Teachers of the Courses at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation

	Ellen Reiss is the Class Chairman of Aesthetic Realism, appointed by Eli Siegel. She teaches the professional classes for Aesthetic Realism Consultants and Associates. A critic and poet, she also teaches the course The Aesthetic Realism Explanation of Poetry. Her master's degree is in English, and prior to becoming Class Chairman in 1977, she taught in the English departments of Hunter College and Queens College of the City University of New York. She is Editor of the international periodical The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known, and her commentaries in that journal, on world events, literature, history, economics, and the human self, have been educating people worldwide.
	Barbara Allen, flutist and educator, has been an Aesthetic Realism Consultant since 1972. A graduate of the University of Illinois, Ms. Allen taught in the Chicago and West Orange, NJ public schools. Today she teaches workshops for educators, classes in music and in marriage, and classes for children-including in after-school programs in New York City . She has presented professional staff development and in-service courses for teachers at schools and conferences in the NY tri-state area. With composer and pianist Edward Green, she has performed classic works from the flute literature, with Aesthetic Realism commentary relating music to life.
	Anne Fielding is a Consultant with the trio There Are Wives, as well as an Obie Award-winning actress, a singer, and the Director of the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company. A member of Actors' Equity and AFTRA, she has performed on and off Broadway, on television, and with the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut. She taught at the HB Studio, and is one of the authors of Aesthetic Realism: We Have Been There. Ms. Fielding is a frequent speaker at workshops for senior men and women, including on the subject "Using Love, the Family, & Age to Like the World."
	Edward Green, composer, is a professor at the Manhattan School of Music. He has spoken at academic conferences here and abroad, and articles by him on subjects ranging from the troubadours to Haydn, Prokofiev, and Ellington have appeared in such periodicals as Choral Music, the British Journal of Aesthetics, and the International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music. He is a recipient of a Music Alive! grant from the American Symphony Orchestra League, and his own compositions are available on Albany Records, Arizona University Recordings, and other labels.
	Chaim Koppelman, printmaker and Consultant with The Kindest Art, began his study with Eli Siegel in 1940. He teaches printmaking at the School of Visual Arts , NYC. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art , NY; the National Gallery, Washington, DC; the Metropolitan, Guggenheim, Whitney, and Brooklyn Museums; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London . He received two Tiffany grants, a New York State CAPS grant, and a lifetime achievement award from the Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA). He is a member of the National Academy Museum and School. His work appears in numerous books on the print. In 2002 he sculpted the Eli Siegel Memorial now installed in Druid Hill Park, Baltimore.
	Dorothy Koppelman , painter and Consultant with The Kindest Art, began her study with Eli Siegel in 1942. In 1955 she founded the Terrain Gallery, which is based on Mr. Siegel's landmark principle "In reality opposites are one; art shows this." She has shown at the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and in New York galleries. Her work is in museum collections, including that of the National Museum of Women in the Arts. A recipient of a Tiffany grant, she is a member of the American Society of Contemporary Artists and has taught at the National Academy School of Art. Her papers and sketchbooks, and those of Chaim Koppelman, are in the Archives of American Art.
	Patricia Martone, a Consultant with All For Education, graduated from Kean College, NJ, and received an MA in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from the City University of New York. She is a teacher of English as a Second Language (ESL) in the New York City public school system and has conducted staff development classes in schools in the metropolitan area. Her articles on the success of the Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method have been published in (for example) the Tennessee Tribune, Philippine Post, and Louisiana Weekly.
	Pauline Meglino majored in English at West Virginia University. She is a Consultant with the trio There Are Wives, and has spoken on the lives of such varied women as Mrs. Alexander Graham Bell, Clara Bow, and Mrs. Arnold Bennett, and on such urgent subjects as "Real Communication in Marriage-How Can We Have It?" and "Why Wives & Husbands Feel Distant-& the Aesthetic Solution!" Mrs. Meglino, who grew up with deaf parents, has presented Aesthetic Realism in American Sign Language and has a deep interest in the questions of communication.
	Robert Murphy, a graduate of Michigan State University, is a Consultant to young men and adults. He has spoken in seminars on such topics as "What Do Men Really Desire Most?" and "The Fight in Young Men between Two Kinds of Power," and has written articles on economics and on the cause of and solution to youth violence. With Barbara Allen, he teaches young people in classes at youth centers throughout New York. He is also a restauranteur and film producer.
	Arnold Perey, Ph.D., graduated from the University of Chicago and received his doctorate in anthropology from Columbia University. He taught anthropology and sociology at the City University of New York. Author of Gwe: Young Man of New Guinea-a novel against racism, Dr. Perey has presented talks at the American Anthropological Association and the Northeast Anthropological Association, and at other professional conferences, and received grants from the National Science Foundation and the United States Public Health Service.
	Rosemary Plumstead is a Consultant with All For Education. A teacher in NYC public high schools for more than 30 years, she has taught since 1975 in the bi-weekly Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method workshop for educators, and has given presentations on this teaching method at science conferences in many American cities. Her articles have been published in education journals, including The Science Teachers Bulletin and the PSTA Exchange.
	Marcia Rackow, an artist and Consultant with The Kindest Art, graduated from Barnard College and studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and in Europe. She taught at Hofstra College, and has lectured at the School of Visual Arts, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia), and the 31st World Congress of the International Society for Education through Art. She is a Coordinator of the Terrain Gallery, and exhibits there and at the Atlantic Gallery.
	Carrie Wilson is a Consultant, singer, and actress, as well as a Coordinator of the Terrain Gallery. She performs regularly with the Aesthetic Realism Theatre Company and has also appeared off-Broadway, in concert, and at academic conferences in America and abroad. A graduate of Barnard College and the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, she is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. A mezzo-soprano, she has performed in Europe and South America, including in conjunction with talks presented by her husband, composer Edward Green.

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