MARGO ALLMAN Acrylics and mixed media

Margo Allman studied at Smith College, the Moore College of Art and Design, the Hans Hofmann School of Art and the University of Delaware. She received a Moore Distinguished Alumnae award in 1998. Allman had a retrospective “Life in Art from 1953 through 2008” at the McKinney and Long Galleries at West Chester University. Her work is represented in the collections of the Delaware Art Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and numerous private and corporate collections in the United States and abroad.

Contact:

email: mhutsie@aol.com

Ovoidal Abundance

LAURA BARTON Oil painting

Ms. Barton studied art at the Moravian College in Bethlehem, PA. Her work has been shown in galleries around the region. Laura's work is impressionistic in style and she paints mainly en plein air. “I love painting outside, capturing the light and color as it drapes the landscape.”

Contact:
email: laura@bartondesigninc.com
Website: www.laurabarton.com

Green Creek
Oil on Panel

JOYCE BERGER Painting

Joyce graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. While attending the academy, she was awarded the J. Henry Schiedt Memorial Travel Scholarship and the Charles Toppan Prize for Drawing. Her work is in private collections in the United States and has been included in many juried and invitational exhibitions.

Contact:

email jbarts@comcast.net

KAROL BOBB Graphics, Computer images, Jewelry

Karol's work is ever evolving. She likes collecting found objects when traveling as a memoir of her stay. These objects subsequently become a piece of mixed media art filled with the alluring emotion of its original environment. She also enjoys metal artform and in the past has created a name for herself in sliversmithing. Using this knowledge she often incorporates pieces of metall into her art work. Karol was born in Panama and grew up in Florida and the Bahamas. Her work often embraces an indigenous spirit she believes has been influenced from her resident past.

Contact:

Phone: 610 505-4023

Jazz Trio

CAROL COLE  Mixed Media Assemblages

Carol Cole’s art is inspired by the works of anonymous tribal artists and architects whose archetypal forms and symbols speak a universal language, crossing barriers of time and culture. She aims for the same universality by making multicultural references and seeing beauty in unexpected places. Transforming the relics of our time–found manufactured objects—into elegant iconic sculptures. Cole shows and sells her art nationally. Her work is in many private and corporate collections, as well as the Philadelphia History Museum and the Curtis Institute of Music. Cole has degrees from Stanford and Harvard, but is largely self-taught in art.

Contact:

Phone: 610 664-2825

email: carol@carolcole.com

Website: www.carolcole.com

FRAN GALLUN Collage and Painting

Fran Gallun is a Philadelphia area artist who has exhibited for over 30 years. She teaches at the Fleisher Art Memorial, and is the recipient of many awards and traveling fellowships. Her work, mixed media painting expresses her interest in the many layers of history, of the earth, of each of us; things both hidden and revealed. She is a graduate of the University of the Arts, and has studied at the PA Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Fleisher Art Memorial.

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Lush Garden
Collage

LINDA DUBIN GARFIELD Printmaking & Mixed Media

An award-winning printmaker and mixed media artist, she creates visual memoirs exploring the mystery of memory and the magic of place, using hand-pulled printmaking techniques, photography, collage and digital imaging. She also creates installations that include public participatory art relating to women in today's culture. In 2005 she founded ARTsisters, a group of professional artists who empower each other and their community through art. In 2007 she started smART business consulting, helping emerging artists reach their goals providing - consulting and coaching on the business side of art, workshop experiences and opportunities to exhibit work. Today she serves on several non-profit boards and appreciates her good fortune to be able to make art every chance she gets.

Contact:621Fariston Drive Wynnewood, PA 19096

Phone: 610 649.3174

email: garf621@aol.com

The Magic Bird
Mixed Media

JUDY GOODKIND Collage

Working with found images, Judy Goodkind builds her pictures from widely disparate sources. Seamlessly integrating cut-outs and paint, she creates what one critic has described as “logical presentations of illogical reality.” Her visual allusions range through epochs of art history. They are brain teasers and invitations to puzzle-solving.

Judy has exhibited extensively through-out the Mid-Atlantic region with 22 solo shows and numerous juried exhibitions over the past 30 years. Her collages are included in the corporate collections of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America, the American Association of Retired Persons, and the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals as well as many private collections.

Contact:

email: jgoodkind38@gmail.com

Website: www.judygoodkind.com

Some Famous Ladies on Vacation

Mixed Media

Mary Kane received a BFA from Ohio State and went on to take graduate classes in painting and drawing at American University. Before moving to the Philadelphia area she taught art in high school in Fairfax, Virginia and was a traveling art supervisor. In the Philadelphia area she studied with various artists and has moved entirely to abstraction. One juror described her work as a “wonderful abstract symphony of colors, planes and drips which simply resonate well together”.

