Monday, November 10, 2008
New Location
The West 44th Street Art Center has been offering private art lessons for years. The original location was in a one room studio apartment located on the Corner of West 44th Street and Alabama Avenue, directly across the street from Saint Elmo Presbyterian Church (SEPC). The church has just completed a Sunday school wing – also located on West44th Street, which will be the future home of the West 44th Street Art Center. The new location not only offers several new and larger classrooms, it also enables the art center to work in partnership with a neighborhood church.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
The way to my garden -at our home in Saint Elmo -is down a brick path and through an arbor. On each side there is a wall of doors. Twenty-year old wisteria climbs over the doors. Each crepe myrtle has been planted as a reminder of the gift of life for each of our four children, their husbands and wives, and our two grandchildren. I have spent much time in this garden and have photographed many friends and family in this garden. I have painted, made pottery, and woven baskets… in this garden.
Before it was my garden, it belonged to the Krichbaum family. Maude was the last Krichbaum to live in the house before passing the garden to me. I have been blessed with ten foot tall azaleas and oak leaf hydrangeas that are ten feet in diameter. I very rarely venture out of my garden. I inherited a fig tree that grows figs the size of pears and have been blessed with an enormous harvest of plums this year. My garden came indoors again this year as I enjoyed canning and preserving plums.
In our urban and suburban worlds, we are losing consciousness of this deep primal connection with the garden. Our hurried lives diminish our ability to connect and be creative.
I have known that I was an art teacher since I was eight years old. A wonderful art teacher in third grade saw my love for the creative process and took me under her wing, as her assistant. Therefore much of my life has found me studying art and enveloping myself with beauty and growth. Photography enables us to savor what grows and changes for longer than it exist. So, I have been taking photographs most of my life.
I began taking photographs- so that I could paint and draw from my own compositions. I discovered that a camera gives an artist a license into the lives of people you would not otherwise have access to. There is a trust between the artist and the sitter. Most of the photographs I have taken have been portraits- shot with a 35 mm camera - with black and white film. Many of the photographs have been of my home and my family. In the words of Imogen Cunningham," What could I do- I couldn't get out of the garden".
This latest series is of the bath houses at Velsicol. I began photographing industrial parks after capturing Chattanooga Glass Company on color film. I have enjoyed photographing things that don’t move. That is until their demolition. I have since gone back and photographed the remains.
Before it was my garden, it belonged to the Krichbaum family. Maude was the last Krichbaum to live in the house before passing the garden to me. I have been blessed with ten foot tall azaleas and oak leaf hydrangeas that are ten feet in diameter. I very rarely venture out of my garden. I inherited a fig tree that grows figs the size of pears and have been blessed with an enormous harvest of plums this year. My garden came indoors again this year as I enjoyed canning and preserving plums.
In our urban and suburban worlds, we are losing consciousness of this deep primal connection with the garden. Our hurried lives diminish our ability to connect and be creative.
I have known that I was an art teacher since I was eight years old. A wonderful art teacher in third grade saw my love for the creative process and took me under her wing, as her assistant. Therefore much of my life has found me studying art and enveloping myself with beauty and growth. Photography enables us to savor what grows and changes for longer than it exist. So, I have been taking photographs most of my life.
I began taking photographs- so that I could paint and draw from my own compositions. I discovered that a camera gives an artist a license into the lives of people you would not otherwise have access to. There is a trust between the artist and the sitter. Most of the photographs I have taken have been portraits- shot with a 35 mm camera - with black and white film. Many of the photographs have been of my home and my family. In the words of Imogen Cunningham," What could I do- I couldn't get out of the garden".
This latest series is of the bath houses at Velsicol. I began photographing industrial parks after capturing Chattanooga Glass Company on color film. I have enjoyed photographing things that don’t move. That is until their demolition. I have since gone back and photographed the remains.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
A Clothesline Show is very informal. As a matter of fact, the participating artists are encouraged not to frame their art work. Most collectors of art will re frame what they purchase –anyway- to better suit their taste. The idea is to keep the cost down; and encourage productivity. If an artist sells their work they can afford to continue making art.
The Clothesline Art Show is located in historic St. Elmo in Chattanooga, at the Sessions House. There are thirteen members included in the group show that is scheduled for the second weekend in May. They are all local artists; inspired by the awareness of God’s given gifts and responsibility to share and educate one another. “Groups with skillful members do in fact outperform individuals working alone. A group will make a better decision than any one of its members.”
The event will showcase a variety of different mediums and styles to fit an assortment of tastes. The art enthusiasts will have the opportunity to enjoy everything from painting, photography, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, and fine craft. The dates for the Clothesline Show are May 9th, 10th, and 11th. The Clothesline Art Show, is in its second year, local artist have had much success selling their work. Although the artist is not guaranteed that they will sell work, the chances are much greater.
The women’s art group started out as a social group, it grew and diminished according to the needs and interest of the women involved. Like most groups The Women’s Art group provides members with both social and task related benefits. Although, there have been opportunities to view one another’s work and the work of other artists; the Clothesline show gives each of the artists involved the motivation to continue to develop a body of work to display at the biannual show.
The Clothesline Art Show is located in historic St. Elmo in Chattanooga, at the Sessions House. There are thirteen members included in the group show that is scheduled for the second weekend in May. They are all local artists; inspired by the awareness of God’s given gifts and responsibility to share and educate one another. “Groups with skillful members do in fact outperform individuals working alone. A group will make a better decision than any one of its members.”
The event will showcase a variety of different mediums and styles to fit an assortment of tastes. The art enthusiasts will have the opportunity to enjoy everything from painting, photography, printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, and fine craft. The dates for the Clothesline Show are May 9th, 10th, and 11th. The Clothesline Art Show, is in its second year, local artist have had much success selling their work. Although the artist is not guaranteed that they will sell work, the chances are much greater.
The women’s art group started out as a social group, it grew and diminished according to the needs and interest of the women involved. Like most groups The Women’s Art group provides members with both social and task related benefits. Although, there have been opportunities to view one another’s work and the work of other artists; the Clothesline show gives each of the artists involved the motivation to continue to develop a body of work to display at the biannual show.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Monday, April 7, 2008
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