| | ARTISTS' NEWSLETTER News and Opportunities for Artists of Fairfield County, CT May 18, 2018 |
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| | The Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County is a nonprofit service organization that supports its members through unified marketing, capacity building, professional development, and advocacy services. This newsletter is sent to all who request it - but we ask that, if you are not a member, you explore membership benefits and consider joining this community of more than 575 individuals and organizations. You can sign up here. |
| | | | | The Cultural Alliance is a co-sponsor of Create The Vote CT, a nonpartisan public education campaign to raise awareness and support for the arts among voters and candidates running for public office. Elections are a great time to talk about the strengths and challenges our state faces. While candidates spend time talking about jobs, the economy, and education, they rarely talk about arts and culture as part of their vision. The Connecticut Arts Alliance and the Connecticut Alliance for Arts Education have launched Create the Vote CT to put the arts and culture on the agenda. What You Can Do: 1. Join the mailing list (click here) to receive Create the Vote CT news, information, and updates; 2. Like and follow CT Arts Alliance on Facebook and on Twitter; 3. Share the news with the hashtag #CreateTheVoteCT! 4. Use your Arts Voice! Ask the candidates questions about arts and culture. Raise your hand, tweet at the candidates, email them, and post questions to their Facebook pages about their positions on arts, culture and creativity. Stay Tuned!
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| | ACE AWARDS BREAKFAST: Wed. June 6
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| We look forward to welcoming you to our 3rd annual Arts & Cultural Empowerment (ACE) Awards Breakfast, Wed. June 6, 7:30-9am at the Shore and Country Club, Norwalk. James Naughton is our master of ceremonies and Robin Tauck, business leader and philanthropist (at right), is our keynote speaker. Our honorees are: Dennis Bradbury (Citizen Award); Valerie Cooper (Corporate Award); Megan Bonneau McCool (Artist Award); New England Dance Theater (Nonprofit Award); and Jim Royle (Educator Award). A special President's award is being made to the Family of Burt Chernow, for his powerful impact on Fairfield County’s arts and culture community. Sponsors include: United Capital Financial Life Management, Cohen & Wolf, Hobbs, Inc., Studio2pt0, LLC, and media sponsor Moffly Media. Individual breakfast tickets cost $75 and are available now at https://aceawards2018.eventbrite.com |
| | SPOTLIGHT PODCAST: 3 ACE Awardees |
| | Hear a discussion with three of our six Arts & Cultural Empowerment (ACE) award winners in a podcast of our monthly Spotlight on Arts & Culture interview show. Hear how Dennis Bradbury (Citizen), Megan Bonneau McCool (Artist) and Jim Royle (Educator) got started and what drives them forward in their dynamic impact on their communities. Click here. |
| | | SAVORCITY SUCCESS: NEXT STOP BEREKET, BLACK ROCK |
| SAVORCITY, a monthly tour of Bridgeport restaurants, food, art, and music, showcasing the culinary and cultural delights of Connecticut’s most diverse city, launched at Ruuthai's Kitchen in the West End to great applause (see Facebook images and video). The next stop on the tour is May 23, 6-9pm at Bereket Turkish Cuisine, serving “The most delicious Turkish I've ever had! Homemade, so flavorful and plentiful." Paintings by Susan Taylor Murray will be displayed. Musicians to be announced. BYOB! Reserve your seat here!
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| | CATCH US ON WPKN
Catch our 2-minute Drive Time selections from the week’s E-Buzz on WPKN 89.5 FM and wpkn.org. Selected events from FCBuzz.org postings, can be heard as PSAs: 7-9am and 4-7pm, weekdays.
