RESIDENCIES

Metropolitan Museum of Art - Artist Residency, New York, NY                                                                                  The Ruth & Harold D. Center for Education and Select Galleries

Consisted of research on selected European and American masters, culminating with joining the copyist program where Aldanondo produced two pieces painted at Gallery 803 in the European wing, inspired by Camille Corot’s “Sybille” (1870). Click hete The ‘unfinished’ nature of the piece appealed to Aldanondo, as well as Corot’s shift to portraiture although he was a renowned landscape painter. Drawn to the rough brushstrokes particularly of the model’s arm and hands, she painted the full portrait and then went on to produce a close up of the hand holding ‘the pink.’

SVA (School of Visual Arts NYC), Artist Residency, Chelsea, New York

ICELAND Artist Residency - partially sponsored by the Ministry of Culture of Iceland.  Explored Icelandic culture, through exploration of time, empathy, compassion and the Icelandic welfare system.  Alongside a cohort of international artists, worked with the local prison, Litla-Hraun, and the local school to conduct a painting workshop concluding in an art festival.

Work & Volunteering

Teaching Assistant - (forthcoming) New York Academy of Art, Sculpture Department during the Summer Residency Program

Art Advisory - Wooster & Grand, selected works to be displayed at different events such as walls rented at the Tribeca Art Show and Hamptons Fine Art Fair through independent collaborations.

Social Media Curator for New York Society of Women Artists (2020-2024) - curated the social media feed during the organization's exhibitions.   The organization does not curate their shows, they have no curator as they strive to allow freedom of expression to all their members.  Curating the Social Media feed ensured the quality and visual flow of the images on the feed.

Board Member - New York Society of Women Artists - (2020-2024)

Painting Music - Collaborated with Suarez-Paz Tango during the Arts & Music Festival on Roosevelt Island, New York

ArtWorks NYC - Museum Guide at the Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for groups of Public School children 3rd-5th grades as part of the ArtWorks NYC art history comprehensive curriculum, when children would visit the pieces they had been studying at school through the arts program.  This program followed a set of images and curriculum for each grade level.

AWARDS 

• Scholar Award toward MFA studies at The New York Academy of Art
• Susan Wasserstein Patron of the Arts Scholar Award
• New York Foundation for the Arts through the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation - Emergency Grant
• Leonard Rosenfeld Award in Abstract Painting
  
• Honorable Mentions, James Little Salon Exhibition
• Merit Scholarship, The Art Students League of New York
• NAWA Juried Show best in Abstract Painting
• Milken Family Foundation Juried selection juried by Benedict Leca, PH.D., Executive Director, Redwood Library & Athenaeum, Norah Diedrich, Executive Director, Newport Art Museum, Qianni Zhu, Mirlen Family Postbaccalaureate Fellow in Museum Practice, Colby
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• National Association of Women Artists - Best Abstract Work Award
• Awarded Recognition as an Art Donor to Special Citizens, Bronx, New York
• Honorable Citizen Award The City of New York by Costas Costantinides - Queens, New York (2014)