Artist Bios
Wilma Bulkin Siegel, M.D. graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1958 and received her medical degree in 1962 at Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. She has had a distinguished career as a prominent oncologist in New York City. In her career she was a pioneer establishing one of the first Hospices in the state of New York and one of the first to accept AIDS patients. In the capacity of Medical Director of that Hospice she was asked to give her expertise on AIDS to The Presidential Commission in Washington. Following her retirement she combined medicine with her other childhood career target, painting, by attending The National Academy of Design. She has become an award-winning artist recognized nationally for her series of people living with AIDS, Survivors of AIDS, The Changing Faces of AIDS (Seniors), Breast Cancer Survivors, The Homeless, and the Elderly. Dr. Siegel has exhibited throughout the country, particularly in connection with events involved with AIDS and Cancer. She has been featured on CNN television for her AIDS series and she has been elected into Who's Who in American Art 2001.
Dr. David G. Robinson, while in his 22nd year as president of Edison Community College, suffered a severe heart attack, which caused him to flat line and be revived by the monstrous paddles and sequestered in ICU for eleven days. Upon recovering, he began to paint, a hobby he had left as a teenager in favor of musical expression. The painting was done as a reaction to anger, abandonment, depression, and fear he had experienced, never thinking that he was "painting out" his recent heart event. HEART ATTACK is the result of this experience. The second painting ROSES, ROSES, represents a painter on the road to healing. His works have been exhibited at the Lee County Alliance for the Arts, Broadway Palm Theater, Cape Coral Art Studio, and the Gallery of Cypress Lake School for the Performing Arts.