sheilalynnkArt

Studio Goals

2012-01-15T12:00:00.000-05:00

At the end of 2011 I finally received my zoning variance and permit to open my studio to the public.
My goals for 2012 include:

-portrait projects for friends and family members

- participation in the Annual Wellsville Art Association shows at the David A. Howe library
( Click here to learn more about Wellsville Art Association schedule, updates, and photos on their new FaceBook page.Click here to learn more about Howe Happenings -events, services, classes, technology, BOOKS, and much more offered at our local library.)

-improvements to the sheilalynnkart web page
-budget changes that permit participation in competitions for International Art magazine and Art News
-completion of the Facing Phases series that I started in 2009
-Facing Phases open to the public by the end of 2012...at least one One-Man Show/Exhibition by the end of the year
-beginning the new project

Awards

2010-10-14T14:51:00.000-04:00

Fierce Fragments receives first place at Wellsville Art Association Annual Member Show on display at the David A. Howe library in Wellsville NY October 2010.

New House/future studio

2010-08-15T13:08:00.000-04:00

Recently relocated to Wellsville...We purchased a one story bungalow style house that will eventually be the site of my new studio and office. This is the space that will become studio and gallery space for sheilalynnkart...
After completing my business plan through the entrepreneurial assistance program at ACCORD corporation I am working with VESID and the Independent Living Center to determine the feasibility of financing the Prone Works Table that will be crucial to successful self employment...While I am waiting I am working on the final series of paintings for the facing phases series and finishing up projects from Sherman Street.

Facing Phases at Exposed Series Exhibition June - December 2010

2010-06-21T13:20:00.007-04:00

Facing Phases (photography, paper sculpture, acrylics on stretched canvas) is a series of images documenting the ebb and flow of personal engagement with life. The viewer is strongly encouraged to confront each stage of change directly with the knowledge that this too shall pass. Face each phase as it comes. Take the time to know the character of each for you will inevitably see it again. Change influences perspective. Awareness of the perspective gives one the power to change perception

Works from the Facing Phases Series (2009) will be on display at a variety of host sites in the Southern Tier during the Eposed Series Rotating Exhibit from June - December 2010
Works shown-
Still Standing Installation-paper sculpture and photography (phases of coping with chronic pain)
Sheila's Sherman Street Garden - digital photography (phases of the life cycle from my own garden)

(the paintings for this series are in progress at the studio)

For more exhibit information call 585-268-5951 or email wjskinner@thefountainartscenter.org or visit the
Fountain ArtsWebsite:http://www.thefountainartscenter.org/

Funding provided by the New York State Council for the Arts Dencentralization Regrant Program administerd by the Cattaraugus County Arts Council

http://myartscouncil.net/index.php/home

Music On The Lawn

2010-05-31T13:17:00.000-04:00

Adirondak Chair donated to auction to benefit the Music On the Lawn series at the Wellsville Library.

Belfast Organization for Artists. Spring/summer Schedule

2010-05-07T10:15:00.002-04:00

My work at the WAA Seven Counties Art Show

2010-04-02T10:52:00.001-04:00

ALL THINGS placed first in the Abstract Category STILL STANDING place first in the mixed media category.

meeting postponed

2010-03-25T13:23:00.001-04:00

Belfast Organization for Artists
march 26th meeting postponed until
6:30 on Friday April 9, 2010.
Had a temp of 102.8 last night and I have decided to keep the creeping crud to myself. Taking nyquil and going back to bed.
I look forward to seeing you all in April.
RSVP to sheilalynnk@yahoo.com or post a comment here.

FEATURED ARTIST- Wendy Skinner

2010-03-12T22:25:00.001-05:00

Wendy Skinner
As proprietor of Signs & Wonders Studio in Belmont, New York, Wendy Skinner is known mostly for her sign work distinguishing businesses, entrances to villages, churches, schools, and homes throughout Allegany County and the Twin Tiers areas. Wendy also is an award-winning pen-and-ink, and colored-pencil artist, with art in public and private collections throughout the United States. Her latest work in progress is the creation of The Fountain Arts Center.

