| | News and Opportunities for Artists of Fairfield County, CT
December 8, 2018 |
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| | The Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County is a nonprofit service organization that supports its members through unified marketing, capacity building, professional development, and advocacy services. This newsletter is sent to all who request it - but we ask that, if you are not a member, you explore membership benefits and consider joining this community of more than 600 individuals and organizations. See member benefits here. Join here. |
| | | | MEMBERS: PLEASE REGISTER ON OUR NEW WEBSITE |
| | Our new website has been live for five weeks and so far 261 (of our 600) members (including 105 artists) have created their profiles on the site. All members are asked to please register as soon as possible. You will need a nice description of yourself and your work together with 3 images: a square headshot (250x250 pixels), a 1600x430 pixel "hero" image (like the one above in Alissa Siegal's profile) and a smaller 510x260 pixel "reference image" used in the "Meet Our Members Page" below. Complete the simple form and upload your images at "http://culturalalliancefc.org/membership/become-a-member/." Contact us with any questions or issues. If you get stuck with the images, just complete the form and email the images separately to david@culturalalliancefc.org. Thank you. |
| | HEAR OUR NEXT WPKN SPOTLIGHT SHOW ON ARTS COUNCILS & COMMISSIONS |
| | The Cultural Alliance convened 13 arts councils and commissions from around the County last week. Find out some of the issues, challenges and plans for the future of three of these on our next Spotlight on Arts & Culture live interview show on WPKN 89.5FM Mon. Dec. 10 at noon. Joining us will be Nancy Diamond from the Westport Arts Advisory Committee, John Varamo, for the Stamford Arts Commission, and Susan Wallerstein, Chair of the Norwalk Arts Commission.
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| | SIX NEW ARTISTS TALKS AVAILABLE |
| | | ARTISTS TALK is a series of video-recorded short talks by artist members of the Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County about their work in select group and juried shows. The videos are archived and freely available on the CAFC YouTube channel (30 artists so far). Ann Chernow and Miggs Burroughs were recorded at their joint Amazing Grace exhibition opening, Nov. 24 at The Gallery of The Westport Country Playhouse, and Erin Dolan, Heide Follin, Nancy McTague-Stock, and Vicki French Smith were recorded Tues. Nov. 27 at a special event for the exhibit, Points of View, of artists working at the Wilson Avenue Loft Artists, at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking. Click names above to go directly to the videos of their talks. See all 30 videos in this series so far at bit.ly/CAFCArtistsTalk. And subscribe to our YouTube channel! |
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| | GABI COATSWORTH
Gabi Coatsworth is an award-winning British-born writer, blogger, and group facilitator. Her short story, "Misconception," is featured in When to Now, (2018) an anthology of time travel stories, and her short fiction, essays and poetry are included in the anthology, Tangerine Tango: Women Writers Share Slices of Life (2012), E-chook’s literary memoir app, and many literary journals, both in print and online. She also writes a blog for writers – The WriteConnexion – and a personal blog of her short essays. She runs a monthly open mic Meetup, Westport WritersMic, and a monthly writers’ Meetup, Westport Writers' Rendezvous. She is currently looking at publishing her memoir, What Lasts is Love, and is working on a novel in the women's fiction genre (two previous novels are buried, probably forever, in a drawer of her desk!). See her Facebookand Goodreads pages and Twitter feed. |
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| DEMITRI PAPOLOS
