Pat Martin will participate in the Bucks County Elephant Eye Tour this spring. The tour showcases nationally and internationally acclaimed artists who make two- and three-dimensional work in various media, including oil paintings, photographs, sculpture, pottery, turned wood and more. Elephants Eye makes important connections between artists and the community. Collectors can use this opportunity to make informal studio visits, and artwork will be available for purchase. “Elephant’s Eye” was derived from Rogers’ and Hammerstein’s “The corn is as high as an Elephant’s Eye” in the musical Oklahoma which was written in Bucks County. The dates are May 15 & 16, and May 22 & 23. Admission is free. You may view Pat Martin's Elephant Eye page here:
http://www.elephantseyetour.org/modules/weblinks/singlelink.php?lid=40
Pat Martin
Bunker Hill Studio
7 Hayden Lane , Ottsville PA 18942
Phone 267-897-5097 (studio)
(posted 2.22.2010)
SAI Announces New Executive Director
Senior Artists initiative is pleased to announce the appointment of a new executive director, Richard Weisgrau, who will assume his duties on January 1, 2010. Weisgrau served as Executive Director of ASMP, American Society of Media Photographers, for fifteen years. ASMP is a national trade association with over 6,000 members. While at ASMP he initiated a full range of educational and advocacy operations. Prior to his work with ASMP, Weisgrau owned and operated one of Philadelphia’s largest photography studios, serving a regional and national clientele. He is a published and exhibited photographer and the author of four books and numerous magazine and journal articles. He brings forty years of management experience to SAI. (posted 12.25.09)
Grants
SAI received grants in 2009 from the Lenfest Foundation -$5000, the Posel Foundation - $3000, and The Philadelphia Cultural Fund - $4985. (posted 4.7.09)
Art Exchange
On Tuesday, August 26, 2008, James A. Michener Art Museum and SAI hosted our first Art Exchange where artists from SAI and Bucks County donated artwork to three community service agencies providing social services in Bucks County – BARC, Family Services of Bucks County and A Women's Place.
The work was set up for viewing at the James A. Michener Museum where the invited agencies selected work to be displayed in their public spaces. SAI artists who donated work were: Nancy Barch, Selma Bortner, Emily Brown, Jacqueline Cotter, Alan Goldstein, Alan J. Klawans, Pat Martin, Mira Nakashima, Charlotte Schatz and Louise Z. Stahl. This is a pilot program by Michener and SAI to assist senior artists in finding appropriate placement for their art work and in reaching a broader public. It also enables community agencies, who have limited financial resources, to bring original art into their spaces. Many thanks to Anne Kaplan, Bruce Katsiff and Zoriana Siokalo for their thoughtful and persistent efforts in realizing this project. A special thanks to all the SAI artists who so generously donated artworks for this inaugural event. The reception and exchange of artwork was a lovely event, honoring the artists and their creative efforts and the agencies and their positive understanding of the power of art to transform.
The Art Exchange is modeled after the Art Connection, established in Boston in 1995 by Fay Chandler, a painter and sculptor working there since the early 1970s. As Fay considered what would happen to her unsold inventory of work, she became convinced that donating the work to public, charitable and educational groups in the community that lacked funds to purchase art would accomplish the best results. Since then, the Boston group has placed more than 3,000 original works of art from over 180 artists and collectors in more than 230 nonprofit organizations throughout the Boston metropolitan area.
Please go to www.artconnection.org for more information about this Boston organization. (posted 4.7.09)
SAI has recently received a grant from the Samuel S. Fels Fund.
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