Carolyn M. Beehler- Author

“The difficult plight of being an artist is removing oneself from the ordinary life to hunt down a vision that will enhance the lives of others.” Carolyn M. Beehler

Carolyn Beehler had a life-long affair with art. An award-winning watercolorist, she was also a sculptor, worked in acrylics and was an occasional poet and author. A highly regarded art teacher and lecturer, she taught from her studio, led classes across Art, a member of the New Haven Brush and Palette Club, and was on the board of the Hamden Arts Council. Carolyn also served as the Art Director for Yale’s Starlight Festival.

             Her paintings are in the permanent collections of the Mattatuck Museum, the New Hampshire Audubon, the U.S. Coast Guard, and many commercial and private collections in the US and internationally.

As a result of her Priscilla revelation and discoveries, Carolyn lectured at venues such as the Yale Divinity School, St. Paul’s within the Walls in Rome, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 1980, the Pope’s astronomer invited her to Castle Gandolfo, Italy to acknowledge, discuss, and congratulate her for her discovery of the hidden sky chart in the Priscilla catacomb. Smithsonian magazine, AD magazine, the University of Maryland’s journal Archaeoastronomy and many newspapers published articles about her discovery of the Christmas star chart. One of her television interviews is available for viewing on YouTube titled, “Priscilla Revelation & the Christmas Star.”

Carolyn and her husband, Daniel has three daughters, Bonnie, Dana, Amy and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren. In 1997 she and her husband moved from New Haven to Tucson, Arizona where she continued to lecture about her revelation and discoveries and continued to be an award-winning painter. She was featured, “Best in the Show,” at The Fountains of La Cholla’s Summer Artist in Residence Show in 2004. Carolyn passed away in January of 2006.