11th Annual Plein Air Festival Artist Statement Book

Festival: May 8 through May 13, 2017 Exhibition: May 15 through June 24, 2017

11 th Annual Wayne Plein Air Festival May 7 - June 24, 2017

Wayne Art Center Executive Director: Nancy Campbell Wayne Art Center Director of Exhibitions and Events:

Karen Louise Fay

Presenting Sponsor

Wayne Art Center Š 2017 Wayne Art Center All images courtesy of the artists Event photographs courtesy of Brenda Carpenter, Laura Ducceschi, Jill Frechie, Susan Scovill and Wayne Art Center All Rights Reserved

Calendar of Events 2017 Wayne Plein Air Festival May 8 - May 13, 2017

Plein Air Exhibition and Sale May 15 - June 24, 2017

May 7 May 8 - 13 May 12 May 13 May 13 May 14 May 15 - 17 May 18 June 1 June 7 une 10 June 11

Welcome Dinner for Artists & Sponsors at Willowbrook Farm Artists paint within 25 miles of Wayne Artists paint at Valley Forge Park Community Paint Out in Wayne Collectors’ Soirée and Sale Juror’s Lecture and Painting Demonstration with Don Demers Painting Workshop with Don Demers Reflections Thru the Lens: An Exhibition of Landscape Photography Artists’ Reception French Wine Pairing Dinner Painting Demonstration with Michele Byrne Special Murder Mystery Dinner & Theater Benefit Sponsored by West Laurel Hill Orchestra Concordia Ensemble Plein Air Concert

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Participating Artists Paul Bachem

Bruno Baran

2017 2014 2013 2012 2011 2017

D. Eleinne Basa

2017 2016 2012 2011 Best of Show 2010 2009 2nd Place 2008

Joshua Been

2017

Christopher Dixon Roberta Goschke

Michele Byrne

2017 2016 Hon. Mention 2014 2013 Hon. Mention 2012 Hon. Mention 2011 2nd Place 2010 2009 Hon. Mention 2008 Award of Excellence 2007

John Caggiano

2017 2014 2011 2010 2009 2008

Arcenio M. Campos

2017 1st Place 2016 Hon. Mention 2015

Valerie Craig

2017 Hon. Mention 2016 2nd Place 2014 2nd Place 2013 Best of Show, Hon. Mention 2011 1st Place 2010 Hon. Mention 2009 Best of Show, Hon. Mention 2008 2nd Place 2007

2017

Ray Hassard

2017 Hon. Mention 2016

Jennifer Holmes

2017 2014 2011 2010 Hon. Mention 2009 2008

Patrick Meehan Alison Leigh Menke

2017 Hon. Mention 2016 Hon. Mention 2015 2014 2013

Charlie Hunter

2017 3rd Place 2014 1st Place, Hon. Mention 2013 2nd Place, People’s Choice 2012

Tim Kelly

2017 Best of Show 2016 2nd Place 2015

Allen A. Kriegshauser

2017

Patrick Lee

2017 MAPAPA Award 2016 Hon. Mention 2015

Christopher Leeper Chuck Marshall Jane McGraw-Teubner

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2017 2017 2016 2017 2013

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Kathie Odom

2017 Hon. Mention 2016 Plein Air Magazine Award 2015 Plein Air Magazine Award 2014

Elise Phillips

2017 2016 2015 2014 People’s Choice 2013 Hon. Mention 2012 2007

Neal Hughes

Robert Bohné

2017 Hon. Mention 2016 MAPAPA Award 2015

2017 2015

Richard Sneary

2017 Hon. Mention 2015 2014 Hon. Mention 2013

Jonathan Stasko R. Gregory Summers Anthony Watkins Tara Will

2017 2017 2017 2017

Stewart White

2017 2016 1st Place 2015 1st Place 2014 Best of Show, Hon. Mention 2013 Hon. Mention 2012 Hon. Mention 2011 Hon. Mention 2010 2nd Place 2009 1st Place 2008

Peter Yesis

2017

Executive Director’s Statement Nancy Campbell

Welcome to the Wayne Art Center’s 2017 Plein Air Festival! This annual exhibition and fundraiser is one of our community’s most eagerly anticipated events. We are delighted, once more, to have 32 plein air artists participating as part of our 11th year.

I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to all of the artists who have ventured to Wayne to capture the beauty of our area through landscape painting. Your accomplishments, as well as your diligence and passion in support of the plein air movement, which continues to grow throughout the country, are surpassed only by our extreme gratitude for the work that you do every day and for the beautiful paintings that you create. Among the states represented this year include Colorado, Connecticut, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Vermont.

We are honored to have Maine artist Don Demers serve as our juror and are grateful for his thoughtful efforts in selecting this year’s participating artists, presenting over $15,000 in prize awards. We also thank Don for conducting a Plein Air Demo and three-day Plein Air Painting Workshop.

Of the many reasons the Wayne Art Center’s Plein Air Festival continues to attract so much attention, the first is the stunning beauty of our area, especially during the month of May — the numerous private gardens and public arboretums abundant with color, the breathtaking bucolic farms with rolling hills, stream filled valleys, ponds and woodlands, the rich architectural history and the established and notable institutions that date back centuries all contribute fuel to the artists’ imaginations.

The Wayne Plein Air Festival would not be what it is without the energy and support of so many generous and gracious individuals; the devoted Plein Air Committee who attend to the Festival’s many details, Meg Veno who continues to share Willowbrook Farm for our Artist and Patron Dinner, the Artist Housing Hosts who embrace our artists with a warm and welcoming reception, and our Business Sponsors and Patrons who help underwrite the event costs, therefore enabling the Wayne Art Center to present an exhibition and annual fundraiser of this magnitude. Ultimately, all proceeds raised through this major endeavor support Wayne Art Center’s growing exhibition, art educational and outreach programs offered to our community throughout the year.