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| | | JANINE BROWN
Janine Brown grew up on a farm in Iowa, where she first started exploring photography and fashion design at the local 4-H. She attended Iowa State University, graduating in Fine Arts with an emphasis in Craft Design, and then studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology. She then worked as a designer for Liz Claiborne Inc., taking night and weekend art classes at the Pratt Institute, for paper making, and FIT, for textile design and computer graphics. Moving to Connecticut in 2001, she and her husband started a family, and Janine focused more time on developing her art. Her work is strongly autobiographical, as she maps her reactions to events in her life, ranging from abstract paintings inspired by her break with the fashion industry, to photographic works documenting the adventures of a stuffed dog Rocks. In Connecticut, she worked on The Remington Disarmed, a series of blurred photographs, referencing the Remington Factory in Bridgeport, then a Mad Mags series, based on fashion and other magazines, and started work on what would be the Wallflower Project. In this she examined the social stigma of being a "wallflower" at parties through the use of portraits created with a cardboard pinhole camera. She says: "I wanted to bring the Wallflower to the forefront - not by taking straight portraits of them, but portraying the fading 'wallflower' by merging the model with a wallpaper background. The resulting images create a ghostly portrait that requires the viewer to take notice and spend time to see the person before them." She showed locally (Carriage Barn, Rowayton Arts Center, Flinn Gallery, Housatonic Museum of Art, Westport Arts Center, City Lights, and others) before moving to Los Angeles, where she continued her Wallflower series and then took it off the wall, turning it into a room-sized installation, a combination of crocheted wire and yarn, sound, lighting, and custom designed wallpaper, called The Wallflower at the Dance. In L.A., Janine showed in Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Moorpark College, among other venues. Janine has now returned to Fairfield County and is back in Bridgeport, in Black Rock. Janine was featured in the April 30, 2018, edition of Voyage LA . See her website, Facebook page, Twitter feed, and Instagram page, |
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Valerie Ahneman, Musician
Peter Alexander, Landscape ArchitectKristen Ambrosi, Painter Tracey Anderson-Kollar, Visual Artist Francesca Andre, Filmmaker & Photo- grapherLeslee Asch, Curator, Writer
Frances Ashforth, Painter/ Printmaker
Judith Bacal, Designer
Anna Badini, Painter
Mary Bailey, Sculptor & Writer
Louise Baranger, Musician
Patrice Barrett, Painter
Nina Bentley, Mixed Media/Sculptor Sue Benton, Photographer
Paul Berger, Photographer
Karla Bernstein, Photographer
Thomas Berntsen, Photographer/Sculptor Binnie Birstein, Painter/ Printmaker
Elise Black, Painter
Tara Blackwell, Painter Christina Blais, Quilter Ziggy Bober, Sculptor
Amy Bock, Painter
Andrea Bonfils, Mixed Media Artist Dennis Bradbury, Photographer
Carolyn Brady, Photographer
Nancy Breakstone, Photographer Michael Brennecke, Painter
Wendy Brest, Mixed Media
Janine Brown, Multi Media Lucienne Buckner, Sculptor
Bevi Bullwinkel, Painter
