I am the ninth child from a family of ten children. I grew up in Pittsburgh’s Hill District on Whiteside Road in the 1950’s and 1960’s. I graduated from Schenley High School. I attended Community College of Allegheny County (North Side Campus) where I received my Associate of Arts Degree. I received my Bachelor’s in Elementary Education and my Master’s Degree in Special Education from the University of Pittsburgh. I was employed by the School District of Pittsburgh where I worked with children with multiple disabilities for 25 years until I retired in June of 2011.
I did not begin to seriously think of drawing or painting until I began to study dance in the mid 1970’s. The artwork I completed at that time was accepted as payment for dance classes. It was because of the work completed during this time period that a friend of mine encouraged me to pursue an exhibition of my work. In the fall of 1977 I began preparation for my first one man show to be held in the early summer of 1978.
I continued doing artwork after that exhibit both as a creative outlet after working all day with children and being influenced by their creativeness and as a method to provide myself with artwork for my home and gifts for my friends.
My hope is that my artworks will evoke some eyebrow lifting, some smiles and laughs. I also hope it evokes a sense of wonder, and maybe mystery. Most of all, I hope it evokes a joy in the love of color and fantasy and the appreciation of the talents of the creative genius of all primitive peoples.
Since 1989 to 2009 I had been represented by Michael Hertrich first at LaFond Galleries, then at Michael Hertricth Art and Frame on East Carson Street in Pittsburgh Pa., then at Michael Hertrich Fine Art in Harrisburg until their closure in 2019.
My work can currently be found at Ujamaa Collective 1901 Centre Ave Suite PGH. PA 15219 and at Hertrich Gallery 127 West Main Street Somerset PA
My works are part of many private and corporate collections in Pittsburgh and around the country.
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I did not begin to seriously think of drawing or painting until I began to study dance in the mid 1970’s. The artwork I completed at that time was accepted as payment for dance classes. It was because of the work completed during this time period that a friend of mine encouraged me to pursue an exhibition of my work. In the fall of 1977 I began preparation for my first one man show to be held in the early summer of 1978.
I continued doing artwork after that exhibit both as a creative outlet after working all day with children and being influenced by their creativeness and as a method to provide myself with artwork for my home and gifts for my friends.
My hope is that my artworks will evoke some eyebrow lifting, some smiles and laughs. I also hope it evokes a sense of wonder, and maybe mystery. Most of all, I hope it evokes a joy in the love of color and fantasy and the appreciation of the talents of the creative genius of all primitive peoples.
Since 1989 to 2009 I had been represented by Michael Hertrich first at LaFond Galleries, then at Michael Hertricth Art and Frame on East Carson Street in Pittsburgh Pa., then at Michael Hertrich Fine Art in Harrisburg until their closure in 2019.
My work can currently be found at Ujamaa Collective 1901 Centre Ave Suite PGH. PA 15219 and at Hertrich Gallery 127 West Main Street Somerset PA
My works are part of many private and corporate collections in Pittsburgh and around the country.
© All rights reserved. Norman Brown normanbrownart,com