Rima Jabbur, Senior Gallery Curator;
Painting and Drawing Instructor

Rima earned a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Cornell University, and a Masters of Fine Arts in Painting from Towson State University. She joined the faculty at Crealdé in the early 1990s. She has taught at Valencia Community College and Rollins College, and serves as Chairperson of the Alice and William Jenkins Gallery Committee.  As Senior Curator, she has organized numerous exhibitions.  She is a past recipient of an Individual Artist Recognition Award from United Arts of Central Florida and her work is in the public art collection housed at Orlando City Hall.

Artist's Statement

"The associations which I am evoking in my paintings are pre-verbal, closer to the way one thinks when daydreaming. Painting is itself a contemplative activity which takes me into psychological spaces that are difficult to reach. The paintings are a record of that journey."

Selected Exhibitions
"Introspections & Reflections," One Person Exhibition,
Rollins College, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Fla., 2002

One Person Exhibition, Spartanburg (S.C.) Museum,  2001

"Figure/Disfigure," Fine Arts Center Galleries,
University of Rhode Island, Kingston, 2001

"Reinventing Tradition: The Figure in Florida,"
Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, 2000