Carol Spiker, Up, Up and Away (detail), OIL ON CANVAS 101 FEATURED ARTIST

Carol Spiker The 24th Annual Art Ability Wilmington, Delaware Exhibition Preview Party Carol Spiker, a former patient at Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, has always had a passion for Saturday, November 2, 2019 graphic arts. As a busy mom who raised two Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital boys, Carol worked for an ad agency, did a great deal of volunteer work, ran a couple of Preview Reception marathons, and started a lacrosse program 5:00–8:00 pm that ran for 26 seasons. She returned to school in the late eighties to study painting, Priscillia Bohlen, Ballet “Art to Life” as she wanted to begin creating art that was canvas. Carol has found that color choices 7:10 pm—Patient Dining Room inside-out versus outside-in. This journey are an important part of her creative process. Our speakers will share their perspective continues today after a few big twists and Her decisions involving colors have evolved on the impact of art and Art Ability. turns along the way. over time and reveal evidence of her feelings, In 1998, Carol was thrown into a creek while at the same time grow into beautiful Dinner & Auction passages that empower the picture’s surface. when her car was hit on I-95. She realized 7:00–10:00 pm When Feathers Fall, immediately that she was paralyzed, and Carol says, “I would have loved to hang out Oil on paper her only words were: “Thank God I have my with Richard Diebenkorn and the Bay Area hands.” Yes, being paralyzed makes painting Figurative painters in the 50s or Milton Avery Closing Reception: more difficult, and she can no longer tackle in NYC in the 40s!” Art and the Patient Experience that 8’x10’ canvas. But, she can still paint. Making art exposes oneself and for Carol it Sunday, January 12, 2020 | 1:00–3:00 pm She is one of the lucky ones, and art has can be scary. Over time, she has learned that become a driving force in her life, a focus that it takes courage to put your creations out has sharpened even more after her accident. there to be seen by the world and for others Exhibit is free and open to the public from Painting is her passion—no matter how often to judge. Somehow, this understanding—that Shelby Brown, Urban Collision November 3, 2019 to January 26, 2020 she has explored other directions, the figure she must be brave—has helped her through It’s Not Working, Oil and pencil on paper continues to pull her back to a brush and a her 20-year journey as a paraplegic. 102 1 PRESIDENT’S LETTER LEADERSHIP SPONSORS

Dear Friends, Presenting Sponsor Platinum Sponsor Welcome to Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital and the 24th annual Art Ability Preview Party. Construction Services Group This evening’s event includes the exhibition and sale of artwork as well as the dinner and auction. As the largest program of its kind, Art Ability provides a special opportunity for Gold Sponsors artists with disabilities—from around the world—to showcase and sell their work. Since the Exhibition Sponsor program’s beginning in 1996, over 850 artists have displayed their work and have personally Aramark Raynes Lawn Hehmeyer benefited from sales in excess of $1.2 million. Thank you for being part of this success. Equus Partners Shein Law; The Benjamin My congratulations to our artists, and appreciation for the examples of courage and triumph Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital Klehr Harrison Harvey Shein Family Foundation they model for each and every one of us. Art has the power to heal and transform lives. We see Volunteer Association Branzburg LLP USLI this every day, as our clinicians incorporate Art Ability into their treatment plans, challenging Pepper Hamilton LLP Wells Fargo and inspiring our patients to stretch beyond their present limitations and achieve their goals. Preview Reception Sponsor Exhibition Wall Sponsors During the Dinner & Auction program we also celebrate the triumph of the human spirit. Special thanks to Alexandria Warner and her parents Susan and Darrell Giles for joining us Capital One McCann & Wall LLC and sharing their journey of recovery following Alexandria’s life-threatening auto accident CBIZ Meridian Bank while a student at Spelman College. CIBC Private Wealth Miller Brothers Management Funds raised this evening benefit the livelihoods of our participating artists and the R.A.M.M., Inc. CitrinCooperman Art Ability program as well as support other hospital priorities that enable us to provide Saul Ewing LLP the most progressive rehabilitation environment for our patients, like Alexandria. Dinner Sponsor Johnson Controls The DiOrio Agencies, Keith Boyer/KMRD State Farm Thank you for joining us, and a very special thank you to our Art Ability Committee, Partners Univest Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital Foundation Board, sponsors and volunteers for contributing Malvern Bank WSFS to a remarkable event! Mayfield Contracting Warm regards, In addition to these leadership sponsors, we extend our Auction Sponsor special thanks to the many others who demonstrated their support through ads.

Art Ability was supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

2 3 OUR COMMITTEE & BOARDS ABOUT BRYN MAWR REHAB HOSPITAL

Bryn Mawr Rehab Art Ability Main Line Health BRYN MAWR REHAB HOSPITAL, PART OF MAIN LINE HEALTH, IS A Hospital Committee Board of Governors LEADER IN THE FIELD OF PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION. Foundation Board Melinda Breecker Stephen Aichele The 148-bed, not-for-profit hospital offers the full continuum of Gabrielle D. Bailey Maria Bruno Reneé Amoore rehabilitation services, including acute inpatient care as well as

Keith A. Boyer Karen Cavin Andrea Anania outpatient services for adults and adolescents. The hospital received

Michael J. Buongiorno Audrey del Grosso Elizabeth (Betsy) Balderston, Chair Magnet® designation, the nation’s highest distinction for excellence

Blake M. Chapman Sandy Duli David Berkowitz in nursing care and is accredited by the Joint Commission and the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF). Michael Croce Doris and Bill Gorden Chris Bruner Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital treats patients with traumatic and Stephen J. DiOrio Lynda Hamm Ned Carp, MD nontraumatic brain injury, stroke and other neurological disorders, Sheldon Gross, Vice Chair Linda Heiberger Alex Constable traumatic and nontraumatic spinal cord injury, amputations, and Thomas J. Haas Doug Hess Robert Frederick, MD orthopedic injuries. Bryn Mawr Rehab Outpatient Network treats Christine Jamison Peggy and Brian Jones Barbara Gasper individuals with a wide range of conditions and injuries from brain John J. Lynch Jean Kozicki Ernest Gillan, MD Sal Panasci, Snowy White injury, spinal cord injury and Parkinson’s disease to concussions, Robert E. McCann Paul Laincz Ellen Harvey pelvic floor disorders and lymphedema. Our outpatient rehabilitation Joseph J. McHale, Chair Claire Larson Peter Havens services are conveniently located throughout the western suburbs of Kenneth B. Mumma Theresa Leitsch-Feehery Steven D. Higgins Philadelphia. For more information about Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, Maria Luisa Nunez Karen Meyers Wendell F. Holland, Esq. visit mainlinehealth.org/rehab. Louis V. Ott Ellie Pfautz Michelle Hong, Esq.

Patty Panzo Alyssa Pizio Cheryl Koch, MD Bill Porter, Father Nature

Cynthia W. Pelton Ruth Porritt John J. Lynch

Donna M. Phillips Theresa Renninger Martha Macartney, Esq.

Rosadele Plumari Marilyn and Bob Roland Giancarlo Mercogliano, MD

Michael T. Prendergast Janet Rotoli Steven Nichtberger, MD

Geoffrey Sheehan Tad Sperry Ellen Rinaldi

Paola Versano Linda Tordone William Stulginsky, Vice Chair

Karen E. Gadson Cristine Largoza John Walsh Executive Director of Art Ability Coordinator Development Lists current as of September 30, 2019. Jo Allebach, Poppies and Friends 4 5 ABOUT ART ABILITY

Mission Program Participating artists express their creativity through many mediums including painting, photography, Art Ability is dedicated to creating community awareness Selection of the art sculpture, fiber arts, jewelry and fine crafts. Through of cognitive and physical disabilities, encouraging people A stringent, two-step process ensures that Art Ability these creative modes of expression, artists are able with disabilities to reach beyond their limitations and presents highly professional artwork, demonstrating the to convey their talent and receive recognition for their find fulfillment and inspiration through art. Art Ability strength of artistic talent within the disabled community. work, and in many cases are able to further recover provides positive role models for people with disabilities The first step is conducted by a jury of art professionals from a life-altering illness or injury. Victor Mordasov, Winter Sunrise while increasing their access to the arts. The program and the Art Ability curator, and includes reviewing

successfully develops new markets for artists with the submitted images and choosing the artwork for Sales consignment inventory. Each year, with the permission disabilities where they can gain recognition for their the exhibition. The second step includes esteemed Artists earn 80 percent of the sales of exhibited work, of the artist, Art Ability retains a number of works technical skill and artistic vision. judges who are selected based on their expertise and those commissioned during the 12-week show. from our annual exhibition to allow for more exposure Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital’s Art Ability has been an and prominence in the Greater Philadelphia fine arts Unsold works are returned after the exhibit closes. Artists for our artists and their talents. To browse artwork community. They judge the work, selecting the pieces integral part of the hospital since its first exhibition may be invited to take part in Art Ability’s ongoing sales available for purchase, visit bidpal.net/artwork. and sale of work by artists with disabilities in 1996. It to receive awards in their respective categories. and exhibition programs, receiving 60 percent of the • Corporate art acquisition program Art Ability also sales for work sold during this time. continues to be a year-round showcase and celebration serves as a resource for corporations to help meet their of artists with disabilities and is the country’s largest need for art for their corporate art collections. international, juried exhibition and sale of its kind. Program components While the annual exhibition is the highlight of the • Permanent collection of work Bryn Mawr Rehab Tonight’s event is the kick-off of the exhibit. Proceeds program, Art Ability has many other components which Hospital is an actively collecting institution whose from this evening help support Bryn Mawr Rehab include: permanent collection of over 400 objects is on display Hospital’s patient and community programs. The exhibit throughout the year. Clinicians at the hospital often use • Satellite exhibitions Traveling satellite exhibitions is then free and open to the public and enjoyed by more the art as a tool to motivate and treat their patients. of Art Ability artwork are a key component of the than 3,500 people annually, including the hospital’s program and have been successful in generating patients and families, hospital staff, friends, and visitors. enhanced awareness of the talent and skill of our For more information about Art Ability artists; in addition to communicating that disability is programs call or email: as personally limiting as you make it. 484.596.5607 | [email protected] • Online sales gallery Our online sales gallery provides Allen Bryan, the opportunity to view works for sale from our On The Trail in Sonora 6 7 PATIENT STORY DINNER & AUCTION

Alexandria Warner New van for patient transportation and RightEye A high-speed police chase of a stolen car and placed on a ventilator. Alexandria spent ended in a horrific fiery crash and marked a nearly two months in intensive care before tracking system watershed moment for the Warner Giles family. being transferred to a rehab hospital where Thanks to last year’s Dinner & Auction Their then 20-year-old daughter, Alexandria she received subpar care resulting in almost Warner—who was a passenger in the rear- another full month in intensive care. Finally, Call to Give, we purchased both a new ended car crushed in the collision—suffered after more than nine surgeries and more than patient van and a specialized piece of multiple life-threatening injuries, a traumatic three months of hospitalization, Alexandria therapy equipment. brain injury, and the loss of both of her kidneys. came to Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital as both The van enables patients to participate in community Alexandria, a junior honors pre-medicine inpatient and outpatient as part of her long outings—to the grocery store, town park and mall—with major, had taken a break from an on-campus journey of healing and recovery. the assistance of Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital’s recreation study group to get dinner with two girlfriends. As a patient at Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, therapy team. This is a crucial piece in the physical During their return trip and only a couple of Alexandria relearned many daily activities rehabilitation process as it allows for patients to not only blocks from the Spelman College campus, the that are often taken for granted. She has work on their physical functioning in a common public car she was riding in was struck by the stolen made extraordinary progress due to the setting outside of the hospital, but also provides the vehicle estimated to be traveling 80-100 mph. talented and compassionate staff, the state- emotional and social support in building their comfort The force of the impact propelled the car of-the-art therapy equipment, and her strong Last year’s featured patient, Lee Lee Jones, and members of the and confidence as they prepare for discharge. Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital transportation team into a utility pole striking the right rear determination and hard work. Using advanced eye-tracking technology, the RightEye side, where Alexandria was sitting buckled Alexandria and her family learned first- system uncovers issues that an observation-only exam into her seat. Fire ignited in the rear of the hand the impact acute rehabilitation cannot. The system pinpoints vision and brain health car. Emergency responders arrived, the fire hospitals have on patient recovery—and, issues. We are very excited to have this advanced was extinguished, and the arduous work of the importance of actively evaluating and equipment as part of our treatment options. extricating Alexandria from the mangled advocating for the right rehabilitation care.

wreck was quickly accomplished. Alexandria’s miraculous story and road to Due to the severity of Alexandria’s injuries, recovery will be shared during this year’s she was put in a medically induced coma Art Ability Dinner & Auction.

