The Board of Friends of Little Crum Creek Park is hosting the second annual Plein Air Artists Painting fundraiser exhibit, “Four Seasons in the Park”, this December at Swarthmore Borough Hall. A great opportunity for local plein air artists to have their artwork of Little Crum Creek Park on display through December. The theme is simply paintings focused on LCC Park from any of the 4 seasons. This event is in partnership with Swarthmore Friends of the Arts.
For participating artists, finished paintings should be dropped off at Borough Hall on Thursday November 30, between 5 and 7pm. Each piece must be wired for hanging. The Swarthmore Friends of the Arts entry fee will be paid by Friends of Little Crum Creek Park. Artists receive 50% of each piece sold and Friends of Little Crum Creek Park receives 40%.
The exhibit reception is Friday, December 1st, from 6 to 8 pm at Swarthmore Borough Hall. This event is sponsored by Swarthmore Friends of the Arts and is free and open to the public so invite your friends and family. It is a fantastic opportunity to show your landscape paintings from Little Crum Creek Park, meet other artists, and make new friends and patrons.
If you have any questions, please contact Susan Kelly at susankelly339@gmail.com.
November’s Art Exhibit, titled “Salient Garden”, presents the original artwork of artist Ellen Rosenholtz. The exhibit will be on display through November at Swarthmore Borough Hall. The opening reception is Friday, November 3, 5-8 pm. The event is free and open to the public. On your stroll through town stop by Borough Hall, meet the artist, and enjoy complimentary refreshments and hors d’oeuvres.
Ellen Rosenholtz’s work deals within the intersection between flora and fauna and the human connection to landscape. The work explores native, invasive, and extinct plants and animals of New Jersey. The work looks at the profound beauty of natural forms and questions the balance between the natural world and our human imprint. The multiplicity of images underscores the interconnection of living systems, while geometric patterning enables the viewer to commune with the species through repetition of form. The semi-permanence of graphite reflects the fragility of our biodiversity at any moment in time.
Ellen Rosenholtz is a New Jersey-based artist whose work is about environmental concerns with a focus on native, invasive, and extinct flora and fauna. She has a B.F.A from University of the Arts and an M.F.A from Vermont College. Artistic accomplishments include a residency at the Rosenbach Museum and Library. She wrote art criticism for both the Philadelphia Weekly and Philadelphia City Paper and was the Director of Programs for the Painted Bride Art Center. Ellen exhibits regularly throughout the mid-Atlantic region while educating two amazing young people.
Swarthmore Friends of the Arts sponsors the exhibit. For information about Swarthmore Friends of the Arts or to submit a request for your own show, visit www.swarthmorearts.org or contact Martha Perkins, martha.perkins@gmail.com. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for exhibition schedules and images of inspiring artwork by our local artists.
Swarthmore Friends of the Arts presents the original artwork by artists from the Delaware Valley Art League. The exhibit will be on display through the month of October at Swarthmore Borough Hall. The opening reception is Friday, October 6, 6-8 pm. The event is free and open to the public. On your stroll through town for First Friday, stop by Borough Hall, meet the artists, and enjoy complimentary refreshments and hors d’oeuvres.
Delaware Valley Art League has been promoting interest, skill, and creativity in the fine arts for over 75 years. We are a non-profit cultural organization of professional artists operating with a volunteer Board of Directors and support committee. DVAL exists to promote interest in the fine arts within the community and to advance the skill and creativity of its members We offer monthly meetings from October through May, professional demonstrations and workshops in a variety of mediums, and the opportunity for full members to exhibit their art at various venues.
Swarthmore Friends of the Arts sponsors the exhibit. For information about Swarthmore Friends of the Arts or to submit a request for your own show, visit www.swarthmorearts.org or contact Martha Perkins, martha.perkins@gmail.com. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for exhibition schedules and images of inspiring artwork by our local artists.
September’s Art Exhibit, titled “Portrait Stories”, presents the original portrait artwork by local artist Carolyn Langdon. The exhibit will be on display through the month of September at Swarthmore Borough Hall. The opening reception is Friday, September 1, 6-8 pm. The event is free and open to the public. On your stroll through town for First Friday, stop by Borough Hall, meet the artist, and enjoy complimentary refreshments and hors d’oeuvres.
