Barbara Allen   BA from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. Taught English and Social Studies in the Chicago Public Schools. Teacher of English at Roosevelt Junior High School, West Orange, New Jersey. Began study of Aesthetic Realism with its founder Eli Siegel in 1970. Aesthetic Realism Consultant 1972 to the present....more

Website: BarbaraAllen.org, flutist, Aesthetic Realism consultant.

Bruce Blaustein graduated with a BA in teaching from SUNY at New Paltz and received a Master’s Degree in Rehabilitation Counseling from New York University. He became a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor and worked at Long Island Jewish Hillside Medical Center as a counselor in one of their outreach programs before entering the fashion industry.  He is now president of a well known dress and suit company and combines a heavy travel schedule with family trips—the Blaustein family has visited the UK, Germany, the Netherlands, and France as well as cities throughout America. His writing on the economy has appeared in major newspapers including The Boston Globe, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Atlanta Constitution....more

Margot Carpenter, originally of Miami, is a poet and, along with teaching Aesthetic Realism in consultations and seminars, she is Executive Director of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation. Published on love and women’s issues, she is also an authority on dance and was a soloist with the Miami Ballet....more

Bennett Cooperman, consultant and actor, graduated from Syracuse University in1976. He is an internal communications director for a New York-based financial services firm, responsible for updating a national staff of 13,000 on company strategy and initiatives. He is a liaison between the U.S. firm and its parent company in Paris....more

Edward Green, PH.D, studied with Eli Siegel from 1974 to 1978, and has been on the faculty of the Aesthetic Realism Foundation since 1980, where, with his colleagues Barbara Allen and Anne Fielding, he teaches the course "The Opposites in Music." A prize-winning composer, his music has been performed by orchestras across the United States as well as in several countries overseas—including Russia, the Czech Republic, Argentina and England....more

Barbara Kestenbaum has been active in a NYC municipal union since 1984 where she served as a shop steward and delegate. She attended the High School of Fashion Industries and continued her education at Fashion Institute of Technology. She has participated in pubic seminars presented at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, including What Kind of Importance Do We Want?....more

Ken Kimmelman is an award-winning filmmaker and animator and winner of a 1995 National Emmy award for his anti-prejudice public service film "The Heart Knows Better." He has taught at New York University and the School of Visual Arts and is well-known as a speaker against racism....more

Chaim Koppelman. Began study with Eli Siegel in poetry classes in 1940. Attended the American Artists School, Art Students League, in NYC; Brooklyn College, the Art College of Western England, Bristol; Ecole des Beaux Arts, Rheims; Amedee Ozenfant School in NYC, and his assistant. Teaching: Dept. of Art Education, NYU; New York State University at New Paltz, Graduate Extension Division; Instructor, School of Visual Arts, NYC, including Head of Printmaking Section l959 – l969); National Academy of Art and Design.... more

Dorothy Koppelman began her study of Aesthetic Realism with Eli Siegel in 1942. She founded the Terrain Gallery in 1955, with exhibitions based on this principle stated by Mr. Siegel: "In reality opposites are one; art shows this." Mrs. Koppelman conducts "Critical Inquiry: A Workshop for Visual Artists" at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation. She has also taught at Brooklyn College, CUNY. Her work has been shown in museums throughout the country, and is in the collections of Hampton University, VA, and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC.... more

Derek Mali, actor, has taught Aesthetic Realism for over 30 years, giving consultations and presenting seminars on such subjects as "Justice & Comfort: What’s the Relation?," "How Much Should a Man Care For—Besides Himself?," "Do We Know What’s Best in Us?—& What’s Worst?" more

Lois Mason (d. 2007) was an instructor of the workshop for educators The Aesthetic Realism of Eli Siegel As Teaching Method. A public school teacher since 1971, she taught US history at New Utrecht HS in Brooklyn. She wrote articles and spoke at professional conferences on the Aesthetic Realism method in teaching social studies. more

Pauline (Fanning) Meglino originally of Los Angeles, California and West Virginia, majored in English at West Virginia University. She began studying Aesthetic Realism first in consultations and then in classes with Eli Siegel, in 1974. As a consultant with the teaching trio There Are Wives, she teaches women and wives in individual consultations and the monthly “Aesthetic Realism and Marriage” class....more