8 9 CURATOR’S LETTER: ENERGY AND RENEWAL 2019 JUDGES

I recently repaired A Little Girl’s Trip (2005) by Judy Miller, an artwork in Art Ability’s Alex Conner Visual Artists (CFEVA) staff in 2001 as the Director of permanent collection. It is now out of storage and has a new life on display. Every time I pass Alex Conner is an artist, educator, Programming. She heads CFEVA’s Visual Artist Fellowship this artwork (a naïve mixed media piece of a girl with her arms outstretched, in the cab of a entrepreneur and art collector and has mounted numerous exhibitions throughout the colorful hot air balloon) I feel so much joy and it makes me smile. It speaks to me. I feel like I living in Philadelphia. Alex’s region. She also established CFEVA’s Regional Community must be sharing the artist’s joy and excitement, and I want to jump in and join the ride. Small artistic practice is focused on Arts Program (RCAP)—a vehicle to bring substantial doses of positive energy like this are contagious, and necessary. Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital showing the social construction of career development opportunities to Philadelphia’s Gaby Heit, Art Ability Curator cultivates an environment of positive energy and moving forward in so many ways. Like the everyday life through dismantling visual artists. In May 2018 Genevieve accepted the role of hospital, Art Ability celebrates both process and progress. its coded visual language. He is a K-12 gallery educator at executive artistic director and president of CFEVA, and With Energy, the special category for 2019, in its obvious form, we have several works of horses The Barnes Foundation, where his teaching combines an currently co-directs the organization. running with the wind through their manes, birds flying, and bees buzzing. But Energy also irreverent approach to art objects with factual knowledge Katie Samson has a quieter, individual presence, as growth and renewal. With fuel from the sun, every single of their history, in order to allow art which is separated Katie Samson is the Director blossom blooms. With this internal positive energy, movement isn’t always noticed. Still, it aims from students by geography and time to become relatable of Programs for Art-Reach, to reach its full potential. This year we get a close-up, new perspective on viewing flowers. The to their everyday life. Alex is co-owner of a ceramic design an organization that creates, tightly-cropped focus, and abstract beauty of the single bloom, in the style of Georgia O’Keefe, company based in Philadelphia and runs Philly Stewards, advocates for, and expands is a dominant visual theme across all media. The diverse animals we feature span from the an arts organization dedicated to the collection, support accessible opportunities in Serengeti plains to the farms of Lancaster County. And they, too, pose for their close-up. and promotion of Philadelphia’s art and artists. arts and culture in greater I have curated the hallways in a way that transitions between style and groups similar pieces Genevieve Coutroubis Philadelphia. Katie previously taught Disability Studies at together. This format provides a nice comprehensive flow, allowing each viewer to find Genevieve Coutroubis is a West Chester University and was formerly the assistant an area that speaks to them. The only thing more inspiring than the artwork you will see documentary photographer and director of museum education at the Pennsylvania throughout the hospital are the artists behind them. ethnographer. She has exhibited Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA). She assisted in We are so grateful to the Art Ability Committee, staff, jurors and judges for all their hard work extensively, and her work appears launching the Art of Observation program to Jefferson, in making this exhibition possible. A special thank you goes to our Art Ability Coordinator, in numerous national and Cooper and Drexel University Medical Schools’ for Cristine Largoza, whose guidance continues to be invaluable. It is clear that the positive international collections including students to learn and build observational skills through energy collected in the hallways full of art, is an extension of Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital’s SEI’s West Collection. Her photography was recognized by visual art prior to their clinical work. Katie is also the achievements in rehabilitation therapy. the National Museum for Women in the Arts when she was spokesperson for the Katie Samson Foundation, a non- invited to participate in Women to Watch: Photography in profit organization that provides funding for research and Philadelphia. Genevieve joined The Center for Emerging quality of life programs for people with disabilities.

10 11 ARTIST AWARDS

Best In Show Judges Choice Jewelry, Fine Craft Mixed Media Jeremy Schack, & Functional Art Shape of Light Charles W. Hennessy Artist Award ALEX CONNER 1st Prize Presented by: The Charles W. Hennessy Art Ability Endowment Fund The Doris B. Gorden Award 1st Prize The James Panasci Family Memorial Award Presented by: The Doris B. Gorden Presented by: The 5 Senses Presented by: Sal and Linda Panasci Thu Nguyen, The Dream Art Ability Endowment Fund Joy Raskin, Pod Pendant Bill Porter, Father Nature Carol Spiker, It’s Not Working 2nd Prize 2nd Prize In Honor of Claire Larson In Memory of Pennie Marx-Bellard GENEVIEVE COUTROUBIS Presented by: Brian and Peggy Jones Presented by: Jeanne B. Fisher John Schwartz, Jr. Family Thu Nguyen, Determination Memorial Award Pat Henriques, Karma Presented by: Sal and Linda Panasci 3rd Prize 3rd Prize Jessica Hays, In These Places Called Home Jones Family Award The Kozicki Family Award Presented by: Brian and Peggy Jones Presented by: Jean Kozicki KATIE SAMSON Brian Cagle, Capped Shoaib Wazir, Messenger In Honor of Carol Chapman Emily Forbes, Dance Honorable Mention Presented by: Stephano Slack Honorable Mention The McTear Family Award Yoland Skeete, Stepping Out, Ancestors 6 In Honor of Lauren McGowan Presented by: Brian and Peggy Jones Presented by: Brian and Allyson McTear Curator’s Choice Nicole Cote, Floral Ballad David Terrar, The Fox Waits

Jones Family Award

Presented by: Brian and Peggy Jones Monica Chulewicz, Good Times or Bad, Nancy Nalbandian, Love in A Mist It’s Always There

Nancy Nalbandian, Love in A Mist 12 13 ARTIST AWARDS

Photography 2nd Prize Honorable Mention Drawing & Fine Print Making Presented by: Scott and Lara Evans In Memory of Robert L. Rotoli 1st Prize Cherie Lee, It’s Just a Scratch Presented by: Janet Rotoli 1st Prize The Bernadette Schwab Clark Memorial Award William Spiker, Trumpet Fish The Elliott T. Settle Memorial Award 3rd Prize Presented by: Sal and Linda Panasci Presented by: The Settle Family Presented by: Ruth Porritt Allen Bryan, On The Trail in Sonora Painting Monica Chulewicz, Good Times or Bad, Sarah McDaniel, Hollow It’s Always There 2nd Prize Honorable Mention 1st Prize Presented by: Scott and Lara Evans 2nd Prize Presented by: Stephano Slack, LLC The Thomas and Harriet Blank Award Ken Smith, Petals in Japanese Bowl In Memory of Barry and Graham and Boose Bernice Paul, Face Vase with Flowers Presented by: Jeanne B. Fisher Mary Ellen Cabry, Sky Writer Presented by: Brian and Peggy Jones Jessica Hays, 3rd Prize Sal Panasci, Snowy White In These Places Called Home Ginger Gehres, Umami In Appreciation of the BMRH Staff Special Category: Energy 2nd Prize Presented by: Linda W. Heiberger In Memory of Fred Stern 3rd Prize 1st Prize Jones Family Award Mark Wittig, Pleasant Valley School Presented by: Brian and Peggy Jones In Memory of Jacqueline Van Handel Presented by: Brian and Peggy Jones Honorable Mention Brandon Allebach, Three Sisters Presented by: Jeanne B. Fisher Susanne Dagmar Olsen, Alfred Presented by: Stephano Slack, LLC David Neufeld, Drumroll Please 3rd Prize Leslie Zukor, Skate Day 2018 Jones Family Award Honorable Mention Carrie Albert, Buddha Bunny 2nd Prize In Honor of Sally Hess Amanda Klinger, Edge of Spirit Presented by: Brian and Peggy Jones In Memory of Ralph and Carmen Terrazas Presented by: Douglas Hess Sculpture and 3D Work Thomas Miller, Battalion Fire Chief Presented by: Brian and Peggy Jones Malcolm Corley, Lancaster Farm Inspection on 9/14/2001 1st Prize Linnie Greenberg, Play! The Bob and Joan Constable Memorial Award Honorable Mention 3rd Prize Presented by: The Constable Family Presented by: Janet Rotoli Presented by: Ruth Porritt Carrie Albert, Buddha Bunny In Honor of CJC Mike Coury, Monster Joanne Orth, Secret Garden

Thomas Miller, Battalion Fire Chief Inspection on 9-14-2001 14 15 ART TERMS

Painting and Drawing Engraving a physical process using sharp, pointed tools called Film Photography any film photography relies on chemical processing Acrylic a fast-drying synthetic paint containing pigments suspended gravers, to carve lines directly into a surface, usually metal. The metal of negatives and exposure for printing. Analog negatives can also be in an acrylic polymer emulsion. Acrylic paints can be diluted with water is then inked and pressed onto paper for a reverse image. Some metal printed digitally. Polaroid, actually a brand-name, is an example of film but become water-resistant when dry. Acrylic painting can resemble a engravings are the artwork and are not used for printing. photography. watercolor or an oil painting, or have its own unique characteristics not Etching an intaglio process where an image is created by scratching, Gelatin Silver Print a photographic process that consists of suspending attainable with the other media. Acrylic paint can be applied to paper burning or cutting into a coated metal plate and then dipping the metallic silver salts embedded into a gelatin coating onto acetate as well as to canvas and other surfaces. plate in acid. The exposed areas are eaten away by the acid, making film or fiber-based or resin-coated paper and allowed to dry. This Chinese/India Ink an opaque black ink that is commonly applied with depressed lines. Ink is pressed into the depressed lines, the surface of photographic process is used with black and white films and printing a brush, rather than a pen, due to its density. This ink is also used for plate is wiped clean, and the plate is pressed onto paper. The resulting papers. Gen Farrell, Through The Fog image is the reverse of the design as seen on the plate. Chinese calligraphy. Rooted in centuries of scholarship and practice, Giclee Print a digital print produced on an Iris Printer, or any inkjet Chinese calligraphy is executed with an aesthetic combination of Scratchboard Art is a two-dimensional, subtractive medium that Intaglio Process a printing process where paper is pushed onto process. The image has all the tonalities and hues of the original speed, the pressure of a brush and the responsiveness of rice paper. involves the use of abrasive tools to directly remove a surface layer of depressed or recessed lines made in a metal plate and filled with ink. painting or photograph. The image can be made on the plate by acid or a sharp tool. There is Collage an art form that began with the invention of paper in China one value (typically dark) to expose a secondary layer of a contrasting Photo/Digital Manipulation the application of image editing often a visible imprint of the plate itself. Etching, aquatint, mezzotint around 200 BC. Today, the name collage (derived from a French verb value (typically white). techniques to create an illusion or deception. Image-editing software “to glue”) refers to an assemblage of different media that may include and dry point all use the intaglio process. Tempera a water-based opaque paint usually applied on paper. is used to apply filters and effects, and warp an image until the newspaper clippings, ribbons, bits of colored paper or hand-made Monoprint a single print created as a unique work. The plate is then desired result is achieved. The resulting image may have little or no Watercolor any paint that uses water as a medium. Generally applied portions of other artwork, photographs, etc. glued to a piece of paper destroyed. resemblance to the photo from which it originated. or canvas. to paint formed of pigments mixed with a gum binder and diluted with water to form a transparent film, as opposed to gouache, Polygraveur a work made from several printing plates. Wraparound an image is printed directly on canvas, then stretched Gouache a form of watercolor paint where pigments are made over a wood frame. which is opaque. Relief Process/Woodcut, Linoleum a printmaking technique where opaque by adding zinc, in contrast to pure watercolor paint which is the image is printed from a surface of wood or linoleum, after non- transparent. Printmaking image areas are cut away. Mixed Media the use of different materials, methods or techniques Original/Fine Print a work of art created by hand and printed from Silk Screen/Serigraph a printmaking technique that creates a sharp- to create a single work of art. When working in mixed media it is a plate, block, stone or stencil. In most print media, the image on the edged image using a stencil or screen usually made of silk. A separate important to choose the layers carefully and allow enough drying time plate, block or stencil is a mirror image, or backwards, from how the stencil is cut for each color. The areas of the stencil that are cut out between the layers to ensure the final work will have integrity. Often, finished work will appear. Each print produced is technically a unique accept the color, and each color is applied as a separate layer. found objects are used in conjunction with traditional artist media, such work, although produced as a multiple in a limited edition. Original as paint and graphite giving the artist more flexibility. prints are traditionally signed by the artist and are numbered to Oil a type of paint developed in the sixteenth century. Pigment is indicate how many prints there are in the edition and how to identify Photography and New Media Digital Illustration the use of digital tools to produce images under the combined with oil as its binder. Oil can be applied to many different the individual print. direct manipulation of the artist, usually through a pointing device such surfaces: linen, cotton canvas or board. Chine Collé a special technique in intaglio printmaking where the as a tablet or a mouse. Oil Stick/Cray Pas/Artstix similar to crayons, a kind of oil pastel that image is printed on very thin paper or on a delicate surface and then Digital Photography a form of photography that utilizes digital is used for painting and drawing. Oil pastel sticks are made of pigment bonded to a heavier backing surface. technology to make digital images of subjects. Digital images can be mixed with a non-drying oil and a wax binder. Digital Print a method of printing from a digital-based or electronic displayed, printed, stored, manipulated, transmitted and archived using Pastel/Conte Crayon a combination of dried pigment and a binder image file, onto any surface. An inkjet printer is most commonly used. digital and computer techniques without chemical processing. Yoland Skeete, forming a colored chalk stick. Stepping Out, Ancestors 6

