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Nancy is a practicing
artist working in various media: mural
painting, silk painting and recently
collage. Since receiving her BFA from
Washington University School of Fine
Arts in 1965 she has worked in many
different media. Besides her silk
painting she has been creating
watercolor and acrylic paintings, many
with collage. She loves new challenges
and doing things in different ways. Her
love of nature, especially birds, can be
seen throughout her work. She states: “I
see my art as a journey that pushes me
in new ways of seeing and creating and
hope that I never stop finding new
expressions for my work”
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Sally Chaffee is
a seed bead artist with over two decades
of experience creating and teaching
beadwoven jewelry. Before moving to
Amherst in 2005, she taught at the 92nd
Street Y in Manhattan and the Art School
at Old Church in NJ. She has also taught
at the Fiber Art Center in Amherst and
Snow Farm in Williamsburg. Sally’s
work has been in juried exhibitions with
the Bead Society of Greater New York, the
Craft Students League in Manhattan and the
Fiber Art Center in Amherst.
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A
native of western Massachusetts, Nina’s
watercolors demonstrate her true love and
appreciation of the rural landscape. Often
the hardest part of painting for her is
having to come in from the woods and gardens
that occupy much of her time. Nina
paints the countryside as she sees it
through every glorious season. |
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Albyn Davis
Charlemont, MA
albyn46@gmail.com
flickr.com/photos/albyn
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Albyn was a
professor of communication disorders at
the University of Massachusetts Amherst
for 23 years before retiring and moving to
New York City. He retains his house in
Charlemont. He has become a self-taught
photographic artist, educated by museums
and other photographers. Albyn’s approach
is to “see something that can become
something” through various manipulations.
He finds his subjects in European cities
and nature surrounding his house. His eye
is drawn to architecture, street scenes,
color, light, and details in objects that
become abstractions. He is under contract
with a company in the Netherlands that
makes postcards and posters. |
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Sandy
Denis
dsdenis@verizon.net
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A graduate of
Mass.College of Art and workshops with
well-known artists Sandra Denis has
exhibited at galleries thoughout New
England and the Southwest. Her paintings
are in private and corporate collections
and have won awards in juried
competitions. Denis's work includes many
varieties of wild life, domestic animals
and birds as well as land and seascapes.
Plein-air painting is a passion,
especially to far off places. |
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" I do continual research
for subject matter, lighting, and
environment.
In the process of reviewing the research,
I look for the little details, the quirks
of position, teamwork relationship animal
to human or animal to animal
in order to build a story in my painting."
Working in either oil or acrylic, Fabio's
paintings are found in private collections
worldwide.
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Sara was involved in
the commercial art field as art
director, designer, and illustrator for
twenty- five years. Working out of White
Pickets Studio in Petersham, MA, Sara is
one of a family of artists. Her
watercolors capture the unique
personalities of each subject and can be
found in galleries as well as private
collections.
"The relationship I
have with watercolor is filled with
surprises. I am forever rediscovering
the delights of this medium. When to
harness its independence and when to
give it freedom."
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Stephen Earp
received his BFA in Ceramics from the
University of Iowa in 1986. He
served a traditional two-year
apprenticeship under Richard Bresnahan
at St. John's Pottery in
Minnesota. Earp lived several
years in Nicaragua, Central America, as
Ceramic Technician for the craft support
organization Potters for Peace. He
worked at Old Sturbridge Village as
Master Potter for four years. Earp
has taught wheel throwing and glaze
chemistry classes at Craft Centers
throughout the Pioneer Valley.
Stephen Earp has been included in the
National Directory of Traditional Arts
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Joanne Gold
steponitfloormats.com
Joanne's
Etsy Shop
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Joanne studied design at
Buffalo State University and worked as a
professional potter in Santa Fe, NM where
she also taught. She now creates one
of a kind floor cloths using paint and
fabric, inspired by a love of the sea and
many years living in Santa Fe, NM.
and Western New England. The mats
have a whimsical quality using saturated
colors and bold designs influenced by
Pre-Columbian American and African
motifs. They are extremely durable.
“I get excited by the dramatic colors of a
sunset over the ocean, flowers in bloom
and the movement created by light and
shadow.”
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Julie Hall Rocke
1943-2013
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Julie Hall Rocke
was a founding member of the Shelburne
Arts Cooperative. She passed away
unexpectedly in September 2013. Julie is
remembered as an extraordinary artist and
a nurturing and devoted friend by many
whose lives she touched - from Guatemala
to Western Massachusetts. |
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Therese Legere
legerewear@gmail.com
413-259-1617
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I LOVE weaving! I learned
how to weave in college, apprenticed in
France and Scotland, and have shown my work
in major juried show in the U.S. and Canad.
I am inspired by colors, texture and
beautiful fibers. I use my knowledge as an
artist to influence the colors I choose in
my weavings. Come discover my chenille
scarves, shawls and cowls at the Shelburne
Arts Co-op |
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After careers
as an independent bookstore owner and a
counseling psychologist, I am fortunate to
have re-discovered my joy in working with
the colors and textures of wool. My
"Woolpets" are stuffed animals
individually designed and hand-sewn from
used, felted wool sweaters. Each
ragamuffin, dinosaur, mouse and fish is
sturdily made to be enjoyed and played
with for many years. Recently, I have been
needle-felting owls and other birds,
animals, wall pieces and masks from all
kinds of wools, many local. I love the
moment each creation becomes uniquely
itself, with its own personality and
existence.
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As a potter and a fiber artist, I'm
passionate about color. I've always
been most excited by working in ways that
yield unpredictable results--an unexpected
and thrilling hue that emerges from the
dyepot when I've layered colors over each
other, or from the kiln as the fire
works its magic, or the texture of a nuno
scarf as the felted wool gathers up the silk
in complex patterns, or the elegant way a
flat-in-the-tray marbled design transforms
as it slinks around the curves of one of my
ceramic weed bottles. |
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Nina
Rossi is a Turners Falls resident who is
inspired by materials, often incorporating
unusual objects into her multi-media wall
works. A wide range of interests and
abilities give her flexibility in combining
many media--fabric, clay, metal, wood, and
traditional artists materials such as
canvas, paper, paint and ink. Nina's art is
unique and affordable. |
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Regina St. John has been a full-time
professional fabric and paper marbler for
the past 22 years. Her work is
recognized nationally and she is
frequently called upon by bookbinders and
book artists to produce a wide range of
specific traditional and original marbled
papers. She and her husband,
Daniel St. John, own and operate Chena
River Marblers, a bookbindery and craft
business selling marbled paper, silk
scarves, ties and a variety of colorful
book and stationary products in juried
craft shows and shops. The St. Johns teach
both marbling and bookbinding. |
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Candace Silver was born
in Missouri and raised in the Ozarks and
other parts of the South. Today, she
resides in the Berkshire Mountains of
Western Massachusetts. At a very
early age Candace began drawing and knew
by the age of three that she wanted to be
an artist. Candace’s art would
evolve into a variety of
expressions. Her sensual watercolor
paintings and digital photography
celebrate her love of flowers, and her
highly detailed art doll sculptures honor
the needlework skills learned from her
grandmother. “My goal is to reveal
the inherent beauty of nature – that
beauty that moves you.”
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A quilter since 1999, Sandy has long been
fascinated by the interplay of shapes and
textures in fabric. Her real joy
lies in bringing together fun, interesting
and whimsical fabrics that play well
together. Her “Heirloom Gifts
Collection,” includes aprons, table
runners/wall hangings and hot pads.
These beautiful fabric creations are made
to be used and handed down from generation
to generation.
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