Chandler Juried Exhibit

Randolph, Vermont

September 30, to November 2, 2011  

Delivery: September 27, 3 to 7 pm; or Sept. 28, 10 am to 1 pm Reception: October 2, 2 - 4 pm  

Aksdal, Harold                     Willow in the Harbor
Amend, Amanda                  Peggy's Clouds
Bell, Diane                             Ribbon in Nature
Bergeron, Kathleen            Venice Canal
Bridge Susan                        Clapps Favorite
Cannon, Jean                       Swiss Chard and Eggs
Carl, Claudia                         Inn at Shelburne Farms
Christopher, Annie             Iris
Cummings, Lynn                Leaves of Spring
Dalton, Don                          Tuesday Afternoon
Dean,Patty                            Darling Grace
Decker, Lynn                        The Lookout
Dexter, Pamela                    Purple Lace
DiNicola, Joann                   Hidden in Vermont
DiSante, Linda                     Lapis Lazuli
Donnelly, Gail                      How Fast I am!
Ellis, Grace                            Senses Alive
Fryman,Van                          Light on the Common
Gardner, James                   Wildwood
Gottesman Rebecca            An Autumn Good Time
Hamilton, Debbie                Blooms of Joy
Hamilton, Owen                  Ogunquit Summer
Harissis, Jane                       Grande Marche
Harrington, Maurie            Glades
Hodgdon Terry                    Harvest
Hoeft, Lynn                          Dance Cape ( Autumn)
Ingram, Doris                       Rue Francois
Thieme, Jeanne                  Wise One
Jeziorski, Peter                    Springtime in Vermont
Jillete, Bea                            Hibiscus Patterns
Johnson, Cheryl                  Moonglow
Joyner, Ginny                      Cabbage
Kennedy, Patrick                 Krakatoa Four
Kindar, Katra                        Down and Back Street in Arles
Laliberte, Judy                     Daybreak
Leahy, Patricia                     Seafoam
Macuga, Lois                        Rainbow Trout
McFarren, Ann                    Solitude
McKintrick, Marni              Rocky Shore
Moore, Penelope                  Summer Bloom
O'Brien, Robert                    Red Maple
Parent, Gene                          Snow Season
Ravenhorst-Adams,
Kathrena                                 Cat on Wall
Reese, Sandy                          Pears in Provence
Reeves, Kate                           Queen Anne
Roberts, Doris                        Sarah and Friends
Sciore, Alice                            Divas
Stone, Nancy                          Mountain Whimsy
Tampasis, Barbara                Whirlwind

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Please contact Amanda Amend about volunteering to hang the Chandler exhibit and also to gallery sit. Please contact Amanda Amen at amanda.amend@gmail.com. 

1. VWS Best in Show with $500 - "Fudge Ripple" by Molly Poole

2. Hunter Gallery of Fine Art Award of Excellence with $200 - "White Peony" by Robert O'Brien

3. The Dorothy Yoder Memorial Award with $100 - "Coy Koi" by Rebecca Gottesman 

4. The Adrian Beukenkamp Memorial Award with $100 - "Wind Swept" by Sandra Pealer
5. The Lois and Henry Macuga Award for Best Landscape with $50 - "Edge of the Sea" by Don Dalton 

 

A shot from the Grafton Opening
 

The Shelburne Vineyard will be ready for us to paint  

on Sunday, August 14th from 11-4.  

There won't be an instructor unless one of our members feels up to the challange. The grapes will be turning from green to purple giving us a colorfull scene to paint. All members welcome. And please bring friends. There is no cost. Bring our own bag lunch. Wine, cheese and snacks are available for sale, but if you want to bring your own, feel free.  A bathroom is available. We will be out in the sun for most of the day so everyone should  protect themselves with sun screen or long sleeves, large hats or whatever. Go to the Shelburne Vineyard website to see how lovely this spot is. Contact Claudia Carl to sign up at:claudiaec@yahoo.com. 

Jeanette Fournier has a professional outdoor art show tent for sale. It was used one season and is in very good condition. It's a Show Off brand, 10' x 10' (standard show size), includes the exterior walls which zip up for a tight secure enclosure for overnight events, has a skylight, two air vents and tent weights. It also comes with the interior display walls for hanging artwork/photos on and two carrying bags. Jeanette is asking $400 (brand new, this set up would cost $1500). Phone her at 603-869-2284.