She was accepted in the Art of the State three times and invited by Marion Locks to be in an invitational show at the Wayne Art Center. She is active on the Board of Artists Equity and is a member of the ARTsisters. She has been the curator for the “Artist of the Month” at the Main Line Unitarian Church for the past 25 years.

Contact:

Phone: 484 341-8014

email: marykaneart@gmail.com

Website: www.marykane.com

NANCY LARISON Painting

Nancy was born in Pennsylvania, attended Millersville College as an Art major and is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich Germany. She lives and paints now in Pennsylvania and has exhibitied her work in the United States and internationally. Her works are in corporate and private collections.

“As an abstract painter in the twenty first century, I strive to have my work reflect not only on the history of painting but also to be a mirror to our media filled world of today, using color to reach out and grab the viewers attention to drawing them into my painting world. The elements of luminosity, spatial tension and movement are very important to me in my painting.”

Contact:

email: nllarison6@gmail.com

Website: https://nancylarison.com

Instagram: @larisonnancy

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nancy-larison-223584186

Over Under Around

Oil on Canvas

LAUREN A. LITWA Oil and Watercolor

Lauren is a graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts where she won the Cresson Traveling award for study in Florence, italy. Her many prizes include the top award in Painting at the Harrisburg Museum State of the Art competition. She has had solo exhibitions and participated in group shows throughout the U.S. and abroad. Her work is in many private and corporate collections.

“There's a dialogue that takes place between me and the painting surface. I may start out wanting to capture the way sunlight casts a shadow over a building or wanting to portray the night sky. But the painting takes over and leads me to the next mark or color. I stay open to the process and let it happen. My landscapes are influenced by actual locations but they end up being more of an imaginary world, one that is lyrical, magical, and mysterious.”

Contact:

112 Wawa Road, Wawa, PA 19063

Phone: 610 937-1411

email: Lauren@LitwaArt.com

Website: www.laurenlitwa.com

Standing on Frack Free Ground

Oil on Linen

BARBARA MACHLER completed a Master of Fine Arts degree in Graphic Arts at Tyler School of Art of Temple University, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History at Goucher College. She studied at Pratt Institute with a Teaching Assistantship, at Brooklyn Museum School of Fine Arts as a Max Beckmann Fellow, and at Kutztown University to earn an Art K-12 Teaching Certificate. She accepted an invitation to join Muse Gallery at its inception, and became a founding member of Muse Foundation for the Visual Arts. Her long life in art, and diverse works reflect spirited explorations.

Phone: 610 937-1411

email: bargm42@gmail.com

Firebird

BARBARA MELLIN Printmaking, Painting, Poetry

Barbara Mellin is an art historian with a graduate degree from Harvard University. She reinterprets historical art techniques using less toxic materials. Her mezzotints use an intaglio printmaking process invented in the 17th C. She also creates copper-sulphate etchings and dry points, as well as reduction linocuts and white-line prints, first introduced in the early 1900s by the women printmakers of Provincetown, MA. She creates Asian brush paintings, using Chinese watercolors, Sumi-e inks and antique color sticks, as well as oil paintings, using water mixable oils. Her paintings and prints have been exhibited throughout the US and internationally. She is also an award-winning writer, whose articles, essays and poetry have been published worldwide.

Phone: 610 937-1411

email: southhousestudio@gmail.com

Self Portrait

NANCY SARANGOULIS All media

N. Sarangoulis is an artist who lives in Reading, PA. She graduated from Kutztown University in 1970 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. After graduation, she studied art in Fontainbleau, France at the Ecoles D'Art Americaines. For ten years she was a member of Muse Gallery, a co-opeative space in Philadelphia for women artists. As an independent artist, she has shown her work extensively in the Philadelphia area, as well as in museums and art venues throughout Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Delaware, Arizaon, Washington, DC, Illinois, and New Jersey. Her work can be viewed in the artists' digital registry of The Drawing Center in NYC.

Contact:

email:  nsarangou@gmail.com

Phone:  610 778-0708

Untitled

LIBBIE SOFFER Textile, stoneware, mixed media

Libbie completed the textile department's curriculum at Moore College of Art while also studying additional media techniques. She received a printmaking fellowship from the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL. She was represented by Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, and Kasten Gallery, Great Barrington, Mass. Her work traveled to museums across the United States as part of “All the Symptoms of an Artist.” In addition to many one-person shows, she is a frequently invited guest artist. She co- taught an annual “Art Incubator” workshop with her late husband in Jamaica, West Indies. Her work is held in many private collections, including Bristol Myers Squibb and the playwright Edward Albee. She was a member and past president of Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art and a current member of Philadelphia Sculptors, Artists’ Equity and InLiquid.

