MY PROFILE

Artist and art teacher Stefania Munzi graduated Magna Cum Laude from Albertus Magnus College with a BA in Fine Arts and was awarded the Beverly Chieffo Award for Excellence in 2012.

When her son Joseph was born with microtia after a difficult pregnancy, she decided to use her talents to normalize children with disabilities by doing portraits of Jojo with his tiny ear and hearing aid. She soon expanded to doing portraits of other special needs kids.

After the positive attention she got from parents and the media, Stefania decided to write a book, "Jojo’s Tiny Ear" to educate and inspire others to be more inclusive of others in our beautiful diverse world!

In 2024 she published her second children's book "C'era Una Volta in Wooster Square", a collection of her watercolor paintings from the iconic places on Wooster Street in New Haven CT (pizza capital of the US!)

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