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Board of Directors Melvin Lindsay President Jill Dieffenbach 1st Vice President Pandy Autry 2nd Vice President Gail Harris Treasurer Annette Szczekutek Secretary Brandon Bass Director Joyce Bowling Director LaMerle Deca Director Nancy Edge Director Suzanne Farrior Director Wade Wahl Director Sandra Williams Director Sandie McFarlane Ex Officio

Board Member EmeritiMerle Prewitt

CFS Executive DirectorAnn Griffin

CFS painting by Brian Steverson, SFC RES USAR FORSCOM

Cape Fear Studios, Inc.Mission Statement

To involve, educate, and enrich Cumberland County and surrounding communities with the opportunity to

create and freely view art.

Meet Our Newest Artists

Winter 2014

Michele Bir is a professional photographer who says she is “obsessed with places that have been forgotten and abandoned. There is something inherently intriguing about identifying an abandoned place, uncovering its history, and displaying the hauntingly beautiful images of its current condition. The primary objective of my body of work is to spur curiosity and to provide the onlooker with something to think about even if just for a second.”

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Born and raised in Indiana, Gail Ferguson spent several years in the Womans Army Corps. She came to Fayetteville seven years ago and retired. She has been silversmithing for 25 years. She has been mentored by Ralph Geilhs and Mack Thornton, both master silversmiths from Arizona.Gail has taken classes in cabbing, opal cutting, inlay, intarsia, and wire wrapping at William Holland School of Lapidary Arts. Currently, she is teaching cabbing, opal cutting, silversmithing and inlay. She will be teaching metal smithing classes at Fayetteville Technical Community College starting in February.

Sook Sienkiewicz (nee K.S. Park), a native of Seoul, South Korea, obtained her BA in English Literature in Seoul. While pursuing a career at an international diplomatic organization she took several courses in the use of various media and in museum science. Gradually she became interested in art and went to Germany, where she began making pen and pencil drawings to capture the essence of Old Europe. Sook then came to the States and enrolled in Jacksonville State, AL; she graduated with a BA in Art, winning the Annie Forney Daugette Award for outstanding achievement in art. During her early years she taught art classes for older children and adults. Currently she is teaching herself in oil, acrylic and watercolor.

John Fisher originates from New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the son of a commercial artist and has been around art studios for as long as he can remember. John joined the Army in the 1980’s to see the world and have an adventure. Along the way he married his German Fraulein and raised a family. Now retired from the service, John is back into the arts. He works as an art teacher and creates pictures in his home studio.

Larkin Pfeffer is a new member, but she is also an old member. She is returning to us after a several year absence. Larkin makes jewelry with her handmade glass beads. She has been making glass beads for 14 years and hopes to teach some classes now that she is no longer working as a dental hygienist. Larkin says, “I am pretty much a Fayetteville native as I have been here since 1964. Glass is my passion and I intend to try my hand at glass blowing – soon I hope.”

October 5, 2014Celebrate the Arts!

It took many hours of preparation: making the soup bowls and the soup to go in the bowls, rounding up vendors, getting together all the materials for our artists to do their demonstrations, getting entertainers, making pieces of art for the silent auction, gathering materials for the children’s activities and much more. We thought we would never be ready. However, October 5 treated us to a beautiful fall day that did, indeed, have something for everyone.

Back to the soup bowls. First you have to make sure each bowl has exactly the same amount of clay.

It seems to take a lot of potters to get ready to throw a bowl; however, the actual act of throwing appears to be a solitary task.

Apologies to Jill and Jean. These pictures were supposed to be in the last issue of the newsletter, but somehow two pictures duplicated from elsewhere in the newsletter appeared on the Celebrate the Arts page.

Thanks to the hard work of all our potters we had 170 beautiful bowls. Too many cooks didn’t spoil the broth this time because the soup was delicious – enough for 150 servings.

The soup and the soup bowls were big hits.

Charlie Rigg continued as a guest artist with his pottery shown in the front of the gallery.

Cape Fear Studios presentsJune-July

Main Gallery:

National 2-D Competitiom

Exhibit Sponsors:

CFS artists doing demonstrations

All the fun wasn’t in the parking lot. There was a sidewalk sale in front of the studio, a silent auction in the back of the studio and two demonstrations involving glass and torches in the front of the studio.

Vendors added more variety to the celebration.

Our Children’s Activities corner was busy with pumpkin painting, decorating soup spoons, painting clay leaves and sidewalk chalk art.

