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.
The Pastel Cityscape
Mike Berry creates high color, expressively interpreted cityscape paintings. He will be presenting the works and influences that were the foundation to his working style and his history and explanations of current subjects and styles in his personal art practice.
Information about the Artist
Mike C. Berry is a versatile painter who works in pastels, oils and acrylics. His colorful and vibrant compositions often bending and twisting the cityscape have become his easily identifiable style. With his use of pure color and gestural brushstrokes, he credits Wolf Kahn, James Stagg, Chaim Soutine, Edward Hopper, Joseph Delaney and many modern painters have influenced his work. Further examination of Mike’s biography and his sources of influences behind his oeuvre, reveal an artist who works with passion and solid technique to create a genuinely original body of work.
Mike is originally from the Midwest and studied illustration at the Savannah College of Art & Design, where he holds a Master’s Degree in Fine Art. He has exhibited regionally over the past decade and is currently represented by the District Gallery in Knoxville and the River Gallery in Chattanooga, TN. Mike’s interests have led him to explore the restlessness of city life, which has developed his signature artistic theme: movement of the cityscape.
As Mike discovered, pastel lends itself to being an excellent medium for quickly expressing layers of different colors and laying down a rough composition. These smaller works are often used as studies for larger works, which are further developments of his theme of movement through the landscape. Application of the pastel is done on a sanded archival paper that’s mounted to rigid panel. The larger works, with the compositions already achieved in the studies, are translated into oils or acrylics that have been applied to a medium toned canvas very rapidly, usually completing the work “alla prima.”
“My works are personal views of modern day experiences, combined with my fascination with drawing and curving perspectives along with dramatic lighting which lends itself, stylistically to the use of vivid color and bold bravado brushwork. My goal is to present fresh perspectives with the use of gestural and expressive brushwork to capture the essence of movement or activity through vibrant color application.”
Mike currently manages the UT Downtown Gallery and maintains a private studio in his home where he creates commissioned works for clients. Mike has been selected to serve as the 2021 co-chair of the Dogwood Arts Festival and currently serves on the board of Knox Heritage. He and his family have lived in Knoxville since 1999.
Artist Website: mikecberry.com
Jennifer will share her story as an artist and her passion for painting Animals.
Jennifer Gennari is a classically trained artist. She graduated in 2005 from Ringling College of Art and Design and in 2008 left for Italy to study at the Florence Academy of Art where she spent three years abroad studying classical realism under Daniel Graves.
Jennifer has been painting animals since 2014 and is driven by a deeply rooted passion to elevate and legitimize the life we have with them. Jennifer is one of the first contemporary artists to focus entirely on animal painting, and the first to spotlight the Alla Prima method centered on capturing animals with the life, drama, and integrity of a traditional human portrait. There is a breath of individual emotion and personality inside each portrait as if their soul was captured within the paint. Her work is the definition of Labor of Love.
Jennifer has also written a book on drawing the human figure, has hosted an online class through Craftsy that instructs beginners on the techniques used in creating a traditional portrait in charcoal, and is presently teaching an ever growing class on animal portraiture through Drawing America.
Jennifer’s work has been used in television shows and movies, and has received multiple awards and honors.
Artist Website: www.jennifergennari.com
NOTE: This meeting will be held online via Zoom. A Zoom invite will be sent out to all current members prior to the meeting on November 18.
Chico Osten will be the guest artist speaking at our monthly meeting on October 21, 2021. The meeting is on the top floor of the Yacht Club; Coffee begins at 9:45 am, Meeting at 10:00 am. You don’t have to be an Art Guild Member to attend; visitors are invited!
Chico will share examples of his previous work in watercolor and oils. Then he will explain precious metal clay, the process of working with it, and examples of finished works.
Chico is a graduate of the University of Tennessee, earning both an undergraduate and graduate degree in art education with a minor in fine arts.
Chico studied at Arrowmont and with numerous regional and national artists.
He taught many years for Knox Co. Schools, grades K-12. He developed the art program at Austin-East Magnet High School. After retiring, he worked for several years as a Distinguished Professional for Knox Co. Schools. For seventeen years he also taught two classes as an adjunct professor with Tusculum University.
Chico has exhibited in numerous juried regional shows, earning several awards. His work is most recently shown in The Art in the Airport exhibit.
Currently, he teaches a painting class at the Oak Ridge Art Center and is a member of The Foothills Craft Guild. For more information about Chico and his work: CharlesOstenJewelry.com
Bill Capshaw, Professional Potter, will be the guest artist speaking at our monthly meeting on September 16th, 2021. The meeting is on the top floor of the Yacht Club; Coffee begins at 9:45 am, Meeting at 10:00 am. You don’t have to be an Art Guild Member to attend; visitors are invited!
Bill will share the story of his contemporary ceramic pieces, discussing their design, texture and color combinations.
“The works are representative of my life. As an artist, we focus on the piece on which we are working and try not to get to the end until the end reveals itself. At that time, you know it is complete, and the next piece now demands your full attention.”
Bill earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Ceramics in 1971 and a Master of Fine Arts in Printing Processes in 1974 from East Tennessee State University.
In 1977 Bill began teaching painting, drawing and pottery at the Oak Ridge Art Center. For more than 30 years, he has served as Pottery Chair and Instructor and has served as President of Board of Directors of the Oak Ridge Art Center.
