Monotype 1991
Early Journey to 2007:
Making art has been a life-long focus:
I started with art classes for young people at the George Walter Vincent Smith Museum at the Quadrangle in Springfield, Mass. My teacher was Vincent Vermette. 1960 to 1966 I have not been able to find any info. on him, but I believe he worked in abstraction. Anyone who can let me know about him, please be in touch!
College: Elementary and Special Ed. with classes in Art History and Art for Children: Arno Maris was our teacher. He gave us such interesting assignments. I remember melting crayons in my dorm room to make a wax portrait of an imagined face. (now I'm dipping into COLD WAX!)
1967-1970
Atlanta GA: Studied handbuilding pottery with a studio potter. Drove to somewhere in South Georgia to buy red clay from a pottery that made garden pots with molds. They sent me to a local cemetery to see gravestones made of stacks of thrown pots! (Tried this, later, when I was part of the Cape Cod Potters. Harry Holl (Scargo Pottery), had us build a stack of pots.) 1974 Jimmy Carter was the Governor. I was there as a Vista Volunteer, working with parolees through a parole office near the capitol, often parking my yellow VW bug in Gov. Carter's space. His folks would nicely come in and ask me to move.
Adult Ed. Drawing with Gordon Brooks, Brewster, MA 1975. In my eyes, Gordon was a Renaissance man. Jazz musician (Bix Lives!)
Violin player. Artist. Cartoonist: "Brooks Looks" weekly in the Cape Codder. He kept track of my art goings on and we corresponded when a cartoon of his really hit my funny bone! I got him to come teach a week-long cartiooning class for kids at Eastham Elementary School.
Cape Cod Conservatory classes: 1976:
Drawing from a model with Harry Holl.
Sculpture in clay from a model with Joye Johnson (sculptor and Castle Hill's director)
Castle Hill, Truro, MA: 1976 Japanese throwing on the potter's wheel with Harry Holl.
Painting with Phil Malicoat, Provincetown, MA 1977-1980. Weekly (all day, every Sat.) Studio Classes.
I consider Phil to be the mentor and main influence on my work with color and in drawing, as well. Usually 5 of us came in the morning and worked on the still life Phil left for us. He would come in after his lunch and nap and pour wine into a tiny paper cup. His teaching was based on what we'd done. He wanted us to use a pallette knife and put color next to color. We didn't draw on the canvas first. The colors didn't have to be local color, they just had to work with each other and then the image would be right. The books: Hawthorne on Painting and The Art Spirit by Robert Henri sound like Phil. (Hawthorne had been his teacher.)
Monotype Printmaking with Pia MacKenzie: weekly: 1989-1991: Joyous fun! I was able to continue printmaking through the use of a friend's studio one day a week. I was prolific! When I see old work from this time, I don't know how I spent so many hours cutting out shapes and printing and collaging. It was wonderful.
Cape Museum of Fine Arts: Painting form a model with Harry Holl 1993 I exhibited two very large nudes from this class in a show: " The Figure" at the Orleans Town Hall Gallery. Nothing noteworthy until one of the town hall folks took offense at the nudes (not just mine) and covered them with brown paper. The local weekly paper and the daily Cape Cod Times carried the story.
Teaching and Community Arts:
Special Ed. Forestdale School, Sandwich, MA 1996-2011. A painting and poetry unit for grade 4: based on a University of New Hampshire graduate course: "Image Making for the Writing Process".
Eastham Cultural Council 1988-1994
Grant Writer/director-Afterschool Arts Program, Eastham Elementary School, 1988 and 1989.
Drawing-using a right brain approach-Nauset Adult Ed. 1992 and 1993
One Woman Shows:
Brewster Ladies Library, 1979
Town Hall Gallery, Orleans, MA 1989
East Orleans Art and Antiques Gallery, 1990, 1991
Eastham Public Library, 1992, 1993
Group Shows:
Provincetown Art Association and Museum 1980
Past Galleries:
Town Hall Gallery, Orleans, MA, monthly shows-1989-1992
Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1990, Women's Weekend
Billingsgate Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 1991
ElfWorks Gallery Wellfleet, MA 1992
Eastham Painters' Guild 1991-1994 (Arno Maris, retired from Westfield State College came with his wife. He zeroed in on my work and he liked it!)
