Phyllis Weiss grew up and was educated in New York City. She acquired a B.S. from Barnard College, Columbia University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from New York University -- all in Physics. After almost 39 years working for AT&T in Bell Labs, and then AT&T Labs, Phyllis retired in November 2022 with the title of Director of Inventive Science.With only one figure drawing from life course in college, and a weekly course in the early 1980s from Toby Kahn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobi_Kahn), Phyllis revived her interest in painting in 2018 with a weekly course taught by Michael De Brito...more