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F R E E Year 31, No. 2 Celebrating 31 Years of Community News September 2 – September 15, 2015 SPECIAL TWO-WEEK Amy Wilson’s Paintings on Display at A RTS L ECTURE C OMBINES ISSUE WITH J URIED S HOW O PENING Bar Isabella in Conshohocken FOR F ESTIVE N IGHT Complimentary Reception September 16
Heather Rodale to Connect Healing and Art at Harcum College
“Why Women Need Freedom From Religion” Page 5
Golden Slipper on the Main Line 3 Solo Events Page 8
“Celebrating Jewish Culture & Community” Pages 11 & 12
Local artist Amy Wilson with her painting, “Let Yourself Go.” Meet Amy Wilson, and enjoy Bar Isabella’s complimentary tapas, wine and cheese, at the opening reception of her exhibit at Bar Isabella, on September 16. ocal artist Amy Wilson’s compelling abstract paintings will be exhibited at Bar Isabella in Conshohocken. Join Tom Richter, owner of Bar Isabella, in welcoming artist Amy Wilson for the Grand Opening of her exhibit, September 16, from 5 - 8 p.m. Meet the artist, and enjoy complimentary tapas, wine and cheese, at this special event. Over three decades, Amy Wilson’s love of art, spirituality and her free spirit inspired a successful calligraphy business incorporating drawing, painting and illumination. Wilson’s work has been commissioned by individuals and royalty—from The White House to museums, palaces, and universities. Several years ago Wilson visited an exhibit of abstract paintings seeking to understand what had previously been for her an ‘incomprehensible’ art form. Wandering around the
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gallery, it surprised her when she actually liked some of the paintings. She had long thought that abstraction, while fulfilling to the artist, offered nothing to the observer. Even liking some of the paintings, Wilson still asked herself, would anyone want to hang one of these paintings in their home and look at it over and over again? And if so, what would the painting do for them and what feelings Heather Rodale, Class of 1972, will share her story of would it elicit? healing through the arts following a stage three cancer Continuing her movement through the diagnosis, on Thursday, September 17 at at 4 p.m. in the exhibition, she stopped abruptly before the Charles H. Trout Library, at Harcum College. angriest painting she had ever seen. Its intenhe connection between art and healing will be explorsity was so strong it forced her to move away ed in depth at Harcum College on Thursday, Septemso that she might look at it from a ‘safe’ disber 17 at the Bryn Mawr Campus. Heather Rodale, Class tance. She was overwhelmed by the pain and anguish coming from the skilled artist’s paint- of 1972, will share her story of healing through the arts foling and wondered if this way of painting had lowing a stage three cancer diagnosis. Rodale’s lecture begins at 4 p.m. in the Charles H. Trout given the artist a meaningful reprieve from
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See Amy Wilson Art Exhibit on page 4
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See Lecture & 100 Years of Art Juried Show at Harcum on page 6
GRANGE VERANDA
Emmy Award Winning Jazz Guitar Duo Tom Glenn and Stu Goodis Perform
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