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Helena Domenic is an Assistant Professor and Gallery Curator at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. She is an accomplished painter who has shown her work in Philadelphia, New York, across the United States and in Egypt and South Africa.

Professor Domenic’s areas of expertise are in African Art, 19th Century Romantic Art, Watercolor, and Art and the Sacred. She lectures regularly at conferences about art and the sacred, painting, and installation at both academic and healing arts venues. Her interests include antiquities from all cultures, African studies and Nubian studies in particular. She holds an MA in Art Education from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. Helena was born in Italy, where she developed an interest in art and art history early in life.

Helena has exhibited her artwork in numerous venues through out the US and abroad, and has also published a book The Fellowship of the Fool a companion book to her Tarot deck, the Fellowship of the Fool Tarot.

Since her arrival at Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, Professor Domenic has curated several gallery shows for Biddle Hall Gallery, including the White Ribbon Show, a show designed to bring awareness to domestic violence through works of art by national artists and Cheyney University students. In addition to her curatorial duties, she also serves as an senior advisor to the Fine Art Honor Society of Cheyney University of Pennsylvania.