Press Release

Prestige Painter at Shawnee

Edwin Havas  will be  conducting a four-day painting workshop at the Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort, October 1 - 6, 2005.  The seminar is being held in the Pearsall Room located on the lobby floor.  There are approximately 20 painters enrolled, half of them are from the Bethlehem area and the other half from New Jersey. 

Edwin, Professor of Art Emeritus at Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ, taught for thirty years at Seton Hall University and Seton Hall Preparatory School.  A member of the American Watercolor Society, Mr. Havas is a past president of the New Jersey Watercolor Society as well as the Essex Watercolor Club.  He is also a member of the Bethlehem Palette Club and the Lehigh Art Alliance.

His paintings have earned over one hundred awards. While serving with the Air Force in Japan, he received a major prize in an all-services competition for the Pacific area. Other awards included the Grand Prix for Aquarelle in an international juried exhibition in Monaco, as well as the New Jersey Watercolor Society's Silver Medal and Best in Show Awards.

The art award given each year to a graduating senior at Seton Hall Preparatory School is named the Edwin Havas Award for Excellence in Art.  In 1992, Rotary International named Havas a Paul Harris Fellow for his artistic contributions on behalf of the Rotary's International Scholarship Fund.  He was presented with Seton Hall University's distinguished service award, the McQuaid Medal, in 1994. 

Mr. Havas's paintings are represented in numerous public, corporate, and private collections, including the Montclair Art Museum and the New Jersey Historical Society permanent collections. He painted the Bicentennial Murals for the Livingston, New Jersey Historical Building.  Official portraits include Archbishop Theodore McCarrick of the Archdiocese of Newark, Mayor Sharpe James of Newark, four past presidents of Seton Hall University, as well as other corporate and public figures.

Ed Havas has had six one-man exhibitions at Seton Hall University, the most recent a major exhibit of paintings of the Delaware Region of Northern New Jersey and Pennsylvania, titled "Skylands" in 1996.  Additional one-man exhibitions were held at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library in Boston, the American Irish Historical Society in New York City, the University of Scranton, in Pennsylvania, Sussex County Community College in Newton, New Jersey and numerous galleries. He has also been represented in many group exhibitions throughout the United States including -More Than Meets The Eye: a Century of Realism in New Jersey, 1900-1994- at the Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ.

With the help of his marvelous wife Judy, Ed has conducted numerous painting workshops in Italy, Ireland, Bermuda, North Carolina, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey.   The Shawnee Inn is excited to be a location for his well-known workshops and hopes to host many more in the years to come.   Ed shares, "we love Shawnee's hospitality and it is so close to home (Bethlehem), we should have started coming here sooner."  The media is welcome to stop by to the seminar to get footage and interview the artist.  To make arrangements, please call Monica at 570-424-4050 x1272.