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Current Archived Artists: Margaret E Arthur, Harriet Moore Ballard, June Bonner, Maritha Burger, Samuel Butnik, Shirley Aley Campbell, David E Davis, Mary Lou Ferbert, Barbara Gillette, David Haberman, Lee Heinen, William Martin Jean, Robert Jergens, Jennie Jones, Kestutis Kizevicius, Mario Kujawski, Charlotte Lees, Kathy Lynn, Adele Marihatt, Joseph McCullough, Kathleen McKenna, Gail Newman, Patricia Z Parker, Gloria Plevin, George Roby, Thomas Roese, Charles Sallee, Phyllis Seltzer, Newson H Shewitz, Phyllis Sloane, Marvin Smith, Jean Sommer, Marsha Sweet, Randall Tiedman, Kathleen Totter, Nancy Underhill, Evelyn Svec Ward, William E Ward Margaret E Arthur images on-line (4) Margaret Arthur works in oil, acrylic, pastel and collage. A native Clevelander, she has long been on the area art scene. In 1997 she had a solo show at Cuyahoga Community College's Metro Campus in Cleveland. She has exhibited in the Butler Institute... Harriet Moore Ballard Local writer Elizabeth McClelland described Harriet Moore Ballard's work for a catalogue accompanying an exhibition at the AAWR in 2002: "Composed Fragments...well defines her art...her paintings evolve as she works, one part suggesting another un... June Bonner June Bonner is a fiber artist with a history of weaving images from other cultures into her artwork. Especially, her travels to Japan, Thailand and Nepal have influenced her work. As Allen Zimmerman of the Cleveland Institute of Art has commented, [s... Maritha Burger No available images or artists summary online Samuel Butnik images on-line (4) Samuel Butnik was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1920. After graduating from the Cleveland Institute of Art, he pursued his artistic career in many places, living in Taos, New Mexico, New York City, France, Greece, Spain, England and Providence, Rhode Is... Shirley Aley Campbell images on-line (3) Campbell , a recipient of the Cleveland Arts Prize in 1986, passionately records the human figure and its social context. Since the beginning of her career in the 1940s, her style has changed from figurative expressionism to total abstraction, and si... David E Davis images on-line (4) Davis (1920 - 2002) graduated from Case Western Reserve University with an MFA, in 1961. One of the region's most celebrated artists and the recipient of the Cleveland Arts Prize in 1980, Davis has been described as a "high modernist... keeping faith... Mary Lou Ferbert For over 30 years, Mary Lou Ferbert prowled Cleveland's Flats, finding inspiration for her paintings in that "throbbing heart of the city that once was a power engine of the industrial revolution" [from the Artist's Statement]. As the Flats changed, ... Barbara Gillette images on-line (5) Akron-area artist, Barbara Gillette, primarily works in pastel and monoprints. Her focus subject is landscape with an emphasis on Medina County and also rural Ohio. She states that she is "especially interested in the tension between suburban and rur... David Haberman images on-line (4) An extremely sophisticated and accomplished painter, Haberman has spent the past thirty years perfecting a style of pure, evocative abstraction. He paints spontaneously and intuitively, often following unexpected associations that emerge during the p... Lee Heinen images on-line (2) The work of painter Lee Heinen can be found all over the city of Cleveland. She is included in numerous corporate collections (MBNA Bank, Ameritech, B.F. Goodrich, Cleveland Clinic, National City Bank, University Hospitals to name a few) and represen... William Martin Jean images on-line (3) Widely acclaimed for his elegant systems-based art, William Martin Jean creates paintings that combine rational, intellectual experience with personal, intuited feeling. During his early years, Jean created improvisatory paintings with richly impasto... Robert Jergens images on-line (3) Jergens explores complex relationships between abstract composition and observed reality, with a particular concern for the way the mind processes optical data. Early in his career, he invented a personal style of entirely abstract form. More recentl... Jennie Jones images on-line (4) Born in Denver, Colorado, Jennie Jones moved to Cleveland in 1978. For years she had used her photography for educational and lecture purposes teaching art history, but in 1983 she finally established her own studio and began to specialize in archite... Kestutis Kizevicius No available images or artists summary online Mario Kujawski images on-line (4) Kujawski's work is directly related to his life in South America. His early memories of carnival masks