E-mail: MICHAELBELL@MBELLART.COM | Website: http://MBELLART.com

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B I O G R A P H Y | A S A N E D U C A T I O N A L L E A D E R

In the field of Education, Michael Bell has helped students earn over ten million in scholarship

offers over the past five years alone, averaging 2 million per year since 2011. Bell has produced seven

back-to-back National Rising Star Award Winners in Art, the most prestigious award presented by the

National Art Education Association (NAEA) to just one student artist in the country annually. In

addition, Bell has produced eight Scholastic Art National Medalists in Painting and Photography. This is

an award presented to just .7% of the nation in art out of 225,000 applicants annually, grades 7 – 12,

and they’ve been awarded in high school to the likes of Andy Warhol, Richard Avedon, and Sylvia Plath

to name a few. Bell’s student artists have also earned over three hundred and fifty Northeast-Region-

At-Large awards since 2014. His students move on to the best art schools in the country earning the

top scholarships in the nation. As impressive as all this is, it’s the dramatic transformation of Bell’s

students under his tutelage that’s his greatest legacy.

Bell impact on the arts began while just in his third-year teaching art, when he founded

“ArtQuest", which has grown into one of the largest and most community inclusive student art

exhibitions (K – 12) in the United States, and one that is backed by National Sponsor Kathy Kahre-

Samuels, President of ArtQuest, Inc., based out of St. Louis, MO. This vision became Bell’s legacy and

one that awards student artists over $2,000 in over sixty different categories annually. ArtQuest has

also become the platform for the community to attend and participate, as well as a place to build a

National Art Honor Society chapter that now recognizes close to one hundred members annually.

Bell also co-founded and helped create the Anne Arundel County Public Schools Gifted Visual

Arts (GT) Program with then Coordinator of Art Mark Coates in 2000 to recognize “the best of the best”

in county through a portfolio screening process. Bell developed the curriculum and has taught the

program since its inception. From there, Bell was honored as the Maryland Art Education Association

Teacher of the Year (2002) and Anne Arundel County Public Schools Teacher of the Year (2004),

becoming one of twenty-four Maryland State Teachers of the Year. In 2005, Bell was commissioned to

paint the official portrait of Nancy S. Grasmick, Maryland's first female and the U.S.’s longest serving

State Superintendent of Schools. Bell was also selected to become a Mentor for the MSDE’s “Teachers

of Promise Institute,” mentoring the “best of the best” new teacher recruits as deemed by Art Colleges

across the State of Maryland annually since the program’s inception. This led to numerous candidates

across the State being hired in Anne Arundel County due to Bell’s mentorship.

Upon completing his Master’s in 2005 Bell began pioneering the Visual Journaling movement,

giving workshops and keynotes across the country, in addition to numerous webinars and podcasts for

the NAEA and theArtofEd and a TED talk on “Drawing a line from your life to your art that is straight

and clear.” In 2007 Bell co-authored Southern High’s National Blue Ribbon Schools Proposal with

Southern High’s Signature Program Facilitator, which led to Southern High earning a National Blue

Ribbon in 2008. Bell was then promoted to Art Department Chair and expanded his department an

entire full-time position just one year after his first new hire. He has grown his Art Department from a

three to a five-person department since then, which makes Southern High the largest art department

in the smallest, most rural school in county (with just under 1,100 students).

In 2009, Bell was selected as one of just two Secondary National Presenters by Arne Duncan,

U.S. Secretary of Education to share Southern High’s success through “Advanced Programs of Study in

Arts, Innovation, & Design” at the National Blue Ribbon School Ceremonies. This same year, Bell was

instrumental in helping write curriculum for a new Performing and Visual Arts Magnet School (PVA)

Program. In 2010 Bell joined the ranks of just 3% of the nation's educators to earn National Board

Certification, and in 2013 he had one of his most amazing years to date, being awarded: the

CollegeBoard’s William U. Harris Award of Excellence in Brooklyn, NY for demonstrating extraordinary

leadership across the nation in the field of education; the NAEA’s National Art Honor Society Sponsor of

the Year in Fort Worth, TX; the Washington Post’s Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher of the Year and

the Dr. James Douthat Outstanding Achievement Award from his alma-matter, Lycoming College.

