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Greetings!
How do you like the summer 2009 catalog cover? Karen Randall, a local artist and ACE art student, illustrated our new educational facility featured on the cover (left) in oils. How she managed to create the finished likeness of The Plum Center for Lifelong Learning with only a CAD drawing and a photo of the building in mid-construction to go on is anybody's guess!
Even though the summer term of classes is open you can still take advantage of a number of available April classes. Please note the new daytime and evening classes at Plum, too!
May the muse be with you always.
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Schoechle Studio: Students and Friends
Vienna show features student work
 The Vienna Arts Society will sponsor an exhibit of paintings by Jennifer Schoechle's students and associates from March 31-April 25. Ms. Schoechle teaches oil painting, pastels, and drawing classes while maintaining a full-time focus on her profession as a portraitist.
Reception for the Artists
Vienna Arts Society Arts Center
115 Pleasant St., NW | Vienna
Saturday, April 4
4-6p
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Outside the classroom
Wayne Wolfersberger has 20 photographic images of Yellowstone National Park on exhibit at INOVA Hospital (2nd floor), Gallows Road, Falls Church until April 16. Red Reflections photo, below, was a Grand Prize winner at the Meadowlark Photo Expo several years ago. View more of Wayne's Nature is Wild photography.
Maryse Povolny-Loertscher's work is on exhibit at the French Embassy's Maison Francaise from April 3 to 6. She teaches beginning drawing and watercolor.
 Lynn Goldstein, an ACE teacher for eleven years, appeared in the February issue of American Style magazine, shown demonstrating pastels to her students. Additionally, Lynn's work, "Evening Light," was recently juried into the Chicago Pastel Painters National Exhibition. Visit Lynn Goldstein online to see recent paintings and learn about upcoming shows.
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Pen to Paper
The art of lettering
The Washington Calligraphers Guild's annual Graceful Envelope competition is in full swing. The theme this year is Address the Environment. Entry deadline: Thursday, April 30, 2009.
For anyone interested in calligraphy and illumination, the St. John's Bible: A Modern Vision Through Medieval Methods exhibit is a "must-see" according to calligraphy instructor Gretchen Elson. Catch it at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore near the Inner Harbor until May 24th.
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Connected: Creativity and Longevity
Link to vitality discovered
Jennifer Schoechle teaches art classes at Green Spring Village, a retirement community in Springfield, and enjoys working with the senior population. We are indebted to her for bringing this topic to our attention.
Recent research indicates that frequent engagement in creative endeavors benefits the elderly's health and mental well-being. Preliminary findings documented so compellingly the profound effect of creative self-expression on senior vitality and longevity that a national conference was called on the subject in Newark in 2006. Since then, a host of initiatives related to arts and aging have emerged in its wake.
Intrigued? Read Beth Baker's excellent article, There's an Art to Getting Older (The Washington Post, 3/11/08).
Artmaking, the antidote to aging
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