Bill volunteered with the Tennessee Arts Commission 1987 to 2001 having served as grants application reviewer for At Risk Youth grants and was named Artist of the Year in 1998 by the Arts Council of Greater Knoxville.
Bill was selected to create the 2017 Tennessee Governor’s Arts Award. Each award was a one-of-a-kind hand-crafted piece of Raku pottery created by Bill. View this brief video here.
Bill lectures, consults, and conducts workshops and private lessons in ceramic processes at all levels. He has conducted workshops at the Appalachian Center for Craft, Arrowmont School, Vanderbilt University, Virginia Intermont College, Children’s Museum of Oak Ridge, and various area middle and high schools.
Bill’s professional works are in permanent collections of the Tennessee Arts Commission, Huntsville Museum of Art, and East Tennessee State University’s Slocum Gallery. Works are with many private collectors, including the mayor of Naka Machi, Japan; former Mayor Victor Ashe of Knoxville; former Mayor David Bradshaw of Oak Ridge; Hank Stoner, Dr. & Mrs. R. Campbell, Margaret Young, Robert & Dot Hightower, Dr. Richard & Wendy Ferrin, and David & Pat Coffey, and many more.
Spring Art Show Gallery Talk
Join us for a celebration of our Spring Art Show! Kimberly Winkle, Professor and Director of the School of Art, Craft & Design at Tennessee Technological University will present a “Gallery Talk”. Kimberly, who was juror of the 2020 Oak Ridge Open Show, will choose artwork from our online show to highlight the artist’s mastery of subject and/or medium.
Information about the Presenter:
Kimberly Winkle is a maker who creates furniture and objects using wood and paint; her work displays a balance of form, color and surface pattern. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, including SOFA Chicago, Wanted Design NYC and the Architectural Digest Home Show.
Kimberly Winkle is a Professor and Director of the School of Art, Craft & Design at Tennessee Technological University. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Art in Ceramics from the University of Oklahoma and a Master of Fine Art in Furniture Design from San Diego State University. Her workshop teaching experience includes Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Penland School of Crafts, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, Anderson Ranch Art Center, The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, John C. Campbell Folk School and the Appalachian Center for Craft.
Learn more about Kimberly Winkle and her art: kimberlywinkle.com
NOTE: This meeting will be held online via Zoom. A Zoom invite will be sent out to all current members prior to the meeting on May 20.
Tips For Painting Beautiful Wildflowers
Karen will share her tips for painting beautiful wildflowers through a demonstration and sharing some of her paintings.
Information about the Artist:
Karen Margulis is a full time artist and art educator. She lives in Atlanta Georgia with her husband Michael. Karen received her BA in Education from the University of Florida. She currently teaches painting workshops around the world.
Karen is a contemporary landscape painter. She works in most painting media but has achieved recognition for her pastel paintings. She has exhibited her award winning work around the world and has been reviewed by Pastel Journal for her wildflower paintings. She is a signature member of the Pastel Society of America and a Masters Circle recipient of the International Association of Pastel Societies. She was recently a faculty member at the prestigious IAPS Convention.
Karen has a passion for travel and painting while on location. She enjoys the opportunity to share her techniques and approach to making art in her workshops. She is known for her ability to make art simple, accessible to all and fun.
Karen is also an avid Daily Painter and blogger. She paints everyday and shares her work, art tips and inspiration in her daily posts on her blog ‘Painting My World’.
Karen is delighted to be able to be a pastel instructor. She is excited to share her love of art and help students experience the joy of painting. As Degas said “Art is not what you see. It’s what you make others see”.
Karen looks forward to helping others share their own artistic vision.
Here are several of Karen’s paintings:
NOTE: This meeting will be held online via Zoom. A Zoom invite will be sent out to all current members prior to the meeting on April 15.
Update Your Game with Graphite
Laurie will present her path to creativity, the phases of creative development and the benefits of sketching, including a few graphite exercises.
Laurie Szilvagyi is a graduate of the University of Texas at Dallas and is a member of the International Guild of Realism and Signature Member of the Tennessee Watercolor Society. Laurie’s work includes drawing, composition, watercolor and oil painting. Her watercolors have been recognized in national and international watercolor exhibits where she has received numerous awards including the Grumbacher Gold Medallion. She currently studies oil painting under the mentorship of Anthony Waichulis of ANI Academy. Most recently, Laurie’s ” Gentleman Jack” painting has been juried into the International Guild of Realism’s upcoming Spring Exhibition. For more details see our Member Highlights page.
Laurie was the President of the Tellico Art Guild for two years where she shared her STRETCH philosophy through Learning Labs and a variety of workshops. Over the past twelve years, Laurie has been teaching drawing, oil painting and watercolor workshops in Tennessee since retiring from a fifteen-year business career. Laurie’s teaching style is fun and expressive with written exercises and a formal presentation. Laurie demonstrates the same professionalism in her art workshops as she did as a Certified Management Consultant leading large system change projects for a major utility in Michigan.
Website: Laurie’s artwork is held in private collections and can be viewed on her Webpage: szilvagyiart.com, Facebook and Instagram.
NOTE: This meeting will be held online via Zoom. A Zoom invite will be sent out to all current members prior to the meeting on March 18.