16 17 ART TERMS ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Fine Crafts Mosaic small pieces of colored stone, tile or glass (tesserae), arranged Carrie Albert Seattle, WA Brandon Allebach bring joy to the hearts and minds Batik a method of dyeing cloth using wax to resist the dye on specific and affixed to a hard surface to create an image. Albert expresses her artistic Albuquerque, NM of the viewer. In her life, Allebach visions in myriad ways, including Allebach a painter for more than has endured deep sadness and the parts of the design. Polymer Clay a sculpture material made of polymer polyvinyl chloride collage, poetry, assemblage, 13 years, uses acrylic on canvas agony of severe anxiety. She also Blown or Cast Glass two ways of forming glass. In one process molten (PVC). drawing and photographs. Albert for his creations. He has focused suffers from bipolar disorder. “As glass is handblown and shaped. In the other process, hot glass is Papier Maché is French for “chewed-up paper,” this technique is has chemical sensitivities and on abstract art and his style, soon as I started painting, I just did poured into a mold and cooled. constructed of material that consists of pieces of paper, sometimes uses only non-toxic mediums Cubism. Allebach has Holt-Oram not want to stop. The peacefulness Enamel a method of applying ground glass to metal and fusing reinforced with textiles, stuck together. The paper is cut into strips in her art. As a collagist, Albert syndrome, a condition which gave and relief I felt was unimaginable. it with heat for a shiny, colored surface. and soaked in a paste of water and flour until saturated. The saturated searches for healing by gathering him shorter limbs. He says he has My hope is to impact, through art, pieces are then placed onto a surface, or an armature or skeleton and fragments, symbols and torn never let his shorter arms get in those who see it, so they feel the Fiber Art art using any textiles, thread or yarn. allowed to dry slowly until becoming solid. Once dried, the material can ephemera, and pieces them the way of creating art. Allebach wonder of the world.” Fused Glass an ancient technique describing glass that has been be cut, sanded and/or painted. together in unexpected ways. does acknowledge the technical Constance Avery Utica, NY fired in a kiln at various ranges of high temperatures. Through this methodology, she challenges he has faced in Stoneware a high-fire pottery with slight or no absorbency. It is usually As an artist working with Debby Dernberger, Yellow Hibiscus creates wholeness and recognizes painting (straight lines and edges, Glaze a liquid suspension of finely ground materials applied by gray in color but may be tan or slightly red. Stoneware is similar in vision and hearing loss, Avery herself and others. Albert says for example), but through the brushing, pouring or spraying on the surface of bisque-fired ceramic many respects to porcelain; the chief difference is the color, because has faced many limitations she was introduced to paints. she works with subjects that call process of problem=solving and ware. After drying the ware is fired to the temperature at which the of iron and other impurities in the clay. for the last 30 years. Instead Today Avery uses acrylic paint, glaze ingredients will melt together to form a glassy surface coating. to her, relying on subconscious using his strengths, he has made Terracotta clay that is fired. It tends to be more brittle and rough of seeing her disabilities in a colored pencil, and crayon in wisdom through dreams, poetry his art unique in facing those Iris Folding a form of origami or folded paper originated in Holland. in texture. negative light, Avery uses her creating her artwork. Avery says and closed-eye visions. She seeks challenges. “Sometimes I just The folded strips of paper are layered to create a pattern similar to the restrictions to allow her to take that her inspiration comes from Throwing forming pottery in clay by using a potter’s wheel. peace in the process and always, paint to make beautiful things, iris of a camera or an eye. The pattern is created on card stock; each a different and interesting path the supportive people around she finds beauty. A favorite quote but I also paint for catharsis and section is numbered and cut out into individual sections to use as a in her artistic journeys. Creating her regularly acknowledging her of Albert comes from Langston the ability to emotionally heal pattern to indicate where to place each strip of paper. Sculpture and 3D Work and selling her artwork, which artistic talent and creativity. Hughes, “Perhaps the mission through art.” 3D Printing any of various processes in which material is joined or consists of paintings, pottery of an artist is to interpret beauty Jack Beverland San Antonio, FL solidified under computer control to create a three-dimensional object, Jo Allebach Phoenix, AZ and photography, has helped to people—the beauty within Beverland, better known as “Mr. with material being added together (such as liquid molecules or Allebach resides in Phoenix, Avery to feel more confident themselves.” B.” is a self-taught Southern folk powder grains being fused together). Arizona, and has been painting and free, despite her disabilities. artist who finds peace of mind as therapy for more than 18 The different mediums have also Alabaster a fine-grained gypsum stone widely used for indoor in creating art. Starting at the years. She has used her art as a helped Avery to expand her artistic sculpture. bottom of the corporate ladder, therapeutic mechanism to address explorations reaching within the his work ethic later placed him at Assemblage three-dimensional compositions of different media and/ her mental illness. Allebach desires of the art community. “As the top of one of America’s largest or selected materials, often of found objects. uses acrylic paint in a similar I travel into my images of art, my chain stores. After being forced manner as oil painters with a limitations disappear...letting me Dura Stone a product made of a limestone composite base. into retirement after 32 years more impressionistic style. This feel free and safe.” of loyal service, he felt betrayed gives her more latitude to create Jess Avery Collegeville, PA and helpless and his emotions illumination, ultimately conveying Avery was born in 2000 and turned to anger and rage. In 1987, calmness, peace and happiness. primarily worked with colored Beverland sustained significant Leslie Zukor, Her goal is to create paintings that Woof Behind the Wheel Linda Killingsworth, Pick One pencil until 2018. During that year injuries in an auto accident. 18 19 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

