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SHELLI LIPTON
Artist/Entrepreneur
Education
1960-1964 The High School of Music & Art
aka La Guardia Scool of the Arts, N.Y.C.
Academic Degree
1964-1967 School of Visual Arts, N.Y.C.
Fine Art Tuition Free Talent Scholarship
Graduate Diploma-Journalistic Illustration
Awards: 2nd. year- First prize for painting
3rd. year- First prize for original children’s book judged by Maurice Sendak, author of “Where the Wild Things Are”
Exhibited at World’s Fair Canada

Elementary School Award: 8th grade-City wide Brotherhood Contest for all 5 boroughs of N.Y.C.
First prize for poster art and first prize for poetry
Other Education
1963-1964 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Saturday special program for chosen high school students/college level art
1964 10-day summer workshop with day-glow Artist/Professor, Peter Gee Tuition free scholarship
Awards
Seventeen Magazine
Art Direction Magazine
Vanity Fair Magazine
Eberhard Faber Design Marker
Majestic Paper Co.
Nekoosa Paper Co., Inc.
Bailey’s Irish Cream
Kodak Kinsa Newspaper Award/N.Y. Post
JVC
Tokyo Video Festival
Marquardt Paper
Honored artist/Annual Cartoonist Convention
Dwight Wilson, Jr.
2003 Award Membership: “Who’s Who In Executives”
Anti-Tobacco Industry Award for producing “Teen Talent Time”

Teaching Experience
Founded and taught the first business class for artists at the
School of Visual Arts ’69-’74

Workshops on licensing designs: Licensing Symposium, N.Y.C.

High School Art for talented young artists, Woodstock, N.Y.

Grant from NYSCA and Channel 13 to teach video to young people

Social Services Grant, 2003: 6 hr.workshop/“Question Advertising”
Directed at teens age 13-19. Held at Suny New Paltz College

Organizations
Founder: School of Visual Arts Alumni Society
Past President and Vice-President School of Visual Arts Alumni
Woodstock Artists Association-Judged permanent member
Hudson Valley Watercolor Society
Art Directors Club-1st. woman accepted as regular member
New York State Historical Society
Iroquois Indian Museum
Dutchess County Council of the Arts
Who’s Who in Executives
Who’s Who in Cambridge
AASLH
Woodstock Brydcliffe Guild
Business Experience
C.E.O. & President, Ad International
Presently working on advertising and public relations for:
Town of Woodstock/re: Woodstock and Nimbin Sister City Relations
Town of Woodstock/re: Woodstock Public Access Television,
Channel 23
Woodstock Museum
Chief Jake Swamp, Tree of Peace Society
Upstate Media Enterprises
White Buffalo Multimedia Inc.
Children’s Art Collection, Hello Studio, Inc.

Past Business Experience
1967-1969 Harry Zelenko Associates, Assistant Art Director
Accounts: Colorform, Randam House, Olivetti, Maxwell House

1969-1971 Lineal Associates Advertising, Art Director, Time & Life Bldg.
Accounts: Hazeltine Corp., Rubber Age Magazine,
Nassau Community College, Summer Arts Symphony

1971-1974 Leland Advertising, 240 Madison Ave., N.Y.C.
Art Director and 1st. woman art director hired on Mad. Ad
(Madison Avenue advertising agency)
Accounts: Echo Scarves, Misty Harbor & Harbor Master, Rose
Marie Reid, Y’ves Cravat, Desco Shoe Corp., Footsaver, Talbot,
Etienne Aigner, Jonathan Logan, Crazy Horse


1974-1976 S. Lipton & Associates, advertising agency, Youngest
1974-1977 owner of full-service advertising agency
Accounts: National Audubon Society, Spray-On Fireproofing,
Nexus, Quirk, Reel Table co., Inc., Film Opticals, Filmmakers
Newsletter, National Video, Parker Watch, Daniel Caron

1976-1988 Hello Studio, Inc.
Children’s Art Collection
C.E.O. & President
Licensed art internationally to Ideal Toy Company, J. C. Penney,
Montgomery Ward, Sears Roebuck, Voyager Emblems, Pyramid
Fashions, Cardinal China Company, Franco Towels, Playskool Inc,
Milton Bradley Co., Boxed In, American Puzzle Company

1989-20010 Founder, CEO, Treas. and Director of Woodstock Museum.
President, Ad International
White Buffalo Multimedia, Inc., Creative Director
Mentor of Photography, Onteora School - Gifted Sudent Program
Photographer for newspaper “Native American”
Panelist for The Dutchess County Council of the Arts,
awarding NYSCA grants to Ulster County recipients


VIDEO FESTIVALS
1977 “A Purple Tree Is Fine With Me” Funded by
Columbia Pictures and toured in the Tokyo Film Festival

2002 “They Lied to You in School”
Distribution: Bookstores, colleges, libraries and public T.V.,
WATV, Channel 3, NYC Public Access

2003 “Lifestyles of the Solar Famous”
Woodstock Museum alternative film festival in Woodstock,NY
and Nimbin, Australia

2004 “Beware of Mankind”
Woodstock Museum 11th Annual Film Festival
Woodstock Peace Film on You Tube
Woodstock Downunder

SHELLI LIPTON Artist/Entrepreneur Education 1960-1964 The High School of Music & Art aka La Guardia Scool of the Arts, N.Y.C. Academic Degree 1964-1967 School of Visual Arts, N.Y.C. Fine Art Tuition Free Talent Scholarship Graduate Diploma-Journalistic Illustration Awards: 2nd. year- First prize for painting 3rd. year- First prize for original children’s book judged by Maurice Se... More