In 2006 Ms. Langdon began drawing, painting, and studying art. Since then she has been experimenting with styles, subject matter, and materials. She has since returned home to realism, working primarily in pastels on paper and acrylic paints on canvas. “Telling stories through portrait and figure is my primary interest. Exactly what the story is being told is up to the viewer. Portraits of a place or growing things can also tell stories about the subject and the world around it. I invite the viewer to imagine the stories presented by my work”.
Swarthmore Friends of the Arts sponsors the exhibit. For information about Swarthmore Friends of the Arts or to submit a request for your own show, visit www.swarthmorearts.org or contact Martha Perkins, martha.perkins@gmail.com. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for exhibition schedules and images of inspiring artwork by our local artists.
May’s Art Exhibit “Explorations”, brought to you by Swarthmore Friends of the Arts, presents art by The Mixed Media Studio, a group of area artists who have come together weekly for the past 8 or nine years to explore a variety of media together, and to be inspired by each other’s work and spirit of adventure.
The public is invited to the artist’s opening reception on Friday, May 12th, from 6-8pm.
An exhibition of original mixed media artwork by Molly Wing Berman, Georgianna Grentzenberg, Gail Herring, and Michele Southworth will be on display from May 3rd through May 30th at Swarthmore Borough Hall, 121 Park Avenue. Both the exhibit and the reception are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
The exhibit is sponsored by Swarthmore Friends of the Arts. For information about Swarthmore Friends of the Arts or to submit a request for your own show, visit www.swarthmorearts.org or contact Martha Perkins, martha.perkins@gmail.com. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for exhibition schedules and images of inspiring artwork by our local artists.
May’s Art Exhibit “Explorations”, brought to you by Swarthmore Friends of the Arts, presents art by The Mixed Media Studio, a group of area artists who have come together weekly for the past 8 or nine years to explore a variety of media together, and to be inspired by each other’s work and spirit of adventure.
An exhibition of original mixed media artwork by Molly Wing Berman, Georgianna Grentzenberg, Gail Herring, and Michele Southworth will be on display from May 3rd through May 30th at Swarthmore Borough Hall, 121 Park Avenue. The public is invited to the artist’s opening reception on Friday, May 12th, from 6-8pm. Both the exhibit and the reception are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Molly Wing Berman studied printmaking and painting in art school, and spent many years as an art and preschool teacher. For the last 10 years she has worked primarily in pastels. She says “The spirit of play and experimentation are central to my art practice. I am interested in movement and color and the feeling I have when I see an animal in nature. I blend abstract art and realism. All of the pieces in the show are a combination of oil paint and pastel on paper.”
Georgianna Grentzenberg also studied printmaking and painting in art school, before embarking on a 20-year career working in various professional capacities at a number of Philadelphia art and archaeological museums. In her own artwork, she has developed a whimsical artistic style of detailed, fluid and fantastical imagery, using ink and colored pencils.She uses this style in creating decorative ceramic tiles and vessels that echo her drawings. Most recently she has returned to an earlier interest in exploring mixed media, using found objects and creating more abstract works.
Gail Herring has had a wide ranging career as an artist working in various media, and with experiences from teaching art, to graphic design, and numerous collaborations in community-based art projects. She retired from full-time teaching when she moved to Media, and now teaches a variety of classes for children, teens and adults at the Community Arts Center in Wallingford. She says that “Nature has always been the focus in my artwork. Experimenting with mixed media has inspired me to think about color and texture in new ways, different from my traditional detailed botanical illustration techniques.”
Michele Southworth has had day jobs as a lawyer, divorce mediator, family therapist and training program director, with various artistic interests woven throughout. For 20 years she pursued a passionate interest in ceramic work, and in 2011 turned to mixed media painting. She says “In my work as a psychotherapist and as an artist, I frequently find myself exploring the beauty that we can find in the fragments and broken pieces that are a part of us all, as well as those fragments and broken things that we find along our way. Working now in mixed media painting and printmaking, I start by putting down color, creating texture, and then layering on lines, more color, more texture, more lines and forms, using all of the scraps and broken things, to discover what emerges.”
The exhibit is sponsored by Swarthmore Friends of the Arts. For information about Swarthmore Friends of the Arts or to submit a request for your own show, visit www.swarthmorearts.org or contact Martha Perkins, martha.perkins@gmail.com. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for exhibition schedules and images of inspiring artwork by our local artists.
