An Artful Season

diane birdsall gallery 16 lyme st old lyme, CT 06371

ARTWELL GALLERY

45 MAIN STREET TORRINGTON

HOURS: THURS.-SAT. NOON - 5 P.M.

PHONE: 860-482-5122 EMAIL: ARTWELL@SBCGLOBAL.NET

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Come Celebrate With Us! 11/23 TORRINGTON TREE LIGHTING At 4 P.M., the gallery will be open for caroling, goodies, and holiday cheer. Lend a voice or just enjoy the festivities! 12/1 SMALL WORKS, BIG HEARTS RECEPTION 6 P.M. - 8 P.M. From December 1st through December 23rd, the gallery’s annual Small Works, Big Hearts exhibit offers Christmas shoppers a unique and affordable opportunity to find beautiful gifts of artwork at affordable prices. Artwork, jewelry, textiles and other items crafted by local artists and artisans will . A portion of all proceeds will be donated to FISH, a local shelter and food bank. Artists interested in exhibiting can find information and a downloadable prospectus here. 12/7 THE SNOW QUEEN 7:30 PM Join us for a very special reading of Hans Christian Anderson's classic fairy tale, directed by the Desultory Theatre Club's Keith Paul! Tickets: $10.00 at the door. Show begins at 8:00 P.M. 12/14 BYOB PAINTING PARTY 7 P.M. - 9 P.M. Bring your favorite wine, snacks and a friend for a unique creative experience in a relaxed social setting. Take a break from holiday shopping for some fun! And maybe your "masterpiece" can be a gift for a loved one. $35.00 Holiday Gift Workshops Throughout the month of December, the gallery offers crafty opportunities for all ages. Come in and create your own one of a kind gift on Saturdays from 10 A.M. until 12 P.M.! $10 plus materials 12/1 BALL JAR TERRARIUMS Create a beautiful botanical garden in miniature with master gardener Courtney. 12/8 FESTIVE ORNAMENTS Wrapped yarn molding technique with Sue. 12/15 ELEGANT HOLIDAY CARDS Four fun card making techniques with Jenn. 1 Silver Circle Gallery introduces new works by noted artist Leila Namin http://www.leilanamin.com   About the Artist Born in 1986 in Tehran, Iran, Leila Namin received her B.F.A in Painting from the Fine Art University of Tehran in 2009. She moved to U.S after that to experience being an artist in a bigger view and to be able to explore her art with more focus. She received her M.F.A from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Painting in 2012. For her successful work in MassArt, She was one of the 6 graduate students in Boston who got a review in the Boston Globe on August 2012. She currently lives and works in Worcester, MA. Silver Circle Gallery is located at 75 Main Street in Downtown Putnam, CT. Since 2008, Silver Circle has been a fresh, contemporary space where local and regional visual artists convene to show and sell their work, educate others, and inspire one another and the community.  Visit www.silvercirclegallery.com for more information. Artist Statement    My work is made through many layers of narrative and medium. Narratives evolve from different source material such as photography and found imagery. Recently I've been working on wood panels that allow me to scrape the surface and make the "process", part of the concept of the work. The clash between narratives often come from experimentation with ink, colored pencil, charcoal, acrylic, and oil mediums. Drama and theatricality are two essential aspects of my paintings.

Vista: A Study of the Land Artist Reception: Friday, December 7, 5-8pm Reynolds Fine Art is pleased to present Vista: A Study of the Land. This group exhibition will feature the work of nine national artists whose approaches to landscape painting are as diverse as their subject. Vista is a glimpse of nature as translated through the eyes and hands of nine unique artists. Tranquil, ethereal landscapes are juxtaposed with ones that show signs of a vigorous, ever changing world. While one artist may employ the practice of landscape painting as a retreat from modern life, to stand in awe of natural beauty and recall the ideologies of past masters of the genre, another artist looks at man's imprint on the land and embraces both the tension and harmony created. Each scene, however, captures obsession and memory in paint.  In technique, each artist's approach varies just as much as the land's terrain. Vista is composed of minimalist to highly obscured views of the world. A landscape may be recreated though a very controlled, pensive hand, or its atmosphere may be captured through an artist embracing its unpredictable nature. Whether the landscape is used as the subject or simply a vehicle through which to explore the medium of painting, each image in this exhibition is sure to capture the viewer with its beauty and mystery. Not only are we invited to view the same landscape as the artists who painted it, but also to experience the same place in our own, individual way. Best Wishes from the Magic Temple: Works on canvas & drawing installation by Insook Hwang November 17 through January 5 A-Space Gallery West Cove Studio 30 Elm Street West Haven, Connecticut http://www.westcovestudio.com/exhibitions-a-space-gallery.html Friday and Saturday, 10 until 4 or by appointment, phone 203-500-0268 ILLUSTRATION: Insook Hwang Jubilation(detail), 2012. Paper, lenticular, glitter, and acrylic on canvas.

