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Cecily Hangen
Member of Flag since 1977
FLAG Positions Served: 1989-1990
1997-current
1998-2007
On May 12, 2012 Cecily Hangen was honored for her service with the cre- ation of the Cecily Hangen Outstanding Service Award
Cecily Hangen is a native New Yorker, who attended Yale University School of Art where she studied with Josef Albers for two years. She also had one year at Cooper Union in New York and one summer in Fontain- bleau, France with Jacques Villon as critic. She worked as promotional art director for television and radio stations in Washington DC and New York. Ms. Hangen has taught art at the elementary and secondary levels. Since coming to Florida in 1967, she has devoted her time to painting. She won the Akston Award for best in show at the Norton Gallery in 1973, has ex- hibited at the Boca Museum of Art, and had a solo exhibition at the Brevard Museum of Art in 2007. Hangen has been a partner in two Palm Beach gal- leries for 20 years. She joined the Florida Artists Group in 1977, has been President twice and is currently Area II Chair.
“My abstract acrylic paintings are designed to show the interaction of color by using shaded waves of lines over a construction of half circles and straight lines to combine the organic and geometric.”
2000-2001 2006-2008 2012 2013-current
President
Area 2 Chair Parliamentarian President Treasurer Treasurer Assistant Treasurer
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