Demitri Papolos a physician/artist for the past 40 years, formally studied at the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston, before pursuing a career in medicine. For years his primary interest was in painting on canvas but was captured by monoprinting because of the unique translucency of the medium that creates a quality of light very different from a painting on paper or a print. The beauty of this media is its spontaneity and the unique ability to combine printmaking, painting and drawing mediums. Demitri has been making monoprints and mixed media works for the past decade at the Center for Contemporary Printmaking in Norwalk, and in his studio in Westport. He has studied with master printmakers, Ron Pokrasso in Santa Fe, and Gerardo Rivera at the Instituto de Allende in San Miguel De Allende, Mexico. His works are in private collections around the country. |
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| | | FRUMA MARKOWITZ
Fruma Markowitz is a Weston-based photographer who, since childhood, remembers always being fascinated by stories from the past. Photography became the perfect medium for her to create her own visual interpretation of time. When her father gave her a Kodak Brownie camera she was hooked. However it wasn’t until she had graduated from college and moved to Israel that she began to pursue photography seriously. She was part of the first graduating class to earn a BFA in photography at the Bezalel Academy of Art & Design in Jerusalem, and worked as a commercial photographer and photography teacher for five years in Tel Aviv. She participated in her first group shows there, joining an experimental group using computer graphics to make new kinds of photographic images (in 1987!). She returned to the U.S. to pursue a Master’s degree in Interactive Technology at NYU, which led to a great day job for 25+ years in user experience design. Since moving to Connecticut fifteen years ago, she has become more dedicated to making and showing her art, while commuting to work in New York, and raising a family. Fruma has exhibited widely in Fairfield County and in New York, with long-standing affiliations with the Creative Center in Manhattan, and with the Ridgefield Guild of Artists and Artists Collective of Westport. A passionate concern with women’s and environmental issues are, she says, central themes in her work. See Fruma's Photopia Editions website, her Facebook and Instagram pages. |
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| FARNOSH OLAMAI
Farnosh Olamai is a painter deeply concerned with how to combine the cultures of East and West – as she puts it: "the timeless elegance and beauty of my native Persia, with the contemporary vitality of the United States, the adoptive home I’ve embraced." She calls this bringing together of traditional and modern, of natural and man-made, her "Persian Fusion." One of her series of paintings, “Nouns,” had its origins in an art class she was taking at SUNY Purchase, where a challenge was to choose a noun from a list of ten words, then depict or respond to it in a painting. Loving Persian miniatures and fascinated by how anyone could paint so beautifully in so small a space, she based each of her “noun” stories on one or two traditional Persian images which she would enlarge and transfer into her painting. She also uses poems, colors and abstract forms, blending poems and script – both English and Farsi - blurring the script so each viewer can draw upon their own imagination. Farnosh says she feels called upon to bring opposites together in a harmonious way, and in the process, create something new and enduring. Farnosh is a member of the Wilson Avenue Loft Artists (WALA), recently participating in the Center for Contemporary Printmaking's exhibition Points of View. She has also shown at the Fifth Annual Juried International Exhibition of Contemporary Islamic Art, in Irving, TX, at Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, as well as at the Loft Artists Association, ARTWorks, Gallery on the Green, and the Westport Fine Arts Festival. See her website here. |
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| | | | Those artists who have posted their profiles onto our new website, that launched Nov. 2, have their names in green with links to their profile. Please join them! |
| Landscape ArchitectAishah Anailah, Multi Media Tracey Anderson-Kollar, Visual Artist Francesca Andre, Leslee Asch, Curator, Writer
Frances Ashforth, Painter/ Printmaker
Photographer/Sculptor Ziggy Bober, Sculptor Amy Bock, PainterAndrea Bonfils, Mixed Media Artist Dennis Bradbury, Photographer
Carolyn Brady, Michael Brennecke, Painter
Janine Brown
Multidisciplinary Lucienne Buckner,
