Dana Levin

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There are two artists with the name "Dana Levin". One is a poet and the other a prominent classical realism and naturalist painter. Dana Levin the painter began her fine art education at the young age of 14, attending the competitive fine arts summer program, Belvoir Terrace in Lenox, MA. and in high school the prestigious New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida. She continued her studies at the prominent Art Institute of Chicago, where her achievements earned her an early graduation with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Seeking to enhance her artistic abilities and proficiency, Levin then moved to Italy to train under painter Daniel Graves, and learn the techniques of the European masters at the Florence Academy of Art. She completed the three-year curriculum and upon graduation was asked to join the school’s drawing and painting faculty for the next five years and is considered to be among one of their most important alumni.

Levin’s search for meaningful subjects for her paintings has taken her throughout the United States, Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, and South America. Additionally, she has been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships from organizations, which include the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, the Art Renewal Center and the John F. and Anna Lee Stacey Fund. Her work has also been published in several prestigious catalogues and magazines. Dana founded The New School of Classical Art in Pawtucket RI in 1995 to teach aspiring artists classical drawing and painting.

Dana Levin the poet is the Chair of Creative Writing, Humanities, and Interdisciplinary Studies and Associate Professor at the College of Santa Fe. She also teaches in the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. She has a B.A. from Pitzer College, an MA in English and Creative Writing from New York University. Her first book, In the Surgical Theatre, was published by American Poetry Review/Copper Canyon Press in 1999, and Copper Canyon brought out her second book, Wedding Day in 2005. Her work has appeared in many anthologies including The Poet’s Child, This Art, American Poetry: The Next Generation, and in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry and Volt. ^[1]