NMPL Art Gallery Blog

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Boguslaw Wroblewski

October 30, 2011 through December 11th, 2011

I am an amateur photographer specializing in nature photography. I was born and raised in Poland. From early childhood, I demonstrated an interest in nature. My educational background is in Forestry, but upon coming to the United States I began a career as a land surveyor. Upon retirement, I became increasingly involved in photography traveling with my camera on back country roads capturing variations in light, color and mood of the landscapes that surround us.

I am a member of the Polish Society of Artists. I have exhibited my works, both individually and as part of a group, in various venues, including the State Capitol in Hartford, the Sloper-Wesoly Heritage House in New Britain, the New England Carousel Museum in Bristol, the Oliver Wolcott Library in Litchfield, the Burlington Public Library and at the Kurier Plus Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. Most recently, I had a private showing at a fundraiser for “The Magic is Back at Harkness Park”. What I love about photography is that it allows me to express my innermost feelings through my observations of life and nature.

Veralyn Davee Quilting

2011-09-30T08:32:00.000-07:00

October 2nd through October 30th.

Veralyn Davee has been quilting for 35 years and has been a ribbon winner in the Michigan State Fair and local and regional quilt shows in Michigan and Connecticut.

She enjoys the fabric/color selection and design process of both traditional blocks and original pieces. Most piecing is done by machine, then quilted by machine or hand; she also does hand-applique work.

She has studied the history and development of quilting as an American Craft and art form and has done lectures and trunk shows over the years. She feels one of her strengths is the use of color in her work. It is what she is most drawn to for inspiration.

Currently living in Kent and working as an audiologist at Hearing Aid Specialists in New Milford for the last ll years, she is active in two area guilds--Mountain Laurel Quilters in New Milford and Southford Falls Quilt Guild in Middlebury. She gives away many baby quilts and wedding gifts to friends and family, donates quilts to community and civic groups for fund-raising and does individual commissioned pieces.

She hopes you enjoy this sampling of some of her most recent work.

Photography by Ray Kwiatkoski

2011-08-08T09:16:00.000-07:00

Author/Photographer Raymond Kwiatkoski will display selected color and black and white photographs starting Sunday, August 7th 2011, at The New Milford Public Library. Also on display will be a copy of his soon to be released book entitled “Rural Wealth” . This show will run through September 18th.

Mary Gates June 2th- August 7th 2011

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Mary Shanley Gates: biographical information
New Milford Public Library
Art Show: June 27th to August 6th 2011

“In the Style of: Inspired by Favorite Artists”

Mary Shanley Gates has spent most of her life in Connecticut, except for two and a half years as a VISTA volunteer in Montana. She worked in the Brookfield school system for thirty two years as a teacher and curriculum coordinator. She co-authored a teacher resource book, Living with the Land, published in 1998. With her husband, Timothy, she has been a New Milford resident for more than thirty years. She published a 2009 calendar, Lighthouse Landscapes, from her original paintings. She takes classes with two prominent local artists, Alisyn Hamilton and Anda Styler. Mary can be reached by email at: marysgates@gmail.com.

Rationale for this show:

For centuries, artists have visited museums and galleries to study the works of other artists. Painting or drawing the works of others expands artistic vision in a concrete manner.
For this show, I have interpreted favorite works of some well known artists. I have included original works that illustrate the effect these artists have had on my work. For example, I have always been drawn to the strong use of color in my work, as have the artists I modeled for this show. Primarily I work in acrylics, but occasionally do pieces in oil, pastel, or water color.

Christina Falise Chernobyl, 25 Years After

2011-05-16T07:15:00.000-07:00

I have been photographing the world around me for almost as long as I can remember. Growing up in New York City, my
single working mother only rarely took out her camera. Holidays and special events were the only times that the old Agfa
made its appearance, and film would often remain in that camera for several years before being developed. Seeing those rare
snapshots for the first time years later, I found them somewhat unsettling. Those people in that frame seemed lost. They were
permanently frozen in emulsion from 1972. I was fascinated by the images and by the gulf of time which lay between us, and I
realized that photographs have a unique ability. They can make the temporary permanent.
After being introduced to the darkroom in a fifth grade photo class, my love of photographs only grew as I did. Using a beat up
old 35mm camera, I would wander the streets of New York after school photographing anything that caught my interest,
and very often those images were of ignored or hidden places and people. These are subjects which I find I return to again
and again. While my equipment and experience have grown and evolved over the years, my reasons for photographing have
not changed all that much. Regardless of the subject, I have always worked to capture that elusive feeling I had as a child
looking at the old snapshots.
I prefer to work with 6x6cm black and white film and make my prints in a wet darkroom. I feel that making my photographs
this way keeps me closer to the original source, and find the square format both challenging and rewarding. When working in
this medium I never crop an image, preferring to always print full-frame. In recent years, however, I have come to embrace
digital media as well. It allows for a certain spontaneity and flexibility that the film process lacks. Regardless of the format, I
still start with the basic process of recording light exactly as it existed at one specific moment in time. For me, it is this
characteristic which makes photography so unique and important. That singular act of framing and capture sits in diametric
opposition to the very nature of time. It makes the temporary permanent.
It is this very quality of photography which allows me to explore the themes of life, death and our world. The more I work,
and the older I get, the more I want to study and understand the transient nature of human life and its influence upon our
planet.