We had art, entertainment, food and even a little sports. Everyone from the Director to the President of the Board, our artists and a great volunteer crew pitched in doing whatever needed to be done to make it a great event. Be sure to look at the photos on the next page to see most of our artists and board members in one photo and the volunteer crew in the second photo. Our ticket sales may have been a little slow at times (see center photo above) but the general concensus is that the event was highly successful and will be held again next year. Work should begin in January or February, 2015. Someone even suggested that we may have started a new “Sunday on the Square” type of event for downtown Fayetteville.

Members and Board

Volunteers

Photos by Ethel Ethington

August 22 - September 22Main Gallery:

Colored Pencil Exhibit by Donna Slade

Donna Slade has enjoyed a 30-year long career in commercial graphic art, advertising, and design. She worked in pen and ink for years enjoying the challenge of creating detail in light and dark values with individual stroke and cross-hatching marks. Looking for a medium to retain the fine detail but add color, Donna discovered pencil. She incorporates 10 to 15 colors to build bold but sensitive color values. Her latest pastel and acrylic works continue the attention to detail and values. Her works are imagined, planned and executed in a representational realistic style.

Donna is a signature member of the Colored Pencil Society of America and has twice been the president of the NC District Chapter of CPSA. She is active in the Pastel Society of North America and several local and regional art associations. Donna’s work has been published in The Best of American Pastel Artists and Artisans, Volume I, The Best of Colored Pencil, CP Treasures Colored Pencil Masterworks, and The Colored Pencil Signature Showcase.

Above is a vignette showing some of Donna’s works and some from our visiting artist from Starworks Glass. The opening for the show was well attended. At right several of our artists are enjoying a chance to chat with Donna.

More works by Donna Slade clockwise from top left: “ Crayola Blue” and “Chambered Nautilus II”, “Winter Red”, “Glass Spectrum” and “An Old Pair” and “Single Flight.”

“Fenced In”“Vintage Mix”

Above Donna poses with our Artist of the Month Sylvia Kubilus-Elam. The remaining pictures show some of Sylvia’s beautiful beaded jewelry.

In addition to being the artist for the main gallery exhibit Donna Slade also gave a workshop on colored pencils. Donna is pictured standing in the black shirt.

We had thirteen attendees, including several studio members and board member Sandra Williams.

Participants came from as far as the Raleigh and Asheville areas.

September 26 - October 20Main Gallery:

A Murder of Crows by Greg Hathaway

Greg Hathaway’s one-man show was all about crows – every piece of pottery and every painting had at least one crow. Sometimes the crow was the main feature and sometimes they were in the background; but the bird, which Hathaway sees as intelligent and undeserving of its distasteful reputation, is there somewhere.

Greg came to the Fayetteville area from Southern California in 1967 compliments of the Army and ended up making Fayetteville his home. After working as a commercial artist for an advertising agency he opened his own shop in the early 80’s. He developed his own style and has won awards for watercolor and other work. In the 90’s he opened a studio on Maxwell Street. In 1996 he decided to do something about all the boarded up storefronts in downtown Fayetteville and created the first Fourth Friday. Thanks, in large part, to his efforts thousands of people now attend music events, art exhibits and shop downtown on the fourth Friday of

the month. Greg was presented with North Carolina’s Order of the Long Leaf Pine in March of 2014 for his work promoting Fayetteville’s downtown and his other community involvement and artistic endeavors.

Just in case you didn’t know it murder is a term for a group of crows, hence the title of the show.

“Raven Queen” with the model for the painting - left. “Pottery Fat Little Crows” below

All photos this page by Michele Bir

“Too Much Fun” from photo by Al Fadel - below

“Keeper of Promises” - below

Look at the pictures on any page and you will see the diversity of media and styles that gave great interest to this show. Clockwise from top left: “Crow Island” watercolor, “Crow Vase on Base” pottery, “ Crow II” a reductive block print in three colors

People enjoyed Greg’s names almost as much as the art. Clockwise from top left: “Crows and Con (Jail)”, “Crowboat to China”, “Crowcane”, and “Cro Magnum”

For the September 26 opening Artist Members responded to a Transportation Challenge to go aloing with a show at the Transportation Museum. Clockwise from top left: Edwina Clark contributed “Antique Beauty 1” and “Antique 2.” Photographer Michelle Bir contributed “Gears.” Rose Kennedy submitted “The Old 22” and “Cool Ride.”