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A very special word of thanks to our dedicated co-chairs, Debbie Craley and Lindsay Dubarry, who have diligently worked to spearhead this year’s committee and ensure its success. I would also like to especially thank Karen Louise Fay, Director of Exhibitions and Events for her exceptional efforts in coordinating and overseeing the execution of the Wayne Art Center 2017 Plein Air Festival and to the enthusiastic Wayne Art Center staff who tirelessly assist with the implementation of a smooth sailing event.

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Juror’s Statement Don Demers

It is a great honor and privilege to be asked to act as the juror of the 11th Annual Wayne Art Center Plein Air Festival.

This festival has grown and evolved into one of the finest plein air events in the country. It is well-run with professionalism, dedication and vision in a fine facility that has been built to beautifully showcase the exhibit. However, none of the aforementioned efforts and intentions can be manifest into a fine event without the artists.

I have dedicated a good part of my career to the genre of plein air painting. I’ve had the opportunity to be part of a nascent movement that started some 20 years ago in this country, slowly growing to include thousands of practitioners, both amateur and professional. It is a wonderful thing to see so many people involved and engaged in the practice.

That said, there should be a strong distinction made between the casual painter and the dedicated, highly skilled, deeply inspired and talented painters. In selecting the artists that appear in this exhibition, I had the challenging task of viewing the work of many accomplished painters. I believe that the artists I selected represent the genre in its highest form.

These artists have developed unique and individual voices through their personal vision and highly honed technical skills. Collectively, they represent the great diversity that is plein air painting.

I want to congratulate all of the participants and let them know that I am humbled by my given position. I consider all of them colleagues as we spend our lives being the stewards of an age old art form to which we are all dedicated. I am also honored by the viewers and collectors, whose commitment to the arts---and this art form in particular---complete the circle of creation and reception. None of us can do without the other. All of us collectively as a community have my greatest respect and fondness. To the “art” of living!

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What is

Plein Air?

Pierre Auguste Renoir, Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil. 1873. Oil. Wadsworth Athenaeum.

En plein air is a French expression meaning “in the open air,” and refers to the act of painting outdoors with the artist’s subject in full view. Plein air artists capture the spirit and essence of a landscape or subject by incorporating natural light, color and movement into their works.

The high point of plein air art came with the emergence of Impressionism in the mid-tolate 19th century. Artists of that period included Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cezanne and Van Gogh. Interest in outdoor painting has remained constant since the 20th century. Today’s artists carry on the traditions of these past masters by capturing light and movement in landscapes that can only come from seeing the subject outdoors in its natural form.

The last twenty-five years have seen a resurgence of interest in plein air painting in the United States. During this time, groups of plein air painters began gathering together to paint at single locations or within certain geographic boundaries. These “paint outs” are now very popular and give artists a chance to share their talents and creativity with the public and with one another.

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About Wayne

Plein Air

Modern plein air painting with an audience.

The Wayne Art Center Plein Air Festival is an exciting opportunity to bring valued talent to our community. Over half of the artists come from other regions stretching up and down the East Coast, Midwest and California. This year with the growing awareness of the Wayne Plein Air Festival, there was a record-breaking number of applicants and the festival is attracting artists from across the United States.

The first Wayne Plein Air Festival was held in 2007 with the intention of making it an annual event. Artists had to mail in slides or CDs with their artwork for juror Sara Linda Poly to review. The 33 participating artists were primarily from the East Coast, although a few came in from the Midwest to paint in Wayne. The paintings were displayed in the newly-completed, bright and spacious Davenport Gallery, and the Preview Party was held in the new Vidinghoff Lobby, taking full advantage of our 2007 renovation and expansion.

With each passing year, Wayne Plein Air Festival has grown to be one of the most well-respected painting events on the East Coast. The application process is now fully online, attracting the foremost plein air artists from across the country. The paintings produced are displayed across the Art Center in the Davenport, Vidinghoff and Outer Galleries, and over 250 guests attend the Collector’s Soirée for the first chance to view the new artwork.

Thanks to generous sponsors and patrons, we are now able to offer ever-increasing awards in recognition of the artists’ talents.

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Paul Bachem Locust Valley, NY

Paul Bachem studied with Harold R. Stevenson and Alma Gallanos Stevenson and enjoyed a 30-year illustration career. He has worked for clients across the country and as far away as Sydney, Australia. Paul’s paintings are in numerous private collections, as well as the permanent collection of the Forbes Gallery in New York City. He now concentrates on plein air painting and has shown at a number of galleries in the Northeast.

Paul has been included 27 times in the FAV 15% of entries in the FineArtStudioOnline monthly Bold Brush painting competition and in October of 2011 was awarded a finalist award by judge Matt Smith. Paul has participated as a competition artist in a number of plein air events including the 2011-2014 Wayne Plein Air Festival in Wayne, Pennsylvania, where, in 2013, he was awarded an honorable mention for his painting “Valley Creek”. He also participated in Paint The Town 2011 in Cranford, New Jersey, where he was awarded Third Prize. From 2010-2015, Paul participated in the prestigious Plein Air Easton in Easton, Maryland, where He was awarded the Utrecht Award of Excellence for Best Use of Light in 2013 and First Place in the Quick Draw portion of the event in 2014 from judge Donald Demers.

Aside from painting, Paul also enjoys playing classical guitar and chess.

He also enjoys cooking and has developed considerable knife skills in the kitchen.

Paul lives and works in Locust Valley, New York, with his wife, writer Jan M. Leotti.

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Bruno Baran Nottingham, MD

Bruno Baran’s love of painting comes from his experience of applying paint to canvas at 12 years old. The smell and touch, as well as the enjoyment of rendering an object or form in light and shadow, has always been a strong attraction. For years Bruno has been amazed at the play of light on objects in a room or landscape. The true joy of painting happens when he manages to combine light, color and form into cohesive images from observing these in real life. The ability to create these artworks comes from his close observation and interpretation of such scenes. Bruno tries to evoke a sense of lighting, mystery and drama for all to enjoy.

