Julie Fortenberry

Sadie, Ori and the Blue Blanket was named one of the best Jewish Children’s books of 2015 by Tablet Magazine http://bit.ly/2i1qgMy —Thank you to author, Jamie Korngold for passing this good news along!

“Both Korngold and Fortenberry are attentive to all that Grandma does for Sadie and Ori, making it all the more poignant when they return the favor as Grandma’s physical and mental capabilities begin to diminish”
Publishers Weekly
http://publishersweekly.com/pw/reviews/single/978-1-4677-1191-3

A lovely Goodreads review: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25548524-sadie-and-ori-and-the-blue-blanket

JULIE FROMME FORTENBERRY
PAINTINGS – OIL ON WOOD

EXPERIENCE
Symposium Presentation, College Art Association
September 1991, Washington, DC
“Creators or Destroyers: Ethics, the Environment and Art Materials.”

EXHIBITIONS
1995 – Fantasy and Form, Choate House Gallery Pace University, Pleasantville, NY
https://www.nytimes.com/1995/11/19/nyregion/art-more-fantasies-natural-and-cultural-in-arts-council-survey.html
1992 – Persistence of Painting, Kohn Pedersen Fox Gallery, NYC
1990 – With the Grain, Whitney Museum of American Art, Phillip Morris, NYC
1990 – With the Grain, Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, CT https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/29/nyregion/art-painters-are-embracing-wood.html
1990 – Twentieth Anniversary Benefit Exhibition, White Columns, NYC
1989 – New Abstraction, Weatherspoon Gallery, UNC, Greensboro, NC
1989 – Solo exhibit, Julian Pretto Gallery, NYC
1989 – Small Scale Abstraction, Art in General, NYC
https://artingeneral.org/artists/136
1989 – White Columns, NYC
https://whitecolumns.org/archive/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/1495
1988 – Group Show at 48 Laight Gallery, NYC
1988 – Five Painters, PS 122, NYC
1988 – Two Person Exhibit with Don Fortenberry, 55 Mercer Gallery, NYC
1986 – New Abstract Paintings, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, NYC

EDUCATION
Hunter College, MFA, 1986

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HOW TO MAKE A PAPER HAT!

While writing THE ARTIST AND THE KING I did a little research on the construction of the Maid Marian hat that my character, Daphne, makes. Thank you to The Girl Inspired for the beautiful hats in the link below! Thank you too, to Rosemarie Gulla for all of those magnificent hats at The Randolph County Library.
Party Hats 101: http://thegirlinspired.com/party-hats-101/

Listen to Frank Stasio talk with Katie Wyatt, Kidznotes Executive Director, and me. Kidznotes students Marcus Gee and Heyda Ortiz and their instructor, Oakley Lyon, perform live.
http://wunc.org/post/orchestral-music-social-change