Program for 2008
Program by date
May - June, 2008
July, 2008
August - September, 2008
Program by type
Gallery Exhibits
Lecture Series
Special Events
Summer Solstice Bash
Guided Garden and
Artist Studio Tour
Donors' Buffet Reception
Marge Champion
- Fundraiser
Invited Presentation
Excursions
Abi's Web
Historic Quarry
Keystone Arches
Workshops
Drawing
Painting
Sculpture
Mixed Media
Paper Arts
Photography
Crafts
Jewelry
Astronomy
Bridge
Body Fitness:
Young Peoples Program
Sixth Annual Young
People's Arts Festival
Circus Camp
Dance Together at the Pillow
Creating with Images
Playing with Visual Images
Improv Theatre
Marmalade Production's
Puppet Day
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Through my work I make my social vision aesthetic, striving to find truth,
moreover, raising questions for the viewer. My life spans America prior to
the civil rights movement, through a world still struggling with racism and
oppression. The social issues I address are reflected through ongoing personal
experiences. 
I have been drawing pictures all my life and have been fortunate enough to turn this
into a career. But left to my own devices, these narrative cartoons are
the way I think or work things out. Sometimes they resonate with
other people, too. 
I have been fascinated by the Berkshire light for years. Since moving part time
to the area, Berkshire landscapes, during all seasons and times of day, has
become a major focus of my oil painting. This show contains recent work of our
immediate surroundings at White Lily Pond, East Otis. 
nspiration for my oil paintings comes from the movement of freely flowing water.
It's not just the surface image that interests me. It's the energy and rush
of heightened excitement I feel when I hear falling water. My shapes, colors,
brush strokes and vision come out of the landscape and out of my imagination.
Hiking the rocky gorges helps me capture the many moods of outdoor terrain and
the forces of nature. 
If my pictures survive into the next century, I hope those future people
see, in my art, how we felt about each other in the twenty-first century,
and how we felt about being alive. I also hope those future viewers recognize
something of themselves in my work. 
Since I was a child I have felt the need to create artistically through a variety
of mediums. During this artistic process I feel a sense of peace and I am drawn
into a world of my own. My connection to myself and to the world around me becomes
more real when I am in this artistic state of mind. 
In representational and abstract styles I render my thoughts and reactions
to viewing landscapes and objects, to considering events. Some works are pictorial
representations of my poems. I employ both traditional and contemporary watercolor
techniques that allow for a wide range of effects from crisp transparency to
strong velvety richness. 
I have been painting for fifty-five years since I was nine and have not stopped. The
love of nature, flowers, landscapes and religion that was such an important
part of my nurturing years has carried itself over into my art work. There
seems to be no end to the subject matter. 
As
an artist, I acknowledge the cultural lineage and the creativity that is innate
to my people. Original thoughts that enabled people to create a better life
daily and appreciate creativity and materials used by beautifying their everyday
implements. The idea is that creativity enabled me to experience a view through
windows of space and time to create something of nature that shows appreciation
and come to understand art as an ultimate expression of freedom to be one with
creation and its creator. Free from all that limits our creative abilities
to enjoy life and our true nature as human beings. 
I am of the Dineh' (Navajo) Nation of NM who now lives in Maine, married a
Penobscot artist, Tim Shay. I am a working artist of sculpture, jewelry, leather
and beadwork. I take this opportunity to share my skills as my voice in producing
art forms that are exciting, creative and a bit risk-taking adventures. 
I am old-fashioned, both in my perception of and in my creation of art. My artwork
is not conceptual. Rather, my goal is to make my oil paintings, watercolors,
and collages as beautiful and visually satisfying as possible. I strive to achieve
this end using line, color, composition, structure, and pattern.
