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SUMMARY:Connections Continued
DESCRIPTION:on display January 6-31\npublic reception on Sunday\, January 18\, 1:30-3:30 p.m. \nAn invitational exhibit curated by Diane Fleisch-Hughes\, focused on collaboration and community. \nAnna and Sam Weisend are a mother/daughter team who create together as multi-\nmedia assemblage artists since 2018. Anna has been a practicing artist for 25 years in\nseveral different mediums and Sam has a bachelor's degree in Studio Art. They use\ntheir different but complementary skills to elevate their work.\nThey start with discarded and unloved items\, both manmade and natural\, and\nrepurpose them and give them a new life where they can be appreciated and\ncelebrated. Their favorite medium is paper. They explore mostly nature based themes\nsuch as nests\, hives\, moons and anatomy. \nLinda Janosko has been working with various art media ever since she was a little girl and picked up her crayons to “illustrate” a book that had no pictures. She has been an art teacher in several Ohio public schools and taught many aspects of design for theatre at colleges and universities in Wisconsin\, Iowa\, Michigan\, Georgia and Indiana before retiring and moving back to Ohio. You can see some of her artwork at Stella’s Art Gallery in Willoughby. \n“I love storytelling through photography and assemblage. My artwork is often quirky\, a bit\ndisjointed\, and full of vintage parts…just like me!\nAs an assemblage artist\, I typically combine disparate objects to create something new. A story\ndevelops around an initial\, inspirational object.\nDiane launched this collaborative project by allowing each of us to choose one of her beautiful\nlife drawings. My contribution involved examining this object—her drawing—to determine\nhow best I could explore\, translate\, and emphasize its unique parts.\nEntitled “More Than the Sum of Her Parts\,” this artwork not only reflects our collaboration\, but\nalso what it means to be human.”\n– Luanne Bole-Becker \nJulie Cook is a self-taught artist who mainly works in acrylics and mixed media. Julie\nhas lived in Madison Township for over 30 years. She enjoys experimenting with paint\nand products to see what new textures and techniques she can create. Julie uses\ntraditional tools as well as unique items like scraps of wood\, plastic\, and recycled\npackaging material. Julie is deeply inspired by God's creation and is thankful for the\nability He has given her.\nJulie's artwork has been juried into several shows throughout Northeast Ohio\, and she\nhas had several solo shows including those at Penitentiary Glen\, Fairmount Art Center\,\nSolon Center for the Arts\, and Holden Arboretum. She is an artist at Stella’s Art Gallery\nin Willoughby where her work can be seen in Studio 1. A portion of the sale of each\npainting is sent to https://www.globaladvanceprojects.org/ an organization that helps at-risk\nchildren on the Thailand/Burma border where her daughter works. Julie’s paintings are\nmaking a difference in the lives of those children\, as well as bringing peace\, joy\, and\ncontentment to many others.\n“If you hear a voice within you say\, ‘You cannot paint’\, then by all means paint\, and that voice\nwill be silenced.” ~ Vincent van Gogh\nJulie Cook\nContact information:\nwallexpressionsbyjulie@gmail.com\nInstagram: Wallexpressionsbyjulie\nFB: Wall Expressions by Julie \nJuniper Mainelis creates imagery inspired by mystical and imaginative themes and\ndescribes her work as a sacred journey to open the portals of the imagination. She is\nalso a certified teacher of Intentional Creativity and is available for leading workshops.\nJuniper has won numerous awards for her art and is a grammy nominated vocalist and\nis often inspired to write songs and poetry to accompany the paintings.\nTo learn more visit www.heartsongzstudio.com \nGregory Alan Johnson was born in 1954 and grew up in Brook Park\, Ohio\, a suburb of Cleveland.\nHe grew up with a passion for drawing\, encouraged by his artist father\, who provided him with reams of\npaper\, and a newly created tool called “Magic Markers”\,\nHe was accepted into Cooper School of Art in Cleveland in 1974\, majoring in Illustration.\nHe was a freelance illustrator and cartoonist for many years\, which would influence his later independent\nwork. Upon retiring from his day job\, he decided to become a full-time creative artist\, with the deep\ndesire to harken back to his childhood days\, when he just doodled into the night. This is exactly what he\ndid\, resulting in almost 400 works in over four years’ time\, five solo shows\, pieces in the Ohio State Fair\nFine Arts Expo\, the Zanesville Museum of Art\, and several exhibitions in Cleveland\, Columbus\, Canton\,\nand Ashtabula. \nSoft things make my spirit happy. So it is a delight for me to work with fibers. In addition to wool\, I love working with silks\, fabrics\, and yarn and add those fibers into my work. I have always admired textile arts from afar.  But being challenged with a lack of traditional fiber skills I was never able to explore the art form. Until I discovered needle felting. Using simple dyed wool and special needles you can create amazing paintings.  I adore the fact that my needle felting passion is sustainable and earth friendly as well.  It often feels as though I am just a facilitator for the art\, as though the pieces have their own need to be created. \nAs with my other mediums\, color is my inspiration.  It motivates all my artistic endeavors.  I approach my needle felt paintings in the same manner I work in oil pastels.  I lay in dark shapes and shadows and layer towards the lightest colors.  Through light and shade\, the flowing organic lines\, and the play of the varying colors the rush and rigidity of daily life falls away. Needle felting\, as a craft and art\, is gaining in popularity and recognition. However\, I still meet with weird looks when I take wool and needles out in public. But I like to answer whatever questions I can and help promote the art form.  But the simple act of stabbing the wool with a needle is therapeutic as well as creative. \n— Nancy Nelson-Brotz
URL:https://ashtabulaartscenter.org/event/connections-continued/2026-01-26/
LOCATION:Ashtabula Arts Center\, 2928 W. 13th St.\, Ashtabula\, OH\, 44004\, United States
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