BIOGRAPHY
Earlene Hardie Cox is a lawyer and a former executive with IBM. From 1996 until she retired in 2001, she headed the firm’s international tax group and led a team of lawyers and accountants who managed the company’s tax-related issues/transactions in over 80 countries. She continues to practice law part-time in addition to being an investor, sculptor and art collector.
Since 2008, Earlene has advocated using clay art as therapy to combat Alzheimer’s. Through her affiliation with the Westchester (NY) County Chapter of the Links, Inc., she created a clay art program for Alzheimer’s and dementia patients at the Wartburg Nursing Home in Mount Vernon. NY. In 2017, in recognition of her work, the Hudson Valley Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association named Earlene an Alzheimer’s Champion.
She is a juried artist at the Clay Art Center in Port Chester (CAC), NY where she has a private studio. She is a board director and was previously treasurer of the CAC.
Exhibitions:
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For the Love of Art, June 19-20, 2021, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
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Art Breaking Boundaries: a Multicultural Exhibition, January 7 - February 3, 2021, Carter Burden Gallery, NY,NY
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Virtual Artist Talk, "America's Enduring Burden", September 10, 2020, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
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Featured Artist: Harlem Fine Art Show, February 13-16, 2020, Harlem, NY
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Good Morning Invitational Exhibit, February 1-March 21, 2020, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY.
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Featured Emerging Artist: Harlem Fine Art Show, June 14-16, 2019, Howard University, Washington, DC
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Group Exhibition: Pots for Pets, April 6- June 1, 2019, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
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Featured Emerging Artist: Harlem Fine Art Show, February 14-17, 2019, Harlem, New York
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Group Exhibition: Soulful: A National Exhibition of African American Artists, February 7-28th, 2019, d’Art Center, Norfolk, Va.
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Group Exhibition:Small Things, January 3 to January 27, 2019, Upstream Gallery, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
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Group exhibition: Redux: Transformations 6X6, July 22 to September 13, 2017, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY.
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Group exhibition: Rewind: 60 Years @ CAC, June 29, 2017 to March 26, 2017, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
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Featured Artist: June 10-June 15, 2016, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
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Group Exhibition: Rising Stars, 2014 & 2015, Clay Art Center, Port Chester, NY
Education:
Post Graduate work in Business, Pace University, White Plains, NY
Juris Doctor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
