Jerry’s Artarama Materials Presentation
Members and guests love this opportunity to learn about new art products, see demonstrations, get free samples and a coupon from the best art store in Knoxville, TN. Go to yourartsupplies.com to learn about their store and art classes.
Jerry’s Artarama is Knoxville’s premiere fine art supply store, carrying a wide selection of professional art supplies, materials, fine artist brands and framing.
Website: yourartsupplies.com
Photography: Evolution of Ideas
Join us as Marianne Woodside shares her photographs each illustrative of specific subjects, techniques, and creative contexts of her photography. She will introduce topics that include photographing glass, manipulating images, and capturing images during travel. She will also discuss learning in a workshop setting, establishing a body of work (e.g. home place, wildlife, and birds), and establishing partnerships.
Marianne is known for her use of color and light, and her emphasis on creative approaches to digital photography. Embedded throughout the presentation will be themes of surprise, joy, creativity, and learning as Marianne traces the evolution of her work from its beginning to the present date.
About the Artist: Marianne Woodside spent her early years in Orange, Texas. At the age of 17, she moved with her family to Kuwait City graduating from the International School of Kuwait in 1966. She then left to attend college at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. Subsequently, she earned a a Masters in Counseling and Curriculum Studies at the Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. She then moved to Blacksburg, Virginia where she studied Counselor Education and graduated with an Ed.D. in 1974. Marianne’s long professional career has included professorships in Teacher Education, Human Services, and Counselor Education at Virginia Tech, the University of Wyoming, and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
It was during Marianne’s years in Wyoming that she developed an interest in photography. There, she developed a love for the wide-open spaces of the plains and the rugged Rocky Mountain vistas. After her move to Knoxville about 10 years ago, she was mystified as to how to photograph the flora and fauna of East Tennessee, especially the dense wilderness of the Appalachian Mountains. Today the perplexity has turned to a deep appreciation of the East Tennessee landscape and the photographic opportunities it offers. Travel to Central America, South America, the United Kingdom, Europe, and Iceland have offered additional opportunities to capture exotic photographs beyond her daily experiences. More recently, an interest in photographing glass has provided Marianne another way of expressing the relationship between man-made objects, nature, light, and color.
Artist Website: mariannewoodsidephotography.com
Live On Zoom from North Carolina
From Passion to Purpose
Contemporary artist Nancy Hilliard Joyce joins us for our Monthly Meeting on zoom this month from Concord, North Carolina.
Her paintings are generally intricate in form and filled with layers of color, perspective, gestures, and expression. Within her mixed media pieces, you may notice touches of gold leaf, elements of collage, and details of hand-painted images in both oils and acrylic. Nancy will sometimes sand or wipe down layers to reveal layers underneath while building up other sections to create texture and depth; a process that may go on for weeks or end in just a day.
Known for creating paintings with unusual perspectives of women, architecture and nature, Nancy transforms them with angles and views you wouldn’t necessarily see in life. Her recurrent themes of flowers gone to seed, wheels, women with umbrellas, and the flight patterns of birds illuminate her fascination with the observation of circles and time.
Her recent artwork of abstracted and untrammeled garden settings peppered with botanicals and her aesthetic appeal of bird imagery have been widely admired. Her work is appreciated and widely collected throughout the world in many homes, hotels, corporate offices, and airports.
Introspective, philanthropic and deeply passionate about leaving a mark on the world, she uses her art as a platform to raise money for charity and non-profit organizations giving back to the environment, women, and children in need.
Information About the Artist
Nancy Hilliard Joyce is a Greenville, SC native. At the age of sixteen, she attended the Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities. She earned her BA in Art History from Wofford College and her MA in Art Education from the University of New Mexico. For over 10 years she lived in Manhattan and New Jersey as a working artist. From 2012 – 2017, she served on the Board of Trustees at the Asheville Art Museum and was an active member of the River Arts District Association in Asheville, NC.
Nancy is a board member of The Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities Foundation as well as The Cabarrus Arts Council board. She is the art curator for boutique hotels located throughout the southeast.
Nancy regularly produces large-scale commission work for public spaces including a permanent installation at the Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport
Also an author, she penned a memoir for her son entitled: The Education of Little Me: A Short Memoir of Connecting Passion with Purpose
To follow Nancy’s daily art feed, visit Instagram or Facebook @NancyJoyceArt.
Artist’s Website: https://www.nancyjoycegallery.com/
Important Note: We will not be meeting at the Yacht Club in February. The Zoom meeting invitation will be sent to all AGTV members a few days prior to the presentation.