The Sparkle continues

What a great turn out for the Candlelight Opening at the Farmington Valley Arts Center last evening!  A big thanks to all who visited my studio and the other 19 artists' studios, we greatly appreciate your support and love your input about our work.  It was a wonderful night!

Studio 6B, Anita Balkun

We are open again today 10-4, and the following Sat.'s through the holidays.  Join us, we have lots of art to share.

Here are a few of the artists in their creative spaces:

Avis Turner

Jim Koplar

C. Dianne Zweig

Melissa Merideth

Danielle Langford

Susan Brereton

Claire Fish

Candace Abbott

Keeping up the art!

There's sooooo much going on, I'm having difficulty posting all the notices!  Here's the top picks for the week:

In Memorial:

Eve Olitski, age 64, died unexpectedly in her home in W. Hartford, CT on Monday, November 5th, 2012. She was the daughter of renowned artist Jules Olitski and Gladys (Katz) Olin Pactovis, also an artist. Eve Olitski, the artist whose charming one-woman show "Naked Ladies with Things on Their Heads" is on the walls now at EBK Gallery in West Hartford. The show will stay up until its pre-arranged Nov. 21 end date.

Eve spent her life in the arts, as a graphic illustrator, painter, printmaker, poet and comedic writer, as well as stand-up performer. She held a BFA in Theater Design from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia School of the Arts.  In 1978 she was awarded a National Endowment for her one act play Don’t Jump! For years she was a regular contributor of pen and ink drawings to the New Yorker as well as producing the cover for that magazine in 1985.  She’s published illustrations for Harper Collins, MacMillan Publishers, The Atlantic Monthly, The Baltimore Sun, Ms Magazine and numerous others.  She has exhibited her paintings throughout New England. Eve has often given of her time to charitable organizations, most recently teaching poetry and printmaking at Chrysalis in Hartford, CT.

Friends and family will come together to celebrate Eve’s life and artwork at EBK Gallery located at 43 Crossroads Plaza in West Hartford, Ct from 3 to 5 pm on Sunday, Nov 18th. 

In lieu of flowers please send Donations to Connecticut AIDS Resource Coalition (CARC) of Hartford, CT www.ctaidscoalition.org, or the Hartford Jazz Societyhttp://www.hartfordjazzsociety.com.