Melanie Cilfone Photography

2011-01-09T12:20:00.000-08:00

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Melanie Cilfone
“Ha”
The Breath of Life

One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space. Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life. My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon. It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be see many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will. ~Rachel Carson
I find that my job as an artist is to capture something ordinary, something everyday, in such a way that it is seen in a new light. To force people to stop and recognize what they take for granted, to find the underlying beauty and truth in my subjects, even if the beauty is plainly seen. There is a moment to be captured everywhere and I love to be able to hold that moment in time knowing that it never will really occur again, something will always be different. At that time, at that place, it has been captured and held exactly how it will always be.
In this particular body of work, I want to show these types of moments through photographs of my time on the islands of Hawaii. The islands hold their own particular magic and beauty that locals never take for granted. They appreciate all that has been given to them and find the breath of life, their ‘Ha’, within the land and sea that they see everyday. Locals live free and in the moment, taking it all in. I offer up to you as a challenge to find the beauty in your everyday, in the simple things in life. It’s there, if you stop long enough to open your eyes and look for it. Find your ‘Ha’.

Colin Harrison

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Colin Harrison

November 14th to January 9th

Lower level Gallery

Colin Harrison is a native of northern England and he lived for some thirty years in Brookfield. He is an engineer and researcher by profession and a photographer since the age of seven by avocation. Often these two passions have intertwined in the development of scientific and medical imaging systems. Colins intent is to help the viewer see the abstract patterns that are found in familiar scenes and to understand the world in terms of these patterns. This approach is often non-representational and such images are often mistaken for watercolour paintings. He has studied in recent years with Kunio Owaki, Freeman Patterson, and the Sant順e Workshop. He exhibits regularly in western Connecticut and can be reached at cgh260247@aol.com

artist statement:

Colin's intent is to help the viewer see the abstract patterns that are found in familiar scenes and to understand the world in terms of these patterns. This approach is often non-representational and such images are often mistaken for watercolour paintings

Sally Anderson Bruce

2010-11-17T15:30:00.000-08:00

Sally Anderson-Bruce

November 14th to January 9th

Upper Level Gallery
Sally Andersen-Bruce’s photographs of animals have been featured by the US Postal Service in the celebrated Spay and Neuter postage stamp series and the current Adopt A Shelter Pet series. In this exhibit Sally brings her keen eye and deep regard for each spirit before her lens to a group of dogs and cats whose hard lives have ended up so much happier than anyone could have expected. The compassion and generosity of the many people who rescued and adopted these animals serves as inspiration to Sally, as she continues to photograph these animals and to search for a publisher of her portraits and stories about rescue animals.

Two of the animals in the exhibit have not been adopted.

A percentage of all sales will be donated to The Animal Welfare Society of New Milford

Sally can be reached at www.sabphoto.com

Artist statement: I treat the rescue animals with the same respect and admiration that I bring into my corporate photo sessions

Richard Stalter Art Show October 3 through November 14th

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Richard was born in Dayton, Ohio on April 27th 1934. He developed an interest in art at a very early age, gaining recognition for his work in both grade school and high school. He kept his interest in art alive in his college years at Ohio State University and after he graduated. He mistakenly thought that advertising was the only practical way to utilize his artistic interests to make a living.

In 1958, during a six month stay in New York City, he met and befriended a master impressionist artist, Bernard Lennon. In l964, Richard quit his job in advertising and moved to Gaylordsville, Ct to study with Mr. Lennon and began his career as a professional artist. That year also marked the beginning of his participation in the Washington Square Outdoor Art Exhibit (New York City) and the Mystic Outdoor Art Festival (Mystic, Ct). Throughout the years, he won many prizes in both shows including First Prize in Oils four times in the Mystic exhibition and Special Landscape Award at the Washington Square show. During those years he also participated in other group shows in the Northeast winning prizes several times in Newport, RI and once in Atlantic City, NJ.

Mr. Stalter paints his subjects on location finding inspiration from scenes throughout the Litchfield Hills and nearby New York State, within easy reach of his Gaylordsville home. He paints all four seasons at these locations and adds figures and still life painting done from life to his body of work. From the 1960's through the 1980's, he traveled yearly to Provincetown and Wellfleet on Cape Cod to capture the seaside light and subjects and visited there in 2007 to paint. Beginning in the 80's, he sought out the boat and water subjects on Mystic and Stonington, Ct. He still paints there two or three times a year.