Miggs Burroughs, Graphic Artist
Trace Burroughs, New Media
Joy Bush, Photographer
Louise Cadoux, Painter/Sculptor Bob Callahan, Painter
Donna Callighan, Photographer
Patricia Campbell, Dancer
Linn Cassetta, Printmaker
Polly Castor, Painter Carolyn Cavolo, Dancer
Ann Chernow, Painter/Printmaker
Alan Chapell, Musician Eric Chiang, Painter
Frederic Chiu, Pianist
Yvonne Claveloux, Painter Elaine Clayton, Painter and Writer Lauren Clayton, Painter Alicia Cobb, Painter
Joyce Colburn, Painter
Heidi Lewis Coleman, Mixed Media Rosa Colón, Painter, Mixed Media Penrhyn Cook, Photographer
Rod Cook, Photographer Margaret Stapor Costa, Filmmaker
Adger Cowans, Photographer and Painter
Naomi Cruz, Painter Dolly Curtis, Curator
Lisa Cuscuna, Painter
Dawn Dahl, Painter
Cris Dam, Painter/Muralist
Holly Danger, Video Artist Betsy Davidson, Painter
Carlos Davila, Painter, Sculptor
Jane Davila, Fiber Artist/ Mixed Media Cortney Davis, Writer
John Deakins, Sculptor
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Joseph Dermody, Painter/ Sculptor/ Furniture Maker/Violinist Emily Derr, Illustrator/Designer
Joyce DiCamillo, Musician
Barbara Kunin Dierolf, Painter
Jan Dilenschneider, Painter
Eugenie Diserio, Painter
Carol Nipomnich Dixon, Mixed Media Afsaneh Djabbari-Aslani, Painter Erin Dolan, Painter
Amy Dolego, Photography Jennifer Drolet, Painter
David Dunlop, Painter
Philip Eliasoph, Writer
Jeanine Esposito, Mixed Media
Katherine Evans, Painter
Susan Fehlinger, Painter
Louise Flax, Mixed Media
Rosaida Flores, Dancer
David Laurence Flynn, Lighting Designer
Heide Follin, Painter
Christa Forrest, Painter
Rose-Marie Fox, Painter
Cecilia Moy Fradet, Painter/ Printmaker
Herm Freeman, Painter
Rebeca Fuchs, Painter Megan Garbe, Painter Rhonda Gentry, Painter Joe Gitterman, Sculptor
Scott Glaser, Painter
William Glaser, Photographer
Lori Glavin, Visual Artist
Danielle Goldstein, Photographer
Ellen Gordon, Painter
Sue Brown Gordon, Painter/Jeweler Ellen Gould, Photographer
Joyce Grasso, Painter/ Photographer Kristen Graves, Musician
Len Grayeck, Painter
Jen Greely, MultiMedia/ Installation
Mindy Green, Mixed Media
Carolina Guimarey, Multi- Media Artist Barry Guthertz, Photographer
Dorothy Hafner, Sculptor
Don Hamerman, Photographer
Mary Harold, Photographer
Julie Headland, Painter/ Printmaker
Adair Heitmann, Printmaker
Kate Henderson, Mixed Media - ASSOCIATE MaryEllen Hendricks, Photographer
Gwen Hendrix, Fiber/ Mixed Media Lenore Eggleston Herbst, Dancer Tracy Hoffman,
Photographer & Printmaker ASSOCIATE Veronica Hofstetter, Painter Bruce Horan,
Painter/Printmaker
Elizabeth Howard, Writer
Sonya Huber, Writer Yuko Ike, Painter
Jana Ireijo, Painter
Sholeh Janati, Painter
Renée Kahn, Painter/ Sculptor
Vasken Kalayjian, Painter
Karen Kalkstein, Graphic Artist
Amy Kaplan, Painter
Natasha Karpinskaia,
Painter
Ed Katz, Theatre Critic
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Elisa Keogh, Photographer
Susan Keown, Painter/ Mixed Media/Ceramicist Photographer ASSOCIATE Niki Ketchman, Sculptor/ Multimedia
Jin Hi Kim, Musician Lesley Koenig, Painter
Richard Koleszar, Painter
Xiao Mai Kong, Painter
Moki Kokoris, Visual Artist Michael Kozlowski, Painter
Joanie Landau, Jewelry designer/Printmaker Lydia Larson, Painter Emily Hamilton Laux, Photographer
Eric Jiaju Lee, Visual Artist/Musician Phyllis Lee, Visual Artist
Julie Leff, Painter
