Savitri Drillick, Artist and Art Educator
Contemplative Art

I grew up in New Jersey and lived in London, England as a teenager. When I returned to the States to attend art college, I  explored printmaking and painting. I worked in the graphic arts in New York City for ten years. In the mid 1980s, I traveled to India to study and offer service at an ashram in India. The practices of yoga are the inspiration for my work as an artist and educator. Yoga teaches me how to view my whole life as art and art as a process of self discovery. This understanding has given me a way to open up to what it means to be alive and to recognize the divinity in myself, in others and in the world.

Exhibitions

2008 Anna C. Scott Elementary School Annual Art Auction, Leonia, New Jersey

2007 Anna C. Scott Elementary School Annual Art Auction, Leonia, New Jersey

2007 Artists’ Beit Midrash Congregation Beth Sholom, Teaneck, New Jersey

2006 Anna C. Scott Elementary School Annual Art Auction, Leonia, New Jersey

2006 Artists’ Beit Midrash Congregation Beth Sholom, Teaneck, New Jersey

2005 Anna C. Scott Elementary School Annual Art Auction, Leonia, New Jersey

2005 Montclair State Art Gallery, Upper Montclair, New Jersey

2005 River Spring Art Institute, The Old Stone House, Woodburne, New York

Awards

1999 Summer Fellowship in Korean Studies, Seoul, South Korea

1997 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant Recipient for
The Mandala Project

1996 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant Recipient for
The Mandala Project

1996 National Art Education Foundation Scholarship Recipient for
“Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” certificate program

1994 New Jersey State Council on the Arts Grant Recipient: Black History


Publications

2009 Preparing for Pancha Karma, Yoga & Health Magazine, November issue

2008 Introducing Korea Through Art & Folktales, The Korea Society

2004 "Sacred Circles in Science: The Mandala and Astronomy,” Psychological Perspectives: A Semi-Annual Journal of Jungian Thought, May issue

1996 “The Mandala Project,” School Arts Magazine, May/June issue

1996 “Sharing Cultural History,” School Arts Magazine, February

Teacher Training Workshops 

2010 Annual Global Educators Conference, Kean University, Union, New Jersey

2010 Educating the Creative Mind Conference, Kean University, Union, New Jersey

2008 The Korea Society, New York, New York

2006 New Jersey Education Association Annual Conference

2006 Art Educators of New Jersey Annual Conference

2006 The Korea Society, New York, New York

2006 Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, Washington

2006 New York State Social Studies Teacher Convention

2005 The Korea Society, New York, New York

My family means a lot to me. Here is a photo of 

my brothers David and Ira, nephew Ben and 

sister-in-law Barbara.