Jodi Serota is a contemporary artist and vibrational healer born and raised in the New York City area. She is a graduate of Syracuse University where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Painting. She also completed specialized studies at both the St. Martin's School of Fine Arts in London, England, and The Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Additionally, since 1981, she has been one of the New York area's leading metaphysical educators offering both individual sessions and large group workshops for personal growth and vibrational healing. Ms. Serota's art career has evolved from her fine arts background, through the world of high-fashion textile design to her current role as a pioneer in a new field in which vibrational healing utilizes art, color, energy, channeled information and sound. Serota's paintings usually feature acrylics on canvas or watercolors and/or mixed media on paper. Serota is often commissioned to create works of varying sizes for private collections, and while her work has been promoted and distributed primarily throughout the Northeastern United States, recent works have been commissioned for clients as far west as California and as far east as Africa. Serota began her textile career in the women's wear field, specializing as a designer, colorist and printer. In the early 80's, her textile work was focused in the medium of hand-painted silk. She has taught classes on the French techniques of painting on silk as both a private instructor, and at The Parsons School of Design in New York City. Serota has exhibited her paintings in Syracuse, N.Y., at the Gallery 247 in Lynbrook, N.Y., at The Comic Arts Gallery and Mascot Studios, both in New York City, and at The Toucan Gallery in Washington, D.C. A number of her works have been commissioned by The City University of New York and private collections of her works are regularly displayed at the offices of The Congressional Management Foundation in Washington, D.C., at Braverman-Finkelstein in New York and in numerous private residences nationwide. Serota maintains an art studio in Manhattan where one can view and/or acquire her original works by appointment. In addition to her work as a professional artist, Serota has been studying and teaching for nearly two decades in the field of consciousness and metaphysical awareness. She is a metaphysical educator, speaker, channel and vibrational healer with certifications as a 4th Degree Reiki Master, a DMA (Technologies for Creating) instructor, a trained Cranial Sacral Therapist, an Axiatonal Light Grid Healer, an Electro-Magnetic Restoration and Divine Intervention practitioner. She is also a charter member of Art in Medical Spaces and a Member of the International Sound Healers Association. One development that has been particularly outstanding in Serota's career has been her merging of the fields of art, sound and complementary medicine. Through her work in Art in Medical Spaces (AIMS), Serota's paintings had been exhibited annually at Coler Memorial Hospital in New York. She has also been commissioned to create a large three-paneled canvas for the interior of The Griffin Hospital in Derby, Connecticut, and is commissioned regularly to provide paintings designed as healing works for both individuals and environments. Works by Serota are often sought after by interior designers, architects, medical offices, hospitals, chiropractic offices and educational facilities as well as by those looking to decorate residential and commercial spaces. Her work has also been utilized to create exciting backdrops for high-fashion photography, advertising layouts and a feature film. Feng Shui practitioners often use her artwork for interior design, and she has been invited to address such varied clients as The Spector Group — an architectural firm interested in her holistic approach to color and design as they attempted to create a healing environment for The Ronald McDonald House — and the graduating class at The Parsons School of Design, who were interested in alternative fields available in the marketing of artwork. In September 1989, Serota began as an instructor at the former Manhattan Center for Living in New York City, a non-medical facility for the care of those with life-threatening illnesses, where she taught a variety of metaphysical classes including an Art, Color and Sound Healing Workshop. The Center was also the home of an impressive display of Serota's "healing" artwork. Currently, she is continuing to lecture and hold workshops at The Source of Life Center in midtown Manhattan and she periodically creates special events at inspiring locations such as The Cathedral of St. John The Divine. Serota has been requested to deliver corporate seminars geared toward reducing stress and increasing creativity and productivity in the workplace, and she has also conducted a group clinic for employees and counselors of the New York City Department of Health. It was this work that led to a lengthy feature on Serota that appeared in the Syracuse University Alumni Magazine. Serota has also been a frequent guest on Manhattan Cable Television, appeared on network radio and has been a featured speaker at numerous complementary health "expos." She has also been interviewed frequently for book projects and for domestic and foreign magazine articles. She created successful one-woman shows of healing art at New York's Whole Life Expo, New Millennium Expo and New Life Expo, all of which are among the largest showplaces of holistic practices on the east coast. Another recent achievement of note in Serota's career was her recent introduction of her line of "Tools for Consciousness" which include original vibrational sound healing tapes and one-of-a-kind channeled paintings designed to allow the recipient to experience color as a healing tool. Serota also was named as a recipient of the New York "Do-ers" Award, sponsored by Dewar's, honoring her as one of the individuals who have provided inspiration and leadership in the greater New York area. The most recent additions to Serota's lengthy list of accomplishments are her accreditations as a practitioner of Divine Intervention, whereby she uses a specific energy technique incorporating hands-on healing to work on patients with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. She has also been developing her skills in both Axiatonal Light Grid Work and Electromagnetic Restoration. She is also the primary promoter of New York area appearances of Max the Ancient Crystal Skull, an ancient artifact passed down by Mayan and Tibetan cultures for use in healing and consciousness activation. She creates sacred ceremonies and activations with Max and is also the keeper of the unique Green Jadeite Skull which Serota utilizes as a tool for activating healings of the heart. Serota has a steady practice of individual sessions for channeled readings and healings scheduled by appointment only, and she teaches classes on personal growth, transformation and creativity. Next on Serota's agenda are the completion of her book called Visual Tools for Consciousness and Healing and more productions in her series of Multi-media Vibrational Healing Concerts. These concerts, which combine the visual vibration of her artwork projected onto large screens with the audible vibration of vocal sound and music, have become focal points for the New York healing community to come together and experience these multi-media events as a catalyst for activating consciousness and for individual and planetary healing. One of her recent Healing Concerts was recorded and is available now on a compact disc titled Color Sound.