Since starting plein air painting, all of Bruno’s senses now play within the lighting drama that unfolds before him--ever fleeting yet, at times, forever burnt into his mind. Capturing these moments of lighting in time continues to be his most ardent, yet allusive challenge. When they happen with all of nature around him, influencing his every stroke of color, it is as if time stops and God is whispering to him a most beautiful prayer. Bruno hopes these small attempts of capturing the light will bring joy and happiness to all who view them.

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D. Eleinne Basa Jackson, NJ

Landscape painter D. Eleinne Basa calls the East Coast home, but her evocative landscapes have been shown in Invitational and juried shows throughout the country. In 2016, she was invited to be part of the American Masters Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club in New York, New York.

Eleinne was classically trained as a child. After graduating college, she furthered her art training by taking several workshops and diving into the competitive plein air competition scene. She has been working as a fulltime artist since 2004 and today spends more time in her studio, traveling to scenic locations to find inspiration and paintings.

Eleinne finds inspiration in the work of 19th-century American painters, such as tonalist George Inness, as well as in the delicate, muted landscapes by Spanish artist Emilio Sánchez-Perrier. Among her favorite landscape painters are Americans Thomas Moran, Emile Carlsen and Hugh Bolton Jones.

Basa’s moody works often straddle the artistic fence between realism and impressionism. Basa favors scenes with soft, lowlight conditions.

Her signature landscapes depict everything from an old barn on the East Coast at sunrise to the gathering moonlight at sunset over a Pacific Northwest lake. One thing the viewer can count on-—no matter the time of day or season Eleinne portrays—-is that the scene will evoke a strong sense of place and atmosphere.

“The landscape is quite a challenge with its ever-changing light and moods. To capture that moment of beauty and try to convey the poetry in the scene is what draws me to the landscape”.

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Joshua Been Salida, CO

Joshua Been, born in 1974, had no shortage of outdoor adventures to cultivate his appreciation for the natural world. Drawing since he could manage a pencil, Joshua was captivated by animation and cartooning.

This interest remained with him throughout high school and an active duty enlistment in the US Army. Joshua then went on to pursue his BA in Fine Art at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. As a Magna Cum Laude graduate from this small liberal arts college, he found interest in more than just art classes. He was active in theatre and performing arts, while also studying Earth Sciences. This interdisciplinary foundation is evident in the intricacies and truthful fascination in his landscape as well as his figurative and urban work.

After graduation, Joshua relocated to the Los Angeles area, where he worked for several years in the entertainment industry as a Character Animator and Visual Development Artist. Cartoon Network and Disney TV were some of the studios where he found work. Before long, Joshua craved a more liberating art form and enrolled in a few figure painting classes at the California Art Institute. While simplifying his life in order to pursue the more nomadic life of a painter, Been moved back to his native land of Colorado. He now lives and paints in Salida, a place known as the “Heart of the Rockies,� and travels across the country to teach and paint.

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Robert Bohné Brookhaven, PA

Robert Bohné was born in Chester, Pennsylvania in 1953 and now resides in Brookhaven, Pennsylvania.

Robert studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and Fleischer Art Memorial. He is the recipient of a Grumbacher award and several DCCC purchase prizes. Robert was awarded top honors for the best still life in the 2006 Philadelphia Sketch Club Annual Small Oils Show, Second Place in the Plastic Club Air Show, Honorable Mention in the Multimedia Show and the Dorothy Invernizzi Guinn Memorial Prize in the Plastic Club Annual Members’ Medal Show. His works are in several public and private collections, including the Delaware County Community College collection, MBNA and DuPont. He is best known for his intimate still life paintings and his landscapes of New Jersey and the Delaware Valley area.

Robert runs Landscape Painting Philadelphia, a group that he operates free-of-charge for those who are interested in plein air. He also monitors a Thursday workshop at the Philadelphia Sketch Club, the oldest artists’ club in the United States, and is a volunteer at Sunshine Arts, a non-profit organization that provides art lessons and materials for children in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.

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Michele Byrne Wyomissing Hills, PA

Michele Byrne is recognized for her figurative plein air paintings. In recent works, Michele continues the wonderful tradition of flag paintings in American art. She lives and works in Reading, Pennsylvania; however, she travels extensively to paint in various locations, including Manhattan, Paris, California, Colorado, Cuba and Key West, Florida.

Michele was a Faculty Demonstrator for the Annual Plein Air Convention in Monterey, California, in April of 2014. In 2016 she acquired Signature Membership in the American Impressionist Society. She exhibits in many galleries, including Eckert & Ross Fine Art in Indianapolis, Indiana, and at the Gingerbread Square Gallery in Key West, Florida.

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John Caggiano Rockport, MA

John Caggiano studied pre-engineering at Brooklyn Technical High School. He received a BA from Brooklyn College and an MFA from Pratt Institute, both with honors. His education was supplemented by courses at The Brooklyn Museum and the Studio and Forum of Stage Design.

He travels extensively, painting “en plein air,” capturing the moment in his brightly colored impressionistic-realism style of painting. He uses both brush and palette knife to enhance the visual effects of his compositions.

John has served as President of the Rockport Art Association and was a member of its Board of Governors for sixteen years. He has been interviewed on TV programs such as ABC’s Good Morning America, BNN’s It’s All About The Arts, and internationally on Televisione Italiana-RAI. His art has also been extensively published in numerous books, magazines, and newspapers, some of which are: Marine Art: A Gallery of Marine Art; Monhegan: The Artist’ Island; and The Best of Oil Painting. He is listed in Who’s Who in American Art and on Artprice.com. He is represented by many galleries and in corporate collections.

Aside from the RAA, John is an elected member of the American Society of Marine Artists, Academic Artists, Hudson Valley Art, Lyme Art and North Shore Arts - Associations. Among his many awards are the Bernard Corey Memorial Award from ACA, The Alden Bryan Gold Medal-Best of Show from the Land and Light juried annual show at the Bryan Memorial Gallery and Third Place in the two-hour Quick Draw in Easton Plein Air. John’s art may be viewed at his gallery on Bearskin Neck in Rockport, founded in 1981.

