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PATSY NORVELL Obituary

NORVELL--Patsy. It is with regret and sorrow that the founding members of AIR Gallery and those artists who have shown there in the ensuing years note the untimely death of early member Patsy Norvell on October 12, 2013. Prescient artist, pioneer, feminist, math wiz, loving mother and fine empathic human being. It is our hope in the future that the breadth and depth of her work will be acknowledged and celebrated.

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Published by New York Times on Nov. 3, 2013.

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Jack Starke

October 24, 2015

We were 17 together. I loved her more than anything then. I'm so sorry she's gone.

william segen

December 19, 2013

If anyone has contact info for Patsy's nephew Scott, in palo alto, i would appreciate it. thanks:
Will Segen [email protected]

December 18, 2013

I was an assistant to Patsy in the 1980's while attending the school of visual arts. I first met her ar A.I.R. At that time she was working with human hair. I gave her an 8" braid of my own hair to work with. She told me she would keep it but that it was too beautiful to pull apart. I hope she pulled it apart and used it. She was a beautiful person.

Shawn Banner

November 18, 2013

So sorry to hear this news. I had the privledge of first meeting and then working with Patsy in the early 80's when I was fresh out of Oberlin College. Sharing that time with her and her A.I.R. colleagues was formative for me, and I will always be thankful for having had that opportunity, and for the opportunity to call Patsy "friend".

William Segen

November 18, 2013

Patsy was a wonderful, giving person. Thanks to her sister Peggy, i was able to meet and stay at Patsy's place in 84. I last saw her at Peggy's memorial in Portola Valley in 95.
Earlier this year, when i came across the glass installations on the subway stations in Brooklyn, I tried to find Patsy again. Too little, too late. ( [email protected] )

Barbara Roux

November 7, 2013

Patsy was my teacher in the early 1980's for a Women in the Arts graduate course I took at Hunter. I became a member of A.I.R. Gallery partly because I wanted to be a part of a place where women like Patsy exhibited. She was a serious and respectful person. Her work is elegant, unique and strong.

Louise P. Sloane

November 3, 2013

So sorry to hear of this news. Patsy was a friend of my Mother Charlotte Balinky Sloane (RIP) where they were members of one of the first women's groups in NYC. This was not an artist's group - it was totally about trying to reshape society for the advancement of women's rights.

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