For Wasily

When I called for directions to her studio, and was told it was "a block north " of the junctions of Routes 4 and 100 near Killington Mountain, I knew that Alice Sciore was not Vermont born.

But that was just a verbal vestige of her former city living. Today, Alice is a confirmed and permanent transplant from her hometown of Ridgewood, New Jersey .

It all began back in the 1960's when she was a regular, "ski bum" (her words) on the Killington trails. After repeated visits, she looked around, decided to quit her job, and make the big move north. Coincidentally, there was a secretarial position open with the mountain management business. She sat for the interview and at the end,  they asked, "Okay, now tell us what you really do." And that was the start of her career in verdant Vermont. Alice admitted she was a professional graphics designer and  Killington needed someone to design and paint ski trail signs. They not only gave her a job, but an office and a place to live, and Alice ultimately moved to Killington and expanded her work  doing brochures and logos for other businesses.

Being interested and trained in art was not a sudden discovery to Alice. Music and art were strong in her family when they emigrated from Italy,  and her parents were eager to instill that same appreciation in their only child. Alice remembers going to movies as a very young child, and trying to replicate what she saw on the screen as drawings. She also remembers going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and being dragged to the Early American wing, described by Alice as very boring , but she was so stimulated that her parents bought her a book on early American art. After attending school in New Jersey, she enrolled in the Jamesine Franklin School of Professional Art on Park Avenue, and worked as a graphics designer . She took evening classes at the Art Students League for two years.

Alice has tried and succeeded in all artistic areas; watercolors, sculptures, pastels, and oils. She thinks that "making friends" with the watercolor paints is the way to allow the creative juices to flow. She carries a design or picture in her head and gets wonderful satisfaction in seeing it replicated so that others can share her vision. She did try her hand at marble sculpture at the Carving School in Rutland but found that marble was resistant to her charms of eliciting art from a rock. Because of this love of the flow, she has temporarily stepped back from her wood sculptures, as obviously influenced by Louise Nevelson, because it entailed taking her favorite butternut chunk of wood to a woodworker who would do the basic cutting, and then return it to her to finish.   Alice now tries to elicit the same effect through her watercolors.Though she usually works alone, she is illustrating a friend's poetry. Watercolors are easy, says Alice. Easy to grab up a bag of stuff and go " into the field."  Plein Air is not in her phrasebook.

Alice's advice to emerging artists based on her own experience, is to be extremely self disciplined, take the work seriously and realize that it is a gift coming from within. She also advises to take  chances, embark on new discoveries, and above all, socialize.  

                                                               Remembering Duke              Alice Sciore 

Alice is a co-founder of the Killington Arts Guild, a "signature member" of the Vermont Watercolor Society. She is also a member of the Vermont Arts Council, the Vermont Crafts Council, and the Chaffee Art Center.

Alice is presently recuperating from a broken neck as a result of an auto accident last winter. We all wish you well, Alice. 

The upcoming Frank Francese Workshop runs from September 11, thru September 23, 2011 at the Landgrove Inn in Landgrove, VT.. The Inn offers VWS members a 20% discount off the workshop tuition. Instead of $500, members can attend for $400 for the 5-day workshop. Also, members can get 10% off the room rates, if they choose to stay at the Inn.  Contact the Inn at:vtinn@sover.net; or go to their website at: www.landgroveinn.com. 

Alvaro Castagnet from Uraguay  is one of the world's most highly respected watercolor artists. Alvaro has been recognized with top international honors for his painting and his art graces the walls of many private and corporate collectors worldwide.

The VWS is so excited to present Alvaro Castagnet, who will be coming in October 2012 teaching "Painting with Passion" at the Landgrove Inn in Landgrove, VT. Register for a discount. Contact Claudia Carl at claudiaec@yahoo.com. $595 for members; $650 for non-members. Send in $100 to Claudia Carl at PO BOX 990, Middlebury Vt 05753 to reserve a spot.  

Call the Inn at 802 824 6673 or go towww.landgroveinn.com for accommodations. See Alvara's website at: 

www.alvarocastagnet.net .  

Members,

Remember to send me all your news about  workshops, awards, travels,  acceptances, etc. for the newsletter. Your fellow members enjoy reading about you. Send to Diane Bell at: dgbell_adelphia1@comcast.net. Do it by the first of every month. Many thanks.

Diane