Helen Klisser During is a Private Art Advisor, Curator and Photographer, Director Visual Arts, Westport Arts Center.
As a Curator and Gallery Director, she has presented shows such Toy Stories, On Duty: Weegee, Odermatt and Metinides; James Rosenquist: The Speed of Light and Beyond; Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Two Works in Progress; Roz Chast & R. Crumb: Divine Comedy & Theories of Everything & much, much more!; Culture & DNA: Science Meets Art; Dan Budnik: Seeing David Smith; BUILD: Louis Kahn/Architecture/Sculpture; Perterdi in Context: Picasso to Pollock; Icons of Twentieth Century Photography;Edward Hopper and John Marin's New York.
Helen Klisser During has also served as an Art Advisor to Art Dubai and New York Armory, juror, panelist, speaker and Gallery Director for Silvermine Galleries where she founded the celebrated Director's Choice series of exhibitions. Her exhibitions, symposia and lectures have garnered numerous reviews from various publications including The New York Times, The Nation, and The Stamford Advocate and Greenwich Times, Next Magazine, NY ARTS magazine and dart International.
As a professional photographer, a number of her photographs have been published in The Art Market Report, Art New Zealand Magazine,
www.artforum.com, Connecticut Cottages and Gardens, Hamptons Cottages and Gardens and
www.NYCgo.com and
www.westportnow.com.
Helen Klisser During won 1st and 2nd place in the Connecticut online photojournalism awards 2011.