Schoolhouse Gallery in Kingfield Maine is pleased to announce an exhibition of work by Kate Cheney Chappell and Dona Seegers February 3rd through 29th. Works from the “Wintering Over” and “Mountain Time” series will be included in the show. (Click on either series name to view some of the work on Kate’s website).
Inspired by nature both artists use mixed media to express the fluidity, complexity, rhythms, and texture of landscape. The exhibit will feature a combination of collage, printing, painting, hanging objects, pieces of trees, stones and small paper sculptures along with John Orcutt’s nature photography, to transform the gallery into an experiential wonderland.
Opening: Kingfield First Friday Artwalk, February 3, 2012 from 5:00 – 8:00 PM;
Artist’s reception: Friday February 17th, 5:00 – 8:00 PM.
Schoolhouse Gallery
266 Main Street (Route 27)
Kingfield, Maine
(207).939.6518
schoolhouseartgallery.com
Please join us for the annual 10″ x 10″ show: A diverse and exciting group of artists, each of whom hangs ten 10″ x 10″ paintings on each of the two days of the show. All works are for sale for $200.00 each.
WHEN:
OCTOBER 28th from 5:00-8:00 PM, and
OCTOBER 29th from 10:00AM – 3:00PM
WHERE:
June Fitzpatrick Gallery, Portland, Maine
Additional participating artists include: Susan Amons, Todd Bezold, Lindsay Hancock, Pat Hardy, Robin McCarthy, Gail Page, Michael Stasiuk, Michael Walek, and Diane Bowie Zaitlin.
Lines form quickly, so come early!
Hope to see you there.
Kate Cheney Chappell is one of 16 painters whose work will be included in the upcoming Painters, Players, and Poets exhibition. From the Painters, Players, and Poets website:
“Painters, Players and Poets is a unique collaboration celebrating the tremendous talents of 48 Maine artists. Included in the project are 16 Maine painters, 9 Maine players/composers, 7 Maine poets and 16 Maine chair makers.
In the spring of 2009 Writer/Producer Con Fullam asked several well known Maine composers and poets to identify a living Maine painter whose work inspired them, and to then choose a specific painting to interpret via poem or musical composition. That process has now been completed and a traveling exhibition featuring those 16 collaborations is set to hit the road in July 2011.”
The show opens at the Lewis Gallery at the Portland, Public Library on September 7th from 5:00 – 8:00 PM, and will also be up and open for the First Friday Artwalk September 2nd.
FMI:
http://paintersplayersandpoets.com/
and
www.portlandlibrary.com
Lewis Gallery in the Portland Public Library
April 1 — May 28, 2011
“Dunia Moja” (or “One World” in Swahili), was an exhibition of collaborative prints created jointly by the artists of Peregrine Press in Portland, Maine, and the artists of Women Networking in Zanzibar, Tanzania. You can read a lot more about it on the Peregrine Press website, as well as in articles from the Portland Press Herald and Sunday Telegram
Article by Bob Keyes: Creating Together 6000 Miles apart
Review by Daniel Kany: Great Ideas Well Executed
More information including images of most of the work on the: Peregrine Press website
Several years ago during a 10 x 10 exhibition, a friend and I had a conversation about how the monoprint “Liminal I” (which he had purchased) embodies my experience of the spiritual life. He asked me to put into writing some of those thoughts. Here is my response.
I think I have spent most of my life bringing myself back to the state of grace I experienced as a child of 4 sitting on a blanket of myrtle under a huge oak tree in my back yard. I recall the feeling of being held by a force larger than myself in the earthy dampness of the dense dark leaves of the Vinca as I gazed up into the crisscrossing branches of the oak to glimpse blue sky. It seemed that I was on a threshold of awareness of the presence of this force in every living thing, that I was part of this living fabric. I felt more than safe. I felt loved, and wanted to love back.
This feeling of being on the threshold is one I have experienced from time to time in my 60 years, usually at moments of stress, change, decision-making, when I need help the most, but also unexpectedly, as a gift, simply because I have brought my attention to the Creation. I do this as I paint and work in the studio or outside, noticing the small beauties that nature gives me in the day.
To be on a threshold is to stand in the doorway between two things, two places, worlds or states of being. This is how I see it. It may be the inside and outside of yourself, one season of life and another, understanding and not knowing, darkness and light, or many other dichotomies. At the threshold you are aware of the possibilities but you have not yet crossed over. (The Sanskrit root of the word threshold has “he crosses over “ in it.) It implies choice. You can see what is behind you and what is before you. The door is not closed. Move over it.