Roma Devanbu



BIO

 
Roma Devanbu was born in Boston, Massachusetts and spent her childhood in Montclair, New Jersey, making things and climbing trees. Devanbu received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh, PA. She remained in Pittsburgh after graduating and became the Visual Arts Coordinator for the “Imaginarium”, the innovative arts education program at the Carnegie Museum of Art. Eventually she returned to the New York area to earn an MFA in painting at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. There she studied with the abstract expressionist, Phoebe Helman; photographer, Phillip Perkis; and the historian and gallery director, Alan Klotz. Devanbu has traveled extensively, especially in Asia, including a year studying Art and Art History at the M. S. University of Baroda in Gujarat, India. She returns to India on a regular basis, to see art, get inspired and visit her husband’s family. Devanbu taught art full time as a tenured professor at Bergen Community College in Paramus, New Jersey, until moving to California in 1997. She currently teaches Color Theory at The Art Institute of California in Sacramento. Devanbu has her studio in Sacramento at the Verge Center for the Arts. She resides in Davis, California, where her teenage daughters are blooming young artists in their own rights, and her husband, Prem Devanbu, teaches Computer Science at UC Davis. http://www.photocollect.com/http://vergecenterforart.wordpress.com/http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~devanbu/http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~devanbu/shapeimage_2_link_0shapeimage_2_link_1shapeimage_2_link_2shapeimage_2_link_3

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