In 2017 Bell published a memoir about his art and life entitled, “DUAL LIVES: from the Streets to

the Studio” which chronicles his meteoric rise to becoming one of the most highly regarded art

educators in America, while also being a father to an incredible autistic son and portrait artist to the

stars. He also returned to his alma matter to do pay tribute to the school and community by doing a

book signing, author talk and month-long art exhibition at Converge Gallery in Williamsport, PA.

B I O G R A P H Y | A S A P R O F E S S I O N A L A R T I S T

Michael Bell has not only excelled in the world of education, but also in the art world, as a

renowned American artist. Bell is best known for his narrative series paintings and for his infamous

portrait clientele, which includes John Gotti, Dominic Capone and numerous actors from hit television

shows and movies such as the Sopranos, Goodfellas, A Bronx Tale and more.

Bell has always been naturally gifted in art, winning 1st Place in the first art show he ever

entered at the age of five. As an emerging artist he spent a lot of his time in and around New York City

studying art with his maternal grandmother, Violet Vallery, a self-taught artist from Lyndhurst, New

Jersey, where he began to explore life's psychological issues through his paintings.

As a domestic violence and anti-bullying activist, Bell has received the Los Angeles Good

Shepherd Domestic Violence Community Service Award in 2005 and champions his activism in schools,

teaching students how to create hundreds of handmade sketchbooks for the women and children’s

shelter annually, just in time for Christmas. Bell has done numerous interviews on the topic with

longtime friend, painting client and former mob wheel woman Georgia Durante, along with Denise

Brown, sister to Nicole Brown Simpson, slain ex-wife of O.J. Simpson. Bell also created the notable

collaborative portrait of Amanda Todd, the Port Coquitlam, B.C. teen that committed suicide after

documenting her years of bullying on YouTube. This portrait made international headlines in the

Huffington Post and forged a lifelong partnership to end bullying between Bell and Carol Todd, mother

of the fallen teen. In 2012, Bell's activism also led to a collaboration with world renowned artist friend

Eric Fischl, contributing projects based on our “30 Human Rights” for Fischl's AMERICA: NOW AND

HERE movement. This sparked an impressive Super Session of Bell's “31Nights” project at the NAEA

Convention in New York City, and has prompted numerous keynotes ever since.

In addition to Bell's incredible contributions to the art world, Bell has donated his time and

thousands of dollars through the sale of his paintings for numerous charities at auctions in New York,

Chicago and Los Angeles. Bell also has authored a screenplay based on the real-life events surrounding

his famous "TICKET TO RIDE" painting series, which was first launched at a Solo Exhibition in New York.

The show was attended by some of Bell’s celebrity portrait clientele, which led to Bell's partnership

with HBO’s Sopranos star Joseph R. Gannascoli and the creation of artwork for Gannascoli's CUGINE

Cigar Line and a celebrity portrait unveiling with other Sopranos stars Dominic Chianese and Frank

Vincent to benefit Bright Steps Forward to help fund their Educational Academy for Autism, years

before Bell’s own son’s diagnosis with Autism.

Bell has also made several television cameos, appearing with his Sopranos pals in Brooklyn and

in Chicago at the World’s First Golden Age of Gangsters Convention doing print signings; doing live

radio shows with the Sopranos John Fiore and Dominic Capone III (Al Capone’s Great Nephew); acting

as a Spy on Season 22 of CBS's The Amazing Race; playing the role of a Pizza Guy on Season 1 of NetFlix

hit series House of Cards; doing a portrait unveiling on Season 3 of VH1's Mob Wives; and another

cameo in Season 1 of The Capones, where Bell was filmed at his Solo Art Exhibition in Chicago and

unveiling a new commissioned portrait at the gallery for pal Dominic Capone III. In 2015 Bell received

another major commission to create an epic portrait for John A. Gotti for the cover of his best-selling

novel "Shadow of my Father," portraying him and his iconic father, John Gotti, Sr. as colossuses over

Manhattan. On January 18th Bell’s portrait made the cover of the New York Daily News. This

experience, along with his son’s inspiring story and the triumphs of all his students in his classes over

the years inspired Bell to write his own memoir that was published in 2017, “DUAL LIVES: from the

Streets to the Studio.”