Locally, many will remember Mr. Stalter for his helping to initiate an unsuccessful attempt to bring an art museum to New Milford.

Chris Osborne through August 29, 2010

2010-08-31T08:33:00.000-07:00

www.ChrisOArt.com

Recipient of the 2007 National Society of Painters in Casein & Acrylic (NSPCA) Prize, the Classic Car Club of America 2003 Fine Art Award of Excellence, and the Glenmoor Gathering (Ohio) 2007 Best of Show award, Chris Osborne pays homage to the American automobile by way of the art of portraiture. “There are key things in American culture that absorb my attention, the fabulous cars of decades past, the colorful people who drove them, the Hollywood Golden Age, and the true American musical genres, Jazz & Blues. Any combination of these elements may appear in my work. After exhaustive factual research and the use of figurative models, I like to apply an imaginative view of history, bringing to the present a candid moment in time shared with the viewer.”

Raised in New Milford, Connecticut, Osborne received a BA in Art from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson NY and an MFA in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After an extended stay on Martha’s Vineyard in the 1970’s, she moved to New York City, working with legendary artist’s agent Jane Lander representing a group of illustrators with a preference toward fine art. This pivotal move guided Chris toward figurative drawing and painting, and in the mid-1980’s she left the agent profession to pursue art on her own. Over the decade of the 1990’s Chris supplemented her work by managing the Jazz & Blues department at Tower Records Lincoln Center, the largest retail record store in New York, which put her significantly in the midst of the music world. It was an experience that will forever enrich her painting, as she is currently working on a history of Jazz and a history of Blues in visual form, decade by decade, city by city, with the American automobile as a natural focal point.

Also, a painting of Jimi Hendrix with his 1969 Corvette Stingray is a current work in progress.

Chris has exhibited widely in galleries and art associations in the Northeast and New York City, along with invitational exhibits at annual Collector Car events such as the Kruse Auction in Auburn, Indiana, the Louisville Concours d’Elegance, the Hamptons Concours d’Elegance, the Glenmoor Gathering of Significant Automobiles, the Las Vegas Concours d’Elegance, the Fairfield County Concours d’Elegance, and the Classic Car Club of America annual gathering in Hickory Corners, Michigan. She was the CCCA poster artist for 2005. In April & May of 2006 the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum and Kruse Museum in Indiana exhibited her work in a solo show. The Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists honored her with a 2010 Award of Merit.

Hidden Treasures Reprocessed

2010-05-24T13:20:00.001-07:00

May 23, 2010 through July 11, 2010

Photography Show by Edward Camden Fisher

E. Camden Fisher was raised in the natural wonders of New Milford, CT and the surrounding Litchfield Hills. After graduating from Wesleyan University, he moved to Chicago, Illinois where he met the love of his life. There he became fascinated with finding the beauty in urban landscapes and telling the stories of strangers through captured moments in time. Camden now lives in New Haven with Dianna and their dog Baxter. He continues to search for the perfect perspective of things long forgotten and moments that tell a lifelong story.

CJ Guerrin

2010-04-08T11:38:00.000-07:00

April 10th through May 23, 2010

C.J. Guerin is an artist who seeks to transfer the beauty of nature to canvas. She travels the Northeast in search of invigorating scenery to capture.

C.J. is an elected member of the Silvermine Guild of Artists, a distinguished group of professional artists based at the Silvermine Guild Arts Center in New Canaan, CT. The Silvermine Guild Arts Center has, for 100 years, been a gathering place where artists such as Milton Avery and Helen Frankenthaler and art lovers come to appreciate, enjoy and learn about the arts.

Through the Guild and other organizations, C.J. teaches workshops in landscape painting, as well as paper lithography, monotypes, solar etching and collagraph

http://www.cjguerin.com/

Photography by J.G. Moore

2010-02-25T07:44:00.000-08:00

Joe Moore was born and raised in New Jersey and started photographing family members when his father let him use the family camera, a 35mm Agfa. He soon became fascinated with photography and nature, taking many photos on his frequent hiking and backpacking trips. He experimented with infrared abstracts and made many photos with what came to be called "light painting." Many of his infrared scenics have an "otherworldly quality" that makes portions of the image jump off the page.

Moving to Connecticut in l974, he joined the Silvermine Guild of Artists in New Canaan, Ct. where many of his works have been on display. He has spent the next 36 years photographing nature and scenics, up and down the east coast of the United States and the Rocky Mountains. Working primarily in 35 mm. he also uses 6x7 cm and 4x5 formats. He employs normal, macro and micro photography techniques and specializes in unusual angles and lighting.

Having made the change to digital, he enjoys taking advantage of the extreme details that the equipment affords. Many of his works not only include images taken with camers, but also with scanners that show detail that is usually invisible to an untrained eye.