The Book-signing and talk for Living the Artists Life is this Wednesday, November 14. Clubhouse Gallery, 7 p.m. Free and open to the public. Hope to see you all there.  Book talk and signing, November 14th. Join us Wednesday, November 14 at 7 p.m. in the Clubhouse Gallery at the West Hartford Art League for a talk by artist, author and gallery owner Paul Dorrell, author of Living the Artists Life, a guide to growing, persevering, and succeeding in the art world. This talk is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase after the talk for $15. The Artists Magazine said of Dorrells book “a frank, honest book about making it (and not making it) in the art world. Dorrell covers a range of topics, from preparing yourself emotionally for a creative life to getting commissions.” The Associated Press said “ Its heavy on pragmatic advice – from pricing and promoting one’s work to gaining acceptance by galleries.” The West Hartford Art League is located at 37 Buena Vista Road in West Hartford .www.westhartfordart.org  (860) 231-8019. YOU'RE INVITED TO CELEBRATE CULTURE AT THESE TWO FREE AETNA ARTS WEEK EVENTS IN HARTFORD: KICK-OFF: PLAY-DOH ART CONTEST Mon Nov 12, 4pm | City Steam Brewery and Café | 942 Main St.Let’s get the pARTy started! Show off your sculpting skills with some Play-Doh as we toast to and celebrate the arts in our community—the top three creations of the night will win tickets to some United Arts funded events! LANTERN LIGHTING CEREMONY Thu Nov 15, 4:30pm | CT's Old State House | 800 Main St.Brighten up Hartford at the illumination ceremony of our “Light Up the Night” public art project created from lanterns made out of recyclable materials by the community under the artistic direction of local artist Anne Cubberly. Craft a lantern yourself at our Lantern Workshop on Wed Nov 14 from 11am-2pm at CT's Old State House.   > Learn more about Aetna Arts Week events <   Manage Your Subscription  |  Privacy Policy  |  Unsubscribe GREATER HARTFORD ARTS COUNCIL100 Pearl Street, 1st Floor | Hartford, CT 06103 860-525-8629  |  www.LetsGoArts.org David Ottenstein, Tree During Snow Squall David Ottenstein, Tree During Snow Squall David Ottenstein, Tree During Snow Squall David Ottenstein, Tree During Snow Squall David Ottenstein, Tree During Snow Squall David Ottenstein, Tree During Snow Squall In Focus: Recent Acquisitions in Photography displays a variety of exhibiting artists with involvement in the works by New England region. Artists will present brief discussions and insights into their distinctive photographic approaches in front of their work in our galleries. Some artists of this event include Christine Breslin, Ellen Carey, and David Ottenstein.  NBMAA Exclusives >>  Gallery Talk: Photographers In Focus Sunday, November 18, 2 p.m. Free with Museum Admission In Focus: Recent Acquisitions in Photography Nov. 9–Dec. 30, 2012 Opening Reception Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012, 5:30-7 p.m. In Focus: Recent Acquisitions in Photography, on view in the McKernan Gallery from November 9 through December 30, 2012, will unveil the Museum’s emergent photography collection to the public for the first time. Although it was not until 1999 that the Museum began to incorporate photography into its holdings, the collection has grown steadily over the past 13 years. Organized in a chronological and thematic fashion, the exhibition consists of approximately 120 works that chart the development of photography over one and a half centuries to illuminate the importance of this medium in shaping this country’s visual culture. The themes represented in the exhibition are: 19th-Century Portraiture and Local Photography; Landscape: Natural and Manmade; Photojournalism; Face and Figure; and Abstraction, Conceptualism, and Beyond. Well-known highlights include ones by New Britain’s own Sol LeWitt, and Dorothea Lange, Lewis Hine, William Wegman, Christine Breslin, Alfred Cheney Johnston and Nelson Augustus Moore. The exhibit will allow viewers to not only delve into the scope of the Museum’s permanent holdings in photography, but also to confront the variety of unexpected directions in which the genre of photography has moved since its inception. Nancy Jo Hoffman, paintings  Seabury Retirement Community for the months of November and December.  Opening Monday November 19 and on view until the end of December,  9 a.m. till 7 p.m. 400 Seabury Drive, Bloomfield, CT. Enter thru the main entrance and you will be directed to the gallery. connecticut artists night - this thursday! Thursday, November 15, 5 to 8 pm Please join us this Thursday, November 15, for our annual Connecticut Artists Night reception! The evening showcases the work of Connecticut artisans featured in this year's Celebration of American Crafts. Meet Connecticut-based artists while you shop, and support local makers!   bowl-a-thon - this sunday! Sunday, November 18, 1:30 to 5 pm      Help the Studio Potters of Creative Arts Workshop fight hunger this Sunday at the 16th Annual Bowl-A-Thon! Choose a gorgeous bowl or mug (handmade by the CAW Studio Potters, faculty and friends), fill it with delicious soup (donated by local merchants), and support the Community Soup Kitchen. Suggested donations: $10 for small items, $15 for soup bowls and mugs, $30 and up for larger pieces.    ROSEBUD & EBENEZER    AzothGallery at The New Haven Free Public Library  (Lower Level)  133 Elm Street   New Haven, CT  (across from the New Haven Green) Opening Reception:  Saturday, November 17, 2 to 4 PM Free & open to the public. Refreshments served. ****************************************************************  Exhibition: November 16 - December 27, 2012  ****************************************************************  CLICK HERE FOR DIRECTIONS  Gallery Hours:  Monday:  12 - 8 pm  Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday:  10 am - 8 pm  Friday & Saturday:  10 - 5 pm       Sunday: closed  ****************************************************************  Art Gallery Director & Curator: Johnes Ruta     (203) 387-4933  azothgallery@comcast.net   http://azothgallery.com/  smallWORK An affordable art show featuring diminutive  sized work in all medium except photography.    Katie Samuelson, Through the Storm V Carriage Barn Arts Center  Wednesday, November, 21 - Sunday, December, 23, 2012 Betty Barker Gallery Reception:   Wednesday, November 28, 2012 5:30 - 7:30 pm        Free and open to the public  Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 11am - 4pm Waveny Park, 681 South Ave., New Canaan, CT 203.972.0426   www.carriagebarn.org Cajori Untitled (81XL-004) The Behnke Doherty Gallery Announces Its Holiday Exhibition November 23rd through December 30th2012 The Behnke Doherty Gallery is pleased to announce its Holiday Gallery Exhibition. The Show will run from Friday November 23rdthrough Sunday December 30th. There is a Holiday Reception at the Gallery on Saturday December 1stfrom 4-7pm. The exhibition will feature a diverse group of 19th and 20thCentury paintings and sculpture as well as works by regular Gallery Artists. Late 19th and early 20th century painters represented will include Nelson Agustus Moore, Chauncey Ryder, Minerva Chapman and David Walkley. Contemporary painters will include works by Charles Cajori, Tom Ferrara, Joseph Reboli, Peter Poskas III, Jacob Collins, Carol Anthony, and Linden Frederick. Gallery regulars on view will include Tom Yost, John Thomson, Matt Wood, Liz Dexheimer, Souby Boski, Ann Mallory and Cornelia Thomsen. Among the sculpture on view will be works by Beverly Seamans, Brian Walters, Anthony Antonios, Dan Murray and Joe Gitterman. In keeping with the holiday spirit, there is something in the show for everyone. The Behnke Doherty Gallery is located at 6 Green Hill Road in Washington Depot, CT.Gallery hours are Friday and Saturday 11-5, Sunday 12-4 and by appointment. For additional information, contact the gallery at 860-868-1655 or atinfo@behnkedoherty.com .    And finally, the big event at FVAC this weekend, come enjoy the festivities!!  You can find me in Studio 6B.