Sunday, September 9, 2012
Friday, September 7, 2012
Saturday, June 16, 2012
June 9, 2012, Robert Witt
Window display
approach to art
Robert Witt,
one of our new members, showed us his creative approach to art and design he
used in his long career as an expert window display artist for many major
department stores. He brought us many examples of his innovative and
inexpensive techniques he used in window display fabrication. Robert also
showed us his imaginative manipulation of his photography. He
demonstrated with his examples of duplication of a photo image, then creating a
mirror image on his printer.
Robert’s presentation was greatly appreciated by the
membership. He passed his samples of easy to make window display glassware and
his photography through the audience for us to get a hands-on examination. The
audience showed their appreciation with many 'oohs', 'ahs' and applause, when
seeing how he created his art and craft pieces.
Robert’s first job was with Peck & Peck as their Area
Display Director with nine stores in the Philadelphia,
Baltimore and Washington, D.C.
area. While at Peck & Peck, photos of his work were used by a national
service to show other Trimmers ideas for displays.
He moved to Baltimore,
Maryland and headed the display
department for Oppenheim Collins, a women’s specialty chain. His last
employment of 17 years, for a total of 32 years, was with Lane Bryant stores.
His area covered from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to Birmingham,
Alabama.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
May 19, 2012, Susan Cole
She brought in samples of her work and discussed the process and history of collage and decoupage. Click http://web.me.com/soledesign
Susan Cole lives and works in Washington, D.C.
She began her career as a graphic artist working at a newspaper, advertising
agency, and as a freelance designer. Over the years she has produced and sold
her own decorative art in D.C. and in Martha’s
Vineyard, Mass.
Susan uses familiar imagery and
colors that conjure up a history of men and women, personal and universal. What
we are taught, what we believe, and what we expect. Rules we keep and rules we
break. Universal truths and lies. As children, our views are shaped by play
with dolls, games, and toys. As adults we remember. Roll the dice. Get lucky
and you win. Break the rules and go directly to jail.
Statement...
For years
I have collected a variety of treasures--natural and manufactured, vintage and new, found or given
as a gift. I saved them because they are interesting, funny, beautiful,
original, or hold special meaning.
In my studio
I have saved lace, paper, books, magazines, napkins, feathers, shells, bottle
caps, paper images, thread, ribbon, baubles, beads, toys, art supplies, craft
supplies, jewelry, game pieces, postcards, cards, fabric, notions, ceramic
pieces, paintings, drawings, clothing, boxes, wood--and that’s just the
beginning!
In the interest of the environment
(especially mine), I challenge myself to use these objects to create original,
one-of-a-kind pieces. I intend to turn these found and saved objects into
something beautiful, wearable, and /or useful. My goal is to produce one piece
per week.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
April 2012, Joe Giacalone
General Meeting at Davis Library, 6400 Democracy Blvd, Bethesda, MD, at 2:00.
Dianne Bugash had to cancel, so we had our own Joseph M. Giacalone discussing...
Dianne Bugash had to cancel, so we had our own Joseph M. Giacalone discussing...
What is the common thread through graphic design, advertising
art, photography and sculpture - into fine art?
Fifty-four
years experience as a technical, graphic, and award winning advertising artist,
he is now a fine artist. Joe was the founder and president of Renaissance
Communications, Inc., a full service advertising agency serving commercial and
government clients in the Washington, D.C. area.
Joe’s
presentation started with examples of poster illustration and
photography
produced by his agency. One of the posters included Arnold
Schwarzenegger
when he was the Chairman of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness
and Sports. Other examples were award winning design and original art
illustrations.
Joe brought his own paintings to show his evolution from realism art to abstract painting.
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| The June speaker was introduced. |
Sunday, March 18, 2012
March 17, 2012, Rona Eisner
On
Saturday,
March 17, 2012, over 25 members and guests attended
Rona's presentation, marveling at the diversity of her artwork. This prize-winning artist involved Senior Artists
Alliance members in a discussion of her artistic creations. It was an
interesting and enlightening afternoon!
Photographer, painter, creative silversmith, digital artist. Rona Eisner is an artist who fits into many categories, but cannot be categorized. Her paintings and photography have been in juried shows in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and her work is in many private and corporate collections.
Photographer, painter, creative silversmith, digital artist. Rona Eisner is an artist who fits into many categories, but cannot be categorized. Her paintings and photography have been in juried shows in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and her work is in many private and corporate collections.
Her bio...
Rona Eisner
Rona Eisner
Painter,
Photographer and Creative Silversmith
7612 Rossdhu
Ct., Chevy Chase, MD 20815
phone: (301)
652-3821 fax: (301) 652-3822
email: reisner11@starpower.net
Artist’s
Short Bio March 2012
Following
a traditional liberal arts education (Smith College 1960), I earned a doctorate
in psychology in 1967. My education did not include any art training. For 35
years, as a clinical psychologist, I did long-term intensive psychotherapy. I
retired from that career in 2001 in order to move into a new phase of life and
pursue my passion for making art of many forms, taking classes in various
media, e.g. painting, photography, collage, and silverworking. I now devote
full time to artistic endeavors.
In the last two years, I have been spending much of my
creative energy in the Silverworks Studio at Glen Echo, studying with Blair
Anderson and working in the open studio. I find that working in metal, whether
silver or copper, allows me freedom of expression, calls on problem solving
skills, and is just plain fun! My piece “A River Runs Through It” won a Purple
Hammer Award for excellence in design at the July, 2011 show “The Fifth
Element” at the Popcorn Gallery at Glen Echo. I was one of 5 silver artists
chosen to be included in the Faculty Art Show at the Popcorn Gallery for March,
2012. I have continued to take workshops in both painting and photography and
to produce work in these media as well.
My
work in both photography and painting has been in many juried shows in the
Washington, DC, metropolitan area. In
the last three years, my photography has been commissioned by Soho Myriad for
display in hotels in Atlanta, Georgia; I had a soloInvitational Show at the
Levine School of Music, January 2009 – June 2009;
Equinox Restaurant,
Washington, DC, has several photographs on display, Dec. 2008-; my series of
digital collages “Riffs on the Theme of Creation” was in the Smith College
Class of 1960 Alumnae House Gallery Show, May 2010 (2 of the images were
purchased for the presidential mansion) and at Glenview Gallery, June 2010; and
I was Artist of the Month, Georgetown University Hospital Art Gallery, May 2010.
Sandy Spring Museum in Sandy Spring, Maryland selected myself, Sheila Meyer and
Christy Stebbins to show our photographs at the museum for April and May 2011
in a show called “Fragile Moments, Fragile Times”. My photographs and paintings
are in a number of private and corporate collections.
Several of my photographs have won prizes:
Brookside Gardens (Wheaton, MD) Annual Art & Photography Show FIRST PRIZE
in PHOTOGRAPHY for photograph “Pink Dogwood” (Oct, 2000); Capitol Arts Network,
National Juried Show “I’m Ready For My Close-up”, Bethesda, MD, FIRST PLACE PRIZE for Photograph “Magic
Puff#4” (July, 2005); North American Nature Photography Association,
Expressions 2008, “Magic Puff #4
Included as one of the top 100 images juried from the Showcase Competition;
Expressions Competition 2009, 2 of my images were in the top 20 per cent and
one was published in the NANPA Currents Magazine in 2011.
My work can be seen on the art file of the
Washington Project for the Arts: http://artfile.wpadc.org.
Monday, March 5, 2012
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