Contact: mcohn@carrollton.org
Maxine Unterberg Cohn is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon university with a BFA degree. Having taught in Pittsburgh for two years and then Carrollton School of the Sacred Heart for the past thirty eight years she has mastered the art of teaching primary art students. Her artwork takes many twists and turns experimenting with wax resist/watercolors, acrylics, paper mache and paper design. Her last venture has been life size dresses made with a variety of materials ranging from 1960’s dress patterns, packaging materials and playing cards.
An old outdated Carnegie Mellon alumni directory from 1976 was used to create a wrinkled and flowery dress. It also lights up beneath the shirt!
This dress is made from decks of cards found in my mom’s apartment! I experimented with how to manipulate the cards to form shapes. Poker chips add to the belt and found dice added to the necklace.
