Adele Seronde

Adele Seronde was born in 1925, educated at the Madeira School and Bennington College. She was married in 1945, and has five children, eleven grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Born into a family of six generations of artists, Seronde inherited talent as both a painter and poet. She has had solo and group exhibitions all over the East Coast of America, in the Southwest, and also in Italy. Her children's poetry is used in many schools, and she has published or contributed to five...See more

Adele Seronde was born in 1925, educated at the Madeira School and Bennington College. She was married in 1945, and has five children, eleven grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren. Born into a family of six generations of artists, Seronde inherited talent as both a painter and poet. She has had solo and group exhibitions all over the East Coast of America, in the Southwest, and also in Italy. Her children's poetry is used in many schools, and she has published or contributed to five other books of poetry. Her first book in prose, Our Sacred Garden: the Living Earth, reflects her deep concern with our environmental crisis. It also speaks of her experiences in community activism as a co-director of Visual Art for "Summerthing," the Mayor of Boston's Neighborhood Arts Festival (1968-'72), and later as founder of Gardens for Humanity, a program to help build or catalyze gardens in schools, community or retirement centers, on reservations, and in urban areas. Her incipient new book, Pegasus: Wings on Fire in Education uses this ancient Greek myth as a metaphor for the changes needed in America's educational system, to allow it to fly! She currently lives in Sedona, Arizona, and summers on Mt. Desert Island in Maine. See less