❤️ Artist Alley December 2, 2021

November 30, 2021

Volume 21-60

Welcome to Artist Alley,

Washington County Arts Council's electronic newsletter.

We hope this publication will engage you with the arts in your community.

WCAC welcomes your ideas and support as it continues to take the lead in bringing together the community's art organizations to strengthen our region's arts culture.

For artist information, arts events, calls for art, and more visit WCAC's web page...

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The Washington County Arts Council hosts “The Annual Community Art Show, The Best Local Art of 2021” a juried exhibit, from December 2, 2021, through January 4, 2022.

Awards are sponsored by the Hagerstown Arts & Entertainment District and

supported by the City of Hagerstown.

Congratulations to the following artists whose artwork was selected

for inclusion in this year's exhibition:

Artist

Jeannette Avila

Lauren Baker

Jean N. Banzhoff

Stefanie Boss

David Bottini

Patricia Boyst

M. Lee Buehler

Scott Cantner

Kitty Clark

Margaret Clingan

Beverly David

Juliet Drake Hossain

Hector Fernandez

Anne Finucane

Katherine Fishburn

Mike Gouker

Phillip B. Grove

Brian Heinrich

Ashley Holden Hammond

Lea Ann Hudson

Suzannah Kolbeck

Amélie Lavenant-Wink

Paulette Lee

jim mackey

Donna Mason

Hal Mason

Christine Mayo

Henry McCarty

Pat McCleary

Naomi McCreadie

Judy Melby-Robinson

Cam Miller

Tom Nebel

Karen Peacock

Peter Plant

Marjorie Poling

Teresa Roberts

Cindy Roberts Downs

Jose Rosapepe

Lisa Sartin

Haileigh Taylor

Lawren Tolson

Alison Tucker

Cloe Umbel

Dmitrii Volkov

Frederick C. Wiebel, Jr.

Monica Wilkins

Carol Wilks

Stephen Wright

Mark Youngblood

Joshua Yurche

Title

Sky Cats #16 - Eye of the Storm

Sky Cats #20 - Flying Dreams

Sky Cats #30 - Leaf Rider

Birch Forest

Fall Reflections

Sunset Shipwreck

Angel of the Dead

Model T of Today

Empty Halls of a Museum

Quiet Reflection

What Lies Beyond

Lavender Farm

Humid Sunset ("Greenway")

Staying Current

Taste the Harvest

Bird of Paradise

Scoodic Point Maine

Sunrise Clark Point Maine

Winter Camp

Carnival of Wonderment

The Jewel of the Night. Welcome to The Eden Roc.

The Inlet Eye

Disintegrate, or How an Unused Building Returns to Earth

Irrelevant, or Does an Unused Building Need an Alarm

Requiem, or What's to Become of Unused Buildings

Elakala

Open to the Elements

Out of Character

Irises

Garden Door

Raku Amphora

Live at the National: The American Captain

Light From the Past

Potential

Leafy Sea Dragon

Wedding Day

Dusty Stirrups

The Red Canoe

Debby's View

Autumn Picnic

The Blood-Dimmed Tide is Loosed

Night of the Earwigs

Come Hither

River Rocks #3

Miles River

Ocracoke Tree in Summer

Sentinel II

Sorceress

Koi-Pond

Leitersburg

Manarola (Italy)

Catching a Bus

The Legendary Sir Alexander

Peaches

All Crown, No Cap

The Guru

Birds in a Tree

Golden Spaniel

Collecting Tin

Precarious Thoughts

Petit Déjeuner à l'Ancienne

Veiled

Another Turn of the Hourglass

Landing Swan

Colors of Antigua (Guatemala)

Boxed in Under Glass

Time Bomb

My Heart

My Masks

My Right Brain Unchained

Make Me Laugh

Bella

Nubble Lighthouse

Take Me Away

A Sneak in the Garden

The Lavender Farm

A Saturday Tapestry

Sunday Sketch #1

Dandelion

Rose

Yellow

Sunflowers

Sentries

King Neptune's Children

Atlantic Sunrise

Stairway

In Her Garden

Emma

Garden Party

Jupiter

Huron Carol

Je Marche Dan Les Fleurs

Into Denali

Snavely Ford Trail (Antietam)

