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Perspectives: Hale Tenger

Hale Tenger is a fascinating artist. She uses installation art to comment on political issues and /or Turkish government policies. Some of her installations include sculpture, such as rag dolls, or giant decorated domes. A good site to read about her work is Green ...

A Relene Schuster

"Shell Cluster", a watercolor and ink painting, is a dark and bloody work by A Relene Schuster. She has a studio at the Workhouse Arts Center in Lorton Virginia , and one can view her website by clicking here. She says this of her work..." As an artist, art therapist...

Butterfly People

I first saw this butterfly art in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Large clear plastic boxes are filled with dried butterflies of differing colors and shaped into various patterns. (Here is a a link to the website...ButterflyPeople ). The colors and shimmers of those butterfly...

Susan Swartz

Wondering what to see at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington Dc? Susan Swartz has a show there now titled "Seasons of the Soul", consisting of thirteen large, 3 feet by 4 feet, paintings.See info below, copied from the website... The museum has a...

Nadine Thola

One of my former students , Nadine Thola, is having a show . She just completed her Mastery of Interdisciplinary Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University.  Her show (thesis exhibition) is at the NVCC-Annandale Campus, Ernst Comm. Cultural Center, Verizon Gallery,...

carin tillman

Carin Tillman, combines poetry and photography  in "The Elms Are Tall Here", a haunting artwork in her series "Metanoia". Here is the poetry from the artwork: "The Elms are tall here. Their naked dry skeletons sway in the wind. A wind where I used to feel your...

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