Art Association in Roxbury

Fine and Photographic art

Meetings

Day:    First Thursday of the month from September until June, except there is no meeting in January.

Time:  Beginning at 7:15 pm and lasting until about 9:15 pm. 

Place: Roxbury Senior Center, 72 Eyland Avenue, Succasunna, NJ 07876 (see directions)

Note: The AAR Executive Board meets just prior to the general meeting at 6:15 pm.

Meeting Cancellations

For cancellations due to weather, call President Nancy Weiss at home at 973-442-9033. She will also send out an email to any members who have given her an (up to date!) email address (unless the power or her cable service is out), so please check your email if the weather is questionable. There will be a message to listen to informing you of the cancellation.

News Release: Arts Council of Morris Area Grant

Funding has been made possible in part by the Arts Council of the Morris Area through the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Programs for the 2009 - 2010 Season

These are the programs scheduled for this season. Please click on the Demonstrator/Speaker name for more information on the particular presentation.

Note: This list of demonstrators has not been finalized and is subject to change. See below for other demonstrator biographies.

Past Demonstrators from 2006 - 2007 Season: Joanne McKinney - Watercolors; Ann Kullaf - Oil Painting; Annette Hannah - - Pastel Landscape; Gene Feller - Pastel Seascape; AAR Members - Group Critique; Doris Schwint - Watercolors; Ron Orlando - Acrylic Wildlife; Julie Friedman - Critique.

Demonstrator Biographies

2009/2010 Season:

September 3, 2009  – Steve Zazenski

www.stevezazenski.com

Steve Zazenski will give a demonstration using watercolors.  Many of Steve’s paintings use vibrant colors which are placed next to each other and provide the viewer with sharp and inviting contrasts of color and form.   His subject matter is mainly inspired by the landscapes of New England, Bucks County, and the surrounding regions.  Recent travels to Europe and the U.K. are the source of some of his recent work.  He shows widely in galleries and is in many private and public collections internationally and throughout the United States.

Steve Zazenski, of Bucks County, received his BFA from the New York Institute of Technology and has been a full time artist since 1978.  He is known primarily for his traditional landscapes, through which he has developed a series of classes and workshops entitled:  “A logical Approach to Watercolor”.

Having personally attended several of his classes, I can attest to his down-to-earth and easy-to-understand teaching methods.  His demonstration will be appropriate for beginners and for advanced artists. 

 

October 1  – Doris Schwint

www.schwint.com

Doris Schwint will be giving a landscape-painting demonstration using watercolors and watercolor pencils.  Doris paints in most mediums, including: watercolor, watercolor pencil,  pastel, and pen & ink.  In her watercolors, she enjoys painting in a free-flowing-style. Her favorite subjects are local landscapes, Maine seascapes, and gardens.  She also is accomplished in painting house portraits and animal portraits. She has given many workshops and demonstrations in watercolor, acrylic, ink and collage throughout the Northwest New Jersey area.

Doris began her art career studying at Parson's School of Design, in New York City.  She has worked as an illustrator in New York City and in New Jersey.  She is in many private collections throughout the United States and has exhibited widely and won many awards.

 

Nov 1 - Auction

December 3  – Tom Valenti

www.thomasvalenti.com

Tom will give a demonstration of watercolor landscape and tonal values.

Mr Valenti is President of Allied Artists of America which is among the most prestigious art organizations in the nation with members throughout America.  He is also an Honorary Member of The Salmagundi Club in New York, one of the oldest art societies in the United States. He is listed in “Who's Who in American Art” and “Who's Who in America” and his work is featured in the January 2007, 70th Year Anniversary Issue of the American Artist Magazine, a nationally distributed publication. He is the author of “The Tonal Technique to Watercolor Painting”, an article which appeared in an issue of The Artist's Magazine.

 

The artist is the recipient of countless major awards in National and International Juried Competitions. A few recent awards are: Traveling Exhibition – American Watercolor Society;  First Place Award – Salmagundi Club Juried Members Exhibition; Best-In-Show – St Mark's 29th Annual Exhibition, Mendham,NJ; ArtKudos.com online International Exhibition and acceptance into the American Artist 70th Anniversary art competition.

 

Thomas Valenti teaches at the Ridgewood Community School and he demonstrates/lectures and conducts workshops in watercolors everywhere. He is sought after as a Juror for many major art competitions. His works are in numerous private collections here and abroad. Mr. Valenti graduated from the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Art as a Fine Art major but is for the most part self-taught. His inspiration and motivation comes from the belief that beauty is everywhere in everything.

January - No Meeting

 

Feb 4  – Group Critique

 

A group critique is planned for the February meeting where members will bring unfinished and finished art in the form of paintings, photographs and collages.  Works in progress that are of concern to the artist will be discussed as well as finished works of interest.  As always, these critiques can be informative and educational.

 

March 4 - Christina Debarry

www.debarrystudioarts.com

Christina will be giving a floral-demonstration using soft pastels. 

