Janet Luongo's Resume

September, 2009          Janet Luongo, M.S. Ed, Certified Holistic Health Counselor

                                    Educator, Speaker, Author, Artist, TV producer and Coach

                                    49 Creeping Hemlock Drive, Norwalk, CT 06851, U.S.A.

                                    (203) 846-2642.  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

                                    www.janetluongo.com.  www.openminds-opendoors.com

                                    Nourish & Flourish TV: www.youtube.com/janetluongo3

 

PROFILE

  • Mission: To work with people who want to create lives they love.
  • Specialties: Creative thinking. Health & life balance
  • Affiliate of Eat Right America, founded by Dr. Joel Fuhrman, M.D.
  • Multi-discipline artist for CT Commission on Culture and Tourism
  • Author of 365 Daily Affirmations for Creativity, and co-author of 2 anthologies
  • Producer of internet and public access TV, Nourish and Flourish
  • Director of educational programming, Housatonic Museum of Art
  • Past awarding-winning director of science & art education at the Discovery Museum
  • Experience as teacher; artist-in-residence; and department chair in Switzerland
  • Former Adjunct professor of art, history and public speaking at Sacred Heart University
  • National Speakers Association past president, NYC chapter; nat'l chair of education
  • Artist with 7 solo exhibits and dozens of group shows in CT, NY, Paris and Geneva
  • Founder of nonprofit, event & conference planner - Women's Caucus for Art - CT

 PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

2000-present   

Education Programming Consultant for the Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport.  Ansel Adams Exhibit; PBS exhibit, Freedom: The History of US; Werth Family Foundation Student Docent Program

2003-06           Unitarian Church, Westport, CT.  Associate Director of Religious Education.

                        Projects: Creative Connections International; Oil Drum Art; Banners

1992-2004       Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT.  Adjunct professor of art, communication. 2001                                Norwalk Community College adjunct professor of art history.

                        Housatonic Community College adjunct professor of art

  • 1996-2000 The Discovery Museum, Bridgeport, CT. V. P. for Education
  • 1993-1996 The Discovery Museum, Curator of Art Education
  • 1988-1992 The Wilton Public Schools, Wilton, CT. Art teacher K-12.
  • 1981-1986 La Chataigneraie, The International School of Geneva, Founex, Switzerland
  • 1975-1978 Academy of St. Joseph, Brentwood, NY. Art teacher, grades 10-12

 

DEGREES & CERTIFICATES  

  • Award winning Graduate of Immersion, 2nd year of study at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, NYC
  • Certification in Integrative Nutrition. Columbia University Teachers College
  • Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner. Amer. Assoc. of Drugless Practitioners
  • M.S. in Education.  Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing.
  • B.A. Fine Art, magna cum laude. Adelphi University, Garden City, NY. 
  • Permanent Teaching Certification, Art K-12, in Connecticut

SELECT AWARDS & HONORS

  • Extraordinary Service Award 2002. National Speakers Association New York Tri-State chapter
  • Outstanding Museum Art Educator for Connecticut, 1999. Connecticut Art Educators
  • Distinguished Advocate for the Arts Award 1999. Connecticut Commission on the Arts

SELECT CLIENTS & SPONSORS

Healthcare:          Yale New Haven Health Systems; Bristol Meyers; Saint Clare's Hospital, NJ

Educational Institutions: Xi'an Comprehensive University, China - lectures on creative thinking

Clarke College, Iowa - Leadership conference for women -  keynote speaker

Norwalk Community College - break out session after keynote by Bernie Siegel, M.D., at conference, "Is There Life After Retirement?"

H.O.T. (Higher Order Thinking) School Teacher  Institute; Colin Powell's America's Promise; Dozens of Private and Public School  Districts, CT: Avon, Bridgeport, Fairfield, Hartford, Norwalk, Westport, etc.,

Government:       Department of Developmental Services, CT                

Associations:    Entrepreneurial Women's Network, Panel on Publishing; Visioning your Future

                           CT Holistic Assoc., National Speakers Assoc.  

National Assoc. for Multi-cultural Education; National Art Educators; MENSA; Society  for H. R. Management; Successful Women in Business; Women in Transition

Arts Organizations:

NY Museum Educators Round Table; Storm King Art Center, NY; Connecticut Art                                     Educators Association;  Farmington Valley Art Center; Urban Artists Initiative; CT Commission on the Arts; Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT;  Gallery of Contemporary Art, SHU; Housatonic Museum of Art; Mattatuck Museum; Westport Arts Center

Corporate Sponsors:  The Bell Group - keynote speaker on creativity at Clasp Conference in Nashville TN

Atria, Deloitte and Touche sponsor of S.T.A.R. project; General Electric ommunity                                   programs; SBC/SNET; People's Bank;

Community and Non Profits:

Women's Caucus for Art, The McGivney Community Ctr., Amistad America , Public Libraries, Urban Ecology Conference, Earthplace in Westport 

 

RECENT SELECT PUBLICATIONS

2007                       American Art Parade.  On CT page - art for  non-profit for disabilities - STAR, Inc.

2006                       Paint Mental Pictures, Professional Speaker Magazine of the Nat'l Speakers Assoc.

2005                       365 Daily Affirmations for Creativity, Published by Hannacroix Creek Books,                                                    Inc, Stamford. Foreword by Jack Canfield                           

2003                       Co-author in 2002 of Mission Possible, Vol.4, an anthology Insight Publishing, Inc.

2002                       Co-Author of The Princess Principle: Women Helping Women Discover Their                                                    Royal Spirit, R & W Publishers, Dallas, TX

 

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

2007-09 TV interviews on holistic health on public access - Norwalk and Bridgeport, CT

2005-6   TV Interview with Karen Heffner for American Pen Women, and Interviewed by various radio hosts from Mary Jane Popp to Mike Carruthers, syndicated in 200 radio stations

5/27/05  WHPC-LI - "Just Relationships" About Generating Creativity

12/7/04  Norwalk Citizen News - Feature on art and activism

11/02     SKY RADIO -Interview on creative leadership broadcast on 30,000 flights of American and          Northwest Airlines

11/02     Connecticut Post - Article on Student Docent Program at the Housatonic Museum of Art

 

INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITS

1986       Galerie Motte, Geneva, Switzerland - one person exhibit

1985       Zyma Gallery, Nyon, Switzerland - one person exhibit

1985       American Academy of the Arts, Paris, France - several recent works

 

SELECT GROUP ART EXHIBITS

2008      Westport Arts Center, Westport, CT, art by artists who work in the community

2005-6   National Banner Projects with rePublicArt.org; Women: Creators, Leaders, Adventurers; 

2004       We the People, Heart of the City rePublicArt.org banners, New Haven

2003       Women's Caucus for Art - Women, Art and War at SCSU, New Haven

2000        Positive Power: Women Artists of Connecticut, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT

 

ART AWARDS 

  • Screening of Women Make Art, 2005 (co-produced) at UNIFEM international film festival
  • 2nd Place Award, 2008 for National Video Contest, Spirited Woman
  • 1st Place Award, Aesthetics, 2004 Oil Drum Art at Int'l Festival Arts & Ideas, New Haven, CT