Linn Cassetta, Printmaker
Polly Castor, Painter Painter/Printmaker Eric Chiang, Painter
and Writer Lauren Clayton, Painter Mixed Media Media Tom Comerford, Photographer
Margaret Stapor Costa, Filmmaker
Adger Cowans, Photographer and Painter
Naomi Cruz, Painter Dolly Curtis, Curator
Lisa Cuscuna, Painter
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| John Deakins, Sculptor Ken Delmar, Painter
Joseph Dermody, Painter/ Sculptor/ Furniture Maker/Violinist Illustrator/Designer
Joyce DiCamillo, Musician
Barbara Kunin Dierolf, Mixed Media Painter Jennifer Drolet, Painter
Ganga Duleep, Painter David Dunlop, Painter
Philip Eliasoph, Writer
Jeanine Esposito, Mixed Lighting Designer Heide Follin, Painter
Christa Forrest, PainterRose-Marie Fox, PainterCecilia Moy Fradet, Painter/ Printmaker
Herm Freeman, Painter
Rebeca Fuchs, Painter Megan Garbe, Painter Rhonda Gentry, Painter Robin Jopp Gilmore, Mixed Media and Upcycled Jewelry Joe Gitterman, Sculptor
PhotographerLori Glavin, Visual ArtistDanielle Goldstein, PhotographerEllen Gordon, Painter; Mixed-media
Sue Brown Gordon, Painter/Jeweler Ellen Gould, Photographer
Joyce Grasso, Painter/ Photographer Kristen Graves, Musician Len Grayeck, PainterJen Greely, Painter/ Printmaker Carolina Guimarey, Multi- Media Artist Photographer
Dorothy Hafner, Sculptor
Don Hamerman, Photographer
Mary Harold, Photographer Media - ASSOCIATE MaryEllen Hendricks, Mixed Media Lenore Eggleston Herbst, Dancer Tracy Hoffman,
Photographer & Printmaker ASSOCIATE Veronica Hofstetter, Painter Jana Ireijo, Painter
Sholeh Janati, Painter Karen Kalkstein, Graphic Artist
Amy Kaplan, Painter
Natasha Karpinskaia, Painter Wayne Keeley, Writer, Producer |
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| Photographer Karen Kent, Painter Susan Keown, Painter/
Mixed Media/Ceramicist Photographer ASSOCIATE Multimedia
Jin Hi Kim, Musician Lesley Koenig, PainterMoki Kokoris, Visual Artist Richard Koleszar, PainterXiao Mai Kong, PainterMichael Kozlowski, Painter
designer/Printmaker Lydia Larson, Painter Emily Hamilton Laux, Eric Jiaju Lee, Visual Artist/Musician Julia-Rose Liptack, Painter Barbara Loss, Sculptor/Poet Jane Lubin, Mixed Media
Laurie MacLean, Choreographer, Dancer Mark Macrides, Painter,
Collagist Photographer
Connie Manna, Painter Mary Manning, Painter/ Printmaker
Elizabeth Marks, Painter
Photographer
MixedMedia Shanna Melton, Poet
Peter Mendelson, Photographer Photographer, Designer, Curator Brechin Morgan, Painter Meighan Morrison, Painter Carol Mueller, Painter/Printmaker Susan Murray, Painter Aisha Nailah, MixedMedia/ Photographer Tava Naiyin, Dancer Dale Najarian, Painter Photographer/MixedMedia Susan Newbold, Painter Mary Newcomb, Painter Jill Nichols, Painter Eddie Niño, Painter Julie O’Connor,
Photographer Kazumasa Oda, Painter Performing/Visual Artist Melissa Orme, Painter Rose Palmiero, Painter Media Judy Peknik, Painter Justin Perlman, Sculptor Laura Pflug, Painter Igor Pikayzen, Violinist |
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| Karen Ponelli, Painter. ASSOCIATE Jennifer Prat, Photographer Elizabeth Quesada,
Painter Tim Reimer, Painter
Gwen North Reiss, Poet Photographer Dorothy Robertshaw, Mixed Media Lizzy Rockwell, Painter, Illustrator, Author Alyse Rosner, Painter/ Mixed Media Richard Sadlon, Musicians
Renee Santhouse, Graphic Artist Artist
Norma Schlager, Fiber
Artist
Marianne R. Schmidt,
Painter
Guy Sealey, Multimedia
Barbara Shea, Writer
Lisa P. Silberman,
Photographer
Nomi Silverman, Printmaker Phyllis Sinrich,
Photographer
Megan Smith-Harris,
Writer/Filmmaker
Cleo Sonneborn, Painter
Rene Soto, Painter
Barbara Stewart, Painter
Pam Stoddart, Painter
Florence Suerig, Visual
Artist
Denise Susalka, Painter Janice Sweetwater,
Painter
Susan Tabachnick, Sculptor
Mich Theebs, Poet, Painter Alicia Thompson, Actress/ Playwright
Dara Tomeo, Painter
Kris D. Toohey, Painter
Andrea Towey, Musician
Printmaker
Vincent Verrillo, Painter
Karen Vogel, Painter
Lee Walther, Mixed Media
Ann Weiner, Multi-Media,
Painter
Peggy Weis, MultiMedia Gregg Welz, Paper Artist
Jahmane West,
MultiMedia Cynthia Whalen, Painter Elizabeth White,
MultiMedia
Jarvis Wilcox, Painter
Bruce Williams, Painter
Jonah Wilner, Painter Tammy Winser, Mixed
Media
Nancy Woodward,
Photographer/Mixed
Media
Jeffrey Wyant, Visual
Artist
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