A R T I S T’ S S T A T E M E N T

“Painting, for me, is a dynamic process of self-exploration and a constructive way for me to give

form and expression to an internal experience. While I spend a lot of time on the surface, it’s the inside

of my subjects that I’m really after.

I'm also concerned with the interconnections formed between my works; therefore I present

my narrative series paintings in a specific viewing order. The culminating experience takes the viewer

through a cinematic journey where stories are born. The work becomes a direct reflection of all that

was revealed to me during intense moments of personal clarity. All I am is what I create. It's my

blessing to share with the world.” – Michael Bell

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Bell is a National Board Certified Teacher, holds a BFA from Lycoming College and a M.Ed. in Art

Education from Towson University.

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E D U C A T I O N Advanced Professional Teaching Certificate, 2015 - Present Highly Qualified K – 12, renewal credits already completed for 2019

Leadership I Certification for D.C. as Observer, 2014 - Present National Board Certification, 2010

M.Ed., Art Education, Master’s Thesis: Visual Journaling, 2004, Towson University, Towson, MD

BFA, 1994, Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA

E X P E R I E N C E Best-Selling Author, “DUAL LIVES: from the Streets to the Studio” Published June 10, 2017, Available on Amazon

Art Teacher, 1994 – Present, Southern Senior High School, Harwood, MD Courses taught: AP Drawing, AP 2D Photography, Studio Art I-III, Photography I-III Art Department Chair, 2008 - Present

❖ Increased staffing from a 3 to a 5-person full-time art faculty since 2009.

❖ Responsible for recruiting, interviewing, hiring, observing and mentoring art teachers.

❖ Leadership Team Committee: Develop strategic plan for the Art Department, and create Department SLO’s and conduct formal observations of all art teachers.

❖ Organize monthly Vertical Team Meetings in the South County Region between all elementary and middle feeder school art teachers.

❖ Provide administrative and interdepartmental duties, course scheduling, collecting and analyzing data, and professional development for all teachers at Southern High.

❖ Facilitate local, state and national art exhibitions, public art murals and other collaborative community-based projects for charities and non-profits.

❖ ArtQuest Founder and Sponsor, 1997 – Present One of the largest and most student-inclusive professionally juried, nationally sponsored student art exhibition in the country, backed by ArtQuest, Inc.

❖ Designed and implemented curricula for innovative courses and programs:

▪ Created Honors Level Portfolio Development & Studio Practices Course, 2015

▪ Bates Performing and Visual Arts Magnet Curriculum Writing, 2009 – 2014

▪ Advanced Placement Studio Art Drawing & 2D Design, 2008

▪ Created AACPS’s first Visual Arts Pacing Guide, 2001 – 2002

▪ Founded AACPS’s Gifted Visual Arts Enrichment Program, 2000 – Present

❖ Field Supervisor for Student Teacher’s Certification Program

▪ Shepherd University Student Teacher Supervisor, 2017

▪ Towson University Student Teacher Supervisor, 2016

▪ University of Maryland Student Teacher Supervisor, 2013

MSDE Maryland Teachers of Promise Institute Presenter/Mentor, 2008 - Present

❖ Mentor high-achieving students from institutions of higher education, including 50 Teachers of the Year, Milken winners, education leaders, and corporate executives.

National Art Honor Society Founder/Sponsor Chapter No. 2129, 2002 - Present

❖ Responsible for helping students earn over 10 million in scholarships the past five years alone, 2 million per year since 2011 and built our NAHS to 85 members strong.