Joe currently resides in New Milford with his wife and two children.

http://picasaweb.google.com/jgmoore404/JGMooreImagerySampler?feat=email#

Bill Hughes January 10th through February 21, 2010

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A brief who's who, what's what appears appropriate, so here goes.

A great many of Mr. Hughes' professional artistic endeavors have been in theater, ranging from set and scenic design, to costume and puppet design, to poster and art design. Off stage, he has handled commissions for celebrity art pieces, museum wildlife renderings, and retail design.

If you want more:

As author, Mr. Hughes was recently represented on the Connecticut stage by the 2009 premiere of his new comedy See Dick...
In 2005 his puppet & people production of Ghost of a Chance was presented to critical and popular acclaim. Previous Connecticut productions include successful stage adaptations of The Picture of Dorian Gray and Frankenstein.

Growing up in and around NYC theater offered the opportunity to witness and learn from many of the best, on, off and backstage. The result of these opportunities ranged from founding several theater troupes to acting, directing, puppet design and performance, choreographing and teaching, set and scenic design, alongside many truly talented individuals. While the majority of the work occurred Off-B’way and Off-Off B’way, there were the periodic visits uptown.

During his "New York" years Mr. Hughes, as well as enjoying professional associations with a number of designers, performers, producers and playwrights, had the privilege of lending some of the latter a hand and an occasional word or two. Nowadays, non-ectoplasmic authorship has its rewards as well as risks, with one’s own, flesh and blood name sitting alongside the title. Next up, the finishing touches to a dark comedy titled, The Trinity Recruit.

http://overtheline.yolasite.com/

Judith Cerrato

2009-11-18T14:50:00.000-08:00

Judith Cerrato grew up in New Milford, Connecticut and has always enjoyed the outdoors and taking photos. She was married a year ago and is forty years old. When not taking photos, Judith works for Toyota in Wappinger's Falls as a customer relations manager. Her photos reflect her great love and appreciation of the outdoors. She dedicates her work to the love of her life Robert Cerrato and in memory of her father,John Bucinsley and the man that was like a second father to her, Paul Gauluski

Abby Ripley

2009-09-29T10:27:00.000-07:00

October 4, 2009 through November 14, 2009

Abby Ripley’s Biography

Abby Ripley is happy to claim residence in New Milford, CT. She grew up on a cattle ranch in Montana then moved with her parents and siblings to Arizona. She graduated from the University of Arizona and Arizona State University with degrees in music.

In 1968 she joined the Peace Corps and spent time in Niger, West Africa. It was there that she really became serious about photography and found herself at ease totally immersed in a foreign culture. When all the black-and-white film she had taken in Africa was ruined by a commercial laboratory, she decided to study photography and become adept in every aspect. For that she moved to New York City to attend the New York Institute of Photography, hoping to become a fashion photographer. However, the institute was run by men who told her that only men could do fashion photography. Discourage in that ambition, she pursued a more accessible career as a wholesale travel agent.

On trips to South and Central America and Asia she did take numerous photos but always wondered what she should do with them. After a few more career changes, she decided to return to school for graduate work in anthropology. An exciting part of that endeavor was selecting a group of people to live among in order to study some interesting aspect of their society and culture. An article in the National Geographic drew her attention to Ladakh, a remote region in the Himalayas. Ladakh is populated predominantly by people of Tibetan stock practicing Tibetan Buddhism, though there is also a significant Muslim population. It is administered by India (as part of the state of Jammu and Kashmir) but borders Tibet, China, and Pakistan. Because India has fought wars with both Pakistan and China in this area, it was closed to foreigners for a number of years. It had only when recently opened to visitors when Abby made her first trip there.

She did this in 1982, with encouragement from an Indian educator. She traveled through Amritsar, Jammu, and Srinagar by train and bus, in order to acclimatize herself for the high elevation in Ladakh. However, while in Srinagar she contracted dengue fever. She was therefore delirious as she undertook what might have been the greatest adventure of her life. This was the bus trip over the Zoji pass in the westernmost range of the Trans Himalayas in a blinding snowstorm. The bus slipped and slid around hairpin turns, but she was barely aware of it. She was too weak even to get off the bus for lodging en route. Once in Leh, the capital of Ladakh, a local found her a room in a very primitive hotel where she remained in her sleeping bag for nearly two weeks, recovering from her illness.

Although this was not a very propitious beginning, Abby was befriended by individuals who helped her find a Ladakhi home to live in. She met more and more of these wonderful, generous, happy, and humorous people. Eventually she settled with a charming Christian family in a beautiful village not far from Leh, up a mountain valley above the Indus River and directly in view of the highest peaks in the Ladakhi Himalaya.

