Dori Spector

Dori Spector was born in Allentown PA. She graduated from Moore College of Art in Philadelphia, in 1978 with a BFA. After graduation, Ms. Spector worked in the Advertising and Illustration fields acting as Art Director of "The Clothes Garden" in Wynnewood PA, and doing courtroom sketching for TV news.

From 1986 until 1989 she attended The Arts Students League of New York full time on a Merit Scholarship. At the Art Students League, she studied painting with Harvey Dinnerstein, and David Leffel. From 1990 to the present she has studied under many teachers privately such as Burton Silverman, John Osborne, and Nelson Shanks, and Robert Liberace. Ms. Spector continues to paint and draw from life. She continues to work in the printshop at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, where she works as a shop assistant. Her work is in many private collections. Ms. Spector's studio is in her home where she and her husband Paul, and daughter Sara reside, along with their English Cocker Spaniels Millie and Gina. Just recently, Ms. Spector's design, an etching ,won as the 60th anniversary poster for WRTI, Temple Univeristy's public radio sation.