Monotype 1991
Early Journey
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. 1960-1966. My teacher was Vincent Vermette. 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: Our teacher 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 the local 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 teacher, 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 Cod Museum of Art: Painting from 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:
Grant Writer/director-Afterschool Arts Program, for local Elementary School, 1988 and 1989.
Children could sign up for a week long arts experience of choice taught by a local artist from the community: paper making, print making, cartooning, origami, were a couple of the choices.
Cultural Council member: 1988-1994
Drawing-using a right brain approach-Adult Ed. 1992 and 1993
Special Ed. teacher, 1996-2011: Weather Paintings and Poems: 2009: I led a painting and poetry unit for a grade 4 class: based on a U. of New Hampshire grad. course: "Image Making for the Writing Process". 4th graders met with me weekly, for a few months, reading poetry and looking at the art in gorgeous children's books, painting weather pictures, brainstorming weather vocabulary, writing collaborative poems, exploring forms poems could take. Each student painted, then wrote, using the art to jump-start the writing. Students were prolific, excited, engaged, and supportive of each other. Each had a goodly collection made into their own books, with "dedications", and "about the artist-author". Each pread a poem accompanied by their art, at a poet's tea.
One Woman Shows:
local Library, 1979
Town Hall Gallery, Orleans, MA 1989
East Orleans Art and Antiques Gallery, 1990, 1991
local 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
A Cape Painters' Group 1991-1994
2007 to present
Education:
Image-Making for the Writing Process AND Picturing Writing-University of New Hampshire grad. courses. 07, 09
Members Only Workshops-Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, Inc. with:
Barbara Stone, 2007 Edith Cohenno Bryant, 2007, 2008 Carol C. Garvey, 2008
Caroline Caldwell, 2009 Donna Rosetti-Bailey, 2010 Christine Bodner, 2012
Deb Quinn-Munson 2012 Rosalie Nadeau, 2013, Pat Ross Marx, 2013
Pastel Society of Cape Cod: Master Classes with: Marla Bagetta, 2012, Jen Evenhus, 2016
Painting Workshop, oils: with Linda Packard, (Maine artist) 2017
Member:
Pastel Society of Maine
Monday art group: Maine: 2018-present
This is a group of artists who meet weekly and work independently, with input from group leader, if we request it. It is a wonderful chance to be around other artists for inspiration and support.
Group Shows:
Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod, Members' Shows: each year: 2010-2015
Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA: "Patrick Blackwell and Friends" 2017 (work from our weekly life drawing group)
PAAM: Provincetown Art Association and Museum: 12x12 auction: each year: 2013-2016
PAAM: Members' Small Works Show: 2014, 2016
Bangor Art Society: 2014, Wet Paint/Auction Fundraiser: awarded: "Best in Show"
Old Fire House Gallery, Orleans, MA, "Connected: Four Women, 3 Generations of Art": 2015
Lincoln Memorial Library: Sunflowers for Ukraine (Ammadamast Grange Art Group) 2022
Local Library, Eastham, MA: "View X Three" with two artist friends 2023
Sohns Gallery at the Rock and Art Shop, Bangor, ME: "All Small" each year: 2016-2024
Bangor Public Library, "Enfield Art Group" Aug 2024
Solo Shows:
Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank, Orleans, MA 2013
Local Library, MA, 2013
Sohns Gallery at the Rock and Art Shop, Central St. Bangor, ME 2016 "Winter"
Bangor Public Library, "The Sparks of My Heart" large works, Stairwell Gallery, 2023
Juried Shows:
For Pastels Only, Cape Cod: (*=award) 2012*, 2013, 2015*, 2016, 2017*, 2018*
Richeson75 International Art Competition, Landscape, Seascape, Architecture: 2013
Painting New England in Pastel! Duxbury Art Complex and Museum, 2013
Cultural Center of Cape Cod: "Great Impressions" Printmakers of Cape Cod
Art Residency: 2 weeks: Aug. 2024 Hammer and Sky Art Residency Brier Island, Nova Scotia
Past Gallery Representation:
2007: North Light Gallery, Millinocket, ME,
2012-2018: Aries East Gallery, 2083 Main St./6A Brewster, MA