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Arcenio M. Campos Philadelphia, PA

Arcenio Martin Campos attended New Mexico State University for Studio Arts, and then the University of New Mexico for studies in Art History.

He began drawing on his own as a child, and between schools acquired much of his fine art education from independent study and private instruction in the human figure. From 1999 through 2002 he taught small classes in cast drawing and facilitated open figure drawing groups in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Martin recently graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, receiving a Certificate in Painting. He is currently searching for stories for the figures he has drawn over the course of his life.

Martin is a faculty member at Wayne Art Center.

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Valerie Craig Villanova, PA

Valerie Craig has drawn and painted nearly all her life. Known for her impressionist approach to color and light, Valerie’s subject matter includes urban and rural landscapes, as well as intimate still life paintings and figures within a landscape.
To date, she has had more than twenty years in the field, painting in both watercolor and oils. Like most artists, Valerie continues to be a student of art, always reaching for a higher level of excellence while discovering and expressing her own voice.

In 1998, Valerie left her career in nursing administration to pursue her passion for painting on a full-time basis. She feels that her best expressions happen when she is on location and can directly sense the mood and atmosphere of a particular scene. Whether painting vast open areas or more intimate spaces, she finds that capturing light and color is best accomplished through close observation and careful study.

Valerie teaches workshops and has been invited to be the juror for professional art exhibitions. Her work is represented in corporate, private and museum collections across the country.

Valerie is a faculty member at Wayne Art Center.

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Chris Dixon Lakeville, CT

Born in 1962 in Hartford, Connecticut, landscape painter Chris J.T. Dixon now lives in Lakeville, Connecticut. He graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in 1987 and completed the school’s fifthyear program in 1990 with a concentration in Landscape Painting. Chris was awarded the Dana Pond Award for painting in the 1990 Student Annual Exhibition.

In 1996 Chris attended the Rhode Island School of Design to study iIllustration before traveling to China and Taiwan as a designer for Ghun Lin Enterprise Company, Ltd. Chris later became an elected member of the Lyme Art Association in 2002 and served on the Board of Directors for two years.

Chris’ interest in plein air peaked around 2003, when he enrolled in a few painting workshops instructed by members of the Plein Air Painters of America. He first participated in the Wayne Plein Air Festival during 2015 and was a participant in the Easten Plein Air Painting Festival in Easten, Maryland, the following year.

Chris’ influences include Aldro Hibbard, N.C. Wyeth, Andrew Wyeth, Winslow Homer and Childe Hassam.

“Most of my work is done on location, using direct observation of my subect. I enjoy the challenge of completing a painting in the field.”

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Roberta Goschke Waldoboro, ME

Roberta Goschke was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania. Her drawing interest began during her childhood, continuing through high school and a 20-year US Army career.

During her military service, Roberta also attended The Art League School in Alexandria, Virginia. There, she began life drawing sessions in 1984, an essential practice she continues to this day. She brings the same passion for figure drawing to landscape painting “all in one go� and views it as an equally endless challenge of decision making and using time wisely before the moment disappears, or the weather changes, or the figure moves.

Roberta lives in Maine, where she paints landscape, still life and portraits. Her work is in many private collections and can be viewed at her studio/gallery in Waldoboro, Maine, The Adam Cave Gallery in Raleigh, North Carolina, and The Wiscasset Bay Gallery and Ingram Art and Antiques, both located in Wiscasset, Maine.

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Ray Hassard Freeport, NY

Ray Hassard was born in Freeport, New York. He studied at Pratt Institute and moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1985.

Ray participates in plein air competitions often, having won top awards in Richmond, Virginia, and San Angelo, Texas. He was Awards Judge at the first Cape Ann Plein Air competition in 2016 and a faculty artist at 2017’s Plein Air Convention and Exposition.

Ray has painted in many countries, including India, Bhutan, Mexico, France, Spain, Italy and, most recently, Cuba.

His art was the subject of a feature article in Pastel Journal in October 2010. He was also featured in Plein Air Magazine in 2013 and again in Pastel Journal in 2014 as winner of the Gold Medal Award in the Top 100 Competition. His work has been selected for the NorthLight Press books Strokes of Genius, Vol. 9 and Pure Color: The Best of Pastel, Vol. 2.

Ray is a member of the Pastel Society of America (Signature) and MidAmerica Pastel Society (Master Pastellist). He is also in the Master Circle of the International Association of Pastel Societies.

You can view Ray’s work at Patricia Hutton Galleries in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, Cincinnati Art Galleries in Cincinnati, Ohio, Turner Studio and Gallery in Columbus, Ohio, and Oxford Gallery in Rochester, New York.

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Jennifer Holmes Chester, CT

Jennifer Holmes paints in watercolors, acrylics, oils and pastels. After attending Rochester Institute of Technology, Hartford Art School and finishing with a BFA in Graphic Design and a Minor in Marketing Management at Central Connecticut State University, she chose to pursue painting. While studying Pastel with Frank Federico and Claudia Post, Jennifer was encouraged to expand her efforts to include Drawing and Oil Painting with Bernard McTigue and workshops with the Plein Air Painters of America.

Regularly showing at the Lyme Art Association, The Mystic Arts Center and the Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society, Jennifer has earned Artist Member level in The Connecticut Academy of Fine Artists and the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, as well as Elected Artist at Lyme Art Association, Mystic Art Association and The Connecticut Plein Air Painters Society. She also holds membership in the American Society of Marine Artists.

Showing primarily in New England and New York, Jennifer’s works have won numerous awards: Top Award: IDIOMAS, LLC, from Clinton Art Society; The Award of Excellence from Mystic Elected Artist Show; and Second Place from Lyme Art Association Elected Artists Show. Other shows include The Connecticut Academy of Fine Art Show, Hudson Valley Art Association 76th Annual Show, The Springfield Academic Artists Show and The Salmagundi Art Club 31st Non-Member Show in New York. Recently Jennifer’s painting, “Winter Marsh,” was accepted for exhibition in the Paint America Paint the Parks 2008 Competition in the Top 100 Exhibit.

