The Talbot County Visual Arts Center will be holding their Members’ Show, “Studio Experience 4 U, Year 2”.  This art show will showcase any 2 or 3-dimensional artwork that is done in a studio.  It isn’t plein air or

paintings done in a class, but paintings done by the artist, one-on-one time, with their own creativity and talent.  TCVAC wants to celebrate this creative outlet of their members with their first art show at their new location in the Easton Biz and Artz Center, 10 Hanson St.  Easton, MD. There is a $15 hanging fee per artist.  The day to drop off your art is Tuesday, July 2nd from 2-5 pm. This is the second year that we have celebrated the studio work of our members.

On Saturday, July 6th, “The Arts Center” will be open from 5 – 7pm to view the members’ artwork. This is also the celebration of The Talbot County Visual Arts Center in their new home.  Unfortunately, in August 2012, the center was seriously flooded. The organization of local artists persevered, and with the hard work of their Board of Directors and Committees, all volunteers, they are proud to be able to open their own doors again to the public.  Their hours of operation will be Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 11am – 4 pm.

During Plein Air Easton, The Arts Center will be open to the public from 11am – 4 pm Monday July 15 – Saturday, July 20. The following are the free demonstrations scheduled there, free admission!

July 16 – Jackie Pfaff-Pratt will be a giving a demonstration of color mixing with oil paints on   from 4:30-5:30pm.

July 17 – Jackie Pfaff-Pratt will be giving a pastel demonstration, from 3:30-5:30pm.

July 18 – Allan Mielke will be giving a demonstration of his abstract watercolor techniques.

July 19, there will be an artist doing caricatures from 11am – 3 pm, and, in conjunction with Grafton Gallery, Diane Dubois Mullaly will be giving a palette knife painting demo from 3:30 – 5:30 pm.

Talbot County Visual Arts Center is a non-profit organization, partly funded by the Talbot County Arts Council and the Maryland State Arts Council. For more information about The Arts Center, please contact Jackie Pfaff-Pratt, 443-385-0411, [email protected].

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The “Fur, Feathers & Scales”, Talbot County Visual Arts Center Members Show and Sale celebrates one of Easton’s, oldest and most respected events, the Waterfowl Festival, Nov. 9, 10 and 11,

The show will be located in the Church Alley Gallery, 32- 34 S. Washington in Easton MD.

Our members will be exhibiting their individual creative works based on this theme and is sure to be a fascinating, eclectic and some non-traditional takes on all things feathery, furry and scaly.

Expect to see work in various mediums – paintings, watercolors, pastels, photography as well as collage and constructed pieces, found art, jewelry, crafts, baskets, sculpture and more.

The Talbot County Visual Arts Center temporary office (open Fridays 11- 4pm) is located in the Talbot County Board of Election Building in the Talbot County Arts Council office, 142 N. Harrison St. Easton – next to the Talbot Town Shopping Center. Our gallery is closed during renovations following a flood in late August. The Church Alley Gallery has graciously offered their space so we can hold our November Members Show and Sale as planned.

www.talbot-art-center.org
Email: [email protected]

The Talbot County Visual Arts Center is a nonprofit organization that supports and promotes the work of local artists. Our programs, shows and classes are supported in part by the Talbot County Arts Council and the Maryland State Arts Council.

Sponsored by the Talbot County Visual Arts Center.
Location: Church Alley Gallery, 32-34 S. Washington St. Easton MD 21661
Dates: November 2 – 29
“First Friday” Opening Reception: November 2, 5 – 8 pm
Gallery Hours: 8:30 to 5:30pm weekdays
Waterfowl Festival hours, Nov. 9, 10, 11 – 10 to 4 pm

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On September 19, 20 & 21, from 9am to 3pm, well-known local artist Mary Ekroos will be teaching a workshop sponsored by Talbot County Visual Art Center about going back to the basics of how to apply what you see to canvas.  Artist attending the work shop will work on the principles of painting, composition, use of color, form and light.  This will bring out each artist’s own distinctive style.

The workshop will be held at the Spitaleri estate. In the morning there will be demonstrations with painting afterwards.  Weather permitting we will be working “En Plein Air”; if not, we will be paint in the studio.  Please bring a few photo references of landscapes and marine subjects for any studio work.

The cost for members of the Talbot County Visual Art Center will be $125.00 and $155.00 for non-members. Please bring bag lunch. For more information or questions, or to sign up for this workshop, call the Talbot County Visual Art Center 410-822-0966; or visit our web site at www.talbot–art-center.org; or call Patricia Spitaleri, 410-827-6323.

Talbot County Visual Arts Center is a non-profit organization programs and classes are sponsored in part by the Talbot County Arts Council and The Maryland States art Council.

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There will be an exciting new show at the Talbot County Visual Arts Center opening the 3rd of August entitled “Bernini, West Coast, & Redemption,” featuring artist Rob Brownlee-Tomasso. This solo show will feature recent works from three different series of Rob’s mixed media paintings on canvas. The opening reception will on Friday, August 3rd, from 5 – 7pm. This display will hang at the Visual Arts Center Gallery in Talbot Town Shopping Center through the 31st of August.

The Redemption series depicts the steps along the personal path to redemption, and are textured with earth from different places in America. The pieces from the West Coast series are paintings of places in California and Oregon, and are textured with soil taken from the sites that they depict. The Bernini series was inspired by the artist’s visit to the Borghese Gallery in Rome, depicting Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s sculptures and textured with Italian soil.

Rob Brownlee-Tomasso takes his inspiration from architecture, history and nature, as well as depicting highly conceptual characters. He creates texture studies in mixed media, and often they are on irregularly shaped canvases, and sometimes as multiple canvas installations. The acrylic medium, or gesso, is applied with a mixture of sand, earth and/or other materials to achieve a coarse surface. The main goals of his artistic expression are to find creative and dramatic subject matter that can work in conjunction with these richly textured surfaces; and to complete simple compositions that are contrasted with these complex textures. The subject matter is generally a loose interpretation of a specific concept, using simple palettes, which are often earth tones.

Rob Brownlee-Tomasso has been an artist all of his life, earning a degree in advertising design and building parallel careers in fine art and graphic design. “This allows for the creation of fine art with no compromise, in pursuit of art that is pure.” Rob has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Maryland and Virginia; and his work resides in several private collections. Rob’s paintings can be viewed online at www.rbtomasso.com.

For more information or questions regarding this workshop please call the Talbot County Visual Arts Center 410-822-0966 or visit our website www.Talbot-art-center.org. You may also call Jacqueline Pfaff Pratt, 443-385-0411. Programs and shows are sponsored or funded in part by the Talbot County Arts Council and the Maryland State Arts Council.

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