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Deena S. Ball

Visual Arts: Painting

Deena S. Ball is a nationally renowned landscape painter known for her innovative use of watercolors in combination with textured ground and specialized surfaces. She received her BA in Art History and Studio Art from Colby College in Waterville, ME and continued her studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and the Tyler School of Art. Deena’s work is exhibited extensively throughout the Mid-Atlantic Region, and can be found in issues of “Watercolor Artist” and annual publications of “Splash”. Amongst her most recent accolades are acceptance to the Plein Air Southwest Salon, first place in the Arts on the Avenue Gallery Landscape Show, the Daniel Smith Award at On Location: Artists at Brandywine, an honorable mention in the Small Works, Big Ideas – Beauty Gallery, Adirondack Award at the Saranac Lake Plein Air Festival, and being a featured Artist in Thos. Moser Philadelphia Showroom. She has participated in Bucks County Plein Air Festival, Castine Plein Air, Ocean Park Plein Air, Brandywine Plein Air and Farm to Table Plein Air festivals. Deena maintains an active career as a teaching artist for both adults and children. She also started a program at Wayne Art Center for adults with brain injuries. She is regularly invited to conduct workshops, classes and presentations for art centers and artist associations, such as the Community art Center, Wayne Art Center, Main Line Art Center, Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen, Haverford Guild of Craftsmen, Delaware Valley Art League and the Howard Pyle Studio Group. Her workshops range from basic drawing to advanced and experimental watercolor techniques. Deena has been an artist in residence at the Please Touch Museum, Chester Charter School for the Arts, International School in Istanbul and the Erdenheim School. She was the founding art teacher at the St. James School in Philadelphia and is now mentoring the new art teacher. Deena is president of and a signature member of the Philadelphia Watercolor Society. She is a signature member of The Pennsylvania Watercolor Society, and the Baltimore Watercolor Society, as well as a state juried member of the Pennsylvania Guild of Craftsmen. Deena is one of the founders and organizers of Farm to Table Plein Air: bringing art to the table which received a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts: Project Stream grant for 2017-2018. For more information regarding current exhibitions, upcoming shows, teaching engagements, and commissions, please visit www.deenasball.com

Sarah Baptist

Visual Arts: Painting

Sarah Baptist – Artist Statement The character and essence of city streets, alleys, train tracks and such, capture Sarah’s attention when she paints. She finds rhythms in the shapes of the urban landscape. Sarah finds the impact of man and nature co-existing a fascinating subject. Sarah is an urban landscape oil painter, who enjoys plein air painting. Being on location, responding and reacting to the light, color and atmosphere is a challenge and a joy. Recently, Sarah has started to use this plein air work, as well as many photos taken while out painting, to create larger urban landscapes and abstractions in her home studio. Sarah started out as a set designer because she loved creating the illusion of another world on the stage. That morphed into painting scenery for theater, opera and specialty events for 20+ years from Maine to Wisconsin to New Hampshire and finally Delaware. Now she creates worlds with oil paints rather than on the stage! Sarah is a self-taught artist. She has shown her work in numerous galleries in the area and has won a number of awards at regional plein air events. Sarah invites you to see more of her artwork at SarahBaptistArt.com and Instagram.com/sbaptistart

Siobhan Bedford

Visual Arts: Painting

Siobhan Bedford’s oil paintings, strive to capture the raw energy and complexity of creation, through explorations of rhythm in the chaos of flowing color. A bright focal point often emerges into ethereal atmospheres, revealing forms which are rooted in the earth’s elements and hint at a connection to the infinite. She paints sitting on the floor turning the canvas as she works. This allows a sense of floating above rather than the ordinary orientation of up and down. She sees painting as an extension of the self-revealing inner emotional energy states. It expresses a kind of consciousness in color and form that is both deeply personal yet finds a connection in viewers with a shared inner experience. She received her BFA, Illustration and Painting from Marywood College, Scranton, PA in 1995. Her most recent solo show “Emergence” was at the Chester County Art Association, West Chester, PA in 2016. She has been participating in the Chester County Open Studio Tour since 2016. She shares her art making experience on her blog “Behind The Studio Door.” www.siobhanbedford.com

Craig Bickhardt

Performing Arts: Music

Craig Bickhardt is a folk/Americana performing songwriter with major writing credits, a poet’s voice, a virtuoso guitar style and a veteran’s experience. His songs have found their way onto platinum and Grammy-winning recordings by legends such as Johnny Cash, Martina McBride, Willie Nelson, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Jonathan Edwards, David Wilcox, Pam Tillis, Kathy Mattea and Alison Krauss. His voice and songs can be heard in the Academy Award-winning film “Tender Mercies,” starring Robert Duvall, as well as the films “Switchback” and “At Close Range.”

AMY BRUCKNER

Visual Arts: Mixed Media; Mosaics

Amy has always been involved with one art form or another, from pottery to watercolor painting but creating beautiful, original mosaics is what she loves to do most. She started out with ceramic tiles, moved on to glass which enables more intricate designs, then rocks (yes, rocks – she was a geologist in a former life) and now incorporates ceramic elements into her mosaics, a ceramic-mosaic mashup. Amy is a native of the Philadelphia suburbs, and began her career as a mosaic artist 13 years ago studying under Gina Hubler of Design Impact Studios of Miami. She continued honing her skills with award-winning mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar, best known for his brilliantly eclectic Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens, as well as mosaic artists Cynthia Fisher, Laura Rendlen, Yulia Hanansen, Guilio Menossi and Rachel Sager. Amy works out of her home studio near Downingtown, PA, and teaches classes in the area. Her work has been shown in several juried art shows – Downingtown Fine Arts Festival 2106, Art in Autumn, Weaverville, NC 2015 and 2016, as well as galleries – Mala Galleria in Kennett Square, PA and Ivystone Studio in Downingtown, PA, and at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, PA.

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