| | ARTISTS' NEWSLETTER News and Opportunities for Artists of Fairfield County, CT May 5, 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 575 individuals and organizations. You can sign up here. |
| | | | ACE AWARDS BREAKFAST TICKETS NOW ON SALE
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Tickets are now available for our 3rd annual Arts & Cultural Empowerment (ACE) Awards Breakfast, Wed. June 6, 7:30-9am at the Shore and Country Club, Norwalk. James Naughton is our master of ceremonies and Robin Tauck, business leader and philanthropist (at right), is our keynote speaker. Our honorees this year are: Dennis Bradbury (Citizen Award); Valerie Cooper (Corporate Award); Megan Bonneau McCool (Artist Award); New England Dance Theater (Nonprofit Award); and Jim Royle (Educator Award). A special President's award is being made to the Family of Burt Chernow, in recognition of the powerful impact he made on Fairfield County’s arts and culture community. The Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County is grateful to the generous ACE Award event platinum sponsors: United Capital Financial Life Management, Cohen & Wolf, and Hobbs, Inc., gold sponsor, Studio2pt0, LLC, and media sponsor Moffly Media, and applauds their dedication to the vibrant arts and culture community in Fairfield County. Individual breakfast tickets cost $75 and are available now at https://aceawards2018.eventbrite.com |
| | NEXT SPOTLIGHT: ACE Awardees: What Drives Them? |
| | On Mon. May 14 at noon, join three of our six Arts & Cultural Empowerment (ACE) award winners in our monthly Spotlight on Arts & Culture interview show. Listen to the stories of Dennis Bradbury (Citizen Award), Megan Bonneau McCool (Artist Award) and Jim Royle (Educator Award) in 2018 ACE Award Winners: What Drives Them? What drives these arts leaders in their indefatigable work that inspires others? This is our regular Spotlight on Arts & Culture interview show, the 2nd Monday of each month, at noon on WPKN.org 89.5FM. Catch podcasts of recent shows on Creating a Sustainable Future, Who Cares About Public Art, Creative Placemaking and David Green & Adger Cowans. |
| | | SAVORCITY SUCCESS: NEXT STOP BEREKET, BLACK ROCK |
| SAVORCITY, a monthly tour of Bridgeport restaurants, food, art, and music, showcasing the culinary and cultural delights of Connecticut’s most diverse city, launched at Ruuthai's Kitchen in the West End to great applause (see Facebook images and video). The next stop on the tour is May 23, 6-9pm at Bereket Turkish Cuisine, serving “The most delicious Turkish I've ever had! Homemade, so flavorful and plentiful." Paintings by Susan Taylor Murray will be displayed. Musicians to be announced. BYOB! Reserve your seat here!
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| | | CULTURAL ALLIANCE SUPPORTING JANE'S WALK BPT |
| | The Cultural Alliance is partnering with the Bridgeport Downtown Special Services District, along with bikeport co-op, Bridgeport Generation Now, Urban Bike Tours of Bridgeport, Hatch 130 and others to support the Jane's Walk Bridgeport, this Saturday May 5. Part of an international festival of free walks on this day to honor urban activist Jane Jacobs, the Bridgeport Jane's Walk will meet at Bridgeport Public Library at 3pm for a 101 on Jane Jacobs. Then participants will go on one of 4 tours - 2 by foot, 2 by bike for an hour, convening afterwards at Harlan Haus. For more information, and to register for this free event, click here. |
| | CATCH US ON WPKN
Catch our 2-minute Drive Time selections from the week’s E-Buzz on WPKN 89.5 FM and wpkn.org. Selected events from FCBuzz.org postings, can be heard as PSAs: 7-9am and 4-7pm, weekdays.