Transportation Challenge Continued clockwise from top left:

Pandy Autry’s “Antique Auto Lamp” is a clever use for old 35mm slides; look at the enlargement in upper right corner.

Michelle Bir’s photo entitled “Old Blue”

“Stoneybrook Steeple Chase” by Kathy Flood

October 24 - November 24Main Gallery:20th Annual

Nellie Allen Smith Pottery Competition Sponsored by: Dr. & Mrs. Gerald Ellison

Frank Till

The Nellie Allen Smith juried pottery competition is one of Cape Fear Studios’ most anticipated events.The 20th annual show and competition opened Friday, Oct. 24 during the Fourth Friday celebration. There are categories for functional and non-functional pieces.

The competition is open to potters throughout the country. It is named for Nellie Smith, a former high school art teacher and president of the Fayetteville Museum of Art, who died in 1993. After Mrs. Smith’s death her husband donated the Mill House on Cool Springs Street to Cape Fear Studios. The Mill House is currently used as a studio by our previous main gallery artist, Greg Hathaway.

Melvin Lindsay, President of the Board of CFS, was on hand to announce the winners. Best in Show was “Slot Canyon Basket with Wide Handle” by Marion Angelica.

First place winner in the functional category was “Eruch” by Rick Berman (left). It was fired in a salt kiln; look carefully at the close-up and you can see grains of sand and the remains of shells placed strategically to keep the pot from sticking to the shelf and to create a design. Rick calls the process salku. Second and third places were taken by Lou Raye Nichol; second place is “Carbon Trapped Plate with Benedotta” and third is “Carbon Trapped Oval Bottle.” These pieces are fired in a gas kiln with access to oxygen cut off so that the fire pulls oxygen from the glaze and clay body.

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First Place in Non-Functional went to “Contemplation” by Scott Ziegler.

Second Place was not presented because the artist did not send the piece after it was accepted for the show and chosen for a prize by the juror.

Melvin finally got to actually present one of the prize checks. CFS’ own Sandra Valdivia earned Third Prize in Non-Functional for “Moon and Stars” shown at bottom left. Directly below long-time CFS member Suzanne Kohrman talks with Sandra about her piece.

Works from Our Artists and Board Members

“Holiday Wreath” by Jill Dieffenbach. Jill has another entry on the next page.

Board member Sandra Williams also had two pieces accepted: “Tomorrow’s Yesterday,” above, and “My Little Chickadee” at the right. See a note about this piece on the next page.

Sandra Valdivia’s second piece is entitled “Maya Plate.”

Editor’s Choice. Yes, your editor just invented a new award. She absolutely loves the plate above by our own Helga Powel. The intricate designs from the mulberry leaves really catch her fancy. “My Little Chickadee” by Sandra Williams takes second place in this category. “You can take the botanist out of the classroom” and all that.

“Teapot” by Helga Powel

Functional pieces from our artists: top left “Morning Milk Jug” by Jill Dieffenbach; middle “Altered Bowl” and bottom “ Toasted Colander by Nancy Edge

The “Can you find it?” contest was a little tricky this month. The enlarged segment was printed almost as big as the original miniature by Rose Kennedy. The smiling winner with her gift certificate is Emily Loes; several people had given up on finding the original, but Emily wasn’t fooled at all.

2-D Challenge for October 4th FridayThis challenge is a value study of a colored photo. The color photo and the value study are shown together. The challenge is to test the artist’s visual accumen–not the camera.

The pretty table added a lot to the ambiance of the room as well as providing tasty snacks.

VISITING ARTIST

Our visiting artist for November-December is Jennie Loretta Keatts who was raised in New Hampshire, and graduated with a BA from the University of Colorado. She lived in Colorado until 1999 working and traveling in the international tourism and hotel industry. In 1996 she took a basic jewelry making class and began to do some very simple pieces using pottery and glaze drips for the shop at Jugtown Pottery, owned by her sister Pam Owens and husband Vernon. In July 1999 she quit her job and moved to the very creative and serene environment of Seagrove, NC, to pursue her dream of designing jewelry at Jugtown Pottery. She lives within walking distance of Jugtown with her husband Wes, their dog and three cats!

Jennie turns mud into “gemstones.” The pottery stones are created by hand and bisque fired; then glazes are layered to create pieces full of depth and imagination. She mixes glazes with varying melting points, glazes created by her sister at Jugtown, to mimic some of the randomness found in nature. Her stones therefore blend beautifully

with the semi-precious natural stones and gems used in her work.