"I am a non-figurative abstract commentator. My approach is serial, as in book chapters. I use a Wabi Sabi approach to give my work a sense of life and history. This includes rusting, burning, staining, and/or distressing the materials."

Contact:

email:  lthreads@comcast.net

Phone: 610 420-0980

Website: libbiesoffer.com

Beneath the Shadows

Mixed Media

CHRISTINE STOUGHTON Mixed Media

Christine Stoughton is an art educator, sculptor and printmaker. She is an instructor of art aesthetics at the Barnes Foundation, and, prior to that, with the Violette de Mazia Foundation where she taught their courses in a variety of settings, including the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and West Chester University. She teaches printmaking at Main Line Art Center She trained in sculpture and printmaking at PAFA, where she obtained her diploma. She exhibits both regionally and internationally and maintains a studio in the Norristown Arts Building, Norristown, Pa. Her work is in both private and corporate art collections. She is a psychologist who obtained her Ph.D. from Boston College. Her art is strongly influenced by her work as a psychologist and by Eastern philosophy with its focus on change and the ephemeral.

Contact:

email: christinestoughton@yahoo.com
Website: www.christinestoughton.com

JULIE TRIGG Oils, pastels, and construction pieces

Trigg studied art and printmaking at the Art Students League, Parsons School of Design, and The New School in New York. She has won many awards, including the Grumbacher Silver Medallion award and was selected as one of “30 Florida Women in Art” at Edison College in 1982 and her work is in many corporate and private collections. She currently shows her work at her studio gallery in Sarasota, Florida. “Most of my painting deal with the way I interpret life and/or events that affect us (usually women) on a daily basis. They are not always autobiographical but may be just thoughts or observations that I carry around in my head for months or years before putting them down on canvas or paper.”

Contact: Trigg Studios
1369 Main Street Sarasota, FL 34234
Phone: 941 685-9183
email: juliewtrigg@gmail.com

I Can Dance
Oil on canvas

Donna Usher Acrylic on panel

Donna Usher received her BFA in painting and BS in art education from Moore College of Art & Design. She received her MFA with Honors from the University of Delaware. Donna was an Associate Professor of Art at West Chester University for 28 years. In 2021, Donna was awarded the Honors College Emerita Designation by the West Chester University Council of Trustees. In addition, in 1999, Professor Usher received the Faculty Merit Award for Creative Endeavors and Collaboration with Students.
Usher's artworks have been exhibited in over 70 juried and invitational exhibitions, both national and international. Her artworks are in the Permanent Collections of the National Centre of Fine Arts, Cairo, Egypt; The Museum of Cozumel, Mexico; Reading Public Museum; Verizon Corporate Offices; Franklin Mint, Hercules Chemical Corporation; West Chester University; Moore College of Art & Design; Downingtown Public Library; Rosemont Campus of Villanova; American Restaurant Association Corporate Offices; and The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.

email: donnausherartist@gmail.com
Website: www.donnausher.com

Sea Surge
Acrylic on panel

VALETTA Pastels, Oils, Mixed Media

Valetta is a graduate of Pratt Institute, NY, B.S. Art Teacher Education, graduate studies, Tyler School of Art, Univ. of PA in Philadelphia. The recipient of many awards, she has exhibited throughout the U.S. and Europe. An active art feminist, she has been in the forefront at Muse Gallery and the African American Museum, Philadelphia, the SYNE international group, the DCCA, Wilmington, DE, The Art Trust non profit gallery, West Chester, PA, and founder/director of RCWA “My work is an expression of dreams, glimpses of scenes in passing, memories and juxtapositions.”

Contact: P.O. Box 510 Westtown, PA 19395

Phone:  610 459-2384

email: valetta.rcwa@comcast.net

Website:  www.valettaartist.com

Be Seated
Acrylic on wood detail

RUTH WOLF Mixed Media

Ruth Wolf was born in Philadelphia. She studied painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, with a PAFA Certificate and a BFA, in the degree program with the (then) Philadelphia College of Art. She received an MFA from the University of Wisconsin, as a Teaching Assistant, teaching Basic Art Experiences. Returning to Philadelphia, she studied the aesthetic theory of Dr Albert Barnes at the Barnes Foundation with Violette deMazia. Years later, she continued these studies with a grant from the Violette deMazia Foundation.

Ruth has exhibited her large-scale canvases and installations in numerous group and one-person exhibitions. She has worked at artist residencies at Yaddo and is included in numerous private collections. Currently a member of the Cerulean Arts Collective in Philadelphia, she says “I like to paint large canvases that tell stories. My figures are characters in the drama presented on the landscape of the picture plane. I ask the viewer: enter, meander, suspend sequential storytelling, become an avatar and redefine reality, with truth, honesty and beauty.”

Contact:

email: nfal@aol.com

Website: www.RuthWolf.com

Mixed Media

12 12" square panels