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| | | LAUREN CLAYTON
Lauren Clayton is a graphic artist by day, running Studio 162, a boutique design studio in Stamford, and a fine artist by night, where she enjoys exploring artistic expressions without deadlines. Lauren, also working as "Sugacane Danger", studied graphic design, photography and printmaking at the Cooper Union School of Art in New York. After writing a business plan for starting her company, she was delighted to receive a grant for $20k in start-up capital from the Miller Brewing Company’s Urban Entrepreneur Business Grant Series, and launched Studio 162 in 2003. She specialized in designing handmade family heirloom books at the start of her business, but has grown to offer a variety of design solutions. She is an alumna of the Jackie Robinson Foundation, that awards scholarships to minority high school students who have excelled academically and in their community. Lauren has served on the Board of Directors of Stamford's Yerwood Center, and remains active in the community by mentoring students entering college and donating design services to small non-profits. Lauren has appeared in numerous magazines, including Jewel, Black Enterprise, and New Canaan Magazine as well as on Connecticut News Channel 12’s Our Lives, hosted by Gwen Edwards. In her art, Lauren says she is "enamored with bold colors, fine details, crazy patterns, funky music and generally anything that makes me stop and take notice." See her Studio 162 website, Facebook Page, Twitter feed and Instagram page. |
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| | PENRHYN COOK
Penrhyn Cook has been a photographer for the past fifteen years. Her early work was shot with film and processed as toned, silver gelatin prints. She now works digitally but uses little manipulation other than that which could be achieved in the darkroom. Her photography documents things that other people tend to overlook; the serendipitous moments that make life interesting: the presentation of contradictions, innocence and humor. Her family, personal history and ideology are an important part of her story telling. She loves children; dislikes confrontation: is continuously puzzled by acts of inhumanity. She believes in the contagiousness of laughter and the joy of music and art. Penny frequently uses Celebrations and public spaces as her backdrop. She is looking for interactions that express the breadth of human emotions; wonder, loneliness, envy. Whatever the emotion, she wants the viewer to participate in the experience and create his or her own interpretation. Like human emotions, Eidelons can also be fleeting. She doesn’t set out to capture them, she just found them; here and there, wedged between the here and now; a rift between the dimensions. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibits including the Summer McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery, New Haven, CT, City Lights Gallery, Bridgeport, Shoreline Arts Alliance, Guilford, 22 Haviland Street Gallery, Norwalk, Art Place at the Shoreline, New Haven, and Café George, New Haven. Cook has self-published two books titled Eidolon and Serendipity. Her work is in many private collections. She is a member of the Kehler Liddell Gallery in New Haven. She collaborates with photographer husband Rod Cook under the name of PenRod and they have their studio in Bridgeport. See their website. |
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| ROD COOK
Rod Cook was born and grew up in Savannah, Georgia. He first picked up a camera while a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, fell in love with the medium, and subsequently worked as a fashion and illustration photographer in New York for the first twenty-five years of his career. In 1997, he essentially gave up commercial photography to pursue a personal vision, seen in Cypress Knees and Tupelos, nudes taken in cypress swamps in and around Savannah, Ga. Since then he has created his own interpretations of botanicals, FP and Fungi, landscapes, Moving Landscapes, masks, mannequins, and statues, Animate Objects. He has works in platinum/ palladium, digital black-and-white and color, and invented color prints married with encaustic. Rod generally works on projects inspired by spontaneous experimentation, so will occasionally venture into other mediums. When he was younger, he was in love with the idea of being a photographer. Today, he says, he just wants to create images. A subtle differentiation but one he thinks is significant. His most recent works are prints of nudes wearing Venetian style masks that he designed and made with papier-mâché - in the case of Mask they are created from molds taken from the model’s face). Rod's work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibits including Jack Leigh Gallery, Savannah, GA; Photosensualis Gallery, Woodstock, NY; 22 Haviland Street Gallery, Norwalk; Hunter Fox Gallery, New York; Bassetti Fine Photographs, New Orleans, LA; Joel Soroka Gallery, Aspen, CO; Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID; Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX; and Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL. His work is in numerous private and public collections notably Graham Nash Collection, University of Chicago and the Cherye R. and James F. Pierce Collection. He collaborates with his photographer wife Penrhyn, under the name of PenRod and they have their studio in Bridgeport. See PenRod's website . |
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| | | AFSANEH DJABBARI-ASLANI
Iranian born artist Afsaneh Djabbari-Aslani attended USC’s Roski School of Art and Design, at the onset of the Iranian revolution. The upheaval in her native country culminating with the US embassy hostage crisis dramatically transformed her world, with significant influence on her artistic work. After earning her BFA, she moved to New York in 1983, and then began working at the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), in the Public Affairs Division, where she learned more about the plight of third world countries and their socio-economic issues. She also earned her Master's Degree from NYU’s Robert Wagner School of Public Service. Her painting Working towards a Brighter World was published as a Holiday Card and sent out worldwide in 1989. With the birth of her second child, Afsaneh moved to New Canaan and became an active volunteer in the community, and an art history teacher in the public school system. This reconnected her with her passion for the arts and she started painting full time again in 2009. Afsaneh says she never finds art relaxing: "It is a very active emotion for me." She is very responsive to issues in the world: choosing a self-portrait from 1982 for her website, she writes: "I had hoped that 35 years later I would look at this and put it as part of my history, where politics, religion and sexism would be resolved and I would not feel this trapped. Unfortunately, it continues — with all of its trappings." She says that, as an older artist and mother of three, she has learned to channel her feelings in more positive ways. Afsaneh enjoys painting still lifes and playing with texture and color: "I don’t think of these simple objects as just a bowl or a vase but containers which hold life. We have always created containers to carry our grains and water. Bright colors, light, water, texture and reflections are an integral part of my work, tracing back to my Persian roots where color and decorative art are part of its rich history." Afsaneh sits on the board of the New Canaan Art Society and is a member of the Loft Artists Association. She currently has work in the Loft Artists Association's show, Bring a Friend to the LAA, alongside Eugenie Diserio. See Afsaneh's website.
