VANESSA HADADY is a third generation classically trained painter who began practicing formalized painting in 1974. She obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. There, among several scholars, she studied under Gene Frumkin (poet), Joel-Peter Witkin (photographer), and Thomas Barrow (photographer) while sitting in critiques by Julian Schnabel (filmmaker/artist) and the late Joan Brown (artist). Ms. Hadady has received recognition by the National Museum of Women in the Arts Archive on Women Artists, Washington, D.C. In California, she has shown in Davis, Berkeley, San Francisco, Silicon Valley areas, while having pieces in private and corporate collections. During year 2010 she entered works into completion and won sweeping regional class/division awards. During the same year, one of her quotes was included in "Art Studio Door Signs" by Jerry Saltz (T. Ward, ed.). Her watercolor "California Valley" was scheduled into the