Jennifer’s work can be seen at Susan Powell Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, Lily Pad Gallery in Westerly, Rhode Island, Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor, New York, and Argosy Gallery in Bar Harbor, Maine.

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Neal Hughes Moorestown, NJ

Neal Hughes resides in Moorestown, New Jersey, and is a graduate of the Philadelphia College of Art (now University of the Arts). Neal was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Maine Artists and is also a member of Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters. His plein air work has won many awards, including: First Place, Bath County Plein Air Festival 2015; Best Use of Light, Easels in Frederick 2015; Wayne Art Center Award, Wayne Plein Air Festival 2015; and First Place, Lighthouse Art Center Plein Air Festival 2015.

Other awards include an Award of Excellence from Oil Painters of America at the 2012 Eastern Regional Exhibition, the Maritime Gallery Yachting Award and Awards of Excellence (2006 and 2013) at the prestigious International Marine Art Exhibition at the Gallery at Mystic Seaport. In addition, Neal was the Grand Prize winner in the Utrecht 60th Anniversary Art Competition, winning the top prize out of over 12,000 entries. His work has been featured in Plein Air Magazine, American Artist Magazine and other publications.

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Charlie Hunter Bellows Falls, VT

Charlie Hunter grew up in a small New Hampshire town until a highway bypass through the family barns forced them to move into the house built by his great-great-great grandfather in Vermont. He now lives in the post-industrial mill town of Bellows Falls, Vermont, where he paints portraits of decaying American infrastructure and regularly disappoints his cats.

Charlie has an impressive list of accomplishements, including: Award of Excellence, Laguna Plein Air in Laguna Beach, California; Collector’s Choice Winner, Sedona Plein Air Invitational in Sedona, Arizona; First Place, Mountain Maryland Plein Air in Cumberland, Maryland; and Best Sense of the City Award, Olmsted Invitational Plein Air in Georgia. In 2016, Charlie participated in Publisher’s Invitational Paint Cuba, Forgotten Coast Plein Air in Florida, Easels in Frederick, Maryland, Door County Plein Air in Wisconsin, Buffalo Bill Art Show & Sale in Wyoming and En Plein Air Texas, where his Quick Draw Second Place award-winning painting was purchased by San Angelo Museum of Art. Charlie’s drawings are featured in Richard Schmid’s ALLA PRIMA II, and he is a member of The Putney Painters, Schmid’s invitational painting group. He holds a B.A. in Art from Yale University, where he was cum laude and studied with William Bailey, Bernie Chaet, Bob Reed, Alvin Eisenmann and the terrifying Inge Druckry.

Much of Charlie’s original work can be found in private collections, including that of Logan Mankins (New England Patriots, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), Rachel Maddow (MSNBC) and Susan Mikula (photographer), singers Dar Williams and Greg Brown, Jonathan Edwards College of Yale University, Phillips Exeter Academy, Coca-Cola Bottling, Northampton, Massachusetts. Hunter lives in the post-industrial mill town of Bellows Falls, VT, where he paints portraits of decaying American infrastructure and regularly disappoints his cats.

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Tim Kelly Baltimore, MD

Tim Kelly, from Baltimore, Maryland, has been a frequent participant in various plein air events in the Mid-Atlantic region since 2011. He has numerous awards to show for it, including four Best in Show awards---one of which was at the Wayne Plein Air Festival in 2016.

Tim started painting outdoors from direct observation about ten years ago, and this method has become his primary artistic pursuit. Prior to that, he focused on freelance illustration and portraiture. Recently, figurative painting has peaked his interest through direct observation of live models.

Tim earned his B.A. from Maryland Institute College of Art in 1992. He is also a licensed tractor trailer driver and an utterly amateur guitar player.

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Allen A. Kriegshauser Kirkwood, MO

Allen A. Kriegshauser has never met a color he didn’t like, challenging him to harmonize all colors. He prefers painting directly from life scenes with a strong light source that have deeply defined shadows, using composition and bold directional brush strokes to create a sense of movement.

Allen is considered a figurative oil painter who is not driven by a particular subject or object. His interest is in the process and the final image that evolves from that process.

When selecting a subject, Allen looks for the overall visual stimulation that might provide the vehicle for a new and interesting creative experience. He views the entire painting process in an abstract way, forcing the subject to take a back seat to the process.

A St. Louis native and graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, Allen teaches workshops and has actively competed for the last 12 years.

Recent Plein Air events include 2016 Easels in Fredrick, 2016 Plein Air Richmond, 2015 Plein Air Texas and Door County Plein Air 2015 and 2017.

Allen supports his painting habit by owning his own consulting firm.

Since he travels extensively, he often takes his paints with him as consolation.

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Patrick Lee Pittsburgh, PA

Patrick Lee is an award-winning artist and plein air painter from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Edinboro University, receiving a degree in Painting with an Art History minor. He feels the greatest part of his artistic education has come from interacting with and learning from fellow artists and from studying others’ artwork. Patrick primarily works in oils, charcoal and watercolor (gouache), choosing subject matter that ranges from figurative works and landscapes to still life and interiors.

Patrick has participated in many solo and group exhibitions, including plein air painting events like Plein Air Easton 2013, Wayne Plein Air Festival and Solomons Plein Air Festival, where he was a Quick Draw and Grand Prize winner. Using thick applications of paint, Patrick likes to look for the form and design possibilities in nature, which sometimes leads to strong elements of abstraction and suggestion in his work, rather than explicit detail.

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Christopher Leeper Canfield, OH

Christopher Leeper is a realist painter working in all mediums. His award-winning work has been shown in solo and juried exhibitions throughout the country.

Christopher has illustrated four children’s books and has written and illustrated the book Realism in Watermedia (North Light). His work has also been featured in The Artist’s Magazine, Plein Air Magazine, Watercolor Magic and Ohio Magazine, as well as in the book Splash 14 (North Light).