The stones are set in sterling silver and often complemented with other metals such as gold and copper. Texture is often an integral part of the pieces. Reticu-lation, stamping, rolling and forging bring life to the pieces; these techniques may all be mixed in one piece. Many of her pieces are inspired by nature and you will find birds, flowers, and leaves in many of her pieces.

Jennie has won awards at Festival of the Arts, Manteo, NC; Artsfest, Winston Salem, NC; and Art on Main, Hendersonville, NC. She was featured in Thrive Magazine, Volume II, Issue 4, in April 2013.

Source: http://www.jlkjewelry.com

2014 Cape Fear Studios Outreach Program

Our back to school event for children was on September 6. The youngsters decorated cans and containers for pencil cups. Ribbon, yarn, contact paper, colored duct tape and other items were used to decorate the cans.

A new outreach program for our artists is to work with residents at Carillon Assisted Living Center on the 4th Tuesday of the month. In September the residents made leaves from screen wire. In October four CFS artists – Pandy Autry, Suzanne Farrior, Sylvia Kubilus-Elam, and Sandra Valdivia helped residents make “turkeys on a stick” to add to the dining room table vases. A sample of the work is shown at left. There will be one more activity in November to decorate picture frames. To begin the new year Suzanne Farrior is going to do two sessions on watercolor with the residents.

Cape Fear Studios Class ScheduleSeptember-December 2014

The following are classes Cape Fear Studios is offering for children and adults this year through the end of De-cember. If you see classes you are interested in contact us at artgallery@capefearstudios.com or 910.433.2986.

Clay Classes with Patti Speights Patti is an experienced potter and offers clay classes for all ages at her home studio in Lumberton. She is starting on going adult pottery classes that include hand building and throwing on the pottery wheel. All levels of potters are welcome. Cost of the class is $50.00 for 4 weeks. This includes glazing and firing. Clay can be purchased from the instructor. Monday classes begin October 6th, 2014 from 6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m. Thursday classes begin October 9th, 2014 from 12:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Patty will organize clay parties for birthdays or other occasions. Call the studio to schedule classes and parties

October 11 & November 8Autumn Leaf Wind Chimes10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.Participants will make a leaf wind chime out of clay the first week and come back the sec-ond week to glaze it to have it in time for the fall season. This class is designed for all ages. The cost is $25.00

October 189:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.Make your own KaleidoscopeTaught by Linda Sue and Curtis Barnes Participants will assemble a kaleidoscope made from PVC pipe and fittings. Materials for the “magic” will include small transparent beads, glass stringer, and transparent glass shards. The tubes can be decorated with stickers, markers, contact paper, etc. All material will be provided. Children 10-11 must be accompanied by an adult. The class is limited to 10 participants. The cost of workshop is $35.00. Preregistration is required.

November 1 & 15Autumn Centerpiece10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Participants will make an autumn centerpiece out of clay the first week and then come back the second week to glaze it to have it in time for Thanksgiving. This class is designed for 18 and up.Limited to 12 participants, preregistration is required. The cost is $45.00.

November 8 & 22Hooting Good Time with Clay10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Learn to make fall decorations out of clay. A variety of fall and owl themed projects will be presented to the participants to choose from, owl wall hanging, owl planters or bowls. Your imagination will make this your own. You will make the project out of clay the first session and glaze and decorate it the second session. The class is open for ages 8 and up. Each session is limited to 12 participants, preregistration is required. Cost is $35.00.This class will be held at Handworks by Patty’s Backyard Studio, 136 Patterson Road, Lumberton, NC 28358

November 15 & December 6Christmas Center Piece On November 15 from 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. participants will make a Christmas centerpiece out of clay. On December 6 from 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. they will glaze it to have it in time for Christmas. The class is designed for 18 and up. It is limited to 12 participants, preregistration is required. Cost is $45.00.

December 6Paint Clay Christmas Decorations10:00 a.m.-1:00p.m. Come paint a variety of clay ornaments to hang on your tree. Make it a tradition to have a new handmade decoration for your tree. This class is designed for all ages. The cost is $10.00 for 4 decorations.

Ongoing classes at CFS with Lyn PadrickLyn teaches beginning Oil Painting, Beginning Drawing and Colored Pencil, Watercolor A to Z, and Pen and Ink. Classes are on Tuesday and Thursday. For full details of these classes please see our website www.capefearstudios.com

The following Cape Fear Studios artists are available for classes throughout the year. To sched-ule a class with any of them contact them at Cape Fear Studios: 910-433-2986 or at artgallery@capefearstudios.com.