The Fountain Arts Center at The Belmont
In 2000, The Fountain Arts Center, Inc., purchased the former Belmount Hotel to create an arts center, and to provide opportunities in the arts. The first priority of the Fountain Arts Center (a not-for-profit organization) is to bolster the moral of the community by saving the building in which its organization is housed. This being done in phases, as funding allows. The blighting influence of some deteriorated sections of the structure are slowly but steadily being replaced.
Private investment has led to the transformation of two commercial storefronts in the facility into an artist studio, sign shop, and gallery. New York Main Street Grant Funding, matched by private donations, and local grant awards has helped to complete the rehabilitation of a third storefront into a performance/class/seminar area for arts awareness. Future grant funding and development is geared toward addressing structural needs into other areas of the facility, while providing arts education in completed areas.

Since the opening of the Community Room in 2001, The Fountain Arts Center has hosted dozens of solo and group shows for regional artists, ranging from photography to fiber arts, colored pencil to oil painting, ceramics, and metal sculpture. With partial funding from the New York State Council for the Arts Decentralization Grant, it has offered scores of classes through its Family Enrichment Series, Visual Artists Workshops, and Summer Arts Programs for Youth. The establishment of The Net in 2006, added a performance and music education venue for the center as well.

Renovated, restored and open for business - Wellsville, NY - Wellsville Daily Reporter

2010-03-12T22:24:00.001-05:00

Renovated, restored and open for business - Wellsville, NY - Wellsville Daily Reporter

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Belfast Organization for Artists

2010-03-12T11:05:00.000-05:00

The next planning meeting will be held at 6:30pm on Friday, March 26, 2010. Please RSVP to sheilalynnk@yahoo.com . Location TBA via email response.

Event

2010-03-10T10:46:00.002-05:00

Wellsville Art Association 2010 Seven County Art Exhibition
David A. Howe Public Library, Wellsville, NY
http://alleganyartsassociation.blogspot.com/
Opening Reception Thursday April 1st. The exhibit will be on display until April 16, 2010. Works from artists in Wellsville, and the following counties: Allegany, Cattaraugus, Livingston, Steuben, Wyoming in NY and McKean and Potter in PA.

All Things
(acrylic on stretched canvas)
composite, landscape

will be entered in this exhibition.

Other entries:

Still Standing

photography & paper sculpture
installation
and
Living Room
oil on stretched canvas

WAA Annual Photography Show

2010-03-10T10:39:00.001-05:00

Facing Phases: sunflower

collage print; digital photography received 3rd place award at the Wellsville Art Association Annual Photography Show

Belfast Organization for Artist

2010-03-01T22:49:00.000-05:00

Meeting Wednesday, March 3rd at 5pm
Belfast artists of diverse genres link to: each other, local opportunities to show work, Calls for Artists, funding sources, the business of art, featured artists, and a wide variety of art-making methods.
It is my sincere hope that these resources will assist in the identification and achievement of individual creative goals and group projects that may be appreciated by all members of our community.

DEADLINES APPROACHING

2010-03-01T21:53:00.002-05:00

79th Annual Hudson Valley Art Association Exhibition Deadline for Entry April 28, 2010
will be held at the National Arts Club July 2010. $10,000 in merit awards...
Categories:Oil, Sculpture,Water color/Graphic, Open to members and non-members.
Allegany Artisans Studio Tours Deadline for entry May 1,2010
23rd Annual Studio Tour Saturday and Sunday October 16&17, 2010. 10am-5pm
The Artist's Magazine 27th Annual Art Competition
Deadline for entry May 3, 2010
          Entry Form for The Artist's Magazine 27th Annual Art Competition
                       Categories: Abstract/Experimental
                                         Animal/Wildlife
                                        Landscape/Interior
                                          Portrait/Figure
                                          Still Life/Floral

Event-Art Show correction

2010-02-19T14:34:00.002-05:00

Wellsville Art Association Annual Photography Show
Opening Reception March 4, 2010 from 7-8:30pm at the David A Howe Library in Wellsville, NY Entries on display until March 20th
Wellsville Art Association Shows Schedule 2009
contact the Wellsville Art Association to find out more about show dates for 2010.

Belfast Organization for Artists

2010-02-10T10:35:00.001-05:00

We are off to a slow start but it is a start.
The next meeting is scheduled for March 3rd at 5pm. I hope to see more people there.
Our Mission
- assist artisans to create work and make it available to the public, provide area artisans with links to information, resources, and calls for artists; exchange ideas and skills knowledge, create new opportunities to show work in the Belfast Area, provide area artisans with publicity, collaborate with existing Allegany County Arts organizations, learn more about the BUSINESS of art.