He participates in a number of juried and invitational plein air events each year and is a frequent award winner, including Best of Show in the 2014 Ohio Plein Air Competition.

A popular instructor, Christopher teaches numerous workshops each year and is a member of the adjunct faculty in the Department of Art at Youngstown State University. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the Ohio Plein Air Society and is past President of the Ohio Watercolor Society.

Christopher graduated from Youngstown State University in 1988 with a B.F.A. in Graphic Design. Since 2000, he has painted full-time from his studio in Canfield, Ohio.

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Chuck Marshall Wilmington, OH

Chuck Marshall (Charles W. Marshall, Jr.) was born in Wilmington, Ohio, on December 7, 1957. The small town of New Antioch, about 7 miles outside of Wilmington, became home to Chuck, his one brother, five sisters, mother and father.

The surrounding area was known for its agriculture—mainly hogs and corn—so Chuck grew up working farms and spending time in his father’s construction trade; but Chuck knew he wanted to do something different with his life—he knew he was going to be an artist from a very early age.

He would spend hours each day sketching images of fields, hillsides and animals that he would see while roaming the countryside.

He studied one year at the Art Institute of Cincinnati before studying at the California Art Institute in Southern California. His art career includes many years as an illustrator and graphic designer, as well as his fine art.

Chuck has been invited to and participated in many national plein air events as a guest artist, including: Olmsted Plein Air Invitational, Atlanta, Georgia; Door County, Wisconsin; Great American Paint out in the Apalachicola/Panhandle Florida area; Wayne Plein Air, Pennsylvania; and Finger Lakes Plein Air, where he recently won Best of Show.

Chuck’s work has been published in International Artist Magazine, American Artist Magazine and Plein Air Magazine. He has won numerous local and national awards and has also performed as a judge in many juried art shows.

Chuck’s work can be seen at the Landing Gallery in Rockland, Maine, the Mary Ran Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Hayley Gallery in New Albany, Ohio.

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Jane McGraw-Teubner East Northport, NY

Jane McGraw-Teubner’s pastel work has been shown in national exhibitions, garnering over eighty awards, most notably from the Pastel Society of America, which has also designated her Master Pastelist. She received the “Master Circle” Award from the International Association of Pastel Societies in June 2015 at their biannual convention held in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 2014 and 2015, she was invited to be a demonstrator and field artist at the Plein Air Convention held in Monterey, California, hosted by Plein Air Magazine.

Jane’s artwork has been featured on the cover of the 2013 December issue of The Pastel Journal along with an eight-page article.

“Pastel painting is a gift that I have re-embraced at mid-life. When I am working in front of my easel, I am living in the present, appreciating the moment, not wanting to be anywhere else or doing anything else. I consider that to be one of the secrets to a good life, being truly mindful of what you are doing. That is why I paint, and why I use pastels. They are immediate, right at my fingertips. I can look over all the colors laid out before me and the possibilities are endless. Pastels capture light in nature with brilliance and mystery. They take me on the journey of the creation process. This process is almost always a struggle, solving problems and discovering solutions. After a painting is complete, I consider it a success when I can look at it and it looks fresh and spontaneous, and none of the agony I invariably went through shows. I get a true sense of accomplishment for the finished product and even more from the journey that took me there.”

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Patrick Meehan Annapolis, MD

Patrick Meehan is a California-born artist now residing in Annapolis, Maryland. His love for painting is evident from his dedicated studies and his affinity for teaching.

Previously at the San Diego Museum of Art, Patrick is currently teaching at the Academy Art Museum in Easton, Maryland. His land/seascapes, drawings and figurative paintings have become well-known for their beauty. He has been juried into numerous Oil Painters of America Shows, as well as the American Impressionist Society.

In addition to his affiliation with the Oil Painters of America, Meehan has been featured in James Lightner’s Land of Sunlight, which highlights contemporary paintings of San Diego County’s foremost artists.

You can view Patrick’s work at McBride Gallery in Annapolis, Maryland.

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Alison Leigh Menke Silver Spring, MD

Predominantly working in oil on canvas, Alison Leigh Menke is a conceptual impressionist. Her subjects depict the natural beauty of daylight while emphasizing the rich colors that landscapes have to offer.

Alison was born abroad in 1987 and raised in her current state of Maryland. Growing up, she was impressed by the art of her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Their paintings enchanted Alison throughout her youth and continue to inspire her today. Her great-grandmother, Georgia Leigh Caldwell, was an American Impressionist.

In 2010 Alison graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park, with a degree in Art and Art History. Over the past three years she has focused her creative stream into plein air painting. Her journey began in 2011 when a three-week, solitary trip to Colorado turned into a fivemonth exploration into plein air. She painted every day, selling studies out of the trunk of her car. She has spent the past three years attending plein air competitions and festivals.

Plein air painting is a vital part of Alison’s painting process. Working diligently against the clock, Alison records over one hundred color notes in a plein air study. These color notes help guide her through her larger studio paintings so that each landscape she creates is a true expression of light and color. “It is my trek through nature that I love most about painting. My studies of light and color make each painting I develop in the studio more than just a subject, but rather, a reflection of an awe-inspiring moment I witnessed in the great outdoors.�

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Kathie Odom Knoxville, TN

Kathie Odom is proud to be from the great state of Tennessee and is especially proud to live in the shadow of the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee.

“It’s hard to ignore beauty when it happens”, Kathie is fond of saying. So she keeps her car packed with all the painting supplies needed for the road. Kathie has received several awards over the last few years from plein air events across the nation, most recently including: Honorable Mention, Lighthouse Art Center’s Plein Air Festival in Tequesta, Florida; Finalist for The Sedona Art Prize in February and April 2017 and First Place, Main Street Paint-Out, Sedona Plein Air Festival, both in Sedona, Arizona; Raymar Award, Wayne Plein Air Festival in Wayne, Pennsylvania; Honorable Mention, Arts on the Green Plein Air Invitational in Cashiers, North Carolina; and Arist to Watch in Southwest Art Magazine’s June 2016 issue.

