Legacy

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A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Fine arts, Yvonne Southerland holds a Masters degree from Pratt Institute, the Advanced Certifi cate in Administration and Supervision from City College of New York, and certifi cates from the University of Florence and the New York School of Interior Design. She has taught in public schools in Pennsylvania and New York as well as the American School in Gelnhausen, German and the American School of Languages in Florence, Italy. While in Italy, she also edited “Florence and its Hills,” a tour guide of Florence. More recently, while teaching in New York City, she served as a consultant to the Educational Testing Service of Princeton, New Jersey for the PRAXIS Subject Assessment in Art. She has also served as a consultant to the Middle Schools Program in Visual Literacy of the Museum of Modern Art. As an art educator, she has supervised student teachers from Medgar Evers and Brooklyn Colleges. Although retired after twenty-seven years of teaching she is presently employed by the Board of Education as a mentor/teacher to intern teachers preparing for certifi cation. Under Mrs. Southerland’s direction, students created a mural for the African Burial Ground Project which was displayed at the burial site in lower Manhattan. Her students art has been displayed at the legislative Art Exhibition, Albany, New York, Sotheby’s, Lever House, the Metropolitan Museum of Tokyo, the Museum of the American Indian, the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Brooklyn Arts Council at the Brooklyn Museum. Over the years she has also coordinated art exhibitions for community organizations such as Cultural Crossroads at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, the Brooklyn Public Library, Magnolia tree Earth Center, Southerland Galleries and the Skylight Gallery at Restoration Plaza. One of Ms. Southerland’s many interests is historic preservation and she is restoring a brownstone built in 1891 in the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District. The building was on Display in both 1991 and 1998 for the house tour sponsored by the Brownstoners of Bedford-Stuyvesant, and houses an art gallery as well as a collection of African sculpture and paintings by African-American artists.