She was invited to attend many village functions and photographed them. Several villagers agreed to be her informants and her language teacher (Ladakhi is a Tibetan dialect). They soon realized that she really wanted to know everything about their society and particularly their rituals, e.g., births, marriages, funerals as well as seasonal rituals. She spent many days and nights observing and photographing these events and taking copious notes about everything.

She spent nearly two years studying Ladakhi social rituals that bind the villagers to one another to form a community. When she returned home her life here took over, and nothing was done with all the photographs she took. Unfortunately she had used cheap film that lost its integrity. As a result, now that she has begun to exhibit as a photographer, she has had to restore many of the negatives taken in Ladakh. Still, she hopes they will provide viewers with an informed view of the land and people she has come to cherish.

If anyone has questions about the exhibit or about Ladakh, you may call her directly: (860) 355-4265. If there is sufficient interest, she is available to give a lecture on the subject. There are other images of Ladakh on her Website: http://abbyripleyphotoart.com. All photographs are for sale.

Housatonic Art Gallery

2009-09-08T13:30:00.000-07:00

August 23 through October 3rd, 2009

The Housatonic Art League (or H.A.L.) is a non-profit art organization serving the Greater New Milford area as well as many other western Connecticut towns.

Organized in 1971 by a small group of professional and semi-professional artists, HAL has grown over the last 30 years to become a multi-faceted organization. Amateurs, students, Sunday painters, emerging artists and professionals are all equally welcome as members. HAL provides an arena in which artists and craftsmen can socialize, exchange ideas, meet new friends and learn new skills that may enhance their lives and careers.

HAL awards a scholarship annually to an area high school senior winner of a portfolio competition, and provides qualified art show judges free of charge on a regular basis to community organizations.
HAL also sponsors art exhibits for local banks, restaurants, and businesses, monthly art demos ("An Evening with the Masters"), and art classes taught at reasonable rates to area residents.

Sharon Farber Art Show

2009-07-09T08:39:00.000-07:00

July 12- August 22nd, 2009

Sharon graduated with honors from U Mass Amherst in 1983, with a BA in sociology. After several years as a social worker she began a twenty year career as a massage therapist and healer. She taught classes in massage and healing, and created the Avon Massage Therapy Center which she sold after fifteen years in order to pursue a full time career as an artist.

Sharon has studied watercolor with Anne Lindsay, Susan Abbot, Tom Lynch, Tony Couch, Brian Colbath, and Jeanne Carbonetti. She studies privately with Laura Eden. Sharon has exhibited in Torrington, Winsted, New Hartford, Barkhamsted, Canton, Avon, Granby, East Granby, West Hartford, Manchester, New Haven, Bloomfield, Simsbury, Farmington, Hartford and Chester. Solo shows scheduled for 2009 include New Milford and Cheshire, CT and Great Barrington, Mass.

Sharon is now teaching watercolor painting. She is a member of the Connecticut Watercolor Society, Avon Arts Association, and the Farmington Valley Arts Center. Sharon is the Education Coordinator and a member of the New Hartford Art League.
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Sheila Tintera May 24th-July llth

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In 1969 Sheila began her art studies at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston, followed by several years at Silvermine School of Art in Norwalk. She has studied at NY Botanical Gardens, Southern Ct State University, Washington Art Assoc, and Wooster Center for the Arts. Her work has been included in group exhibitions from The Downstairs Gallery at The Firehouse in New Milford, The Firenze Gallery, and Cooley Gallery to The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA to her most recent, at Studio 889, Bronx NY. In 2007 Sheila received Honorable Mention, in the Exhibition A Sense of Place here at Hunt Hill Farm, The Silo Gallery. She is both oil painter and printmaker. In June she will begin The Henderson Cultural Center’s Artist In Residency program and is presently in the prestigious Critique held by Yale School of Art Professor, Barbara Grossman. This show will feature her works in oil of several still lifes and the surrounding New England landscape

Richard Close April 19 through May 23

2009-05-05T11:22:00.000-07:00

Missions, Consultant, Writer and Photographer

Richard Close Kenya

Why do I write with images?

All the reasons I write will one day fill a lengthy book. I spent a lifetime searching for God and happiness. Was at the feet of top yogis, work for the top companies, raised a family and watched a very self-centered world that was all about "me". Finally God found me and stopped my life dead in it's track all the way down to living homeless in a Gospel Rescue Mission. There God became my true Father with a walking relationship filled with many miracles and amazing adventures. I will tell you this. That Jesus is real and very alive today. His witness can be seen all through this site. Today I consult to missions, raising a second family and worship in Brooklyn Tabernacle with every nation in the world. I will also tell you that I am nothing special, not even a professional photographer or writer, never had a lesson in either one. This is my witness so that you know that if you let God use you, your life will become an amazing adventure.

Brooklyn Tabernacle Learning CenterI love the people of Africa and Brooklyn. I see the the traditional purity of Godly work ethics and raising of their children. I Love the honest struggle of parents making a living, supporting children and praising God for it all. Something I feel modern America has so tragically lost. When God is in you heart you will fall in love in a new deep way with Him and your life will transform filled with His Grace and Mercy.

