide to Outdoor Sculpture in Texas - by Carol Morris Little, University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, 1996
Commonwealth and Community -by Melvin I. Urofsky, Virginia Historical Society,1997
Judaic Artisans Today, by Kathryn Morton, Flower Valley Press, Gaithersburg, MD, 2002
Miriam's Cups - Ma'yan. The Jewish Women's Project, NY 1997
Upon Thy Doorposts, by Belle Rosebaum., published by the Jacob and Belle Rosenbaum Foundation, New York, 1994
Visiting Miriam’s Well - Women of Reform Judaism, NY 2003

(selected list   * indicates feature article)

Associated Press Photo News Service
*The Bergen Record, Bergen, NJ
B'nai B'rith Insider
Catholic News Service
Christian Herald
House Beautiful
*Jewish Journal
*Jewish News
Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA)
*Metropolitan Woman
National Catholic Reporter
* National RepORTer
The New York Times
*Portfolio, Norfolk, VA
*Reflector, Richmond, VA
*Renewal, Norfolk, VA
*Richmond News Leader, Richmond, VA
Sculpture Magazine
*Style Weekly, Richmond, VA
*Virginian-Pilot and Ledger Star, Norfolk, VA

                                 
University of Michigan, 1955-56
University of Cincinnati, 1959, B.A., sociology and anthropology,
Graduate studies, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Bergen Technical School 1979, Welding Certification
Sculpture Center, NYC 1989 & 1990
Penland Crafts Center, Penland NC, 1995 & 1996