Gloria Abella BallenGloria Abella Ballen is an artist and author creating award-winning art books such as The Power of the Hebrew Alphabet and The New World Haggadah, the latter with Ilan Stavans. Both titles won Best Book Awards with The Power of the Hebrew Alphabet wining multiple awards. Abella Ballen has graduate degrees in art from SUNY-Buffalo and the National University in Mexico City and has done specialized studies on studio art and theory with Larry Rivers and John Cage. She has exhibited in individual and group shows in the United States, Israel, Japan, Latin America, and Europe, and has received a number of awards, including the UNESCO prize in painting, the Latin American Graphics Biennial, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Pan American Graphics Portfolio Award among others. Her art has been shown from Christie's in London to Louis Stern in Los Angeles, from the Carrillo Gil Museum in Mexico City to the Bellevue Art Museum in Seattle. Her art is in the collections of museums, corporations and private individuals from the National Museum of Colombia to the Presidential Palace in that country and the the collections of Occidental Petroleum, Alcoa, Mayo Clinic, and the Royal Bank of Canada among others. She has been a visiting artist in England at the University of Essex and the Camberwell School of Art (London), in China at the University of Xinjiang and in Israel at the Mishkan Omanim in Herzliya. Gloria has been a professor of art at universities in Puerto Rico, Colombia and the United States. Read More Read Less