Making art has been a life-long focus:
I started with art classes for young people at the George Walter Vincent Smith Museum at the Quadrangle in Springfield, Mass. My teacher was Vincent Vermette. 1960 to 1966 I have not been able to find any info. on him, but I believe he worked in abstraction. Anyone who can let me know about him, please be in touch!
College: Elementary and Special Ed. with classes in Art History and Art for Children: Arno Maris was our teacher. He gave us such interesting assignments. I remember melting crayons in my dorm room to make a wax portrait of an imagined face. (now I'm dipping into COLD WAX!)
1967-1970
Atlanta GA: Studied handbuilding pottery with a studio potter. Drove to somewhere in South Georgia to buy red clay from a pottery that made garden pots with molds. They sent me to a local cemetery to see gravestones made of stacks of thrown pots! (Tried this, later, when I was part of the Cape Cod Potters. Harry Holl (Scargo Pottery), had us build a stack of pots.) 1974 Jimmy Carter was the Governor. I was there as a Vista Volunteer, working with parolees through a parole office near the capitol, often parking my yellow VW bug in Gov. Carter's space. His folks would nicely come in and ask me to move.
Adult Ed. Drawing with Gordon Brooks, Brewster, MA 1975. In my eyes, Gordon was a Renaissance man. Jazz musician (Bix Lives!)
Violin player. Artist. Cartoonist: "Brooks Looks" weekly in the Cape Codder. He kept track of my art goings on and we corresponded when a cartoon of his really hit my funny bone! I got him to come teach a week-long cartiooning class for kids at Eastham Elementary School.
Cape Cod Conservatory classes: 1976:
Drawing from a model with Harry Holl.
Sculpture in clay from a model with Joye Johnson (sculptor and Castle Hill's director)
Castle Hill, Truro, MA: 1976 Japanese throwing on the potter's wheel with Harry Holl.
Painting with Phil Malicoat, Provincetown, MA 1977-1980. Weekly (all day, every Sat.) Studio Classes.
I consider Phil to be the mentor and main influence on my work with color and in drawing, as well. Usually 5 of us came in the morning and worked on the still life Phil left for us. He would come in after his lunch and nap and pour wine into a tiny paper cup. His teaching was based on what we'd done. He wanted us to use a pallette knife and put color next to color. We didn't draw on the canvas first. The colors didn't have to be local color, they just had to work with each other and then the image would be right. The books: Hawthorne on Painting and The Art Spirit by Robert Henri sound like Phil. (Hawthorne had been his teacher.)
Monotype Printmaking with Pia MacKenzie: weekly: 1989-1991: Joyous fun! I was able to continue printmaking through the use of a friend's studio one day a week. I was prolific! When I see old work from this time, I don't know how I spent so many hours cutting out shapes and printing and collaging. It was wonderful.
Cape Museum of Fine Arts: Painting form a model with Harry Holl 1993 I exhibited two very large nudes from this class in a show: " The Figure" at the Orleans Town Hall Gallery. Nothing noteworthy until one of the town hall folks took offense at the nudes (not just mine) and covered them with brown paper. The local weekly paper and the daily Cape Cod Times carried the story.
Teaching and Community Arts:
Special Ed. Forestdale School, Sandwich, MA 1996-2011. A painting and poetry unit for grade 4: based on a University of New Hampshire graduate course: "Image Making for the Writing Process".
Eastham Cultural Council 1988-1994
Grant Writer/director-Afterschool Arts Program, Eastham Elementary School, 1988 and 1989.
Drawing-using a right brain approach-Nauset Adult Ed. 1992 and 1993
One Woman Shows:
Brewster Ladies Library, 1979
Town Hall Gallery, Orleans, MA 1989
East Orleans Art and Antiques Gallery, 1990, 1991
Eastham Public Library, 1992, 1993
Group Shows:
Provincetown Art Association and Museum 1980
Past Galleries:
Town Hall Gallery, Orleans, MA, monthly shows-1989-1992
Berta Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA 1990, Women's Weekend
Billingsgate Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 1991
ElfWorks Gallery Wellfleet, MA 1992
Eastham Painters' Guild 1991-1994 (Arno Maris, retired from Westfield State College came with his wife. He zeroed in on my work and he liked it!)