The boring details:

Richard Close, CEO The Chrysalis Campaign has 20 plus years as a visionary, strategic planner and consultant to the eLearning industry. He has been an industry consultant, speaker, analyst and author of white papers on: search learning, Knowledge Management and eLearning, NLP, and Best Practices in Healthcare eLearning Methodologies. Clients in the training business include: IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems and numerous eLearning companies.

Currently he is running webinars for "Best Practices for Healthcare in eLearning" and "Best Practices for Nurse Educators" which are attended by hundreds of Healthcare institutions across the country. Other breakthrough webinars he has co-developed have been attended by over a thousand healthcare institutions.

As a senior consultant, he has developed marketing and learning programs for companies such as: Sun Microsystems, American Management Association, Graduate School USDA, Michigan Virtual University, Catapult/IBM Leaning Services, International Data Corporation, Oracle, Powersoft/Sybase and Global Knowledge (Digital Learning Services), Lotus Development, Microsoft and Symantec. His corporate experience has been with MCI International, GE and Keane.

Richard has been a key player in the launching of several eLearning companies and technology centers in New York. He has published learning white papers and methodologies, in the field of Knowledge Management, Virtual Change Programs, Transformational Learning-NLP and Healthcare Learning Method.

THE CHRYSALIS CAMPAIGN. INC.

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Richard donates 1/3 of his income to The Chrysalis Campaign, Inc. which provides strategic consulting, learning services, training and creative services and resources that support poor urban US and African communities. Current projects are in Kenya, Zambia and Haitte. For more information contact: chrysaliscamp@aol.com

Mountain Laurel Quilters

2009-03-05T12:47:00.002-08:00

March 8th through April l8th

This exhibit features a variety of quilts, wall hangings, and framed pieces by members of the Mountain Laurel Quilters. This guild was started in 2000 and is now preparing for its third biennial show - Quilt Festival III - which will be April 25 and 27th at Sarah Noble School in New Milford, Ct.

The exhibit features a variety of quilting techniques, such as a piecing, applique, embroidery, stenciling and hand and machine quilting. There is a range of traditional to contemporary styes showing the individual interpretation of a design by the quilter.

The Mountain Laurel quiliters meets on the third Tuesday of the month at the Richmond Center on Main Street in New Milford and is composed of beginning and experienced quilters who enjoy sharing, learning and donating back to area communities with charitable projects.

Mary Shanley Gates

2009-01-09T08:53:00.000-08:00

January 18th through February 28th, 2009

Mary Shanley Gates has spent most of her life in Connecticut, except for two and a half years as a VISTA volunteer in Montana. She worked in the Brookfield school system for thirty two years as a teacher and curriculum coordinator. She co-authored a teacher resource book, Living with the Land, published in 1998. With her husband, Timothy, she has been a New Milford resident for more than thirty years. She recently published a 2009 calendar, Lighthouse Landscapes, from her original paintings.

The strong use of color can be seen in Mary’s work. Two styles of painting that she has always been drawn to are Impressionism and primitive Americana. Some of her favorite artists are Van Gogh, Monet, Grandma Moses, and Charles Wysocki. She is most satisfied when her work makes viewers smile.

Mary works primarily in acrylics, but has used other media such as oils, pastels, water colors, and gouache. Some of her work is currently displayed at Building Block Art Supply and Gallery in Ridgefield, CT.

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Lori Barker Art Show December 14th through January 17th, 2009

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Art is my Church, Reiki is my Prayer

Lori's work is an imitation of her life, an ongoing collage, deep with excitement and spiritual mysteries. As a Reiki and Shamballa Master and therapeutic touch practitioner there is always the desire to explore the other side of matter and to express what the artist inside sees.

‘Using the right side of my brain, as an artist for 35 years, I speak to the left on fewer occasions now. Pictures form my logic, numbers become elements for collages and philosophical thoughts turn into hues of the palette. Much of my art is formed by dreams and executed by intuition. Angel photography dominates my mixed media engravings on metal but other techniques and images are filtering in when I least expect them.’
Photography, paint and unusual materials comprise the palette of Lori’s art. She has developed her style in manipulated Polaroid image transfers, emulsion transfers engraved photo transfers on metal and mixed media collage.

Lori is a former teacher and graduate of Southern Conn. St. University
Further studies at Savannah College of Art and Design, Bennington College, and Omega Institute.
Solo exhibits in Connecticut include: The UCONN Library, Norfolk Artisan's Gallery, Atelier Gallery in New Milford, Church House Concerts, Haddam, the Gathering Place, Hartford, and New Milford, Torrington, and Waterbury Hospitals, St. Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury and numerous libraries including the Oliver Wolcott Library in Litchfield and the Hunt Library in Falls Village.
Lori’s one-woman shows in other states include the Santarella Museum in Tyringham, MA, and the Smith Gallery in Manchester, VT.

