Jean Weintraub Betancourt
ART WITH CHILDRENS' ARTBOXESPOM POMS


PETERSMIX
STRANGE SCAPESPAILLETTES/CROCHETPAINTING/COLLAGE WALL SCULPTURES/PAPERSARTERRIUMS
CANNY
PLEXI SHARDS PLUS
GRID MARKSGAR-BAHJ
ARCHIVEJEWELRYSTUDIO VISIT
THE MIXED MEDIA ASSEMBLAGES OF JEAN BETANCOURT

- I was born on Thanksgiving, November 25, 1936, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

- Graduated Brooklyn College with a degree in creative writing

- Short period of per diem substitute teaching "English as a Second Language" in Brooklyn elementary schools

- Met David Betancourt dancing at the Palladium Ballroom in New York City in 1959

- My beautiful green-eyed son Peter was born September 24, 1963

- Peter relocates to Maui, Hawaii

- Wrote first poem "Tenement Blues" at age 10 and hundreds more to the present time which have been praised by an Emily Dickinson scholar, Richard Sewell, as “quite perfect!”

- Developed my own business ”Poetry by Jean Betancourt, Inc.” - to market my hat and handbag designs

- For the last 30 years to the present I created a large body of mixed-media assemblages