Month: February 2016

Hanging Out with Bernie

February 24, 2016

by Tori Rasche No, not Bernie Sanders. I recently got to ‘hang out’ with another Bernie, the artist Bernard Karfiol (1886-1952), through a collection of his drawings and ephemera from his life that was generously given to OMAA last year by the Karfiol family. As a gallery attendant, I normally work at the museum when…

How did I get here?

February 8, 2016

By Alison Gibbs “And you may ask yourself, ‘Well … how did I get here?’” Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime In my career, I’ve been a Wall Street wire reporter, a radio and TV news producer, a banking PR flack, and a government consulting marketeer, among other things. So how did I get to…