She was Artist in residence at Santarella Museum in Tyringham, MA.
Lori was featured in magazines including the Crafts Report , Artitude, Artella and on the covers of Reiki One and The Door Opener.

Ed Kruelski November 3 through December 6, 2008

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Ed Kruelski, Jr. Art Show

Ed is a self-taught artist who uses the mediums of charcoal and pastels. He has received awards from:

Richter Center for the Arts

Candlewood Art League

Society of Creative Artists, Newtown

Kent Art Association

Ridgefield Guild of Artists

Connecticut Pastel Society

Pastel Society o America

The Salmagundi Club

Art is a "profound challenge; personal and universal, immediate and endless, direct and etherial." My thanks to Westconn for their Guest Artist Lecture series--free and open to the public and my thanks to those artists who candidly share their enthusiasm, their hones critique and their friendship."

Laurie Quigley Sweet Oct 26 through December 6, 2008

2008-11-05T12:39:00.000-08:00

Laurie Sweet Art Show

October 26 through December 6, 2008

About the A r t i s t
Laurie Quigley Sweet is an illustrator and
decorative artist, of seed time studio,
and art teacher, at Wamogo High School.
Every day is the theme of her art, in which
she explores multiple mediums such as lucite
shadow boxes, oils or acrylics on wood and
canvas, decorative boxes, and small
postcards. Mrs. sweet has been published in Gourmet, with Random House and Mcdonalds. This autumn she will pursue a Masters of Arts in Holistic Thinking. Laurie resides in Goshen with her husband, Matthew
and sons, Patrick and Christian.

Mike Amodeo Art Show

2008-09-09T13:38:00.000-07:00

Sept. 15-October 25

I am an award winning self-taught nature photographerwith over 10 years experience in the field. My file incluces Birds, Mammals, Flowers and Landscapes from Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. After spending 20 years in the information technology field, I am using my knowledge of computer technology to produce fine images from film and digital cameras. I have developed an extensive knowledge of Color Management technology enabiling me to produce fine art images. I control the complete process from capturing the image to producing the print. The end result is my vision that began with the click of the camera shutter.

Color has such an incredible effect on human beings. Bright colors in images can be so uplifiting and can elevate your mood by just dazing off into them. The vibrant colors found in nature are such an intoxicating sensation to witness. It' the colors, the contrast and how light is playing on the scene and what draws me in and inspires me to capture an image in nature.

My equipment includes professional SLR camera bodies including the Canon EOS3 film body. the EOS 20D digital body with an assortment of Canon lenses. My favorite films are Fuji Velvia and Provia 100 F, both for there rich color palette and fine grain though the majority of my shooting today is digital capture.

Published: Birds & blooms June/July 2006

Summer Lifestyles 2006 Waterbury Sunday Republican

Award

Second Place in Birds 2007 "Our Natural World" Barn Swallows

Connecicut Audubon Center of Glastonbury

Gallery:

Northern Exposure Photographic Gallery - Selected Themes

413 Main Street (Railroad Square) West Cornwall Ct 06794

860 927 3319 or 860 355 4275 for Gallery Information.

email: mike@mraphoto.com

work: www.mraphoto.com

phone: 203.723.1214

August 11 through September 13, 2008

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The Housatonic Art League (or H.A.L.) is a non-profit art organization serving the Greater New Milford area as well as many other western Connecticut towns.

Organized in 1971 by a small group of professional and semi-professional artists, HAL has grown over the last 30 years to become a multi-faceted organization. Amateurs, students, Sunday painters, emerging artists and professionals are all equally welcome as members. HAL provides an arena in which artists and craftsmen can socialize, exchange ideas, meet new friends and learn new skills that may enhance their lives and careers.

HAL awards a scholarship annually to an area high school senior winner of a portfolio competition, and provides qualified art show judges free of charge on a regular basis to community organizations.
HAL also sponsors art exhibits for local banks, restaurants, and businesses, monthly art demos ("An Evening with the Masters"), and art classes taught at reasonable rates to area residents.

Art Work by Chris Osborne

2008-06-18T16:13:00.001-07:00

Chris Osborne
24 Lester La., New Milford CT 06776
860-354-3233 ChrisOArt@aol.com www.ChrisOArt.com

Chris is the recipient of the 2007 National Society of Painters in Casein & Acrylic (NSPCA) Prize, the Classic Car Club of America 2003 Fine Art Award of Excellence, and the Glenmoor Gathering (Ohio) 2007 Best of Show award, Chris Osborne pays homage to the American automobile by way of the art of portraiture. “There are key things in American culture that absorb my attention, the fabulous cars of decades past, the colorful people who drove them, and the true American musical genres, Jazz & Blues. Any combination of these elements may appear in my work. After exhaustive factual research and the use of figurative models, I like to apply an imaginative view of history, bringing to the present a candid moment in time shared with the viewer.”

