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Carissa Mordeno Paccerelli is an international award-winning artist from the United States. She has always had a proclivity to express herself through art. Before she was verbally communicating, she was already drawing and expressing herself through art. She started drawing when she was a toddler, but her artistic talent became evident at age three. At age six, she was diagnosed on the autism spectrum.
Growing up, it was a challenge for her to speak to people. She found it helped when she took a pencil to paper and began drawing. Art in its many forms helped her express her feelings in a multitude of colors and emotions of characters. She has been doing art commissions since 1st grade.
At 15, she had her first solo art exhibit in Pasadena, California. She has received a wide variety of awards and recognition for her artwork and has been seen in numerous exhibits, fairs, and festivals in Canada, Slovenia, Korea, and the United States. At 17, she published her first book, "The A Book", a collection of satirical comments and illustrations about Autism.
Carissa is a self-taught artist at a young age and her parents were relieved to learn of the Creative Arts, Media and Design (CAMAD), a studio arts-focused program offered by their school district. She attended the CAMAD's Visual Arts & Design Academy. She also attended an advanced arts high school program at the Otis College Arts of Design on a full scholarship awarded by the highly-competitive Ryman Arts. She was a four-time scholarship recipient of the Art Center College Teen program and the Armory Center of Arts. She also attended highly-competitive high school summer art programs at CalArts, UCLA, Idyllwild Arts Academy, and Woodbury University.
After high school, she was offered a four-year scholarship at the Otis College of Arts & Design in Los Angeles and College of Arts in Seattle. She deferred both offers and, instead, enrolled at the Pasadena City College majoring in Studio Arts & Arts History.
Carissa was awarded the Pasadena Educational Foundation's Norman Schmidt Visual Arts Scholarship at her High School graduation. In her first year at PCC, she was awarded the Jeanne Ward Scholarship for Visual Arts.
California Congressional Certificate of Recognition - Congressman Young Kim
California Legislature Assembly Certificate of Recognition for Artistic Achievement -
Assemblymember Chris Holden
California Legislature Assembly Certificate of Recognition -
Assemblymember Cottie Petri-Norris
California Congressional Certificate of Recognition - Congresswoman Judy Chu
California State Senate Certificate of Recognition - Senator Carol Liu
California Legislature Assembly Certificate of Recognition - Assemblymember Anthony Portantino
First Place, 7th ANCA INAP Award for Visual Arts, Vancouver, Canada
Winner, 2021 KASEC's Dream Art Contest Anaheim, California
Winning Artwork, VSA & US Department of Education Art Exhibit, Washington, D.C.
Three-time Bridging Boundaries Awardee, PUSD's No Boundaries Art Exhibit
Pasadena, California
Three-time Chalk Arts Winner,
Covina & AutismHwy Chalk Art Festival
Covina, California
Pasadena Tournament of Rose - Parade of Roses Artistic Art Contest Winner
Pasadena, California
Master of the Arts Showcase Grand Prize Winner, Pasadena-Altadena Links
Disability Rights Legal Center & Art of Autism IDEA Art Contest Winning Entry
San Diego, California
Visual Arts Award for Excellence, PUSD PTA Reflections Art Contest
First Place, One City One Story Art Contest, Pasadena Public Library
Scholastic Art & Writing Award
Silver Key & 3 Honorable Mentions
PTA Reflections Arts Award Recipient, California PTA
Mayor's Award, SoCal High School Youth Art Competition, Doerje Chang Buddha III Cultural & Art Museum, Covina, California
Award Recipient, San Gabriel Valley District of Women's Clubs Art Contest
SOLO EXHIBITION:
“Artwork by Rissa P”
Pasadena, California
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2021 PCC Student Juried Exhibition
Pasadena, California
"Color of Sound"
Oceanside of Museum of Art
Oceanside, California
International Art Exchange Exhibition for the Disabled "The VR Exhibition of the World 7 Countries"
Seoul, South Korea
Milestones Masterpieces Art Show Warrensville Heights, Ohio
"Under Quarantine"
PCC’s Division of Visual Arts & Media Studies, Pasadena, California
Selected Artwork for Backdrop
2018 ANCA World Tour Show
Bled, Slovenia
Selected Artwork for Backdrop
Anne Torsiglieri's "A" Train Play
Skirball Center, Los Angeles
Theater Row, New York
Mainly Mozart Genius Showcase
San Diego, California
"Diverse Perspectives"
Sophie's Gallery - Art of Autism Exhibit
El Cajon, California
Art of Expression Exhibit
National Autism Conference
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Social Justice Show
SCA Project Gallery
Pomona, California
11th Annual Young Artist Exhibit
Long Beach, California
South Pasadena Eclectic Music Festival & Art Walk, South Pasadena, California
Pasadena-Altadena Links Art Showcase Altadena, California
"Pain" Exhibit, USC Hoyt Gallery
Los Angeles, California
PUSD No Boundaries Art Exhibit Pasadena, California
Arts & Craft of Autism
Brighter Future Charity
Venice Beach, California
The Sketchbook Project World Tour -Brooklyn, Atlanta, Miami, Austin, Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Toronto
USC Institute for Genetics Art Gallery
Art of Autism, Speaker
Los Angeles, California