Featured Artist

2010-02-01T09:13:00.001-05:00

Tim Burton at MOMA until April 2010

My daughters and I went to see this amazing collection of works at MOMA over the weekend.
The online representation is good but nothing beats seeing it all in person. If you have the opportunity to see this show don't miss it.
This is truly a case of quality and quantity in one location. Although I do not know much about his personal biography I suspect that somewhere along the way and art teacher told him to continue using this as a tool to express himself. All it takes is one voice of encouragement. (I am sure there were many who opposed his particular form of expression.)

B.O.F.A.-Belfast Organization For Artists

2010-01-09T11:31:00.001-05:00

Seeking Creative People in the Belfast, NY Area
to start an organization that will unite local artists, performers, and writers to create work and make it available to the public. It is our intention to collaborate with existing Allegany County Arts organizations to achieve this goal.
If you are a member of an existing art group in the Belfast area please contact us to discuss the possibility of a united effort.
Interested Creative People
Please send your contact information to sheilalynnk@yahoo.com or post a comment on this blog.

First meeting will be held February 4, 2010. Location TBA

Art Show

2010-01-09T11:27:00.001-05:00

The Wellsville Art Association will take entries for their Annual Photography Show February 26, 2010 from 3-8:30pm & Feb. 27, 2010 from 12-5pm at David A Howe Library in Wellsville, NY. An Opening Reception will be held March 5, 2010.

I am entering pieces from the Facing Phases Series in this show.

News

2010-01-02T16:06:00.000-05:00

Still Standing Installation at JMH ended December 29th.
Replaced it with two 16"x20" collages from the Facing Phases series.
Currently seeking a location for this show.
Happy New Year!
In the process of converting this to a gallery style website. Please leave a comment if you would like me to keep the blog online post-gallery page.

Fellowship program: Women's Studio Workshop

2009-12-28T21:15:00.000-05:00

Check out the work produced by artists in this program at women's studio workshop
"Women's Studio Workshop is a visual arts organization with specialized studios in printmaking, hand papermaking, ceramics, letterpress printing, photography, and book arts. Artists are invited to work at WSW as a part of our Fellowship Program, Artists' Books Grants, Residencies, Internships, or to learn new skills in our Summer Arts Institute and community workshop series.

Artists' Books

Women's Studio Workshop has been publishing artists' books since 1979. WSW took a leadership role in the emergence of the genre by initiating the book arts grant program over 30 years ago and today WSW IS the largest publisher of hand printed artists' books in the country."

Ashes

2009-12-14T21:56:00.004-05:00

embers and ashes
vivid and warm

burn the hand that attempts to hold them.

ashes and embers

starving, fade away

flames too hot to remember.

ashes and ashes

cold and tired

no spark of recollection in them.

ashes and change

dust away, deep below

one flicker remains.

ashes and scars

time and friction

ignition.

handful of caution,

there is light.

-slk

Featured Artist: Ann Rea

2009-12-14T21:27:00.001-05:00

http://www.annrea.com/collect/originals/wilderotter/framed_16_x_20_original_oil_vineyard_painting_flowers_and_vines_ii_357.asp
This link leads you to the Ann Rea website where you will find vibrant, vivid colors of natural life moving across the canvas.
This particular painting is called flowers and vines II.
These paintings were an unexpected discovery on an internet search for live/work studio space.
Visit Ann's site to see so much more of her work.

Featured Artist-Kimberly Camp

2009-12-01T14:37:00.000-05:00

Kimberly Camp began her career as a professional artist 37 years ago with a sidewalk exhibition in Woodbury NJ at the age of 12. Since then, her paintings and dolls have been shown throughout the US in over 100 solo and group exhibitions. Her list of solo exhibitions is extensive, including the American Craft Museum, Smithsonian Institution, International Sculpture Center, University of Michigan, the Hand Workshop, Sawtooth Center for the Visual Arts, Bomani Gallery, CRT Craftery Gallery and Manchester Craftsman’s Guild. Visit her site to learn more about this gifted artist.
http://www.kimberlycamp.com/

