Artist Pat Steirs: b.1938 in Newark, New Jersey, and lives in New York City. Steirs attended the Pratt Institute in New York in 1956–58 and Boston University College of Fine Arts in 1958–60, then returned to Pratt to receive a BFA in 1962. Both institutions have honored her: Boston University in 2001 with a Distinguished Alumni Award and Pratt in 1991 with an honorary doctorate