ASLD is pleased to welcome The Art Students League of New York faculty member and award-winning artist, Ephraim Rubenstein. Ephraim was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1956. He received his B.A. in Art History from Columbia University and his M.F.A. in Painting from Columbia University’s School of the Arts. In addition, he attended the Brooklyn Museum Art School, where he studied with Francis Cunningham, the National Academy of Design School of Fine Arts, with Harvey Dinnerstein, and the Art Students League, with Robert Beverly Hale. He was Associate Professor of Art at the University of Richmond, where he received the Distinguished Educator Award and The Commonwealth’s Outstanding Faculty Award. He taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, Maryland Institute College of Art and the National Academy of Design School of Fine Arts. At The Art Students League of New York, he teaches Life Drawing and Artistic Anatomy, the Seminar in the Literature of Art and numerous workshops. He also teaches at Columbia University’s Department of Narrative Medicine, where he teaches the Seminar in the Literature of Art, and Life Drawing to first year medical students at the College of Physicians and Surgeons.