This year alone, Kathie has been selected into Lighthouse Art Center’s Plein Air Festival in Tequesta, Florida, Olmsted Plein Air Invitational in Atlanta, Georgia, Wayne Art Center’s 11th Annual Plein Air Festival in Wayne, Pennsylvania, Plein Air Easton in Eason, Maryland, Door County Plein Air Festival in Fish Creek, Wisconsin, and Sedona Plein Air Festival in Sedona, Arizona. She was even asked to judge the Paint the Town Plein Air Event in Lexington, Kentucky.

Kathie is a signature member of Women Painters of the Southeast (WPSE) and an active member of The Arts and Culture Alliance of Greater Knoxville, Laguna Plein Air Painters Association, American Impressionist Society, Oil Painters of America and Tuesday Painters, a weekly plein air gathering of East Tennessee artists.

Retirement? Never!

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Elise Phillips Elverson, PA

Elise Phillips was born in Wayne, Pennsylvania, into a family with an extensive background in the fine arts. Her great-great grandfather founded Newman Galleries in Philadelphia in 1865, and today she is the fifth generation of the family to exhibit there.

A graduate of the Hussian School of Art in 1983, Elise was an accomplished illustrator and graphic designer with many successful commissions in the business community. With an inherent interest in painting, she enrolled at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, emerging well schooled in the tradition of the Academy.

Elise has for many years maintained a studio in Elverson, Pennsylvania, where the bucolic countryside is a source of inspiration for many of her paintings, along with the Jersey Shore, New England and the Eastern Shore of Maryland, where she is a frequent visitor.

An award-winning exhibitor, Elise is a signature member of the Philadelphia Water Color Society and a member of the Philadelphia Sketch Club, Oil Painters of America and the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters.

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Richard Sneary Kansas City, MO

An architect and renowned architectural illustrator, Richard Sneary has, over the last three years, begun painting “en plein air” in watercolor. His background as an architect and illustrator of architecture often compels him to include something of the built environment—whether it’s a town square, back yards, an alley, old derelict structures, marinas, trains, bridges, an industrial structure, or fence posts on a farm. Like many artists, Richard is drawn to subjects by light and color, but also by the sense of place, its character and the story he sees in it. The juxtaposition of light, color, contrast, form, abstraction and detail make the stories work.

Richard is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society and Missouri Watercolor Society and an active member of the American Watercolor Society and Missouri Valley Impressionist Society. Recent awards include First Place in Fast & Fresh at Plein Air Richmond 2013, First Place in Quick Paint at Easels in Frederick 2013, First and Third Place in watercolor at 2013 Stems Plein Air Paint, Honorable Mention at Wayne Plein Air Festival 2013, Best of Show at the 2012 Missouri Valley Impressionist Society Inaugural Juried Exhibition, Third Place Award at 2012 Plein Air Vermont, Best Architectural Award for the 2012 Plein Air Easton competition and Best of Show in the 2011 Stems Plein Air Paint.

Richard’s work is represented by Strecker-Nelson Gallery in Manhattan, Kansas.

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Jonathan Stasko Sharon Springs, NY

Jonathan Stasko grew up exploring the hills and valleys of Upstate New York. History in the Northeast is as rich as the soil of the valley, where he still lives, and wound itself into his childhood fantasies and drawings. He became captivated by historical illustrations from textbooks and magazines acquiring a keen interest in narrative art. Even as a child, Jonathan learned “whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” Supported in his love for art by his family, he continued developing his passion.

Jonathan completed both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Commercial Art from Pensacola Christian College. He credits his instructors with cultivating technical excellence using traditional and time-tested methods, while promoting creativity and an analytic approach to art. In addition to his formal education, Jonathan loves adding to his library and visiting museums- studying the works of the Impressionist and Pre-Raphaelite Masters, American illustrators and contemporary artists.

Jonathan’s art is a part of private and corporate collections across the country and internationally. He is represented by galleries in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia and shows regularly around the United States in national and regional exhibitions and competitions. In 2012 Jonathan appeared in Southwest Art Magazine’s “21 Under 31” issue highlighting young emerging artists. Among other awards, he received the Gold Medal from the Oil Painters of America 24th National Juried Exhibition in 2015.

A fundamental part of Jonathan’s philosophy is that art should be constructive in its purpose. He believes one of art’s virtues is its ability to raise humankind higher in its understanding of the infinite and guide it deeper in its compassion for one another. In 2011, Jonathan joined with several nationally recognized and emerging artists, creating the Lasting Impressions Online Sale to benefit disaster flood relief in his home community. Recent paintings have helped raise funds to place a well at a Ugandan orphanage. Jonathan also partners with artist Phil Taylor and The American Fallen Soldiers Project, creating portraits to honor and console families of fallen American heroes.

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R. Gregory Summers Overland Park, KS

Born in the Flint Hills of Kansas, R. Gregory Summers began his professional career at Hallmark Cards, Inc., in 1979. A Master Engraver, he now paints full-time “en plein air” across the country. Gregory has been winning awards both nationally and internationally since the early ‘80s.

Gregory is Vice President of the Greater Kansas City Artists Association, co-founder of the Missouri Valley Impressionist Society and Brush Creek Art Walk: A Plein Air Competition in Kansas City, Missouri. He is a signature member of the American Impressionist Society and active in the OPA, PAAC, PAPNM, & HOAAA, and faculty for the 2016 Plein Air Convention in Tucson, Arizona.

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Anthony Watkins Bradley, ME

Anthony Watkins studied drawing and portrait painting with Lawrence Gluck in Los Angeles and with Yves Brayer in Paris. At that time, Anthony began concentrating on portrait work, matching skin tones and the warmth of facial features to achieve the correct emotion. In his landscapes and marine scenes, Anthony presents a vision of the natural world seen under sunlight and modified by atmosphere. He wants the viewer to feel the warmth of a summer day, or the ceaseless motion of waves and clouds.