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| HENRI LEPETIT
Born in Brussels in 1956, Henri Lepetit has always been a great traveler. Around the age of twelve, Henri began to accompany his father, a dedicated naturalist, on scientific assignments. It was during these early travels, which took them for many years throughout the African continent, the Middle East, and later the entire length of South America, that his father one day asked him to help with illustrations for a project. The natural artistic talent that his father possessed provided the guiding hand during these first steps. From the age of 16 he traveled widely by himself, funding his trips by painting and selling his work on the spot, enabling him to get from one location to the next. Apart from a brief spell at a Paris art school in 1975, he has not received any formal training, preferring to rely on his natural ability and feedback from the public. It was while he was in Provence that Henri’s passion for visual art transformed from a paying hobby into full professional status, when he met his wife, who is an accomplished equestrian. Since that time, he has steadily and successfully built a wide and eager collector base throughout the world. The New England coastline fuels Henri’s unabated passion for painting. As one commentator has put it: "His bold and gutsy brushstrokes tackle with thick creamy paint the delightful sparkling colors and brightness of light without hesitation. He knows where he is going and how to achieve the end result." His scenes, apart from those set in New England, are mostly from France, Italy and England. Today, Henri’s home is in Westport, for the summer, and travel is still an integral part of his life. He currently has a solo show of urban paintings, Urban Adventures at Gallerie Meisterstücke, in Nuremberg, Germany, and is scheduled to take part in the Westport Fine Arts Festival this July See Henri's website here.
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| | | Elizabeth Agresta, Painter
Valerie Ahneman, Musician
Peter Alexander, Landscape ArchitectKristen Ambrosi, Painter Tracey Anderson-Kollar, Visual Artist Francesca Andre, Filmmaker & Photo- grapherLeslee Asch, Curator, Writer
Frances Ashforth, Painter/ Printmaker
Judith Bacal, Designer
Anna Badini, Painter
Mary Bailey, Sculptor & Writer
Louise Baranger, Musician
Patrice Barrett, Painter
Nina Bentley, Mixed Media/Sculptor Sue Benton, Photographer
Paul Berger, Photographer
Karla Bernstein, Photographer
Thomas Berntsen, Photographer/Sculptor Binnie Birstein, Painter/ Printmaker
Elise Black, Painter
Tara Blackwell, Painter Christina Blais, Quilter Ziggy Bober, Sculptor
Amy Bock, Painter
Andrea Bonfils, Mixed Media Artist Dennis Bradbury, Photographer
Carolyn Brady, Photographer
Nancy Breakstone, Photographer Michael Brennecke, Painter
Wendy Brest, Mixed Media
Lucienne Buckner, Sculptor
Bevi Bullwinkel, Painter
Miggs Burroughs, Graphic Artist
Trace Burroughs, New Media
Joy Bush, Photographer
Louise Cadoux, Painter/Sculptor Bob Callahan, Painter
Donna Callighan, Photographer
Patricia Campbell, Dancer
Linn Cassetta, Printmaker
Polly Castor, Painter Carolyn Cavolo, Dancer