He was ultimately diagnosed with sometimes he has an image in past 18 years. He has had four watercolor, oil, pastel, acrylic film and darkroom study. In order experience design. Whether it’s her experiences with Asperger’s uncinate seizures and spina bifida. his mind but it all changes once surgeries trying to hold back the amd mixed media. Recently, she to add more to her art, Bowers making a mark with charcoal on syndrome and sensory-related Beverland says, “The sun comes he approaches the surface, “I progression. Bohle has the usual has focused on large abstracts began using the lith development paper or writing computer code, issues. Brown uses faceless up in the east and sets in the west. use my blindness to execute tremors and stiff movement. “The using acrylics. She shows her process. Now in her eighties, both provide Brewer with an figures to convey the difficulties You pray to God that everything the final image allowing for it jagged edges and bold colors work extensively throughout the she is awaiting a move to an outward expression of his visions with her overwhelming anxiety will happen good in between, to take on a course of its own.” and brushstrokes that appear region and is an active member of independent living community of the world. Living with Crohn’s and cognitive processing she but sometimes it doesn’t.” Producing pieces related to jazz in my paintings represent the multiple professional art groups. where she will not have space for disease has both positive and experiences in crowded, social Beverland conquered his “angry music enables improvisation for interface now between me and Bohlen believes in “bringing the a darkroom. Thus, while she must negative effects on his artwork. situations due to overstimulation beast within” through his art. His the artist. When Blackwell hears the universe.” best to life and not holding back; restrict some activities, Bowers On the one hand, Brewer stays by her surroundings. works portray the simple life—the people say his work is inspiring, always press on to new horizons plans to learn new approaches to home on the computer a lot and Priscilla Bohlen Bryn Mawr, PA Allen Bryan Saugerties, NY life he wants to live, the days of he knows that he has managed and stay committed to serving the creating art. “While I am finding has created an online persona Bohlen is a professional visual Bryan first began painting when childhood, the dreams he once to create a synthesis between public through your practice.” myself acceding to my limitations, that reaches a wide audience. On artist who works on canvas using he set up an easel next to his aunt had, and most importantly, the his art and his blindness and the I will not be inactive. My search for the other hand, sometimes he acrylic paint, resin and acrylic Dwayne Boone Philadelphia, PA at the age of four. Since then, way he would like life to be. two move together, working in beauty in nature, and in my own doesn’t feel well enough to travel mediums. She received her BFA Boone is an emerging Bryan has been a visual artist harmony. “It all comes together in and others’ art continues.” to art shows and events, attend Shawn Bittenbender in 1974 and subsequently lived Philadelphia-based artist and and his varied careers include the end.” art workshops or write his art Gwen Duda, Bold Bounty Philadelphia, PA in New York City for 10 years. entrepreneur. Born and raised in Beth Breslin Philadelphia, PA being an art teacher, filmmaker, blog. “My fans don’t know me as a Bittenbender suffers from Robert Bohle Arlington, VA During this time she designed Germantown, he began to draw Breslin is a Drexel Hill native who a partner of a fine craft gallery, Sonya Bryson-Kirksey Tampa, FL disabled person; they support me advanced asthma and chronic Bohle uses mostly acrylics patterns for sheets and towels comic book characters at an early has been at Inglis House for two a jewelry designer/goldsmith, A few months before retiring from for who I am, as an artist.” obstructive pulmonary disease, because he loves how the paint for Fieldcrest Cannon as well age. As a child Boone would have years. She says art runs in her and a photographer (since her 20-year career in the United which makes breathing difficult. looks after it has dried. He loves as continued to study art at the a pencil in his hand as soon as he family as both her father and Shelby Brown Hawesville, KY 1983). Retinitis pigmentosa has States Air Force, Bryson-Kirksey As a result of his breathing the various mediums he can graduate level. Bohlen moved got home from school, and his sister are artists. Breslin enjoys Brown’s work is forged from her gradually narrowed his visual was diagnosed with multiple difficulties, his hand has a use with acrylics. They can add back to the Philadelphia area and mother would nag him to finish painting nature and scenery, own technicolor daydreamed field, reduced color perception, sclerosis. From the beginning, she tendency to tremble or shake. another dimension, both literally began creating landscapes using his homework before drawing. preferring to use blue and purple world which is then translated caused night blindness, and used a variety of art forms such as However, Bittenbender says that and figuratively. Bohle paints Boone’s passion for making hues in her work. onto a surface. It is a compilation slowed down adapting to bright crochet, drawing and painting to painting helps him control his mostly abstracts because he art has been a common thread of featureless figures and loud and dim light. Bryan’s pictures DoN Brewer Philadelphia, PA express her inner turmoil after her hand as well as his breathing. wants the painting itself—the throughout his life. His work has vivid colors, woven together continue to re-examine and Brewer is dedicated to making diagnosis. Now, Bryson-Kirksey Bittenbender believes interesting color, consistency, value, shapes been exhibited throughout the with various textures of reorganize his photographic life art every day. This includes his uses that same angst to focus art is all around us. He likes and so on—to communicate mid-Atlantic region in galleries acrylic paints, various types of through photo assemblages that passion for drawing, painting, on the things she loves and to the challenge of little details. viscerally to the viewer. Bohle including Space 1026, Fleisher/ cardstock, and hand-painted question a comfortable reality. writing, blogging, photography, develop subjects that are fun and “I am unable to paint when my says, “Representational art Ollman, apexart, and John Lucas paper. Through mixed media He says “I became a better video, web design and search different. She primarily works symptoms flare up but always can rely on responses to the Gallery. collage, Brown’s work seeks photographer after I learned that engine optimization. Brewer with acrylics and oil on canvas, look forward to the next idea and familiar in our world. Rather, I to evoke the loud texture that I was losing my eyesight.” Bryan’s Joan Bowers Seattle, WA sees multimedia as a means to palm tree pieces, or other wood putting it on canvas.” want to say something to the empowers the overwhelmingly work has been in exhibitions at Following Bowers’ 40-year incorporate traditional visual materials. “Art has had a profound reader, sometimes in a whisper, crowded environment and The Smithsonian Institute, the Charles Blackwell Oakland, CA career as a nurse practitioner and communication skills, as effect on my outlook, and I find on sometimes with a slap of the awakens the uneasiness that Kennedy Center, Bryn Mawr Blackwell operates on a note of and educator, she launched her well as drawing and writing, with the days I produce art of any kind, face.” Bohle has suffered with lies within each composition. Rehab Hospital and numerous serendipity, by moving colors on photography career in 2001 computer technologies such as it is a positive day.” Parkinson’s disease for the Through her work she depicts other museums and galleries. paper or canvas. He says that Rose Wolfe, Summertime when she immersed herself in video, photography and internet 20 21 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Mary Ellen Cabry Philadelphia, PA remain an artist once we grow daily struggle she deals with Artists, the Wills Eye Hospital and “ Sometimes I just paint to make beautiful things, Communication with other people Cabry is a native of West up.” Cagle suffers from attention living with several chronic and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. continues to be a large challenge Philadelphia who is inspired by deficit hyperactivity (ADHD) and progressive illnesses, both known but I also paint for catharsis and the ability to for Cox. His photography has Cathy Cobb Shreveport, LA art. She enjoys using bright colors dyslexia. These disabilities make and undiagnosed. Chulewicz often given him a way to communicate Cobb’s acrylic painting journey emotionally heal through art.” —Brandon Allebach in her creations and is excited to focusing on tasks to completion focuses on pain, grief/loss, the and share emotions with family began in 2016 after a life-altering exhibit her work. She lives and and rote memory retention unknown, ableism, and more. Her and friends. diagnosis of lupus nephritis. She and landscapes she is touched grace of dimensionally changing takes art classes at Inglis House, a extremely difficult. While he has artwork has been a great outlet for picked up some supplies and by, are her means of artistic her creative perspectives and Jen Dacota Conshohocken, PA specialty nursing care facility that always excelled at conceptual her to convey what words come something inside her took off. communication to identify the abilities. Hope became the path Art was always a part of Dacota’s provides long-term, residential knowledge; things like names and up short in describing. When new Everyday experiences became content. When eyes of an animal of each day through many years. life but more as a hobby than care for adults with physical dates are like water through a symptoms arise or existing ones abstracted as viewed from reach out to her, or a musician’s Collins is so grateful for the arts, a career. Following a traumatic disabilities. “Art inspires me. sieve to his mind. Sculpture and worsen tenfold, Chulewicz often different angles throughout her music inspires her, Colligan their healing qualities and for the closed head injury, art took center I enjoy our classes and I’m always wood working have always been very quickly thinks of how she initial adjustment and recovery. responds with artwork to express creative process. It allows her stage and she began to paint as learning something new. It makes the exception. “Through sculpture could convey this on paper. “In Fear, determination, despair and her feelings. She sustained a to express the individuality of a therapeutic means to stimulate me feel happy.“ and wood working I find a focus many ways, it’s my voice and how hope were daily companions. traumatic brain injury (TBI) from each day, to share its beauty and John Ohman, Pine Tree On The Beach brain activity. Many of her works and clarity of mind unlike any I deal with the turmoil of poor and Painting helped Cobb explore and a horseback riding accident unique imprint, and to appreciate were created using her fingers other in my life and through declining health.” the ocean and the sunsets. Coury express these emotions safely and that significantly changed her its expression in others. and hands rather than brushes. my art I found my passion for says he loves his sisters very Betsy Clayton Dresher, PA fully. A forced slower pace gave life. Colligan believes that art She prefers this method when the teaching.” Malcolm Corley Lancaster, PA much and he loves making art Art has always been a part of her a greater appreciation for daily has expanded her life and that subject matter and medium allow Corley, born in 1999, was and selling it! Anthe Capitan-Valais Clayton’s life. When her eight blessings, a consistent artistic healing is essentially a creative it. It is very instinctual and “free.” diagnosed with autism at the age Coatesville, PA Flourtown, PA children were young, she taught theme. Cobb’s artwork helps process. “Through my art I have Paul Cox Her paintings contain brilliant vivid of three. He has had three solo Cox was a patient at Bryn Mawr Capitan-Valais’ mission is to create art classes, experimented in her focus on the joy of now and created a new state of health for color, and expressive form and art shows, and his drawings and Rehabilitation Hospital after interesting and distinctive art that costuming and set design, and the hope of the future. “Painting myself, pursuing an artist’s life.” movement. “I paint the way I see paintings have been published in spreads joy to those who admire provided artwork for their school has opened up an exciting new suffering a tragic motorcycle things, and how I feel regarding Maureen Collins Wilmington, DE Hot Metal Bridge, Up the Staircase, and own it. A former dancer, she events. Since becoming blind due chapter in my life that, despite my accident. Even with significant various personal as well as global Collins received her first camera Fusion, and The Penn Review. has survived several car accidents to macular degeneration, she condition, makes me feel strong brain and spinal injuries, he events. Since mainly her vision as a gift when she was eight years Corley says he wants his art to and is currently overcoming post- has revised her focus from two- and excited about the future.” resumed his photography as soon was affected by her stroke, she Robert Flatt, Hummingbird Flying in old. This began a lifelong passion make people happy. traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). dimensional works to sculpture as possible while still a patient no longer has normal vision, and the Morning Sun Debra Hope Colligan for the visual arts and changed Capitan-Valais’ current muse is and paper mâché. Following Nicole Cote Saskatoon, at Bryn Mawr Rehab. His first would not be able to reproduce West Harwich, MA the way she saw the world. Brian Cagle Newport News, VA motion, from dance, music and her diagnosis, Clayton’s strong Saskatchewan, Canada photographs after his accident an image as it actually exists. I feel Colligan says her artwork is Collins’ journey is woven through Cagle is an art educator, sculptor life. “I am determined to create no will and determination inspired Cote is a painter and embroiderer were on the hospital grounds. that this “disability” has served her “dialogue with the world,” photography, painting, collage, and craftsman. He focuses on matter the circumstances.” her to continuously improve who focuses on mental health Cox chose the Canadian Geese as me well as it allows me to be truly where each element a sentence, ceramics, mosaics, silver work combining a diverse range of her art’s quality. As a mother, themes. She started doing art his first subjects and continued self-expressive.” Monica Chulewicz Seaford, NY and each stroke on canvas a and fabric design. It’s through this media to create works that are grandmother, and daycare as therapy and has continued its photographing them through his Chulewicz primarily works as paragraph. It’s the language journey that the images in one Monique Dennis Dallas, PA both functional and beautiful. provider for 25 years, Clayton’s practice as a type of advocacy. outpatient therapy as well. Cox’s a printmaker and fiber artist, of creating oil paintings that medium often inspire and flow Dennis attends the Verve Vertu His favorite quote comes from love of children is apparent in art continues to play a significant often working in monotype and connects her to the world and through others. Guillain-Barré Mike Coury Fort Bragg, CA Art Studio in Dallas, Pennsylvania. Pablo Picasso; “Every child is her work. She has exhibited work role in helping him manage cyanotype. Themes she addresses has done so throughout her life. syndrome slowed life into a much Coury likes to draw animals and Having cerebral palsy, she has an artist. The problem is how to in the National Exhibits of Blind this life-changing experience. in her art practice convey the The subjects, objects, seascapes lower speed and allowed her the people. He also enjoys painting limited dexterity and mobility

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in her arms and hands. Dennis inimitable vision in every paint landscapes, sunsets, trees, the watercolor. Sketches, with a very close to the original picture. lives for color and she considers developed macular degeneration does not let any limitations get stroke. She finds truth to always night sky, astronomy and the combination of paint and colored Doatch also works at a local herself a colorist. in 2000. Her disease progressed in her way of creating unique, be stranger than fiction. Although ocean. He says he’s been a serious pencils, often germinate ideas for hospital as a medical information to the point where she decided to Clara Edmon Oklahoma City, OK fun and whimsical creations. Dernberger has been creating art artist since about 1990. Words larger paintings. Dillon’s subject specialist, and is currently live with her son. It was Eilertsen’s Edmon says that art is the She enjoys creating and wiring all her life, it is the therapy that that motivate Dietze artistically, matter varies from contemporary, working on a mural project at son who convinced her that with main source of her identity and button sculptures such as angels, has saved her life over the years “As a man thinketh so shall it be.” surreal, and figurative work. Dillon the facility. Art has played a a magnifying glass and a drafting self-esteem. She has clinical trees and more. She also creates when she was unable to get to a With limited mobility due to his has completed portraits of his major role in her life, especially table, she could resurrect her art depression, a learning disability, beautiful earrings, bracelets and doctor’s office. She celebrates 20+ blindness, Dietz’s art allows him children and colleagues as well living with an autistic spectrum and she began painting again COPD and chronic pain from Michael Heitler, The Temple Bar necklaces utilizing a variety of years of sobriety and makes time to be doing things outside so as surreal nudes and landscapes. disorder. “There are days where in 2016. Eilertsen said, “When rheumatoid arthritis. She believes beads and buttons. Dennis also to paint almost every day. that he’s not stuck in the house His work has been published my disability can affect me, but watching TV is no longer possible, she has gained much relief by to focus on his inner passion— enjoys creating with gutta or wax all the time. Dietze is involved in books and newspapers, and when I draw or paint, I feel very and hearing aids cannot fully Samuel Dietze Altoona, PA expressing herself through her painting. Eilertsen feels it is not batiks on muslin where she uses with other artists in groups and they have been used by for- confident in myself that I am supplement my hearing loss, to Dietze is a legally blind artist artwork. Edmon works mostly in always strength and stamina that fabric dyes in bright colors. Her organizations. Art has allowed him profit and nonprofit businesses doing something special.” have something I can return to who paints in oils and acrylics. oil and starts by sketching, then gives rise to a sure success in imagination is limitless, as she to meet new people and he enjoys including art galleries. In 2007, that I totally enjoy is incredible.” He works on large oil paintings at Gwen Duda drawing on canvas, followed by anything, but weakness or trial comes up with very unique ideas getting his work out there for the Dillon was seriously injured in a home and smaller acrylic paintings Toronto, Ontario, Canada painting the background, and that births the comprehension that Matt Emerson Youngstown, OH and inspirations. Dennis is very public to see. motorcycle accident where he outside. The oil paintings are With a firm foundation in then the foreground and finally life is but a short breath, and every Emerson began painting in his generous and loves to create gifts sustained many injuries including mainly abstract or impressionist. Thomas Dillon Stroudsburg, PA realism, Duda’s work is now the highlights. Sometimes it is day we can celebrate life through teens while watching The Magic for others. She gets fulfillment head trauma. After multiple The acrylic paintings are mainly Dillon first learned the basics best described as abstract hard for her to feel well enough what we can create. His current of Oil Painting, an instructional and joy from creating and it hospitalizations and corrective impressionist or realist. Dietze of painting from his mother. He expressionism. She uses primarily to create due to her illness and focus is on river paintings where television show hosted by PBS. enhances her life. surgeries, Dillon was later likes nature subjects such as uses acrylic, pencil, pen and acrylics, watercolors, charcoal, disability but she strives to he believes he has developed He saved money from various jobs diagnosed with a mental illness. Debby Dernberger and oils to create nature-inspired continue when she can. Edmon his own unique style. Eilertsen to purchase paint and drawing “Art has saved my life. It helps San Francisco, CA paintings. Her artwork strives to feels that the visual artist takes her believes that painful period of his supplies. Art was always pushed me cope with the symptoms of Dernberger is an accomplished communicate the power, intense audience to a new and exciting life still helps him in his painting to the back burner until he was mental illness. It also gives me a professional artist who studied beauty, and healing magic of level of consciousness, into her as he reaches out to express the forced to retire after his diagnosis sense of accomplishment and a in California. With more than nature, in all of its seasons and mind and soul. “When I create a beauty and wonder of this world. with muscular dystrophy in 2013. way to communicate what I feel 25 years of fine art showings, a moods. Duda finds solace and painting, I feel challenged to get Coatesville, PA His arms and legs were affected, and experience.” Nancy Eilertsen mural and sign painting business, strength in nature, from the my audience’s attention and to After starting a family and living and he realized he might lose and teaching art to seniors and Allison Doatch Edison, NJ night skies to the day’s sunlight, discover effective ways to share on a farm for 10 years, Eilertsen his ability to paint. Emerson developmentally disabled adults, Doatch is a formally trained artist the birds, the wind, all of it. It my ideas with them.” had a successful career as an faced depression but realized the she shares her passion for the living in Edison, New Jersey. She has helped her keep her sanity key to overcoming his feelings Herbert Eilertsen Coatesville, PA artist. She developed a series arts with her local community. uses a variety of media, including through some very difficult times. was to push himself to create After being diagnosed with of pen and ink designs and had Dernberger has completed most colored pencils and acrylics, and She says when she paints, “Time new art. After identifying a new ankylosing spondylitis, Eilertsen them printed, Eilersen would of her paintings in the last few her favorite subject matter is suspends itself and allows that perspective, he says colors were was no longer able to run his hand-paint each design with years and her inspiration seems flowers. Doatch likes to create which can never truly be defined, different and he found himself framing and art supply business. acrylics in different color motifs. limitless. She paints vibrant photorealistic artwork. When she but buoys my spirit, to continue looking at simple things, studying After many months of regaining Though she had already stopped images that capture the essence looks at a photograph, she is able and endure till joy is finally different light sources and finding strength and finding his new creating her paintings due to a of life itself with a sincere and to create a composition that is released from the effort.” Duda variety of circumstances, Eilersten the colors buried in shadows George Kossivas, Energy—Underground rhythm of function, he was able 24 25 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

