Maxine Nodel will share her passion and artistic thought process for her Eyes on America’ Portrait Project, her new emerging initiative celebrating the beauty, fragility, and exquisite uniqueness of American diversity during tumultuous times. Maxine received her BFA from Cooper Union and exhibits and sells her work nationally and internationally. She was also an award-winning arts educator and founder and principal of a NYC arts high school funded by a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grant. In 2009, her school received the Lincoln Center Institute First Place Award for Most Imaginative Curriculum in NYC.