and costumes and heavily textured city walls bring forth his palette of vivid primary colors. In his words, "In my work I use bright colors and I p... Charlotte Lees No available images or artists summary online Kathy Lynn No available images or artists summary online Adele Marihatt images on-line (4) Adele Marihatt became an Archived Artist in 2002. Adele is a Swiss born painter who spent the first part of her career in the medical field and began her professional pursuit of painting in the early 1970�s. Her work has been shown in galleries and m... Joseph McCullough No available images or artists summary online Kathleen McKenna No available images or artists summary online Gail Newman No available images or artists summary online Patricia Z Parker images on-line (3) A major influence in the region for over three decades, Parker creates largely through intuition and felt emotion. She developed her mature style in the mid 1970s, at a time when the local art scene was dominated by hard-edge, geometric painters. Alt... Gloria Plevin No available images or artists summary online George Roby images on-line (4) Archived in 2002, George Roby is a respected Ohio potter, sculptor, and teacher. His work includes large, expressive slab and coil built sculptures that are suitable for indoor or outdoor exhibit. He also produces functional stoneware using both hand... Thomas Roese images on-line (4) Since he graduated from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1971, Thomas Roese has been busy making his career as an artist and an art educator. His paintings appeared in the Cleveland Museum of Art's May Show every year from 1979-1989. He has shown in... Charles Sallee images on-line (3) Charles Sall�e was born in Oberlin and grew up in Sandusky, Ohio. He was the first African-American to graduate from the Cleveland School of Art (now the Cleveland Institute of Art). He worked for the Works Progress Administration from 1936 to 1941 a... Phyllis Seltzer images on-line (3) Seltzer derives inspiration from her immediate environment, but uses innovative printmaking techniques to translate these experiences into indelibly personal images. She has been a leader in the art community, contributing to groups such as E.A.T. (E... Newson H Shewitz Newson H. Shewitz, known to his friends as "Bucky," is a native of Detroit. Shewitz attended Carnegie Tech (now Carnegie-Mellon) in Pittsburgh, where he majored in Industrial Design and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. After service during WW... Phyllis Sloane images on-line (4) Phyllis Sloane is an extremely versatile artist who paints in acrylic, egg tempera, and watercolor. She has also explored an astonishing variety of graphic media, including silkscreen, lithography, etching monotype, cork prints, and various methods o... Marvin Smith images on-line (2) Marvin Smith is a printmaker, painter and ceramic artist. In addition to exhibiting his work in numerous regional, national and international shows, he has extensive experience in the design of site-specific art. He has had numerous ceramic relief mu... Jean Sommer images on-line (3) Marsha Sweet images on-line (4) "Marsha Sweet' s woodcuts and wood engravings focus mainly on the human image and she captures the essence of her subjects with the immediacy found in watercolors or drawings. Her portraits of famous women have the panache and glamour of their public... Randall Tiedman images on-line (4) Tiedman is a highly intuitive, self-taught artist. He is also a skilled draftsman who spent nearly four years during his early career copying old master paintings to acquire technical proficiency in oils and various graphic media. He typically works ... Kathleen Totter Kathleen Totter, recipient of an MA in Ceramics from Kent State University, has participated in numerous workshops in the medium, as well as in paper, fiber, sculpture, and computer graphics. A sense of spirituality infuses her Raku, paper, and fiber... Nancy Underhill No available images or artists summary online Evelyn Svec Ward Evelyn Svec Ward (1921-1989) was a prolific fiber artist whose career was highlighted in a retrospective at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 1991. After 10 years in the textile department at the Cleveland Museum of Art, she resigned from her post to co... William E Ward images on-line (4) William E. Ward is a watercolorist "keenly interested in color and the effects that can be achieved by working with color on water-saturated paper or canvas" [from the Artist's Statement]. He derives much of the inspiration for his work from the moun...

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