❖ Organize nationwide service learning projects, including:

▪ Project Purple, school-wide Empathy Project on World Mental Health Day

▪ Sketchbooks for the L.A. Good Shepherd Domestic Violence Shelter

▪ Facepainting fundraisers at two locations in Anne Arundel County, MD

E X P E R I E N C E Lead Instructor, AACPS Gifted Visual Arts Program (GT Program), 2000 - Present C O N T’ D Fall and Summer County-Wide Visual Arts Enrichment Program, Grades 6 - 12

❖ Serve on the Annual GVAP Portfolio Review Committee.

❖ Responsible for curriculum development, publishing the annual syllabus, purchasing supplies, teaching and organizing county-wide exhibitions.

Acting Administrator, Southern High School, 1998 – 2005 (and upon request)

❖ Diversity with Dignity Workshop Supervisor, 2001

❖ Founder, Dress for Success Program, 1999 – Present

Maryland Art Education Secondary Division Director, 2002 – 2004

❖ Created Artists Capturing Mentors Statewide Exhibition for students and their teachers

❖ Attended meetings and wrote policies with Art Coordinators across the state.

A W A R D S

2016 Southern High’s Teacher of the Month 7th Back-to-Back National NAEA Rising Star National Award Winner in Art New York, NY

2 Scholastic Art National Silver Medalists in Painting & Photography Carnegie Hall, New York, NY 115 Scholastic Art Northeast Regional Award Winners 4th Anne Arundel County Public Schools Scholarship for Scholars Art Award

2015 6th Back-to-Back National NAEA Rising Star National Award Winner in Art New Orleans, LA

Scholastic Art National Gold & Silver Medalist in Painting Carnegie Hall, New York, NY 84 Scholastic Art Northeast Regional Award Winners 3rd Anne Arundel County Public Schools Scholarship for Scholars Art Award

2014 5th National NAEA Rising Star National Award Winner in Art San Diego, CA

5 Scholastic Art National Gold & Silver Medalists in Photography

Carnegie Hall, New York, NY 67 Scholastic Art Northeast Regional Award Winners

2013 Washington Post’s Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher of the Year Award Washington, D.C. CollegeBoard’s William U. Harris National Award of Excellence Brooklyn, NY

NAEA National Art Honor Society Sponsor of the Year Award for the Nation Fort Worth, TX Citation for Excellence in Education on the Floor of the House of Delegates Annapolis, MD Dr. James E. Douthat Outstanding Achievement Award Lycoming College Alumni Association, Williamsport, PA

4th National NAEA Rising Star National Award Winner in Art Fort Worth, TX

13 Scholastic Art Northeast Regional Award Winners 2012 6 Scholastic Art Northeast Regional Award Winners Maryland Federation of Women’s Club Statewide Art Award 3rd NAEA Rising Star National Award Winner in Art New York, NY 2011 1st Scholastic Art Northeast Regional Award Winner 2nd National NAEA Rising Star National Award Winner in Art Seattle, WA 2nd Anne Arundel County Public Schools Scholarship for Scholars Art Award 2010 1st National NAEA Rising Star National Award Winner in Art Baltimore, MD

1st Anne Arundel County Public Schools Scholarship for Scholars Art Award Maryland Federation of Women’s Club Statewide Art Award 2009 National Blue Ribbon Selected Presenter Award One of just two selected presenters by Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education

Washington, D.C. 2005 Good Shepherd Domestic Violence Community Service Award Los Angeles, CA

Who’s Who in America 2004 Maryland State Teacher of the Year Excellence in Education Award

Anne Arundel County Public Schools Teacher of the Year Award Governor’s Citation for Excellence in Education Award Anne Arundel County Council Citation Award Honored on the Floor of the House and the Senate, Washington, D.C. 2003 Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers 2002 MAEA Most Outstanding Arts Educator Award 2001 State Superintendent Commendation for Post September 11th Relief Efforts People’s Top Choice Award, Umbrellas for Art Exhibition at Arundel Mills Mall 2000 Southern High School Teacher of the Year Award K E Y N O T E S / W O R K S H O P S

