User talk:Steve Tendrich

JB Berkow is an artist, gallery owner, published poet, and philanthropist. She has dedicated her life to not only selling her own work but doing everything that she can to promote other artists' work. In 1976, when she was only twenty-seven years old she was one of the artists who founded Touchstone Gallery www.touchstonegallery.com, in Washington, D.C.  It is one of the country's most famous cooperative galleries. After moving to Florida, she opened Frenchman's Art Gallery and Studios in Juno Beach in 1995 Corporate Record of Frenchmans She ran this membership gallery for the next decade. In 2005 she opened up a full-fledged retail gallery, RosettaStone Fine Art Gallery. Rosettastone Gallery Her gallery specializes in mid-career artists from around the world, but not yet well-known and therefore affordable to emerging or first-time collectors. She does not enjoy dealing in highly collectable, blue-chip artists as she finds this merely commodity trading. Instead, she enjoys the hunt for the next rising stars in the art world firmament.

In her attempt to mentor other artists and help them take their career to the next level, she wrote What They Didn't Teach You In Art School. This book is divided into two books. The first covers Fears, Myths and Prejudices and the second covers the nuts and bolts on how to promote your art. The positive response to this book has been overwhelming. To see a long list of testimonials go to the following link: Books and Testimonials Painted Poetry is a monograph of the artist's work covering a period of ten year when she painted hyper realistic scenes of Europe. What makes this book unique is that the artist also composed a poem for each of the images in the book. To see more about this book go to the link 'Books and Testimonials' above. Her first book of poems, Shades of Love, was published in 1994 by Humanics an Atlanta publishing firm. It is out of print, but the artist is planning on republishing it herself in the near future.

Ms. Berkow is also extremely involved in community outreach. Her new large endeavor is to provide world-class production services to the artists living in the South Florida area. The Benzaiten Center for Creative Arts will bring together a 10,000sf fine art steel foundry, a 3,000sf glass studio and a 4,000sf ceramic studio. Benzaiten Center She recently won the RFP on a large historic FEC Train Depot building located in Lake Worth, Florida and is hoping to have the center up and running in the beginning of 2015.

--Steve Tendrich (talk) 01:01, 7 October 2013 (UTC)Lani Click