PRESS RELEASE    Updated:  4/10/19
Robert Maniscalco
843-486-3161
Cell 313-689-2993
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Here are some current items of interest, possible spring boards for feature stories:

• Became an advocate for survivors of CSA and its prevention in November 2010 as a male survivor of child sexual abuse on Oprah. One of the Oprah 200. My story is all too common and I am committed to spreading the word about healing and prevention as a facilitator with D2L.org.
• Recently presented a series of six portraits for the MUSC Pathology and other Departments that is chronicling the careers of these cutting edge scientists and physicians.  He is working on commissions of top donors for hospitals and Universities.
  
• Appeared on NBC’s The Today Show in November 2008. where I presented a very special family portrait for a couple who had lost their three children to a drunk driver.
• In November 2007 I was the subject for a “High Profile” in the Post and Courier.
• Nationally recognized portrait artist, with work in over 950 private/public collections throughout North America.
• Relocated to Charleston in 2005. Now living/working in a beautiful studio in North Charleston, raising two teenage kids with his wife, Cate.
• Presented portrait of Andrea and Charles Volpe at the new Ashley River Hospital at MUSC in March 2009.
• Portrait of the late Jerry Zucker, which now hangs in the Hudsons Bay Company in Toronto, CA.
• Portrait of the late founder of Little Caesars Pizza and owner of the Tigers and the Red Wings, Mike Ilitch in 2008.
• I’ve been a professional artist, celebrating  40 years in 2019. I have learned a thing or two about how to juggle the artist and the businessman with family life.
• Proud to be a Lowcountry artist, specializing in paintings featuring Gulluh people and culture, in the context of the natural environment.
• My debut novel, “The Fishfly,” was published in 2005. It’s about a portrait artist turned hit man and deals thoughtfully with my being a survivor of childhood sexual abuse.
• “Point of Art: Second Edition“ an inspirational book about the creative process. A modern version of “Art Spirit” by Robert Henri.
• I teach painting workshops nationwide called The Power of Positive Painting©.
•  Currently teaching classes in my studio and at CAMP in Mt Pleasant.
• Created one of the first instructional portrait painting videos back in 1995, called “The Power of Positive Painting.©”
• Presenting periodic Power of Positive Painting Workshops through the Charleston Artists Guild and the Gibbes Museum.
• In 2007 Lilliedale Publications released my new instructional DVD “The Portrait, a value-based painting system.”
• Have raised over $250,000 by donating portrait certificates to worthwhile charities.
• Former host of “Art Beat” on PBS in Detroit, a lively half-hour program, interviewing visual artists while they demonstrated their process. Was the highest rated local show on Detroit Public TV.
• Former owner of an eponymous “Brick and Morter” Maniscalco Gallery in Grosse Pointe, Michigan (near Detroit).
• Professional actor/singer in New York City for 8 years, completing acting training at Circle in the Square Theatre school in 1991. He continues his work in Charleston, having performed or directed in numerous productions.
• Read a 2012 interview with Cate Maniscalco.