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MeedoA fourth-generation artist, sculptor, and craftsperson for more than fifty years, Meedo was raised during the 50’s in various non-family settings in Woodstock, New York. At the age of 15, Meedo won a summer scholarship to the Woodstock branch of the NYC Art Students’ League. Subsequently Meedo studied art at SUNY, the University of Hawaii, Philadelphia’s Fleischer Art Memorial. Her work has been displayed or is part of collections in several states and she has won numerous awards, including first place in the 1982 Smithville Art Show and Honorable Mention in the 2004 Ocean City Arts Center juried exhibition. Meedo has taught art for students in the St. Nicholas School in Egg Harbor and in the Atlantic County New School (both in New Jersey). Meedo works in many media, drawing from a wide variety of life experiences and memory. At age four, she lost her nuclear family and, thereafter, spent a year in an Episcopal convent, five years with a Dutch family, two with a French family, and lived in other unusual arrangements. At age 18, having decided to decouple her art from her livelihood, Meedo worked variously at a camp counselor, a welder, an English tutor, a teacher, a retail administrator, a dishwasher, a portrait studio photo finisher, a dental assistant, a refugee resettlement worker, a singer, and an illustrator. A reclusive artist, she finds great joy in her studio, producing and perfecting her work. |
  This program is made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts. Ocean City Fine Arts League, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit community arts organization. |