*Brandon Bass teaches drawing and painting to adults and young adults. Schedule directly with Brandon through Studio .

*Nancy Edge teaches private pottery lessons including pottery wheel and hand building. $25 an hour (1-2 people); $30 an hour (3 people). Contact Nancy at the Studio.

*Kathy Flood teaches classes for beginning artists ages 8 and above. Students will learn basic drawing skills. She will have an evening class in the fall; times and dates to be announced.

*Sylvia Kubilus-Elam teaches beaded crochet classes. Cost of the class is $65.00 which includes the kit with everything you will need to create 2 bracelets. Class length is 2 ½ to 3 hours long. Call the studio to schedule classes.

*Jaylene Nordgren teaches stained glass classes on Wednesdays. Schedule with Jaylene through Cape Fear Studios.

Cape Fear Studios Main Gallery Schedule

Annual Members’ Holiday ExhibitNovember 28, 2014 – January 5, 2015The annual holiday exhibition features new work from all of the Cape Fear Studios’ Member Artists

“Cabin Fever” Public ExhibitJanuary 7– January 19Local artists will be invited to exhibit their works. Call Cape Fear Studios for more information.

Black History Month Exhibit by Charles Farrar – Wood TurnerJanuary 23 – February 23Regional artist, Charles Farrar, is highlighted in a unique exhibition about history and art.

Highlights from Our Artists

“Hot and Strong”, watercolor painting by Sook Sienkiewicz was selected for the 69th Watercolor Society of North Carolina Annual Exhibition. The juror was Eric Wiegardt, AWC-DF, NWS.

The opening was on October 12 and the exhibit will last until November 29 at Barton College in Wilson, NC.

Sook Sienkiewicz went to Europe in the month of September and and said, “My time in Provence area was very impressive, particularly visiting Van Gogh’s town Arles and St Remy hospital he stayed.” She also visited St. Victoire Mountain in Aix-in-Provence; it is seen in Cezanne’s paintings. Cezanne’s Studio is open to the public and many of the ob-jects in his paintings are still there. Sook said, “It is quite interesting and a ‘must go’ place for artists.”

The painting "Girl in Snow" by Kathy Flood won the M. Graham Award at the 69th Annual Watercolor Society's 2014 Exhibition. This painting will be on display at Barton College in Wilson until the end of November.

Rose Kennedy was one of thirty plein air painters selected from across the US to participate in the Piedmont Plein Air Paint Out from September 19-22. During that time she completed six pieces and sold three of those. Above she is “goofing around” after the event was finished. The painting shown at left was from the Quick Draw event held opening day. The event held at High Point supports the Boys and Girls Club of Greater High Point and is sponsored by the J Gallery and the JH Adams Inn.

Gail and Rose took advantage of the opportunity to study with nationally renowned artist Dan Beck at his gallery and studio in Wilmington (above). Dan is not only a Signature Member of Oil Painters of America; he won the Gold Medal at the 2011 National exhibit...arguably the highest honor in representational painting in the US. Dan has been juried into numerous OPA and American Impressionist Society exhibits, won countless awards and has been extensively featured in numerous national art publications. The three-day event was an intensive figurative workshop where participants worked from live models in six sessions. The focus of the lessons was based on applying the six visual elements of a painting: line, shape, value, color, texture and edge. Gail and Rose came away from this rich experience with six oil studies each, and the desire to continue exploring figurative painting.

Our artists don’t have to travel to distant places to improve their skills. Annette and Rose took advantage of a beautiful fall day to work on their plein air skills at the Poe House (below). Working outside provides invaluable lessons in landscape painting that you can’t get working from reference photos. They plan to paint somewhere in town at least once a week as long as the weather permits and they invite other artists to join them.

GOOD NEWS

We did it!!! Thanks to the help from our artists, supporters and the Power2Give project Cape Fear Studios has a brand new kiln. Let’s hope that it serves us as long as “Old Faithful” did.

At left Brent Sumner, Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the Arts Council (center), is presenting a check for the project grants CFS received for fiscal year 2014/2015.

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Thanks to Pandy Autry, Curtis Barnes, Linda Sue Barnes, Michelle Bir, Jill Dieffenbach, Ethel Ethington, Gail Harris, and Rose Kennedy for providing photos.

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