Deborah Patterson

After completing her art training in Philadelphia at Fleisher Art Memorial and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she studied drawing, painting, sculpture, and printmaking, Deborah moved to Tuscany, Italy. There, she happily lived, painted and taught, while also teaching life drawing and painting at the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts, in Paros, Greece. Deborah returned to the U.S. to pursue and complete a master’s degree in Religion & the Arts at Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music and the Arts (she also holds a BA in Art History). Following graduation, she spent a year as the Institute’s first artist-in-residence. An artist-in-residence at I-Park in East Haddam, CT followed several years later. A painting and music collaboration with composer, Robert Sirota, former director of the Peabody Institute, brought her