hidden in bright light. Emerson full of color, full of life, with vibrant capturing and sharing the growth to paint. Gallagher’s paintings, of the days she feels well enough unbelievable beauty and brought her God-given talent! Genovese where he never thought possible. doesn’t know how much longer and surreal backgrounds. Flatt’s of their crops as well as the nature acrylic on canvas, are full of vivid to work on her art. Her favorite life her peace, regardless of what she continues to learn watercolor “Making art allows me to feel part he’ll be able to hold a brush, but photography is in the permanent and wildlife around their property color. “I paint what is there, not quote is, “Keep your face to the might be going through. Later on, techniques and prefers sketching of society and that I belong.” for now, will continue to create collection of the Museum of with her camera. “Photography what I see,” is his explanation sunshine and you will not see the a camera motivated her to show faces and human figures. In Bunky Givens Essington, PA artwork. Fine Arts Houston and in Rice has given me purpose again. It has of the many abstract paintings shadows.”—Helen Keller other people what she was seeing. September of 2015, during a Givens receives a great deal of University. He says, “Parkinson’s given me strength, control, peace he has completed in the last Photography has become Geiger’s routine cataract surgery, a cataract Gen Farrell Burleson, TX Ann Marie Geiger Ambler, PA satisfaction expressing herself disease gave me the marvelous and escape during my times of several years. Gallagher says that creative way to capture the beauty broke inside her eye, while being Farrell is currently retired from a Geiger believes that hobbies have artistically. Her pursuit was gift of time to master the art of chronic pain.” because his disability severely of animals and nature. “It is a great extracted. Her vision is constantly 25-year teaching career in high been both her salvation and great interrupted in 1973 from a serious photography. It has helped me limits the use of his hands, he has challenge for me to get unique foggy, her eye puffy and irritated, school art. Pursuing her artwork Emily Forbes Hopkins, MN passion in life. She was born with a automobile accident resulting ‘slow down’ to see this beauty and had to adapt over the years and photographs that inspire the which prevents her from living full time, she works in a traditional Forbes is an abstract, intuitive rare bone condition, osteogenesis in a broken femur, broken jaw, has given me the urgency to ‘hurry innovate, in order to create the viewer!” a normal life. When Genovese method, primarily in oil paint. artist working in a variety of imperfecta, also known as brittle temporary left-side paralysis, up’ and capture as much as I can images he envisions. He says it sketches or paints, her eye gets Her images are of the life that she mediums such as acrylic, alcohol bones. This condition caused her Maria Genovese Drexel Hill, PA eye displacement and brain photographically while I still can.” takes time and patience for him to blurry and irritated to the extent lives and with the people and the ink, and mixed media. She loves to rely on the use of a wheelchair Genovese was born in Southern trauma. She was treated at finish a painting, but fortunately that she has to stop for a long horses that she knows. Farrell has to explore new techniques with for mobility. While growing up, Italy and began drawing as a Riddle Hospital and Bryn Mawr Gallagher has plenty of both. “I time. The only way she can a benign essential tremor, which anything she can get her hands Geiger had a birdfeeder outside youngster when she took a Rehabilitation Hospital. Givens recognize the therapeutic power adjust to this is to pray, follow her she has lived with since she was “ Through my art I have on. Forbes says she is influenced her window. Watching the birds sketching course at Rome’s Fine says it gives her pleasure to have of art. It helps me transcend daily doctor’s advice and wait for her 20 years old. Her work has always by nature and modern life, color, along with having pets to nurture, Art Institute. She is passionate the opportunity to show her created a new state life and reach into the creative vision to return. given her a sense of self-worth movement, hope, and kindness. opened Geiger’s eyes to a world of about creating art and using artwork at the Art Ability exhibit. side of my brain.” and achievement. Farrell says that of health for myself, It is her goal that these themes David Gerbstadt Berwyn, PA “They have helped me physically, people are always amazed that come through in her finished Ginger Gehres Chocowinity, NC Creating has been a part of mentally and emotionally!” She she can do what she does with a pursuing an artist’s life.” works, blended-up with wonder. Art is Gehres’ passion. It was once Gerbstadt’s life ever since he enjoys Paul Klee, Claude Monet, tremor. Her handwriting is terrible, —Debra Hope Colligan Art has become a huge source of her vocation in life and when her stood on a kitchen chair to reach the Wyeths, Thomas Kincaid and but for some reason she can paint. healing for Forbes following an health changed dramatically, it the counter in order to help his Berthe Morisot. “After being a FarrelI is inspired by the words accident resulting in a traumatic became her therapy. Today, it is mom make cakes and cookies wife and mother, I feel genuinely spoken in the movie Inception, Gail Foley Royersford, PA brain injury. She says it helps her Gehres’ joy to create visual stories from scratch. “She would always fortunate to have had an art “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a Foley injured her neck while uncover emotions and be more and share them with others. Her let me lick the mixer beaters.” environment with mentors and little bigger, darling.” working as a radiation therapist. mindful, which has yielded some favorite medium, scratchboard His inspiration comes from his having art back in my life again Her days became filled with interesting creations and a better art, is a reductive process where mother, who showed him that has given me something beautiful Robert Flatt Houston, TX excruciating neck issues, understanding of self. “Those who ink is removed from a substrate to he was able to make something to work with!” Flatt started his crazy passion to fibromyalgia, chronic migraines don’t believe in magic will never produce a positive image. How it with his hands. Gerbstadt says his become a photographer in 2004 Patricia Goodrich and headaches. Her life took a turn find it.” —Roald Dahl is taken off, typically with a knife, motivation comes from knowing when he left a successful career Richlandtown, PA for the better when Foley, along can vary and create wonderful that each moment of life is a in the oil service industry due to Robert Gallagher Berwyn, PA Goodrich is a visual artist and with her husband, purchased a textures and tones. She also adds gift that he is given, and that the onset of Parkinson’s disease. Gallagher only started painting a poet. She says process is key farm in Royersford. This allowed colored inks to her work. Gehres making art is why he is here. Art He and his wife love to travel to regularly since the retirement to her work. Sometimes a piece her love for photography, an early struggles with grand mal seizures, has given Gerbstadt a means to wild and beautiful places. He uses from his law practice in 2001 due begins with an idea, sometimes passion of Foley’s, to return to chronic migraines and interstitial cope with several “disabilities” his camera and Photoshop to to his disability. He is entirely self- with the material itself. She her life. She now spends time cystitis but she takes advantage and brings fulfillment in his life create highly saturated pictures, taught and he finds it cathartic Emily McGuigan, Elephant 6/6 enjoys both the physical work 26 27 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

