About Jebba M. Handley

Writing
2000 to present	Bi-weekly columnist with the Cape Codder, Community Newspapers Inc., writing on food, wine and entertaining at home, plus markets, wineries, and food producers here and abroad. Year 2000 called “Come To The Table,” now titled “At Jebba’s Table.”
2000	Awarded 1st Prize, Cape Cod Times, Prime Time Fiction Contest, 2001 2nd Prize, CapeWomen Magazine, 2001/2002.
2000 to present	Publication of short stories in Baltimore Review, Winter 2001, Larcom Review, Spring/Summer 2001, Controlled Burn, 2001, A Sense of Place: An Anthology of Cape Women Writers, 2002, Pangolin Papers, Winter 2002, Ellipsis, Spring 2002 Writers’ Forum, Fall, 2002
Residencies	Ragdale Foundation, April, 2005 Ragdale Foundation, April 2006
Graphic Arts
1995 -1998	Graphic Artist - posters, programs and brochures for Cape & Islands Chamber Music Festival, Afternoon at the Opera, The Bel Canto Society, organizations located on Cape Cod, MA.
1988-1992	Established JEBBA PARTY DESIGN, INC., a corporate, wedding and private party consulting firm, Bloomfield, CT.
1986-1988	Designer - for Pandemonium, Inc., San Francisco, CA, designing upholstery and drapery fabric, custom order silk-screened fabric for interior design.
1982-1988	Established SCARECROW PRODUCTIONS, INC., a family owned design firm, producing special products such as scarecrow kits, bags, sun, golf and rain umbrellas.
1980-1988	Designer - by contract with major American textile and porcelain manufacturers.
1976-1979	Designer - JEBBA Designs, a San Francisco firm producing table linens for Macy’s and Pottery Barn, all branches, West Coast.
1975	Painted animated educational film for KQED, San Francisco, CA.
1972-1974	Designer -textiles and jewelry, Athens, Greece.
1967-1971	Established JEBBA NEEDLEPOINT, Beverly Hills, CA, which became a nationwide firm with 52 branches.
1965-1966	Taught design - Westlake School, Bel Air, CA and Watts Teen Project, Los Angeles, CA.
1962	Designer - costume jewelry for Joseph Magnin, Los Angeles, CA.
Education
1953	Conservatory of Florence, Italy, scholarship for piano.
1954-1956	1954-1956 New York City, study of voice, drama and dance.
1975-1976	1975-1976 Fiberworks, Berkeley, CA, silk screen techniques, textile and costume design.
1979-1980	National Academy, School of Fine Arts, New York City, life drawing with Colleen Browning, watercolor with Mario Cooper and Avel de Knight.
1995 to present	Studies with: John Clark, Ph.D, Anne D. LeClaire, Elizabeth McCracken, Ann Pachett, Ellen Cooney, Peter Ho Davies, Robert Westbrook.
Fine Art Collections	Watercolors in private and corporate collections in many cities including New York, San Francisco, Pasadena, Los Angeles, Hartford, Northampton and Boston.