WHO AM I? Emily Henry, Union County College. reque

Dear Emily, I’m a visual artist: painter, sculptor, illustrator, printmaker, I’m also an inventor. I have two patents. Latest one was done in 1995 on Multifolding item, I call “MAGIC BOOK”, but actually, it is KINETIC STRUCTURE. I write as well here, on PROZA.RU, you can find my about 140 different writings, including story of my life, librettos for my pantomime, philosophical essays, one play and some are in English and others are in Russian language and there I have now close to 1 hi guy did 19000 readers.
Besides that, I created in Soviet Union, in 1966, first professional Pantomime theater, influenced by famous mime Marcel Marceau, after I was watching his performance in 1961 in Leningrad (now Sankt Petersburg). Impression of his performance was so strong, that I started first, repeating his pieces from my memory and in few years became a lieder of pantomime studio with about 100 students and made a two acts of short pantomimes, ending in performing my pantomimes inside of most famous satirist of Soviet Union, Arkady Raykin, with 8 my previous students, performing with him for 3 years and having every performance close to 1300 audiences in the best theaters of Russia.
From that time, I and Marcel Marceau, became very good friends and I have so many of his letters, photos of him, visiting my students and giving his workshops in my studio…
Besides, I worked on my “UNIVERSAL CONCEPT”, resembling “Vetruvian Man” by Leonardo DaVinchy for 10 years and in 1983 made Copyright of it, registering in Copyright office in 1983.
The same year, I invented “continues line technique” method of drawing with ink pen and made big amount of drawings with this  (drawng with one line).
About 30 years ago, I was invited by Agness Dauerman, who was a head of Art department of Union High School in Union  City, NJ, to start teaching how to sculpt human head, during the FIRST TEEN ARTS Festival in St. Peter’s College in Jersey City.  I had only 1 student and I gave him my first lesson on how to sculpt head. After that, every year, I was perfecting my method and every year I was accepting more and more students, until last May 16, 2025, in Bergen County Teen Arts Festival, In my second workshop, I had 125 school students from 14-16 years old and 25 were standing and expecting, that I will have enough clay for them and more sits in my workshop.
For about 5 years, I teach there on the grass area, between two college buildings, because administration had no space, to accommodate amount of students, wishing to take my workshop.
Agness Dauerman invited me to teach her advanced art students, acrylic painting and during two years, her 10 advance students, including my son Alex, who, at that time, was about 9 years old, produced 11 big murals for walls of Union Hill School. Building received now different function, but no one touched my murals there.
While I was teaching few subjects in Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts in Newark, N. J. Ms. Sopko, director of NSFIA, offered me to contact New Jersey Transit Administration, in offer to enhance one of stations there. As a result, I, with 11 of my advance students, created in plaster 8 life sized sculptures “Passengers”  and NJ Transit made a fundraising and collected $125,000 to cast it in bronze in Princeton foundry.
In 1985 all 7 out of 8 were casted in bronze and since that time, they are all permanently installed on the Mezzanine level of Newark Penn Station.

Copyright, Grigory Gurevich, 18 Mart 2026, Jersey City, USA