and the mental play. Goodrich unexpected responses. Her imaginary creatures and organic Dick Grodt Cedar Rapids, IA space and adds subtle shading by her realize that you can overcome works with a variety of media, work allows her to examine our shapes from hand-painted paper Grodt believes that the objective using an underpainting and then obstacles. Henriques says when as well as creating earthworks relationship to the environment along with images from vintage of his art is to go beyond layering transparent pigments. She she is in pain, she tends to choose and installations. Having lost her and experiment with abstract books, magazine advertisements recording just what he sees into loves the way watercolors move darker or more heightened colors lower left leg in a motorcycle interpretations of it. Goschke and other ephemera. She then what he imagines. To create and mingle; the mystic mingling of in her work. Her personal quote accident, Goodrich says those looks for revealing, unexpected, creates a story while making a paintings that are not just pleasing pigments which she is then left to is, “Experiment, you won’t know if few missing inches contribute and often challenging views. picture with her cutouts. One of visually but that are also richly accept, and find a solution that is you can accomplish something if to a sense of “off balance” and A brush with death from an Greenberg’s favorite quotes comes evocative. As he describes it, beautiful and representative of the you don’t try.” an awareness of what it means automobile accident and from Hans Christian Andersen, he dances with a brush instead image she wishes to preserve. Chris Hinchey Philadelphia, PA physically to connect to earth, the resulting traumatic brain “Life itself is the most wonderful of his feet. Confined to a wheel Gregory Harvey Philadelphia, PA Hinchey moved to Inglis House to be “grounded.” That off-kilter, injury made her more aware of fairy tale.” chair due to a hereditary spinal Harvey has been painting about one year ago and says heightened awareness is an asset our physical fragility and our cord disorder, Dick finds that the Ina Greenstein Philadelphia, PA professionally since 1969. he enjoys participating in the in the arts, both visual and literary. individualized interpretation gracefulness of watercolor has It wasn’t until her children were His favorite representational art program because he likes to “The sense of connection and, at of reality. Goschke’s physical transformed his life; both painting grown and she didn’t have to subjects are Black Moshannon learn new things. In addition to the same time, freedom is a gift challenges pushed her more and teaching watercolor classes Gregory Harvey, Black Moshannon earn a living, that Greenstein State Park, Ricketts Glen State developing his painting skills, art gives me. I hope to pass it on into the digital realm: precise cocoons him from his disability was able to rekindle her passion Park, and the Cape May and a variety of processes including progressive aphasia, it is difficult Hinchey is continuing to flex his to those who view what I create.” methodology and multiple and enables him to pursue a for art. Orignally focused Avalon beaches. When multiple pigment printing, historic photo for him to communicate, but he artistic muscles by learning to play creative outcomes, assisting with rewarding and successful life. Dick Linda Goschke Philadelphia, PA on oils, she took a course in sclerosis impaired his vision, processes, and handmade artist expresses himself by writing, the piano. focus, and using few hazardous is a signature member of the Iowa Goschke is interested in our watercolor painting and was Harvey realized that if he was books. Hays struggles with mental drawing and painting. Dr. Heitler chemicals. “Art is about Watercolor Society and has had Kong Ho Bradford, PA sensual experience, especially of smitten instantly. Greenstein says, to continue in the visual arts, he illness, which serves as inspiration enjoys spending time in his sun- communicating ideas, no matter many solo shows. His work has Using a technique consisting of the natural world, in other words, “Capturing the light captivates must find workarounds in many for her work, and drives her to drenched Long Island studio. the medium.” received recognitions in national free-flowing, wave-like patterns our expectations related to me—this ability to have the light aspects of his representational create and share in order to help as well as international exhibitions. Pat Henriques Key West, FL with subtly controlled washes of existing forms, what is considered Linnie Greenberg Ardmore, PA shine through the painting. It has painting. Fortunately, Harvey others with similar struggles. Henriques became an artist later glaze, Ho’s flora-spiral paintings common and uncommon, and Greenberg took her first art been a rewarding and engrossing Susan Gustafson Vancouver, WA has been able to find these and Michael Heitler Melville, NY in life, moving from a corporate exemplify the theme and style of the nature of beauty. Common workshop in 2011, a short time pursuit of self-expression.” Gustafson was diagnosed with continues to paint. “Having Dr. Heitler works in gouache, office position to fabricating her ongoing body of work, the objects have power to evoke after developing tinnitus (which She gains inspiration from the retinitis pigmentosa more than visual impairment has helped pastel, oil pastel, acrylic and mixed jewelry. Her primary focus is on “Luminosity Series.” She feels resulted in 80% hearing loss) and watercolor artist Richard Schmidt, 30 years ago. Retiring from her me to appreciate how fragile the media at his studio in Melville, enameling and making pieces her polio disability strengthens long after her children were grown “…a faint confluence of the career in dental hygiene 20 years mechanism of discerning reality New York. He has studied at the from fine or sterling silver. her personality and sensibility in and had children of their own. It tangible and the spirtual is where after her diagnosis, Gustafson’s is through the eyes.” Brooklyn Museum School of Art, Henriques’ specialty in enameling art-making. Ho’s art enables her opened up a wondrous world of art comes from. It has no known current visual capacity is about Jessica Hays Bozeman, MT Colgate University and the New is cloisonné. Stones are used in to express her feelings about the sparkle, spin and creativity that limits.” Greenstein’s eye disease the size of a 3x5 card. With the aid Hays is a conceptual School. Dr. Heitler’s work has been her work as well. “Nature inspires limitation of her physical mobility brings her great joy and makes her occasionally necessitates some of a guide dog she is able to travel photographer, alternative process widely exhibited in the New York me and I am amazed by the through the symbolic imagery of forget the constant high-pitched brief artistic down times to allow independently. Gustafson says printmaker, and curator from metropolitan area. A pediatrician designs and hues that are found transformation and change. ringing in her ears. Greenberg her vision to come back into she sees the world through this Bozeman, Montana. Her work Dr. Heitler recently retired from in various stones and flowers.” Ho says that to a certain extent, is mainly self-taught and she focus. During this interval, she is “window” and captures the image focuses on human relationships, working at the Child Neurology Henriques has 11 herniated disks her disability affects her in says she is still exploring and forced to stop any activity that on her iPhone. Later she sits and mental health, trauma, loss, and Service at Winthrop University in her spine, causing sciatica. pursuing the spiritual freedom Daniel Rothenberg, learning about art. Greenberg cuts requires sharp vision. uses dark lines to delineate the Cutting up a Plate-Green places of healing. She works in Hospital. Diagnosed with primary Fabricating jewelry has helped in her work. “The symbolic 28 29 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

meanings of my work go beyond and landscapes. Alonzo does Mimi Barclay Johnson beauty, by reproducing what he Kaufman now lives in Wilmington, they allow her the fine details and relevant, both within my own the illusionary representation, but not draw from visual sources, Haverford, PA sees as awe-inspiring. Johnson Delaware, with his wife of 50 she loves. She is intrigued by the life and to the world.” Over the reach out for the transcendental but from his imagination, people After a successful career as a has been disabled officially since years and his cat named Cat. awe of ordinary objects and the past 15 years, her artwork has space and eternal cycle.” and places that he remembers, stage/scenery/lighting designer 1994 with AIDS. He contracted artistic possibilities they offer. been increasingly impacted by Marie Kelly Philadelphia, PA historical figures, and scenes for opera companies and finally HIV in 1985. While Johnson has She is a member of the Colored her failing eyesight. Her condition Debbie Huff Landenberg, PA Living at Inglis House for more from his memories. He says the for the Orpheus Revels in survived long term using the Pencil Society of America, and limits and skews how objects and Huff is an emerging artist who 24 years, Kelly loves to read and images form as lines in his head, Philadelphia, Johnson began to available medications as they has been an award winner in colors appear and which tools has been painting with alcohol has a great sense of humor. She and putting them on paper is like paint fine art. Oils at first, then came on the market, both the their International Exhibition. Her and techniques remain within her ink for two years, enjoying how is one of the original members of putting them to sleep. the more difficult, transparent virus and the powerful drugs artwork has also been published realm of usable vision. bright and vibrant this medium is. the Exploring Art group and loves watercolor. When she became have limited his eyesight, stamina, in colored pencil magazines, She started to paint after an ankle Jeffrey Iverson Springfield, IL to paint. Kelly lives with hearing Paul Kline Coral Gables, FL disabled after two devastating mental faculties, and perception/ and she has illustrated two injury, which stopped her from Kong Ho, Glowing Daaffodil Corona Iverson’s work is a synthesis and vision impairments and is a After abandoning his first career car accidents, Johnson had to understanding. Johnson is books. Killingsworth also designs her previous hobbies of cycling of the intricate, chaotic, and talented artist who loves to paint of painting and photography for numbers. Huisman says that in overcome frustration and anger motivated by the statement, “Art note cards from her work for and hiking. Huff has a personal unpredictable. He works flowers and work on colored almost 30 years, Kline returned to his head he follows the reaction before accepting the reality that is long, follow your awe.” companies in New York, Chicago interest in painting wildlife and primarily in digital media, pencil drawings. his passion after being diagnosed steps and visualized them into she would never paint en plein air and San Francisco. She is also one flowers from her local area or focusing on colorful abstracts, Mark Kaufman Wilmington, DE with parkinsonism. He works in images. This is the same process again or even stand at an easel. Linda Killingsworth Elverson, PA of the founders of the Historic bright-colored animals she has complex fractal manipulations, Kaufman says our humanity many different media: encaustic he follows in his artwork. Huisman Painting was and still is a struggle Killingsworth was forced to give Yellow Springs Art Show located seen in the zoo. Born with visual and digital photography, with grants us only partial access (hot wax), the combination of works primarily with objects with for her, but once she learned to up her active lifestyle after several in Chester Springs, Pennsylvania. impairments, she is legally blind brief incursions into traditional to the truth. Much of his truth oil and cold wax, acrylic, mixed the paint being secondary, but still paint again from the different surgeries. She became seriously in one eye and has limited vision media such as acrylic on various emerges from being bipolar. Cheryl Kinderknecht media, and photography. Kline very important. Huisman says he perspective of sitting, she began depressed and credits her self- in her “good” eye. Huff’s depth, supports. Iverson works with He works in watercolors, Bradenton, FL says he enjoys working rapidly is, but does not feel, disabled. He painting from memory. “In my taught pencil art as the activity peripheral and distance vision is shapes, colors and textures in layering washes. The figures Kinderknecht is a mixed media and spontaneously, incorporating very much believes that even with mind I can still see the incredible which saved her. Killingsworth different than full-sighted people. an attempt to reach something are explorations of mood and artist and former gallery owner. all the “accidents and mistakes” his physical challenges he is still colors of shadows, see the light chooses colored pencils because which causes her to focus more greater than the sum of those emotion rather than landscapes. Regardless of the medium or as they occur. His inspiration able to concentrate on his goals. dancing on distant water, and on the subject in her paintings parts. “Art makes it possible Kaufman is a signature member subject matter, her work is comes from constantly observing see the movement of joyful versus the background. Limited to Alonzo Humphrey for me to share the way I see of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and influenced by the colors, patterns, his surroundings and studying people. That is what I paint now— just two hours a day, she still feels Philadelphia, PA the world, both positively and Delaware Watercolor societies. and textures of the Kansas High lines, shapes, colors, patterns, memories.” art fills a creative need in her. Humphrey is a visual artist negatively, and engage the larger He has appeared in exhibitions Plains landscape where she grew textures and shadows. His subject who was born in Chattanooga, philosophical questions of what Morgan Johnson Gold Beach, OR across the country including up. Emotions, dreams, myths, matter is drawn from memories Han Huisman Saint Croix Falls, WI Tennessee. His mother, also is beauty or art, and how can it Johnson is an artist working in oil the New Orleans National Show, metaphors, memories and of places and events, topography, Huisman is a neuroscientist an artist, shared her love of be used to communicate an inner on canvas. His styles range from Focus Point International Gallery, ancestral ties from her interior historical periods of art, and and an abstract material artist. art-making with her son at a world to the broader world.” realism to abstraction. Currently Gallery 311, Nude Nite in Orlando landscape further anchor and sometimes purely from the visual He loves working with what he young age. Alonzo says they Iverson’s physical and mental he is working in his own style, and Tampa, Florida, Au Natural inform her work. Kinderknecht and tactile sensations of surfaces finds at garage sales and thrift used to sit beside each other at issues make it challenging to which he calls fractionalism. This in Portland Oregon and in the says, “The creative process and objects. “In the end, my stores. Huisman believes that in the kitchen table and draw. He produce work of high quality, is a melding of all recognized annual exhibitions of Works has always energized me and goal is to create a work that is science today there is no longer moved to Philadelphia in 1980 judge the quality of his own “isms,” with a heavy emphasis on Paper at the Philadelphia, continuing to work on art, despite expressive, more organic than much to actually see. It takes and there he continued producing work, and open himself up on color theory and cubism. Baltimore, Pennsylvania and my compromised vision, helps planned and often emotionally place on a subatomic level and his lyrical renderings of people for judgment. Johnson attempts to capture Houston Watercolor Societies. me to feel connected, grounded, driven and serendipitous.” the outcomes are expressed in Jace Laakso, Under Fire Maple 30 31 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Amanda Klinger art shows and at the Verve Vertu it was poetry, carpentry, cooking Kontra feel more independent details, patterns and connections goal. She says a hand-made work Marilyn Lavins Philadelphia, PA homes are located throughout Beach Haven Gardens, NJ gallery and boutique. Klinges or painting and drawing, there when he paints or draws; it is in the world. “Looking at the of art enhances her sense of Lavins specializes in painting, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Though born with normal has created artwork with various was always some form of creative the art and himself, in his own landscape, there are spaces well-being. jewelry and scarves. She is an and her work can be found in hearing, at age 25, Klinger began mediums and art techniques and expression in his work. After his personal world, enabling him between or even under the alumni of Moore College of Art various collections worldwide. Cindy Lally Bensalem, PA to lose this capability and was has created many block print 2005 diagnosis with primary to release emotions. This is the dominant features that draw my and received her Bachelor of Fine Lally has lived in various states Cherie Lee Philadelphia, PA deaf within 18 months. She feels greeting cards. He is always progressive multiple sclerosis, he definition of expressionism, he attention.” Laakso says he focuses Arts from Tyler School of Art at due to her husband being “I was afraid my disability would her artwork has been enhanced learning new techniques when rededicated himself to his original says, “I open my mind and allow on seeing instead of looking. He Temple University in 1984. She transferred frequently in his define me…so I let it.” Lee says by her deafness. Klinger says creating. Klinges loves music and love of art in all its color, splendor my memory and imagination to is currently producing reduction has worked as a jewelry designer, sales career. She always landed her work stresses the boundaries her un-carved, “silent” pieces playing the drums, which he says and form. Klug’s main concern cut through the blindness in order relief prints. This process uses a freelance sculptor, porcelain jobs in the graphic arts field. of ordinary matter and substance, stand alone in a noisy world that helps him paint with rhythm. as an artist has always been to to create the visions that I see.” single linoleum block to carve decorator, and even a flight While her two boys were young questioning, “how far” before does not listen. “Sometimes you express his unique perspective away a layer at a time as each attendant for American Airlines. Carmie Klucinec Wynnewood, PA George Kossivas Fort Bragg, CA and in school, she worked for strength must succumb to its listen better with your eyes and on life. He is a firm believer that successive color ink is applied. Due to a tragic automobile In the fall of 2017, Klucinec Kossivas grew up in Los Angeles a temporary agency part-time. weakness. Her art takes the form hands.” Using acrylics, Klinger we are souls first; the afflictions Finally, with the last color, accident, she suffers from chronic was hit on her head by a large and says he had the opportunity Lally suffered a traumatic brain of life, asking life, “How strong paints heavily, with a chaos of most of the block’s surface has double vision and requires prism wooden plank. She had no idea injury from falling off a motorized are we of mind, body or spirit?” It colors to create different textures, disappeared. prescription eyeglasses to see. what would lie ahead in her life. scooter in 2001. Unfortunately she silently poses the same question movements and emotions Despite her disability, Lavins All she thought of was darkness. “The sense of connection and, at the same time, Daphne Lacroix Philadelphia, PA wasn’t wearing a helmet. While a our universe shouts every day, throughout the canvas, which has garnered many awards for It was all around her. Her three Lacroix’s professional training was patient at Bryn Mawr Rehab the “How far, before you break?” Lee have brought her frustrations of freedom is a gift art gives me. I hope to pass it on her work in mixed media, oils, beautiful children and husband in graphic design, but she says art displayed left a big impact on wishes to provoke contemplative ignorance to the surface. Klinger batik, and silk-screening. Her could not reach her. As Klucinec to those who view what I create.” —Patricia Goodrich her heart always loved the fine her since she loves creating art. conversations of the tensions says that people think she’s commissioned paintings of went through recovery, she found art of painting. She began taking and compressions that bridge missing something. They do not the Main Line Art Center and continuing education classes at and anchor us all. Her current realize that she’s not sad by her of the body are fleeting. Klug attended classes to learn about to visit many museums and has the Pennsylvania Academy of direction is propelled by rigorous deafness. “Have you ever thought says he is interested in creating Raku and Chinese watercolor. seen lots of art. He has been the Fine Arts (PAFA), and never and imminent personal struggles what you may be missing from all art that conveys this message. He Each piece of artwork she creates making art on-and-off since high looked back. Lacroix paints with at hand. the noise of ignorance? See my attempts to capture the feeling has a special meaning about a school. Kossivas has worked in water-soluble oils on paper and deaf voice within my paintings. I through his use of color. He tries to Koun Lee Los Angeles, CA person that inspired her and she painting, sculpture, and ceramics. canvas, and her primary subject hear what you cannot see.” communicate a feeling or sensation Lee has a synesthetic response makes these pieces hoping to Right now he is drawing, using matter is figures in space. “They through the shape and form. to visual stimuli. Her instructor Eamon Klinges Dallas, PA bring a smile and positive energy pens, and experimenting with are realistically portrayed with describes her as, “responding to Klinges attends the Verve Vertu to people. “These mediums, Raku David Kontra Hartville, MO pastels and chalk. “I make up the a touch of the surreal.” Lacroix the color yellow by holding her Art Studio once a week. He enjoys and Chinese watercolor, help me Kontra is a self-taught patterns as I go along.” says her first art history course nose or an electric blue makes painting with acrylic paint, block find peace, focus and balance expressionist artist using acrylics, laid the groundwork for her Jace Laakso Missoula, MT her fan her face as if the color printing, and utilizing fabric dyes in life as I recover from my pens, ink and an assortment intense interest in painting and Having contracted polio as an itself causes a physical reaction.” onto wax or gutta batiks, which traumatic brain injury.” of unusual useful tools. Having all visual arts. This spurred her on infant, Laakso spent a great She has worked in a variety of are on fabric or rice paper. Art is retinitis pigmentosa makes it to gallery and museum-hopping. Ty Klug Philadelphia, PA deal of time in hospitals. He mediums but she prefers painting very therapeutic and relaxing to difficult to create his work for he In 1994, the diagnosis of stage- Klug has always been an artist. appreciated the moments when and mixed media on paper. Her Klinges. He has sold and exhibited can only see a quarter inch of the three breast cancer led Lacroix to No matter what form it took, it he could see more than the walls finished works are often textured his artwork since 2014 at various canvas at a time. Art has made making works of art her primary was always art to him. Whether of his wardroom. He began to see Kurt Weston, Nebula and appear thick after building 32 33 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