Patricia Martone is a teacher of English as a Second Language (ESL) in the New York City Public School System and teaches other educators in the workshop course The Aesthetic Realism Teaching Method. Her articles have been published in numerous periodicals....more

Miriam Mondlin is an expert on stuttering and how it can end. She is known for her landmark article "How My Stuttering Ended," which was part of a public seminar titled "What Interferes with Your True Expression?" In it, she tells what she learned from Eli Siegel and Aesthetic Realism about the cause of this impediment, and describes the scientific process that ended her stuttering. Listed in guides to the best stuttering websites, she has been published on "The Stuttering Homepage" of the Minnesota State University...more

Robert Murphy has written and spoken on Aesthetic Realism’s understanding of such diverse subjects as economics, love, and the cause of and solution to youth violence. With Barbara Allen,* he teaches young people in the "Learning to Like the World" class at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation and in classes at youth centers throughout New York. more

Arnold Perey, Ph.D., teaches the course "Aesthetic Realism and Anthropology" and is an instructor of "The Aesthetic Realism of Eli Siegel As Teaching Method." He received his B.A. in anthropology from the University of Chicago and his doctorate from Columbia University. His dissertation, based on Aesthetic Realism, describes research conducted in Papua New Guinea, supported by the National Science Foundation. He taught at Brooklyn College and Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York, Seton Hall University, and Drew University. His articles include "A New Perspective for American Anthropology: The Philosophy of Aesthetic Realism" (originally presented at the American Anthropological Association) and "The Real Opposition to Racism." more

Rosemary Plumstead is an instructor of "The Aesthetic Realism of Eli Siegel As Teaching Method." She teaches science at Fiorello LaGuardia HS of the Arts in New York City, and has been published extensively on educational issues. She has conducted workshops at conferences for science educators in New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. more

Marcia Rackow, artist and teacher of the course "The Visual Arts and the Opposites." A graduate of Barnard, she studied painting at the San Francisco Art Institute, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, the Centro Internazionale di Ceramica in Rome, and Fabbrica Fabbrini in Florence, as well as in Paris. She has also taught at Hofstra University. The Proceedings of the 31st World Congress of the International Society for Education through Art recently published her "Aesthetic Realism, Art, & Anthropology: or, Justice to People" which she jointly authored with Dr. Arnold Perey.... more

Faith K. Stern — I was born in Brooklyn and grew up there. I have studied Aesthetic Realism since 1965, 13 of these years with its founder, Eli Siegel, and now with Ellen Reiss, Class Chairman. As a consultant with my colleagues in the traveling trio, The Three Representatives, I have given consultations and seminars in people’s homes in the tri-state area....more.

John Stern, Columbia University; senior planner and researcher, Tri-State Regional Planning Commission, New York, retired. See the ElectricRailroaders.org website: "Transport Legend John Stern Gives Subway Talk" which contains an illustrated transcript of John Stern's October 23 talk at the Aesthetic Realism Foundation, “The New York Subway: A Century!” On the ElectricRailroaders.org website.
     Writes Mr. Stern — I was born in Orange, NJ, and lived in New Rochelle, New York, NY, for the next 41 years. I have enjoyed a lifelong interest in geology, architecture, history, cities, and transportation, which includes extensive reading on these and many other subjects. My travels include most of the United States, much of Canada and Mexico, and 13 countries in Europe. more

Devorah Tarrow is an Aesthetic Realism consultant and sociologist. Her articles on poverty, women, love, and healthcare have appeared in newspapers in many states, as well as in The Right of Aesthetic Realism to Be Known.  With other Aesthetic Realism consultants, she has conducted public seminars on such subjects as "What Stops Men and Women from Liking Themselves?"....more

Carrie Wilson teaches the class The Art of Singing: Technique and Feeling. A graduate of Barnard College and of the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, she is a coordinator of the Terrain Gallery and has lectured on the Aesthetic Realism explanation of art and life in relation to Rembrandt, Botticelli and other major artists...more