Susan Leggitt, Painter
Julia-Rose Liptack, Painter Barbara Loss, Photographer
Shelley Lowell, Painter/ Sculptor/Poet Jane Lubin, Mixed Media
Laurie MacLean, Choreographer, Dancer Mark Macrides, Painter,
Collagist Jessica Makin, Painter/ Photographer
Connie Manna, Painter Mary Manning, Painter/ Printmaker
Elizabeth Marks, Painter
Ruben Marroquin, Fiber Artist
Nadia Martinez, MultiMedia
Sooo-z Mastropietro, Multimedia
Barbara Mathis, Painter
Megan Bonneau McCool, Choreographer
Carole McClintock, Painter
Grace S. McEnaney, Painter
Nancy McTague-Stock, MixedMedia Shanna Melton, Poet
Kristin Merrill, Jeweler/Sculptor
Toby Michaels, Painter
Jay Misencik, Photographer Duvian Montoya, Painter
Brechin Morgan, Painter Day Moore, Painter Nancy Moore, Painter Meighan Morrison, Painter Carol Mueller, Painter/Printmaker Cynthia Mullins, Painter Susan Murray, Painter Aisha Nailah,MixedMedia/ Photographer Tava Naiyin, Dancer Dale Najarian, Painter Karen Neems, Photographer/MixedMedia Susan Newbold, Painter Mary Newcomb, Painter Jill Nichols, Painter Eddie Niño, Painter Judith Norinsky, Painter Julie O’Connor, Photographer Kazumasa Oda, Painter Amy Oestreicher, Performing/Visual Artist Melissa Orme, Painter Rose Palmiero, Painter Parkway South, Musicians Steve Parton, Painter Judy Peknik, Painter Justin Perlman, Sculptor Chris Perry, Book Artist Jay Petrow, Painter Laura Pflug, Painter Diane Pollack, Mixed Media Karen Ponelli, Painter ASSOCIATE Lynn Carlson Popat, Painter Joseph Provey, Painter
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| Jennifer Prat, Photographer Elizabeth Quesada, Painter Ben Quesnel, Sculptor, Videographer Lauren Rago, Mixed Media Tim Reimer, Painter Gwen North Reiss, Poet Rick Reyes, Singer/ Songwriter Barbara Ringer, Photographer Mariya Rivera, Painter Dorothy Robertshaw, Mixed Media Alyse Rosner, Painter/ Mixed Media Richard Sadlon, Musicians
Renee Santhouse, Graphic Artist Jill Sarver, Painter Visual Artist
Ellen Schiffman, Fiber
Artist
Norma Schlager, Fiber
Artist
Marianne R. Schmidt,
Painter
Guy Sealey, Multimedia
Lisa Seidenberg,
Filmmaker
Rick Shaefer, Visual Artist
Barbara Shea, Writer
Alissa Siegal, Painter
Norm Siegel, Painter
Lisa P. Silberman,
Photographer
Nomi Silverman, Printmaker Phyllis Sinrich,
Photographer
Megan Smith-Harris,
Writer/Filmmaker
Cleo Sonneborn, Painter
Rene Soto, Painter
Liz Squillace, Painter/Printmaker
Connie Stancell, Painter
Sergei Stepanenko,
Painter
Barbara Stewart, Painter
Pam Stoddart, Painter
Florence Suerig, Visual
Artist
Janice Sweetwater,
Painter
Susan Tabachnick, Sculptor
Juliette Tehrani, Painter
Mick Theebs, Writer/Painter
Alicia Thompson, Actress/ Playwright
Dara Tomeo, Painter
Kris D. Toohey, Painter
Andrea Towey, Musician
Ruth Kalla Ungerer, Printmaker
Vincent Verrillo, Painter
Karen Vogel, Painter
Lee Walther, Mixed Media
Ann Weiner, Multi-Media,
Painter
Peggy Weis, MultiMedia
Cynthia Whalen, Painter
Joan Wheeler, Painter
Al Coyote Weiner, Painter
Ann Weiner, MultiMedia
Conceptual Artist Gregg Welz, Paper Artist
Jahmane West,
MultiMedia
Elizabeth White,
MultiMedia
Justin Wiest, Painter
Jarvis Wilcox, Painter
Bruce Williams, Painter
Jen Williams, Painter
Tammy Winser, Mixed
Media
Nancy Woodward,
Photographer/Mixed
Media
Dmitri Wright, Painter
Jeffrey Wyant, Visual
Artist
Greg Ziebell, Painter |
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