Raised in New Milford, Connecticut, Osborne received a BA in Art from Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson NY and an MFA in printmaking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After an extended stay on Martha’s Vineyard in the 1970’s, she moved to New York City, working with legendary artist’s agent Jane Lander representing a group of illustrators with a preference toward fine art. This pivotal move guided Chris toward figurative drawing and painting, and in the mid-1980’s she left the agent profession to pursue art on her own. Over the decade of the 1990’s Chris supplemented her work by managing the Jazz & Blues department at Tower Records Lincoln Center, the largest retail record store in New York, which put her significantly in the midst of the music world. It was an experience that will forever enrich her painting, as she is currently working on a history of Jazz and a history of Blues in visual form, decade by decade, city by city, with the American automobile as a natural focal point.

Chris has exhibited widely in galleries and art associations in the Northeast and New York City, along with invitational exhibits at annual Collector Car events such as the Kruse Auction in Auburn, Indiana, the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, the Hamptons Concours d’Elegance, the Glenmoor Gathering of Significant Automobiles, the Las Vegas Concours d’Elegance, and the Classic Car Club of America annual gathering in Hickory Corners, Michigan. She was the CCCA poster artist for 2005. In April & May of 2006 the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum and Kruse Museum in Indiana exhibited her work in a solo show.

A Sample of the show!!!

Hank Meirowitz June 2-June 28th

2008-05-09T06:02:00.000-07:00

Long time resident of New Milford and New York City, Hank Meirowitz has proven himself in group and solo shows a photographer with a keen eye for texture and pattern, and an enthusiastic manner for whatever subject matter presents itself.

His photographic talent has encompassed an assortment of diverse themes, including babies, tame and exotic animals, rural life, and pastoral scenery, and panoramic views of Russia and other cities in Europe, and now the grandeur and majesty of Arizona and the Grand Canyon and environs.

He has been a Photographer for the Pampered Pet for years and has entertained many four legged friends in his studio on his property for photo shoots or petting session or merely "shooting the breeze." His love of animals is clearly reflected in his one-on-one approach with them. His goal is to the the STATURE and IMPORTANCE of the family pet.

He has shown his works in various libraries and galleries and restaurants in the area, has lectured at camera clubs a schools on his technique in photography and printing, giving new ideas to his audience on cropping, shading, high lights, etc.., to achieve the desired results. He is open to suggestions about improving his work, and is always looking for new venues and subject matter.

His advertising in local newspapers and magazines, with a different pet picture in every ad,; has resulted in a plethora of work with local four legged celebrities. Too him every pet is a STAR, and he makes sure he/she feels that he/she is.

Recently, he completed a one man show at two different libraries on the glories and splendor of Moscow and St. Petersburg, with digital camera and photoshop effects, and met with excellent reviews from newspapers and viewers of his work. It is always gratifying to have new people approach you at receptions and tell you how much they enjoy your work. An artist always enjoys a pat on the back and vote of approval, plus a sale of his work, knowing that it will have a prominent place in a new home.

Hank writes, "This show at the New Milford library is something I truly anticipate, as I just returned from Grand Canyon and had been over whelmed by the beauty and color of the area. Hopefully viewers will feel the same and vicariously enjoy the scenery."

His next shoot will be in Poland and am anticipating an exacting set of images. "Hopefully, I will be able to share them with you in the future."

Preview Hank Meirowitz's art show at http://meirowitzartshow.googlepages.com/home

About the Exhibit

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NOW SHOWING April 6 through May 31, 2008

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Richard L. Andrews is a native of Connecticut, born in Danbury, raised in Brookfield, and living in New Milford since 1976. Following a life-long interest in art and photography, he started exhibiting his work in 2000 with a one-man show at the Grand Patisserie on Main Street in New Milford, Ct. He has recently completed his fifth show there. Since that initial 2000 show, he has been exhibiting extensively in Litchfield and Fairfield counties in one-man shows, galleries, local art associations, contests and various charitable fund raisers. His work has won numerous first, second, third and honorable mention awards locally. The emphasis of the majority of this photography is country landscapes, farms, woods, lakes and all of the varied natural (and sometimes man-made) beauty of northwestern Connecticut. With the acceleration of development in this part of the state, Mr. Andrews writes, "It is great to be able to at least preserve some of these scenes on film." All of his work is on film media, not having been drawn into the digital avalanche-yet. He is basically self-taught, although he studied art formally and completed numeerous studio art courses. He has also studied with the New York Institute of Photography.

Mr. Andrews work can be seen and purchased in fine art card form at various local retailers. Currently his card catalog is at 266 different scenes and is constantly expanding.