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New chairman Pattie Belle chairs the department of Visual and Performing Arts at Quinnipiac University while continuing to teach and pursue creative works.

Pattie Belle has been teaching art and design courses at the college level since 1990. She has also taught a variety of workshops, from book and printmaking methods, to time management for creative people.

While she finds making art intensely gratifying, she has always had a passion for teaching. Pattie Belle thrives in the classroom and workshop– with all its complications and sacrifices.

Gold medal Bjorn's work on BIG: The 50 Greatest World Record Catches wins gold at Independent Book Publisher's Awards.

The 2009 Independent Book Publisher's Award for best coffee table book went to BIG, a book featuring the work of Flick Ford (published by Greewich Workshop). Icehouse Design received similar dinstinction in 2006 with bronze prize for best coffee table book for Flick Ford's FISH; and silver for best

children's lllustrated book in 2008 with Scott Gustafson's Favorite Nursery Rhymes from Mother Goose.

Back in the USA After nearly a year in Norway, Pattie Belle completed her research in Oslo in 2009. Icehouse and family are back in New Haven, CT.

PB was recipient of the prestiguous Fulbright Grant and spent her year abroad reseraching creative uses/misuses of mobile devices. Back in New Haven, she is continuing to work on what she started in Oslo. The Mobile Misuse project is supported in part by a Fulbright Scholar grant, an American-Scandinavian Foundation grant, and by Quinnipiac University.

While in Norway she divided her time between the University of Oslo, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and was visiting lecturer at the college at Volda.