Anthony and his work have been the subject of feature articles and reviews, including The Washington Post and American Artist. His painting of Eagle Rock Mountain was selected to represent Rocky Mountain National Park in Rachel Rubin Wolf’s book Art of the Parks. His portrait clients include the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia, the director of the American Red Cross and the American Ambassador to Sweden. Anothony’s works are in a number of corporate and private collections. He has been juried into Plein Air Easton 2016, Castine Plein Air Festival 2015, Ocean Park Plein Air 2015 and 2016 and Solomons Plein Air Festival 2016.

Anthony is represented by Berkley Gallery in Warrenton, Virginia.

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Stewart White Baltimore, MD

Stewart White is a member of the American Impressionists Society, and a signature member of The American Watercolor Society, the National Watercolor Society and past President of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators (2012). He was previously the President of the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association. He also organized CITYSCAPE 2016, a national competition. Stewart is a Senior Associate at Design Collective, Inc., working as an architectural illustrator in Baltimore, Maryland.

Stewart has painted murals in major museums and sports facilities in the US, including the National Museum of American History and the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. Awards of note include Best of Show in Wayne Plein Air Festival 2013, Second Place from Plein Air Richmond 2013 and the only watercolor painter to win the Grand Prize in Plein Air Easton 2009. He is also the Grand Prize winner of the Plein Air Salon 2013-2014 Annual Competition and received the 2014 Members Choice Award from ASAI. Most recently Stewart won The Best of Show Award from the Olmstead Invitational for an oil painting.

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Tara Will

Hampstead, MD

Tara Will was born and raised in Maryland. She has always had a strong love for art, stemming from watching the creative hands of her grandmother. This love of art grew into pursuing her B.A. in both Visual Arts and Philosophy from Mount Saint Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland. She recently joined the plein air movement, painting predominantly in plein air the last three years. Plein air painting offers a limitless studio space full of fresh air and opportunity, which is perhaps why Tara has such a fondness for the fresh, quick outdoor painting experience.

Tara tends to paint quickly with deliberate strong marks that lend well to the transient nature of painting outside. As the sun changes, the shapes, colors and mood change drastically. Tara has a great love of color and light, and she attempts to capture the essence or feeling of a location rather than a photo-realistic copy. She hopes that her work evokes feelings in viewers that bring them joy and, perhaps, encourages them to see beauty in a place that may otherwise seem ordinary.

Tara currently lives in Carroll County, Maryland, with her husband and four small children. Carroll County, Maryland, offers a wide variety of outdoor subjects that excite and inspire her.

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Peter Yesis Searsport, ME

Peter Yesis works from his home studio in Searsport, Maine, painting beautiful still life arrangements and diverse scenes from nature in a soft, realistic style. He is a member and host for the Northern Chapter of Plein Air Painters of Maine.

Peter’s paintings find the balance between detail and atmosphere intentionally leaving space for thought and reflection. When he is painting a still life, a figurative, or a landscape, his goal is to draw the viewer’s attention to the underlying beauty of the subject, but then leave them with a desire to discover more.

His work is currently represented by The Gallery at Somes Sound in Somesville, Maine, The Camden Falls Gallery in Camden, Maine, the Roux & Cyr Gallery in Portland, Maine, the Geary Gallery in Darien, Connecticut, and the Todd Bonita Gallery in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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11th Annual Wayne Plein Air Festival

has been made possible by the generosity of the participating artists, dedicated Plein Air 2017 committee, hosts, volunteers, staff, and the following patrons and business sponsors:

Committee

Rich Amens Ted Babiy Ann Marie Quinn Babiy Frank A. Bernard Barbara Berry Mary Colket Bob Campbell Nancy Campbell Debbie Cassidy Susan Connors Tim Connors Christina Copeland Keith Craley

Co-Chairs: Debbie Craley & Lindsay DuBarry

Frank Bernard Jim & Joan Bromley Bill & Laura Buck

Patrick & Patty Burke Rob Capone Jim & Phyllis Cobb Keith & Debbie Craley Jeff & Sherry Frank

Eleisha Eagle Cooke Karen Louise Fay Emma Fogt Jeff Frank Sherry Frank Jill Fulton Diane Hillyard Meredith Huston Scott Huston Denise Jefferson Betsy Joyce Geri Joseph Bozena Korczak Arnold Levinson

Maureen McAleer Nancy McGivney Laurie McGrath Ann McIlvain Jean McKinney Jane Makransky Abby Ober John Radford Sally Randolph Sabine Rehm Janice Reiser Ellen Rieder Valerie-Clark Roden Victoria Rome

Benefactors

Joe & Lindsay DuBarry Robert & Jill Fulton Alan & Ann McIlvain Nerney Family Foundation

Patrons

Priyanka Setty Karen Sheep Linda Sindaco Isabelle Singer-Kaufold Julie Spahr Patsy Surette Bob Thomason Traudi Thomason Desire Tomasco Tom Watkins Mary E. Webb Maria Wolf Denise Zantzinger

Josephine M. Schmidt John & Gerry Tuten Tom & Penelope Watkins

Dede Gilbert Wade & Wendy McDevitt William Harral III Cal D. Muchnick Tony & Lynn Hitschler Eve & Leo Pierce Robert & Denise Jefferson Michael & Sally Pillion Arnold Levinson Leonard & Sally Randolph Brian Daggett & Franz Rabauer

Joe & Janice Reiser Valerie-Clark Roden Al Santos Bob & Julie Spahr Mary E. Webb

Artist Housing Hosts Wendy & Tom Coleman Lynn & Tony Hitschler Sabine Rehm Tim & Susan Connors Arnold & Marcia Levinson Elissa Schoenlank Debbie & Keith Craley Paul & Sandy McAlaine Linda Sindaco Lindsay & Joe DuBarry Laurie & John McGrath Bob & Julie Spahr Sherry & Jeff Frank Brad & Rekah Palmer Bob & Traudi Thomason Diane Hillyard Andrea Pilling Tom & Penelope Watkins Ted Babiy & Anne Marie Quinn Joseph Marty & Lydia Hammer 77