Ann Chernow, Painter/Printmaker
Alan Chapell, Musician Eric Chiang, Painter
Frederic Chiu, Pianist
Yvonne Claveloux, Painter Elaine Clayton, Painter and Writer Lauren Clayton, Painter Alicia Cobb, Painter
Joyce Colburn, Painter
Heidi Lewis Coleman, Mixed Media Rosa Colón, Painter, Mixed Media Penrhyn Cook, Photographer
Rod Cook, Photographer Margaret Stapor Costa, Filmmaker
Adger Cowans, Photographer and Painter
Naomi Cruz, Painter Dolly Curtis, Curator
Lisa Cuscuna, Painter
Dawn Dahl, Painter
Cris Dam, Painter/Muralist
Holly Danger, Video Artist Betsy Davidson, Painter
Carlos Davila, Painter, Sculptor
Jane Davila, Fiber Artist/ Mixed Media Cortney Davis, Writer
John Deakins, Sculptor
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Joseph Dermody, Painter/ Sculptor/ Furniture Maker/Violinist Emily Derr, Illustrator/Designer
Joyce DiCamillo, Musician
Barbara Kunin Dierolf, Painter
Jan Dilenschneider, Painter
Eugenie Diserio, Painter
Carol Nipomnich Dixon, Mixed Media Afsaneh Djabbari-Aslani, Painter Erin Dolan, Painter
Amy Dolego, Photography Jennifer Drolet, Painter
David Dunlop, Painter
Philip Eliasoph, Writer
Jeanine Esposito, Mixed Media
Katherine Evans, Painter
Susan Fehlinger, Painter
Louise Flax, Mixed Media
Rosaida Flores, Dancer
David Laurence Flynn, Lighting Designer
Heide Follin, Painter
Christa Forrest, Painter
Rose-Marie Fox, Painter
Cecilia Moy Fradet, Painter/ Printmaker
Herm Freeman, Painter
Rebeca Fuchs, Painter Megan Garbe, Painter Rhonda Gentry, Painter Joe Gitterman, Sculptor
Scott Glaser, Painter
William Glaser, Photographer
Lori Glavin, Visual Artist
Danielle Goldstein, Photographer
Ellen Gordon, Painter
Sue Brown Gordon, Painter/Jeweler Ellen Gould, Photographer
Joyce Grasso, Painter/ Photographer Kristen Graves, Musician
Len Grayeck, Painter
Jen Greely, MultiMedia/ Installation
Mindy Green, Mixed Media
Carolina Guimarey, Multi- Media Artist Barry Guthertz, Photographer
Dorothy Hafner, Sculptor
Don Hamerman, Photographer
Mary Harold, Photographer
Julie Headland, Painter/ Printmaker
Adair Heitmann, Printmaker
Kate Henderson, Mixed Media - ASSOCIATE MaryEllen Hendricks, Photographer
Gwen Hendrix, Fiber/ Mixed Media Lenore Eggleston Herbst, Dancer Tracy Hoffman,
Photographer & Printmaker ASSOCIATE Veronica Hofstetter, Painter Bruce Horan,
Painter/Printmaker
Elizabeth Howard, Writer
Sonya Huber, Writer Yuko Ike, Painter
Jana Ireijo, Painter
Sholeh Janati, Painter
Renée Kahn, Painter/ Sculptor
Vasken Kalayjian, Painter
Karen Kalkstein, Graphic Artist
Amy Kaplan, Painter
Natasha Karpinskaia,
Painter
Ed Katz, Theatre Critic
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Elisa Keogh, Photographer
Susan Keown, Painter/ Mixed Media/Ceramicist Photographer ASSOCIATE Niki Ketchman, Sculptor/ Multimedia
Jin Hi Kim, Musician Lesley Koenig, Painter
Richard Koleszar, Painter
Xiao Mai Kong, Painter
Moki Kokoris, Visual Artist Michael Kozlowski, Painter
Joanie Landau, Jewelry designer/Printmaker Lydia Larson, Painter Emily Hamilton Laux, Photographer
Eric Jiaju Lee, Visual Artist/Musician Phyllis Lee, Visual Artist
Julie Leff, Painter
Susan Leggitt, Painter
Julia-Rose Liptack, Painter Barbara Loss, Photographer