2018 The 7 Deadly Sins – Mixed-Media Abstract Collaboration Art Workshop Two-Hour Ticketed Workshop, NAEA Convention, Seattle, WA

2017 Keynote Speaker for Colorado Art Education Association Statewide Conference Oil Painting Masterclass & 31 Nights Workshops, Breckenridge, CO

Artist’s Talk at Converge Gallery and Homecoming Guest of Honor / Book Signing Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA

Keynote Speaker for Ohio Art Education Association Summer Conference Mastering AP Portfolios & Collaboration Art Workshops, Mentor, OH ArtofEd Summer National Online PD Conference Presenter August 3 Interactive Online Webinar & Video Recording NAEA Interactive National Online PD Presenter June 6 Interactive Online Webinar 31 Nights (NAEA Convention) National Presenter, NAEA Convention, New York, NY The 7 Heavenly Virtues – Mixed-Media Abstract Collaboration Art Workshop Two-Hour Ticketed Workshop, NAEA Convention, New York, NY 2016 TED Talk: Drawing a Line from your Life to your Art TEDx Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ

Keynote Speaker for Arizona Art Education Association Statewide Conference 31 Nights & Visual Journaling Workshops, Tucson, AZ

Keynote Speaker for Tennessee Art Education Association Statewide Conference Visual Journaling & Mastering the AP Portfolios Workshops, Nashville, TN

Mastering the AP Studio Art Portfolios (NAEA Convention) National Presenter, Chicago, IL

The 7 Deadly Sins – Mixed-Media Abstract Collaboration Art Workshop Two-Hour Ticketed Workshop, NAEA Convention, Chicago, IL

2015 Keynote Speaker & Workshops to Utah Art Education Association St. George, UT

Keynote Speaker to Southern Utah University Arts & Insights Program, Cedar City, UT

Building Relationships 2 hour Workshop Presenter to New Anne Arundel County Teachers, Gambrills, MD

Mastering the AP Studio Art Portfolios, Visual Journaling (NAEA Convention) National Presenter, New Orleans, LA

2014 31 Nights and Mastering the AP Studio Art Portfolios (NAEA Convention) National Presenter, San Diego, CA Visual Journaling Panel Discussion (NAEA Convention) National Presenter, San Diego, CA

Curriculum Alignment Initiatives: The Visual Journal as the Hinge Pin Panel Discussion Co-Presenter, San Diego, CA

The Power of the Prompt Panel Discussion Co-Presenter, San Diego, CA

Recruiting, Retention and Advocacy Statewide Presenter, Ellicott City, MD

2013 Artist’s Talk and Homecoming Guest of Honor Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA

31 Nights and Mastering the AP Studio Art Portfolios (NAEA Convention) National Presenter, Fort Worth, TX Mastering AP Drawing and AP 2D Design Portfolios (MAEA Convention) Statewide Presenter, Annapolis MD Building Relationships Local Presenter to New Anne Arundel County Teachers, Gambrills, MD 2012 31 Nights and Mastering the AP Studio Art Portfolios (NAEA Convention) National Presenter, New York, NY Mastering AP Drawing and AP 2D Design Portfolios (MAEA Convention) Statewide Presenter, Annapolis MD Abstract Collaboration Art Workshop Local Hands-On Workshop to AACPS Art Teachers, Harwood, MD 2011 Artist’s Talk on “How to Make it as an Artist” Lycoming College Gallery of Art, Williamsport, PA Igniting Creativity within the Emerging Artist (NAEA Convention)

National Presenter, Seattle, WA Building Relationships through Art Local Presenter to New Teachers, AACPS, Gambrills, MD