Ups and Downs

Year of the Cat

Pajama Days

Beautiful Spring

Winter Messenger

A Flight of Fancy

Persist

Insect-a-Ride

Tree of Her Life

Yates Mill in Raleigh, NC

Alien Encounters of the Garden Variety

Game of Cones

COVID Isolation

The Sky Between

HPD in the Line of Duty

Monarch in the Rain

Worn Down Fence

Bug on a Flower

Sprout from a Tree

Parts of Me

Folded Past

Cellular Cities

Urban Alley

Caged Bird

Raindrops

Arrow

The Disenchanted Miss Liberty

Ceremonial Mask of the Mayan Lion King of the Disenchanted Forest

King Tut's Pizza Parlor

Afternoon Stroll (in France)

Moving Along

Yummy Eggplants

Plymouth Rock Wampanonag Brave

Plymouth Rock Pioneer

Mortar and Pestle

Black and Blue Vessel

Vessel with Holes

Flowing

Long Haul

Textured Tentacles

Crush and the Boys

Mamaaaa OoOooooo

This year’s Jurors were Sarah Hall and Bruce Wilder

Sarah Hall

Sarah Hall became director of the WCMFA in July 2020 and brings to the museum nearly 30 years of experience with museums and exhibitions. She was most recently chief curator and director of collections at The Frick Pittsburgh, where she directed the curatorial department for thirteen years of a 25-year tenure. In this role she oversaw the care, exhibition, and interpretation of the Frick’s permanent collection and temporary exhibitions. Hall has been responsible for leading major grant-funded historic preservation, conservation, and exhibition projects, including work on historic structures as well as collection objects. Hall’s work at the Frick has been instrumental in creating a higher profile for the Frick’s exhibition program through an eclectic exhibition schedule that included such variety as 19th-century French paintings (Van Gogh, Monet, Degas: The Mellon Collection of French Art from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts), high fashion (Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe) and photography. Additionally, Hall refocused internal energies on care, interpretation, and publication of The Frick’s own collection, and played an instrumental role in the inception and continuation of the Frick’s programming with contemporary artists, which began in 2000 with Clayton Days: Picture Stories by Vik Muniz. Hall has taken graduate coursework in nonprofit organizational leadership at Robert Morris University and also did graduate study in arts and humanities at the State University of New York at Buffalo, specializing in film history, media studies, and creative writing.

Bruce Wilder

Bruce Wilder's photo work has won awards from Antietam Photographic Society, Frederick Camera Clique, and the Cumberland Valley. His work has also won awards from The Latent Image Workshop of Bethesda, Maryland, of which he was a charter member. Mr. wilder’s prints were published eight years consecutively in the Antietam Review.

The Washington County Arts Council Gallery, The Hagerstown Herald Mail Newspaper, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, The Washington County Library, and the Maryland State Capitol have had his photos on display.

Mr. Wilder is a two-time winner of the best image by a Washington County resident in the Washington County Arts Council at the Museum Of Fine Arts photographic salon.

According to a 1983 Herald Mail article, “Wilder said his family moved to Washington County in 1960 and he graduated from South Hagerstown High School in 1969. After living near Washington, D.C., from 1970 to 1978, he moved back to this area, settling in South Washington County, where he lives today.

Having dabbled in photography since he was a child, the Keedysville resident.

Wilder has a studio in Boonsboro, where he focuses on portrait and fine art figure work. Bruce Wilder owns and operates Turn The Page Bookstore in Boonsboro, Maryland.

Bruce Wilder Fine Art Photography

301/432-7727 mwilderphoto@myactv.net or https://wilderphotography.com/

www.washingtoncountyarts.com/acs-voting

The Washington County Arts Council, Inc. is hosting a reimagined winter social event “The Art of Cooking” on Saturday, January 29, 2022 (snow date: Sunday, January 30, 2022) in partnership with Fountain Head Country Club. This fundraising dinner will feature alumni guest chefs returning to again share their culinary talents, creativity, delectable treats, and wines. This ever so popular evening with friends and supporters of the Arts Council with this year's virtual component is sure to bring a “new beginning’ to the new year.

The Washington County Arts Council is thrilled to announce the Alumni Chefs for The Art of Cooking 2022 are BJ and Sherrie Goetz; Corey and Jessica Green; David and Robin Lyles; and Jason and Melinda Mallott. Michelle Horst returns as the evening’s emcee.

Hannukah: November 28, 2021-December 6. 2021

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