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Judith Inglese is an American artist known for her large public
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and her
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in the children's books of Dedie King. She is the daughter of
Frank Caplan Frank Caplan (June 10, 1911 – September 28, 1988) was a youth worker, educator, folk toy collector, and pioneer in developing and manufacturing educational toys for children. He co-founded Creative Playthings in 1945 with his wife Theresa, and ...
and
Theresa Caplan Theresa Caplan (1913–2010) was an American twentieth-century scholar of early childhood development and a collector of worldwide toys. Working with her husband Frank, she wrote multiple acclaimed books and built a massive collection of toys t ...
, the founders of Creative Playthings.


Life and education

Juditih Inglese received her
Bachelor of Arts A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts deg ...
from
Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York, United States. Founded as a Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in 1926, Sarah Lawrence College has been coeducational ...
and studied
ceramics A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature. Common examples are earthenware, porce ...
and
sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...
at the Accademia de Belle Arti, Rome and
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University (Museum School, SMFA at Tufts, or SMFA; formerly the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) is a dedicated art school within Tufts University, a private research university in Mass ...
. She lives in
Leverett, Massachusetts Leverett is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 1,865 as of the 2020 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Leverett is one of the southernmost towns ...
.


Ceramic murals

Inglese creates
ceramic A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature. Common examples are earthenware, porcela ...
tile
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s that are in
bas-relief Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces remain attached to a solid background of the same material. The term ''relief'' is from the Latin verb , to raise (). To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that th ...
. Inglese hand-cuts and glazes the ceramic tiles, fitting together the tiles like a puzzle upon placing the mural in its final location. She has created major
public art Public art is art in any Media (arts), media whose form, function and meaning are created for the general public through a public process. It is a specific art genre with its own professional and critical discourse. Public art is visually and phy ...
works for the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., as well as at hospitals, recreational facilities, libraries, and other public venues throughout the country. Public artworks by Inglese include: * 1983: ''Play is Children's Work'', Fletcher-Maynard Academy,
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* 1983: ''Untitled'' ceramic frieze, Rockville Municipal Swim Center,
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* 1992 Ceramic frieze spanning three corridors, Memorial Elementary School,
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* 1984: ''I'd Hammer Out Love'' Graham & Parks School, Cambridge, Massachusetts * 1996: ''A Community Honored'', four ceramic murals at the Tyler/Vernon (DART station) of
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, Dallas Texas * 1999: ''Every Person Has a Song to Sing'', Rockville Senior Center, Rockville, Maryland * 2004: Two ceramic murals at the entrance to the Martin County Health Department,
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* 2007: Ceramic frieze, Headquarters of Redlands Christian Migrant Association,
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* 2009: ''The Current of Life is Ever Onward'', 3 ceramic murals, Rockville Town Square, Rockville, Maryland * 2010: ''Landscape'', ceramic frieze, Brevard County Children's Services,
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Book illustrations

Inglese has worked with
children's author Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children. In addition to conventional literary genres, modern children's literature is classified by the intended age of the reade ...
Dedie King to create a series of books that depict cultural elements of a specific country as seen through the eyes of a child narrator, called ''I See the Sun''. The books are published in English and in the language of the country the child lives in, including
Mandarin Chinese Mandarin ( ; zh, s=, t=, p=Guānhuà, l=Mandarin (bureaucrat), officials' speech) is the largest branch of the Sinitic languages. Mandarin varieties are spoken by 70 percent of all Chinese speakers over a large geographical area that stretch ...
. The books began being published in 2010 by Satya House Publications. In 2010, ''I See the Sun in China'' won an award from '' Creative Child'' magazine as well as the Teachers Choice Award for the Family. Books illustrated by Inglese include: *King, Dedie, ''I See the Sun in Afghanistan''. Hardwick: Satya House Publications (2011). *King, Dedie, ''I See the Sun in China''. Hardwick: Satya House Publications (2010). *King, Dedie. ''I See the Sun in Nepal''. Hardwick: Satya House Publications (2010). *King, Dedie. ''I See the Sun in Russia''. Hardwick: Satya House Publications (2012).


References and further reading

*Inglese, Judith. "Report: the Hands and Hearts Family Tile Making project." ''Arts in Psychotherapy'' 27:4 (2000): 273-276.


External links


Official websiteI See the Sun book series
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