2010 Mastering AP Drawing and AP 2D Design Portfolios (MAEA Convention) Statewide Presenter, Adelphi, MD Relationship Building through Art Local Presenter to New Art Teachers, AACPS, Gambrills, MD Collaboration Art Workshop Local Hands-On Workshop to AACPS Art Teachers, Harwood, MD 2009 National Blue Ribbon Presenter at the U.S. Department of Education National Presenter selected by Arne Duncan on Arts, Innovation and Design

Visual Journaling Across the Curriculum Local Presentation to All Teachers, AACPS, Annapolis, MD 2008 Keynote Commencement Address to the Graduating Class of 2008 Equestrian Center, Upper Marlboro, MD 2005 Visual Journaling (NAEA Convention) National Presenter, Boston, MA Visual Journaling Workshop to AACPS Art Teachers, Annapolis, MD Diaramas in Sculptural Form Workshop to AACPS Art Teachers, Annapolis, MD 2004 Expanding Vision Through Art: Visual Journaling (MAEA Convention) Statewide Presenter, Montgomery County, MD

New Directions in Painting Statewide Presenter to Undergrad Students, Towson University, Towson, MD Keynote Speaker on New Teacher Support through College and University Partnerships Carver Center, Gambrills, MD G A L L E R Y E X H I B I T I O N S

2017 Two-Faced, Two-Man Exhibition Converge Gallery, Williamsport, PA 2016 Chestertown River Arts, Group Exhibition Juror & Artist Talk River Arts Gallery, Chestertown, MD

2015 RAWDC Visionary, Group Exhibition The Howard Theatre, Washington, DC

2014 Lineage Artworks@7th Gallery, North Beach, MD 2013 Ticket to Ride, Solo Exhibition President’s House, Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA Cioccolato, Solo Exhibition The Honey Hive, Edgewater, MD 2011 Ticket to Ride Solo Exhibition Community Arts Center, Williamsport, PA 2009 Darkest Dreams a Lighted Way, Group Exhibition Fort Gondo Compound for Arts, St. Louis, MO 2008 Ticket to Ride Launch Party The Plumm, New York, NY 2006 The Cinema of Truth, Solo Exhibition GALLERIA RED, Long Beach Island, NJ 2004 Revisitation, Two-Man Exhibition Powys Gallery, Red Bank, NJ Ireland, Two-Man Exhibition Zwaanendael Gallery, Lewes, DE 2003 Michael Bell: Recent Works, Solo Exhibition Zwaanendael Gallery of Art, Lewes, DE Milton Theatre Project, Two-Man Exhibition Zwaanendael Gallery, Lewes, DE Voices of Violence, Group Exhibition Towson Commons Gallery, Towson, MD 2001 Practice What You Preach MSTA Building, Annapolis, MD 1998 The Love Series, Alumni Exhibition Snowden Gallery, Williamsport, PA 1994 Lycoming College Undergrad Exhibition Snowden Gallery, Williamsport, PA U N V E I L I N G S / A U C T I O N S / B O O K S I G N I N G S

2017 DUAL LIVES book signing/author talk Converge Gallery, Williamsport, PA

DUAL LIVES book signing/author talk Kicked Up Fitness Boxing Gym, Annapolis, MD DUAL LIVES book signing/author talk Gallery 50, Rehoboth Beach, DE

2016 Bowen Foundation for Autism Auction Auctioned off Gotti prints and “Shadow of my Father”, Annapolis, MD Shadow of My Father Portrait Unveiling of Book Cover Art Painting for John A. Gotti, New York, NY 2015 Cioccolato Prints Auction Planking for Pink Breast Cancer Awareness Fundraiser, Annapolis, MD 2014 The Capones (Television) Portrait Unveiling of Dominic Capone III, Mars Gallery, Chicago, IL 2013 Wonderview CD Cover Art Unveiling for Finn and Wonderview Band, Little Rock, AR Portrait Unveiling of John Gotti, Jr. and Peter Gotti New York, NY 2012 MOB WIVES (Television) Portrait Unveiling and Solo Show, Episode 7 “No Love Lost”, New York, NY 2009 Lunar on the Bay Gala (Auction) to benefit Project Meridian Foundation, Staten Island, NY 2008 Stars & Cigars Red Carpet Portrait Unveiling with Frank Vincent, Joe Gannascoli and Dominic Chianese of "The Sopranos" to benefit Bright Steps Forward Organization, Staten Island, NY