Still Standing Installation Complete

2009-10-28T19:35:00.001-04:00

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Still Standing is on display at Jones Memorial Hospital for the remainder of the season at the request of the Rehabilitations Services Director. Currently seeking additional locations for display.
This work is dedicated with many thanks to the healing hands of Anne Galvin who cared when no one else could anymore.
Additional thanks to:
The Jones Memorial Hospital Rehabilitation Services staff for their patience and kindness when I was not myself.
ARA The Counseling Center’s Terry Smith for your time and guidance.
Dante, Crystal, and Kierra Carlton and Joseph Curcio – you inspire me to be the best me that I can be.
Paul & Cecy Curcio for everything you do for the people around you.
My family and friends - for your patience when I could no longer participate.-slk
Still Standing is a photographic documentation of the cyclic nature of the chronic pain experience. Each frame demonstrates the artist's interpretation of a season in the cycle of coping with chronic pain. The work illustrates the balance that may be found in adaptation. The circular installment and positioning of each frame displays the endless repetition of the cycle and the grace that can be found in the fleeting moments of acceptance. Each photograph was taken by the artist to record locations on the road to recovery. (These are scenes from the Greenway Snowmobile trail that runs through Belfast, NY.) The images are framed by paper sculpture which amplifies the significance of the view at each location. The paper sculpture process was used as part of the artist's personal healing process to recover fine motor skills from May to September 2009. This work is intended for display in pain management and rehabilitation clinics.
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Inside-Chronic-Pain/Lous-Heshusius/e/9780801447969

new work series Facing Phases

2009-10-21T20:41:00.003-04:00

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Facing phases is a collection of observations made by the artist. Each image in the series documents the ebb and flow of our engagement with life. The viewer is strongly encouraged to confront each stage of change directly with the knowledge that this too shall pass. "The only constant is change. Change constantly influences perspective. Awareness of perspective gives one the power to change it. Face each phase as it comes. Take the time to know the character of each for you will inevitably see it again. "-slk

Featured Artist

2009-10-14T20:47:00.000-04:00

Peter Callesen

Amazing Paper Sculpture!

A true master of perspective manipulation.

2009-09-26T11:30:00.001-04:00

http://www.mcescher.com/Shopmain/ShopEU/facsilimeprints/prints.html

I have always loved the way that Escher pushes the viewer to consider the shifting nature of perception.

Featured Art Topic

2009-09-22T20:00:00.001-04:00

Learn more about Partners for Arts Education http://www.arts4ed.org/

"Partners for Arts Education inspires learning and leadership for arts in education in Central New York and throughout New York State. We provide funding and support to deepen and enrich educational experiences in and through the art for students, teachers and artists."

Partners for Arts Education
501 West Fayette Street Studio 221
Syracuse NY 13204 315 234 9911
Fax 315 234 9912

portfolio

2009-09-18T00:26:00.000-04:00

Make a Smilebox slideshow

This slideshow contains large and small works that I have managed to fit into my life. Assembling this collection has been an exercise in establishing my own identity as an artist within my own perception of myself. This slide show consists of numerous chapters in the story of the evolution of my work. The chronilogical nature of the show has permitted me to view it as such. Through this activity I have manage to select specific pieces that I feel will be suitable for grant applications and shows. It is much easier to use this as a tool for the process of selection than it would ever be to actually view all of the work during that process. If for no other reason than this I am determined to continue to learn more about the digital resources available to artists. I am behind the times but I will share what I learn as I get caught up. I hope that it helps me learn to market my work and provide some insight for others trying to do the same.

Featured Artist

2009-09-14T11:01:00.000-04:00

Captive Bird-Gabe Brown. See more by this artist at gabebrownstudio.com

Night Garden

2009-09-13T20:29:00.000-04:00

Night Fire

2009-09-13T20:25:00.000-04:00

finally!

2009-09-13T20:23:00.000-04:00

Artist Statement at Still Standing Display

2009-09-13T20:19:00.000-04:00

Still Standing 2009

2009-09-11T22:11:00.000-04:00

Multi-media: photography and paper sculpture.
This piece surrounds a sample of the artist's original written work. Each frame in the piece displays the artist's interpetation of the phases in the cycle of coping with chronic pain. From healthy social interaction to the agony and isolation that attaches itself to this existence the artist shows the balance that may be achieved in adaptation. The artist also acknowledges the endless repetition of the cycle and the grace that can be found in the fleeting moments of acceptance.