April’s Art Exhibit “Close To Home”, brought to you by Swarthmore Friends of the Arts, presents the paintings by artist Robert Bohne´.
An exhibition of original paintings by Mr. Bohne will be on display from April 4th through April 30th at Swarthmore Borough Hall, 121 Park Avenue. The public is invited to the artist’s opening reception on Friday, April 7th, from 6-8pm. Both the exhibit and the reception are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Robert Bohne´ was born in Chester Pa. in 1953 and now resides in Brookhaven Pa. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Fleisher Art Memorial, and the Barnes Foundation. He currently runs two workshops at the Phila. Sketch Club and he heads a Sunday Landscape painting group named Landscape Painting Phila. Bohne´ paints a variety of subject matter in a representational style with a preference for landscapes.
The exhibit is free and open to the public. Exhibit hours are M-Th 9am – 8pm, Fri 10am – 7pm, Sat 10am – 3pm, Sun 1 – 5pm.
The exhibit is sponsored by Swarthmore Friends of the Arts. For information about Swarthmore Friends of the Arts or to submit a request for your own show, visit www.swarthmorearts.org or contact Martha Perkins, martha.perkins@gmail.com. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for exhibition schedules and images of inspiring artwork by our local artists.
March’s Art Exhibit “Images Within: Seeing Beyond the Usual”, brought to you by Swarthmore Friends of the Arts, presents digital photography by photographer Betty Wallace.
An exhibition of original digital prints by Ms. Wallace will be on display from March 3rd through April 1st at Swarthmore Borough Hall, 121 Park Avenue. The public is invited to the artist’s opening reception on Friday, March 3rd, from 5-7pm. Both the exhibit and the reception are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Despite a fondness for the visual arts, Betty Wallace says that from an early age, she showed a remarkable artistic ineptitude in all media including film. That changed when she and her husband bought their first digital cameras in 2001. “Although I began taking the usual landscape images, I soon started seeing with new depth. I found embedded images emerging as I gazed at the landscape around me. One of the first was of a path through a starlit orchard that emerged at the sandy bottom of an empty swimming pool. I soon saw such images everywhere. My camera replaced my clumsy hands recording the glimpses I see in my mind’s eye but had previously lacked a means of expressing. For me, these prints are a form of visual ‘haiku’— a simple expression of a reflective moment in the ‘now’.”
The exhibit is free and open to the public. Exhibit hours are M-Th 9am – 8pm, Fri 10am – 7pm, Sat 10am – 3pm, Sun 1 – 5pm.
The exhibit is sponsored by Swarthmore Friends of the Arts. For information about Swarthmore Friends of the Arts or to submit a request for your own show, visit www.swarthmorearts.org or contact Martha Perkins, martha.perkins@gmail.com. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for exhibition schedules and images of inspiring artwork by our local artists.
February’s Art Exhibit “Changing Gears”, brought to you by Swarthmore Friends of the Arts, presents the whimsical artwork by artist Kathy Agostinelli.
An exhibition of original oil paintings by Ms. Agostinelli will be on display from February 3rd through February 28th at Swarthmore Borough Hall, 121 Park Avenue. The public is invited to the artist’s opening reception on Friday, February 3rd, from 5-7pm. Both the exhibit and the reception are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Kathy Agostinelli holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and a degree in Graphic Design from Delaware County Community College. She has provided graphics for the production of “Tommy,” and the scenery for “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” “My paintings explore both the fun side of kitsch as well as more serious and introspective themes, such as spirituality.” Kathy teaches classes at the Paper Mill House in Newtown Square on Saturday mornings from 10:00 a.m.-12:00 Noon. All are welcome. For information about the classes please contact her at kathyagostinelli22@gmail.com.
The exhibit is free and open to the public. Exhibit hours are M-Th 9am – 8pm, Fri 10am – 7pm, Sat 10am – 3pm, Sun 1 – 5pm.
The exhibit is sponsored by Swarthmore Friends of the Arts. For information about Swarthmore Friends of the Arts or to submit a request for your own show, visit www.swarthmorearts.org or contact Martha Perkins, martha.perkins@gmail.com. Follow us on Facebook and Instagram for exhibition schedules and images of inspiring artwork by our local artists.
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