up many semi-transparent layers. replacement surgery at age 17 in of time. Masyk could not make She finds that the variable and her past experiences, traumas, glass; viewers are given entryway Because Lee’s primary language the late 90s, after a car accident etchings anymore nor could he inconstant nature of watercolor relationships, or even her into her state of mind and find a is Korean, she tends to listen and permanently injured her back. find the right spot on the canvas aligns with her approach to living subconscious responding to her reflection of their own. She aims look more than to speak. Her work She has mixed connective tissue with his brush and oil. His great adaptively, and open to change. current experiences? This step to use color and mark-making to reflects her daily surroundings, an disease which has gotten worse love for fine art gave Masyk the The natural wonders of the is what the artwork is about and express the powerful emotions in active studio, with all the people over time and has required more strength and energy to continue Pacific Northwest region provide shows the story she is trying to herself. McGuigan’s travels have and energy infused into it. than 35 surgeries, with still more to paint, to become a good artist Mayer with her subject matter. tell. When McDaniel is making allowed her to constantly find new to come this year. Through all her again, and even to continue to Her goal as a watercolor artist is art, she uses her life experiences sources of inspiration and continue Lindsey Lieu Saint Louis, MO pain, hospitalizations and recovery, participate in prestigious, national to create paintings inspired by to bring awareness to a topic. to evolve her subjects. Lieu says she is a storyteller and Samuel Dietze, Winter Thaw Lynch works very hard to feel well juried art exhibitions. places she has visited and the life McDaniel is currently attending her nature pushes her to tell Colleen McIntyre-Berenotto enough to create artwork. “When After spending the first years science fiction. A man with many encountered along the way. She Old Dominion University and plans certain stories that she can’t put Merritt Maya Dallas, TX Buena, NJ I can’t work,” she says, “I feel as adapting to his new life, he goals in fine and digital art, Manuel considers her lifelong passion on continuing her education at into words. She puts those stories When Maya was about 12 years McIntyre-Berenotto is a freelance though a part of me is missing and took classes in composition and has diligently expanded his for creativity and art to be a key Eastern Virginia Medical School into the art she makes with cast old he was diagnosed with an photographer who specializes I am no longer a complete set. I design, drawing and painting. artistic repertoire beyond colored element in living with MS. She for Art Therapy. Her main goal resin, paint, and other mixed ependymoma, a tumor inside his in the transformation of what will get there again!” Mann started doing landscape pencils and markers (which he says it provides a unique way to is to spread awareness and heal mediums. She strives to invoke spinal cord. After surgery, Maya is often ignored or not seen photography and B&W art still uses with great skill today), to transport her focus from living the tormented. “I want to help a sense of curiosity. “Artwork Pamela Lynch Haverford, PA drew mazes to help regain motor by others, to be experienced photography. Wanting to improve become skilled in various media with impairments and pain, to them become the best version of may not answer all the questions Lynch says the earliest memories control and fight nerve pain. As in a new light and create a his work, he began using software and techniques. He now draws another world. “I become myself themselves and help them find a but it should prompt important of her discovery of art expression time passed, he developed a style new beginning. Currently that allowed him to manipulate his inspiration from animation as again and not my disease.” path to recovery.” conversations to begin within relates to the beauty of people of his own and moved from pen McIntyer-Berenotto is drawn images, and change composition well as real life, and often weaves the viewers.” Lieu believes that if and nature. Experiencing the and paper to acrylics. “When Sarah McDaniel Emily McGuigan West Chester, PA to the Western lifestyle (being and colors. In 2004 Mann was reflections about art-making, people can get to an important process of creating art has been a I paint, I try to fulfill my own Newport News, VA McGuigan, a recent graduate in the company of the diverse diagnosed with Parkinson’s. dreams, emotional states, and his conclusion on their own, the peaceful escape for her from the aesthetic sense and challenge McDaniel’s artwork starts out as from West Chester University, spirit and souls of the people, There was a point where he personal experiences of autism message will resonate for a lot worldly environment. “A disability myself; precise, but just shy of a clouded idea. She then starts will continue her education at the craftsman, the cowboys could no longer create but after into his artwork. Manuel is a longer and hopefully make more yields to the fulfillment of doing mechanical.” Maya believes that to consider where this idea is Thomas Jefferson University to and cowgirls, the bulls and the undergoing DBS surgery, he’s graduate of the Harbor School. of a difference. Art helps Lieu art. Art is being, energetic, and art has become a more important coming from. Is it coming from receive an MS in Community and broncs). While not having the back to his images. Mann is stay sane in the midst of her a universal sharing via spiritual Alexander Masyk New York, NY factor in his life than he would Trauma Counseling, Art Therapy traditional training, McIntyre- inspired by the Kurdish artist illnesses and she strives to bring communication; whatever the Masyk has been exhibiting his have ever thought possible, and Specialization. Her career path Berenotto’s traumatic brain injury Tishk Barzanji. “I have six small hope not just to herself, but to perception of the work. Art is artwork since 1970 and has pieces he plans to continue improving aligns with her experiences sparked the creative side of her grandchildren now and I hope others as well. Love. Art is Gratefulness. Art is hanging in numerous museums and honing his technique. not only as an artist, but also brain. Although she does have when they grow up and look at Enlightenment. Art is Stopping and private collections around the as someone with a disability. her daily struggles, McIntyre- Alice Lynch Melbourne, FL the images their granddad has Valerie Mayer Point Roberts, WA Time.” Lynch is a retiree, senior world. In the late 2000s, Masyk McGuigan’s artwork has provided Berenotto says she is grateful that Since age four, art has played a created, they will look at the Mayer began painting watercolors citizen who has explored art at had laser treatment due to his her with the necessary coping she is able to experience her “new large role in Lynch’s life. She vividly world through my eyes.” more than 30 years ago, not long home and by taking classes. history of bilateral glaucoma, which skills and continuous healing world” through this lens. “With remembers getting so excited after she was diagnosed with Zach Manuel Baltimore, MD caused complete loss of vision in through her battles with post the continued support from those and inspired by visiting museums Jacob Mann Brooklyn, NY multiple sclerosis. Living with MS Manuel joined Make Studio in 2012. his left eye. He has a cataract in his traumatic stress disorder, major closest to me and the cognitive that she’d feel she couldn’t make Mann came to the U.S. from has required her to be flexible He brought with him a strong right eye, causing difficulty reading depression, and anxiety. She training I have received, I am able it home fast enough to start new Ukraine 30 years ago, as a and open to the unexpected interest in comics, animation, and and focusing for long periods considers her work as a looking to laugh and enjoy life!” projects. Lynch had her first hip widower with two small kids. challenges her disease presents. Cheryl Kinderknecht, Meow Already 34 35 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Vickie McMillan-Hayes Katy, TX to create fine brush strokes, she and vision-impaired and most result of the war where he lost Moran knew he would never balance and stamina. Photography and railroads from both direct McMillan-Hayes is a full-time has to hold her breath while significantly, has tritanope color- an eye, but he says that he has travel the world like some of the has also given him another way of observation and photographs artist who creates breathtaking embracing her hand with the blindness, which requires him to learned to compensate for that. photographers he admired at expressing his creative self. he takes. “Art has inspired and wildlife and nature paintings that other for steadiness. paint by relying more heavily on Miller believes he has made the National Geographic, capturing helped me see things in the world Nancy Nalbandian advance global conservation value (depth/darkness of color) most out of his life by assisting exotic subjects in the wilds of creatively.” In addition to art, Kathleen McSherry Wynnewood, PA causes. Her award-winning rather than color itself, to create veterans and their families. Borneo. So, he decided to search Neufeld also enjoys playing sports, Doylestown, PA Nalbandian believes the paintings, large public installations his artwork. The result allows him out the extra in the ordinary things singing, playing the cello, cooking, McSherry used to paint and draw. Nicole Miritis St-Laurent, Canada synesthesis of the arts—music, and photography are exhibited to take the complexity of nature in his own backyard. For Moran, and making movies. She kept a drawing diary every After spending 25 years working Gail Foley, Big Sky fine art and craft, and literature— in art museums and fine art and reduce it to a simplicity, while the extra involves more than just day since 1977. Since she was as a technical support specialist, reflects a universal appeal to a Thu Nguyen Kamuela, HI galleries throughout the country expressing his wonder in the the aesthetic value of an image. to the beauty of God’s creation, diagnosed with multiple sclerosis a serious back injury forced Miritis deeper aesthetic longing which Nguyen was born in Saigon, and abroad. Her unique style of beauty that surrounds us. He is It’s the story associated with an which is around us all. He has had in 2002, McSherry’s confidence to take a leave of absence. As a can be satisfied in any number of Vietnam. “Being very shy,” impasto painting was developed grateful that it has connected him image that allows us to connect at Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease since waned, and she stopped drawing way of acknowledging her new ways. Jewelry, drawn from nature, she says, “I spent much of my over time to accommodate her so- to God’s design and allows him the emotional level. Maya Angelou he was a young teenager, which and painting. However, once physical limitations, she started has become her creative outlet. childhood hiding away upstairs called essential tremors disability. to share it with others through said, “There is no greater agony limits his physical activities. It was she discovered assemblage sketching. Miritis is a self-taught, Her work focuses on stringing painting, instead of playing with Her disability causes aggressive his painting, teaching and the than bearing an untold story inside not long after this diagnosis that art, her confidence came back. mixed media artist often working nature’s beauties into wearable other children.” In 1975 when tremors throughout her body and resulting social connection and you.” His aim is to capture those Mordasov started to draw, leading One of McSherry’s first pieces with found paper materials like old art forms. Using freshwater pearls, Saigon fell, and in the resulting are active only when her muscles experience. untold stories. to his education and professional contained used needles from her maps, sheet music and wallpaper semi-precious stones, preserved confusion, she became separated are active. To disguise her inability career in art. MS medication. “As an artist, I Thomas Miller Whippany, NJ as well as a variety of other Victor Mordasov West Chester, PA flowers and handmade polymer from her parents. She ended up in to paint extreme detail throughout must create.” McSherry no longer Miller grew up in Milwaukee mediums. She has a portfolio of Mordasov, a widely recognized Frank Morrone Coatesville, PA clay seed pods and flowers, a refugee camp near Hong Kong the whole painting, she applies compares her technique to before and served in Vietnam with the varied accomplishments, including artist whose work has been Morrone says that the good Nalbandian creates pieces of art to for a year prior to immigrating to and after MS. She takes objects Marines. He returned from the a publication, art exhibits, exhibited both nationally and side to his stroke was that it got connect us back to nature. the United States as an orphan. found from the past that have war severely wounded and finally workshops and community internationally, has spent many him involved in art through art After one very snowy and cold Daniel Neufeld Philadelphia, PA lost their usefulness, retaining gained a Master of Fine Arts projects. “Painting has been a years exploring different mediums therapy. He is a firm believer winter in Pennsylvania, she went As a little boy, Neufeld was only memory, then combines and degree in 1974. Miller’s current therapeutic process. Even though and methods of painting. He that art therapy does work. “Art to Los Angeles to stay with some diagnosed with pervasive alters them in such a way that “Flags of Our Conflicts” series sometimes it is challenging to discovered the joy of painting by Ability gives me something to look relatives. Nguyen went on to get developmental delay, but it didn’t they rise up, like a phoenix from consists of drawings, paintings paint, I continue to work as it helps following the techniques of the Old forward to each year. It gives me her art degree before settling stop him from gaining and sharing the ashes finding a new language, and ceramics and deals with me express my emotions. I usually Masters in combination with an a challenge to produce something down to pursue her art career as many talents as possible. new meaning and a new form. different conflicts (20 wars) say that I have a conversation with Impressionism manner of painting. new and better along with the in Los Angeles, and later Seattle Neufeld grew fond of art through “This has become a metaphor for involving the United States. He my canvas and I am often inspired Mordasov paints a wide range of goal of Best in Show.” Morrone has and finally Hawaii, “with the big his mother, who’s also an artist. He my work. It is also a metaphor for also dabbles in butterflies and by music.” subjects, including landscapes, a workspace dedicated to his art excitement being adopting my Valerie Mayer, Tidepools likes drawing, painting, ceramics, MS and me.” eagles. The quote that encouraged still life, portraits, and marine in the basement. Every day he can first daughter from China and my Hal Moran St. Charles, MO printmaking, photography, comic Miller is from Georgia O’Keeffe, venues. His paintings, as well as his go down, put on his music, paint, second daughter from Vietnam.” numerous layers of paint with Lawrence Meyers Paoli, PA Moran grew up with and still books and animation. Subjects “I decided that the only thing I sculptures, display a commitment and create. Morrone says it takes large, loose brush strokes. These Meyers is a watercolorist and struggles with Tourette syndrome that Neufeld enjoys capturing Debra Noah Soap Lake, WA could do that was nobody else’s to portraying not just the exterior his mind away from the things he layers create a rich depth to her says, “Art provides an opportunity and other co-occurring disorders. with his pencils and paints An artist all of her life, Noah business was to paint. I could do of the subjects but their characters can no longer do such as bicycling paintings that mimic abstract to develop my creativity and Perhaps this, along with being include people, still lifes, and has extensive formal training in as I chose because no one would and personality as well. Mordasov’s and swimming in the ocean, textures seen in nature. In order express vision of the surrounding somewhat of an explorer, spurred sites that he sees on his travels; painting and glassblowing. In care.” Miller’s disability was a focus is to bring people’s attention or any activity requiring good world’s beauty.” Meyers is hearing- his interest in photography. buildings, landscapes, seascapes, 2015 she became permanently

