Linda Berkowitz

Linda Berkowitz is a Brooklyn-based artist who also teaches art to older adults. She teaches art at HANAC Senior Center in Astoria and part-time at the Brooklyn Museum. In 2018, she was awarded the “Catalyzing Creativity” grant for her project “Symbolic Self Portraits” for her work with older adults, through Lifetime Arts, funded by the Samuels Foundation. In addition to teaching art at HANAC, she collaborated with visiting artists, Brice Garret and dancer, Ian Wen in Su Casa programs. In 2017, she completed a painting residency in Crete, The Mudhouse Residency. Born in New York, her family moved to West Orange, New Jersey where Linda and her younger brother grew up. As a child, she was always drawing. After graduation from the Illustration program at Parsons School of Design in New York, she Illustrated and wrote children’s books, published by Crown/Knopf worked as a designer for dinnerware and home and ventured into film and photography. Her work, inspired by nature, has been shown and sold through Arts Gowanus, 440 Gallery, Ground Floor Gallery, LaBodega Gallery as well as commissioned portraits of animals and people. Linda’s work is in private collections in the US and Canada. She has one son and 2 cats.