After completing her art training in Philadelphia at Fleisher Art Memorial and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she studied drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking, Deborah moved to Tuscany, Italy. There, she happily lived, painted and taught, while also teaching life drawing and painting at the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts, in Paros, Greece.
Deborah returned to the U.S. to pursue and complete a master’s degree in Religion & the Arts at Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music and the Arts (she also holds a BA in Art History). Following graduation, she spent a year as the Institute’s first artist-in-residence. An artist-in-residence at I-Park in East Haddam, CT followed several years later.
A painting and music collaboration with composer, Robert Sirota, former director of the Peabody Institute, brought her back to her hometown of Baltimore, where she currently lives. A second painting and music collaboration with Sirota commemorates the victims of 9/11. It premiered at Trinity Wall Street and has been performed with the paintings at Carnegie Hall, Manhattan School of Music, the Peabody, Bennington College, An Die Musik, and other East Coast venues.
Most recently, she collaborated with experimental musician/composer, Charles Emmett Freeman, to produce “Depths of Being”, an experiential painting and music installation about healing. It premiered at JELMA Art Museum at Morgan State University in October 2023 and is currently on view at Manor Mill in Monkton. Both she and Charles received Maryland State Arts Council Creativity Grants to produce their respective work.
Deborah’s work is featured in private collections in Italy, Greece, the UK, and throughout the U.S. She is fluent in Italian and takes small groups on art tours of Italy twice a year.
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