2007 For the Love of Chocolate (Auction) to benefit French Pastry School of the City Colleges of Chicago South Shore Cultural Center, Chicago, IL 2005 Voices of Violence Project (Auction) Beverly Wilshire Hotel, CA Eire: The Spirit of the Emerald Isle (Auction) to benefit Safe Passage Lives Organization, Studio City, CA Portrait Unveiling for MD State Superintendent of Schools Dr. Nancy S. Grasmick Flemings Restaurant, Baltimore, MD The Neighborhood Design Center Fall Gala (Auction) Center Stage Theatre, Baltimore, MD Good Shepherd Shelter 8th Annual Gala (Auction) Millenium Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, CA Portrait Unveiling for Aida Bogosian Michael B. Jewelers, Studio City, CA Portrait Unveiling for John Fiore (“Johnny Slade” Movie Poster Art) Boston, MA Safe Passage "Wings of Flight" Gala (Auction), with Mario Lopez, Georgia Durante and Sean Young, Beverly Hills Hotel, CA 2004 The Golden Age of Gangsters Convention in Chicago with "Sopranos" Joe Gannascoli, John Fiore, Clem Caserta, Dominic Capone III 2003 The Family Shelter Service Greek Gala (Auction) Chicago, IL Portrait Unveiling for Georgia Durante Hollywood, CA 2002 3rd Avenue Festival of Hope “Sopranos” Portrait Unveiling for Joseph R. Gannascoli, John Fiore, Tony Sirico, Joe Pantoliano, Brooklyn, NY Portrait Unveiling for Sofia Milos of CSI: Miami The Four Seasons, Beverly Hills, CA Albert Schweitzer Leadership Awards (Auction) Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel, Beverly Hills, CA

Playhouse Mural Unveiling (Auction) YWCA Enchanted Storybook Gala, Lowes Hotel, Annapolis, MD 2001 Portrait Unveiling for Joseph R. Gannascoli of The Sopranos Soup as Art, Brooklyn, New York Portrait Unveiling in Memory of Robert Cordice, Brooklyn’s Squad 1, FDNY East Shore Inn, Staten Island, NY Portrait Unveiling at Rascals Comedy Club (Auction) with Kevin James of CBS's "King of Queens", Joseph R. Gannascoli and Steven R. Schirripa of "The Sopranos", West Orange, NJ

P U B L I C I T Y P H O T O S

Michael Bell, In Studio with “Boulevard of Broken Queens,” 48” X 96” oils on canvas

Michael Bell on the Red Carpet for a Celebrity Portrait Unveiling with “The Sopranos” in New York, NY

from left: Annette Cavaliere, Michael Bell, Joseph R. Gannscoli, Eileen de Oliveira, Frank Vincent, Dominic Chianese

M I C H A E L B E L L I N S P I R I N G T E D x T A L K S

10 min highlights from “Drawing a Line from your Life to your Art”: https://youtu.be/JJFmcVaLXWE

E X C E R P T F R O M T A L K “The most important job of any artist is to draw a line from your life to your art that is straight and

clear. Success is created mentally first. Boxers, like artists, musicians, and writers are all cut from a

similar cloth, born from similar temperament. Something makes us individuals in the extreme. And you

don’t ‘make it’ and then suddenly feel like a rock star. You have to feel like a rock star already! That’s

creating success mentally first. So tap into your ‘why’. Why you do what you do. For me, I’ve always

tried to catch kids before they fall. That’s my why. Each of us has a story to tell. So look no further than

your own story to share with the world. Draw a line from your life to your art that is straight and clear.”

- Michael Bell