Christina has shown all over the world, and has won countless awards for her art. She is in many private collections.   She is Past-President of the Pastel Society of America 1998-2001.  She is an elected Full member (VP) of the Allied Artists of America, The Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, American Artist Professional League (Fellow) and Audubon Artist.  Also an elected former member of The Salmagundi Club, Pen and Brush, (1991-2001) and IAPS (International Association of Pastel Societies) former Board of Directors, Artist Fellowship,

 Debarry teaches pastel painting and enjoys giving workshops and demos. In 1997, she traveled to China and gave demos, as a guest of the Chinese Government. Her pastel workshops have taken her to Texas, Martha’s Vineyard, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Louisiana, Philadelphia, New Jersey, New York and New Hampshire in the USA as well as Canada, Bermuda, France and Mexico.

 

April 1 - Caroline Goldsmith

We will have a lottery and members and non-members can draw a chance ($1/chance) to be the one who Caroline paints. And the winner will also be able to keep the portrait.

Goldsmith has had a long career in art, starting at Swarthmore High School, with her mentor and teacher Miss Claudia Hancock.   She went on to the PA Academy of Fine Art in Philadelphia, graduating with a BFA.

 

She eventually settled in Long Island where she won numerous awards, including from the National League of American Pen Women, based in Washington DC; the Pastel Society of America; Grumbacher; Winsor Newton; and, The National Art League of Long Island.

 

Twelve years ago she moved to Hackettstown NJ, where she now lives and paints. While in Hackettstown, she has won awards at: the Art Association in Roxbury; the Senior Citizens show in Warren County ; the NJ Senior Citizens Show; and she is now the President of the Warren County Arts Association in Oxford.   

 

Goldsmith is known for her oil and pastel portraits of both children and adults.  She also paints house-portraits and landscapes of various spots in NJ. Caroline’s art work is in numerous private collections all over the United States. She exhibits her work regularly in New Jersey.  This year the Mendham Township Library will be showing her landscapes for the entire month of April.

 

May 6 - Alice Harrison and Susan G. Hammond

www.artpresspublishing.com

 

AAR Members and Co-Authors of the book, “Artists’ Guidebook to a New Creative Life – Produce, Exhibit and Sell Artwork" will present a PowerPoint presentation and discussion of their book. 

 

Both Alice and Susan are artists.  Susan ( www.susanghammond.com )does fine art photography and Alice ( www.alicenharrison.com ) does painting, printmaking and collages.  They are both in numerous art collections and art associations.  And, they have exhibited their artwork widely in galleries, colleges, museums and other venues.

 

But, their presentation will not be about their artwork.  Rather, they will be talking about the business side of being an artist.  Some of the topics they will be covering are,

 

How to:

- manage your time and stay focused on your projects   

- organize your studio space

- promote yourself, i.e. brochures, resumes, press releases, websites

- get into galleries and juried shows

- network and make yourself known

 

Much of their presentation will be from their current book,  “Artists’ Guidebook to a New Creative Life – Produce, Exhibit and Sell Artwork”.

 

 

June 4 - Professional Critique and Art Supply Sale

Our annual professional critique will be led this year by well-known artist Ann Kullaf.    Works in the form of paintings, photographs and collages will be critiqued. Everyone is  encouraged to bring one piece of art that you have been working on, either finished or in process, for Ann's comments. Our critiques are always very informative and fun.

Anne Kullaf is a faculty member of the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, the Hunterdon Museum of Art, and the Somerset Art Association. She studied graphic design and fine art at the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut and at The Art Students League in NYC.  She is an elected-artist member of the following professional organizations: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Salmagundi Club; and the International Guild of Realism. Anne exhibits in numerous galleries including Salmagundi Club and the Michael Ingbar Gallery in NYC; Trudy Labell Fine Art in Naples, Florida; Gallery MacEgan in Morristown; Chasen Galleries in Richmond, VA; and JAG Fine Art in Philadelphia.

 

 

Sept 2, 2010 - Carl Burger

W. Carl Burger will give a demonstration using oil paints. Mr. Burger emigrated in 1926 from Pforzheim, Germany to Irvington, NJ. His early interest in painting was delayed during World War II when he joined the U.S. Army Military Intelligence serving in the European Theater of Operations. After the war he attended New York University and studied fine art education. He continued his studies at Columbia University and Rutgers University. He also studied interior design, history, anthropology and semantics in order to be well-rounded for his students. His level of perfectionism can be seen in his teaching, his own art and his personal philosophy - "Art is the very essence of the nature of our being". He served as Professor of Art at Kean University from 1961 until his retirement in 1993.

Burger is a distinguished artist who has had one-person exhibits at such places as the Hunterdon Museum of Art, County College of Morris, Rider University, and the Butler Institute of Art, in Youngstown, Ohio. In addition he has had retrospectives at the Noyes Museum, in Oceanville, NJ, and the Morris Museum (to whom he has gifted 62 paintings. He has also exhibited in Lincoln Center, the National Academy of Design in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Newark Museum.

Spunk, humor and eloquence are the man and his work. His career speaks of seriousness. Currently, Burger’s work can be seen at the Coryell Gallery in Lambertville and the Riverbank Art Gallery in Stockton. Also look for his upcoming retrospective at the Trenton Museum.

 

See Demonstrator Biographies for Past Seasons

Last Updated: 08/14/2010