Shelley Lowell, Painter/ Sculptor/Poet Jane Lubin, Mixed Media
Laurie MacLean, Choreographer, Dancer Mark Macrides, Painter,
Collagist Jessica Makin, Painter/ Photographer
Connie Manna, Painter Mary Manning, Painter/ Printmaker
Elizabeth Marks, Painter
Ruben Marroquin, Fiber Artist
Nadia Martinez, MultiMedia
Sooo-z Mastropietro, Multimedia
Barbara Mathis, Painter
Megan Bonneau McCool, Choreographer
Carole McClintock, Painter
Grace S. McEnaney, Painter
Nancy McTague-Stock, MixedMedia Shanna Melton, Poet
Kristin Merrill, Jeweler/Sculptor
Toby Michaels, Painter
Jay Misencik, Photographer Duvian Montoya, Painter
Brechin Morgan, Painter Day Moore, Painter Nancy Moore, Painter Meighan Morrison, Painter Carol Mueller, Painter/Printmaker Cynthia Mullins, Painter Susan Murray, Painter Aisha Nailah,MixedMedia/ Photographer Tava Naiyin, Dancer Dale Najarian, Painter Karen Neems, Photographer/MixedMedia Susan Newbold, Painter Mary Newcomb, Painter Jill Nichols, Painter Eddie Niño, Painter Judith Norinsky, Painter Julie O’Connor, Photographer Kazumasa Oda, Painter Amy Oestreicher, Performing/Visual Artist Melissa Orme, Painter Rose Palmiero, Painter Parkway South, Musicians Steve Parton, Painter Judy Peknik, Painter Justin Perlman, Sculptor Chris Perry, Book Artist Jay Petrow, Painter Laura Pflug, Painter Diane Pollack, Mixed Media Karen Ponelli, Painter ASSOCIATE Lynn Carlson Popat, Painter Joseph Provey, Painter
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| Jennifer Prat, Photographer Elizabeth Quesada, Painter Ben Quesnel, Sculptor, Videographer Lauren Rago, Mixed Media Tim Reimer, Painter Gwen North Reiss, Poet Rick Reyes, Singer/ Songwriter Barbara Ringer, Photographer Mariya Rivera, Painter Dorothy Robertshaw, Mixed Media Alyse Rosner, Painter/ Mixed Media Richard Sadlon, Musicians
Renee Santhouse, Graphic Artist Jill Sarver, Painter Visual Artist
Ellen Schiffman, Fiber
Artist
Norma Schlager, Fiber
Artist
Marianne R. Schmidt,
Painter
Guy Sealey, Multimedia
Lisa Seidenberg,
Filmmaker
Rick Shaefer, Visual Artist
Barbara Shea, Writer
Alissa Siegal, Painter
Norm Siegel, Painter
Lisa P. Silberman,
Photographer
Phyllis Sinrich,
Photographer
Megan Smith-Harris,
Writer/Filmmaker
Cleo Sonneborn, Painter
Rene Soto, Painter
Liz Squillace, Painter/Printmaker
Connie Stancell, Painter
Sergei Stepanenko,
Painter
Barbara Stewart, Painter
Pam Stoddart, Painter
Florence Suerig, Visual
Artist
Janice Sweetwater,
Painter
Susan Tabachnick, Sculptor
Juliette Tehrani, Painter
Mick Theebs, Writer/Painter
Alicia Thompson, Actress/ Playwright
Dara Tomeo, Painter
Kris D. Toohey, Painter
Andrea Towey, Musician
Ruth Kalla Ungerer, Printmaker
Vincent Verrillo, Painter
Karen Vogel, Painter
Lee Walther, Mixed Media
Ann Weiner, Multi-Media,
Painter
Peggy Weis, MultiMedia
Cynthia Whalen, Painter
Joan Wheeler, Painter
Al Coyote Weiner, Painter
Ann Weiner, MultiMedia
Conceptual Artist
Jahmane West,
MultiMedia Artist
Elizabeth White,
MultiMedia
Justin Wiest, Painter
Jarvis Wilcox, Painter
Bruce Williams, Painter
Jen Williams, Painter
Tammy Winser, Mixed
Media
Nancy Woodward,
Photographer/Mixed
Media
Dmitri Wright, Painter
Jeffrey Wyant, Visual
Artist
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