Mona Berman, owner and Director of Mona Berman Fine Arts, received her BFA cum laude from the University of Illinois and her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.
Her clients include national and international Fortune 500 corporations, major national museums, architects, designers and private collectors. She has provided curatorial services for Yale University Art Gallery, Wesleyan University's Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Arts, the Connecticut Commission on the Arts, and for corporations including The Travelers and General Electric.
While Director of Mona Berman Gallery from 1979- 86, Ms. Berman curated over 100 exhibitions, many of which were widely acclaimed by reviewers of major publications, including Art in America and The New York Times. Connecticut Magazine named the gallery 'Best of Connecticut.' Ms. Berman has written articles and book reviews for professional journals, Art New England and Ocular and has written catalogs for exhibitions and corporate collections.
As can be seen from the excellent examples available on this website, Ms. Berman has a personal interest in ethnographic textiles and jewelry and collects those on her travels around the world.
She is on the Board of Directors of a Khmer NGO weaving center in a remote village in Cambodia that provides health and literacy education, vocational training and employment for “women at risk.”
As part of her ongoing research in textiles and material culture, Prof. Berman developed and taught an interdisciplinary lecture and studio course entitled From Art to History: Textile Connections in Material Culture and is currently at work on several other related projects. She has lectured, taught courses and workshops for artists, lawyers and designers covering topics from How to Buy Art to Business Management for the Artist and The Arts and the Law. She has also taught courses on furniture, textiles, and materials.
Ms. Berman helped draft Connecticut’s first Arts Advocacy Legislation, has been a reviewer for the prestigious Jacob K. Javits Fellowship Competition, a juror for the Connecticut’s Per Cent for Arts Program and has served on panels that help third world artists create economically viable, well designed, indigenous products. She is a member of New England Appraisers Association, American Council for Southern Asian Art, College Art Association and the Textile Society of America.