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Drawing from Life, Painting, Collage
 Anita Steckel's classes are for beginners and advanced students. She takes them step-by-step, emphasizing drawing with shading as well as collage and painting when appropriate or desired.
Ms. Steckel studied at Cooper Union and at the Art Students League with Edwin Dickinson. She has had nine one-person shows in New York City. One of the most promising artists in America today," said the late Richard Lindner of Ms. Steckel.A writer for Arts Magazine wrote, "She liberates us from any fixed idea of what art is, let alone what life is." Willem DeKooning said, "Her work is the cat's meow--it is wonderful."
In 1981 she was one of ten artists representing the U.S. at the Bienal in Colombia. In 1982 she was represented in Documenta 7--Fashion Moda, Kassel, Germany. Twenty-one of her works are in the permanent collection of the Lannan Museum, Los Angeles, California.
Since 1969 she has had eighteen exhibitions in museums nationally and
internationally. In New York, her work was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of
American Art, the Brooklyn Museum and the Bronx Museum of the Arts. She showed at
the Kenkeleba Gallery in 1991.
In 1983, she received a major grant for painting from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1993, art historian Arlene Raven selected Ms. Steckel's work as the only work to represent a twenty-year period of women's art for the twentieth anniversary issue of Ms. Magazine and for a Harper Collins anthology, New Feminist Criticism.
In January 2001, Ms. Steckel had a one-person show at the Mitchell Algus Gallery in New York, of which Ken Johnson of The New York Times said, "The work in this show is wonderful." She was featured in a video with Louise Bourgeois and in a book by art historian Alicia Faxon titled Self-Portraits of Women Painters. She was also included in the book, The Most Excellent Women Artists. In November 2003 at the National Arts Club, she was awarded a Medal of Honor for Pioneering Women's Iconography Fighting Censorship and Changing the World for Women. Her work is featured in a film on subversive art, distributed internationally in 2005.The Aldrich Museum in Connecticut exhibited her work as part of a traveling show in May 2005.
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