Elise Dodeles has been drawing, painting, and exhibiting her artwork for over 30 years. In addition to receiving a 2013 Artist's Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, she is included in an international survey of women artists published by Rizzoli. Dodeles has shown her art in New York, Canada, and Europe. Exhibitions have included a solo show as part of the New Jersey Artist series at Johnson & Johnson World Headquarters and the prestigious Aljira National Five. Her paintings of Negro League baseball players have been shown at the Jerry Malloy Negro League Research Conference in Chicago, at Kutztown University’s Rohrbach Library, and the Central Pennsylvania African American Museum in Reading, Pennsylvania. In 2011, she was selected for a solo exhibition at the William Way Community Center in Philadelphia, and in 2012 she had her portraits of boxers shown at The Quiet Life Gallery in Lambertville, NJ. Raised in New York, she did her undergraduate work at Carnegie-Mellon and New York Universities, and obtained her Masters in Fine Art from the New York Academy of Art. In addition to making her art, in 2007 she obtained a Masters in Library and Information Science. She is included in the 20th edition of Who’s Who of American Women, and her artwork can be found in personal and institutional collections, including the Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in Hollywood, Florida.