CAE’S FAMILY ENGAGEMENT EXPERT

KAREN
FITZGERALD serves
as CAE’s Family Engagement expert. She is a parent, educator and
artist living in New York City. She has worked with public schools
through several of our grants projects.

BIOGRAPHY

Karen Fitzgerald’s work has been widely exhibited in the United
States. The Queens Museum of Art, Islip Art Museum, Rahr-West Museum,
Madison Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Institute of
Art & Design, the University of Arizona - Tucson and the United
Nations in NY have featured her work in their active exhibition
schedules. A recipient of two grants from the Queens Community Arts
Fund, she has also received funds from the Greenwall Foundation
and the Women’s Studio Workshop. Her work is in the Spencer Collection
of the New York Public Library, Brooklyn Union Gas collection, the
Rienhart Collection of Germany, the Museum of New Art in Detroit
and many other public and private collections. In 2005, she completed
a commission for the New York City School Construction
Authority. It consisted of 28 permanent panels at PS 239 in Queens.
In 2003, she completed a 28′ x 56′ exterior mural for public school
193 in Whitestone, Queens. She has also completed collaborative
commissions with composers Charles Griffin and Carl MaultsBy. She
has provided comprehensive school reform services for three NYC
public schools as a coach for Different Ways of Knowing. As project
director for ArtistCares, she oversaw the development and implementation
of programming in response to 9/11 in NYC, from 2001-2004. She has
been a teaching artist for 20 years and continues to provide consultations
for a wide range of institutions on a variety of educational issues.
She has taught at St. John’s University, Iona College and worked
as education director for the Queens Symphony Orchestra. She was
awarded an MFA from Hunter College in 1985, and a M.Ed. from Teachers
College, Columbia University in 1990. Karen’s work can be seen at: http://www.Fitzgeraldart.com.
She lives with her husband and three sons in Woodside, New York.