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disabled with rheumatoid colors that stand out because American art. Novis applies flat, weaving into my life. When I was introduced to watercolor County, her focus is often on local she brings to life images in her arthritis and for a period could they’re “cheerful and can brighten unmixed color in his palette, weave, my spirit soars.” painting, she fell in love with this sites, sometimes including animals head of objects or places that no longer pursue art. She was a mood.” framed by black outlining, which exciting new medium. It freed her in their natural surroundings, inspire her. Life after injury is just Jon Ohman Dennis, MA fiercely determined to someday both separates and enhances creative imagination and she has although she’s always on the that—it’s a new unknown state of Kathryn Noska Phoenixville, PA Ohman is an enthusiastic young blow glass again and build a the color. Color more so than become passionate about it ever lookout for interesting subjects mind. “I fluctuate between rich A visual storyteller, Noska depicts man with high-functioning hot glass studio. This required texture, shading, shadowing, since. Her paintings typically are from other areas. gratitude and appreciation for nature scenes in geometric autism, a condition that involves relearning, working solo and or composition is Novis’s core impressionistic and are inspired the colors of life, to a mundane portals, using imaginative realism impairment of social interation Sal Panasci Devon, PA smaller. Corning Glass Studio strength and he emphasizes color by the incredible beauty of nature irritancy at my inability to do and trompe l’oeil. Her motto “Take and communication, restrictions Panasci spent 25 years in the in New York accepted her for within his painting or woodcarving. found in scenic landscapes, birds small tasks well.” Paschos’ time to find the unseen” is realized to some activities, and repetitive Alexander Masyk, advertising field where he a winter intensive and the Novis was diagnosed with and animals. It’s O’Neill’s hope artwork is her reflection of these through symbolism, the language behaviors. Ohman feels proud Energy—The Rainbow Umbrella received numerous awards for his Asperger’s in the fall of 2012. Being that the bright colors and natural extremes that meets in the of her art. Noska explores deeper when he completes a beautiful design work. In 1995, Panasci’s an “Aspie” artist, he tends to create Susanne Dagmar Olsen patterns in her work will inspire middle. She feels art doesn’t owe meanings of things, faithfully drawing or painting in acrylics, life took a dramatic turn. He “ I open my mind and and conceive his imagery through Vordingborg, Denmark others to appreciate the natural anything to anyone, and as her representing the exterior that’s knowing that it is a significant was injured in an accident as the left brain, focusing on detail, Though she has doubts environment that surrounds us! recovery continues, this thought allow my memory and seen and revealing the unseen accomplishment. It shows his a passenger in a taxi, which order, separation and purity of about her ability to reach One of her favorite quotes is, keeps her sane. She can create spirit of beauty and order found talent for bringing images to life. resulted in him being diagnosed color, and clearly defined lines. a professional level due to “Every day is a gift, so enjoy and and not compare her current self imagination to cut in nature. Her persistence to With high-functioning autism, with a mild traumatic brain injury challenges in memory, learning, make it count.” to her pre-injury self. “Drawing find safe art materials is due to Katherine O’Hara Philadelphia, PA Ohman believes he does his best (MTBI) and blindness in one through the blindness and concentration, Olsen knows and painting have kept me multiple chemical sensitivity, O’Hara joined the world of art work drawing and painting in two Joanne Orth Chester Springs, PA eye. Panasci spent 16 months that she has something valuable grounded during this post-injury in order to create the and unusually severe allergy-like later in life. To put things into dimensions, especially by drawing Art transcends Orth’s physical in rehabilitation and continues to offer the world through her lifestyle.” reaction to extremely low levels perspective, she remembers the sides of people or animals. limitations, making her appreciate receiving treatment today. During artwork. Multiple disorders, visions that I see.” of many choices of media. Noska listening to “The Shadow” on the Horses are his passion. Ohman how rich her life really is, and his initial rehabilitation, he was Bernice Paul Philadelphia, PA including tinnitus and paresthesia, —David Kontra works with highly detailed, finely radio, in the days before television. is also an equestrian inspired to producing a new painting gives encouraged to try painting in Paul has studied art at the mean that Olsen is often tired blended colors, using solvent-free “I remember weaving pot-holders create self-expressive portraits of her a tremendous sense of watercolor, a medium that was Pennsylvania Academy of the and has trouble working with fine techniques and water-washed on a 6-inch square loom and horses, people, and the beautiful accomplishment. “It reminds me new to him. Panasci says, “I Fine Arts, Fleisher Art Memorial, instructors helped her work alone detail. However, she still draws, walnut oil paint. She is thankful to going from door to door, with my sea/landscapes of the trails he that there’s beauty all around become emotionally attached to the Barnes Foundation, and and utilize tools in a safe way. It paints in a variety of media, prints the The Art Treehouse, allowing friend Judy, selling them for 25 traverses. us and that life is good.” Orth the color palette, the texture of the Philadelphia College of Art. was a turning point in her life and linocuts and works with clay. She her to safely create her art. cents each.” Many decades later, works mostly in acrylic, although the paint and the composition. Her work has received many renewed her passion. Noah now Olubunmi Ojo Philadelphia, PA is interested in people and nature O’Hara once again finds herself she also enjoys pastel and other Through this, the painting takes prizes and awards and has creates one of a kind glass art in Andrew Novis Medford, MA Smithsonian’s National Portrait as subject matter. working with fiber. She says she’s media. Retired from a full-time on a character of its own and a been exhibited throughout the her own shop, applying multiple Novis believes that one should Gallery (NPG) 2016 portrait having as much fun now as she Diana O’Neill Haverford, PA career in science, she’s a lifelong specific visual interest, allowing Mid-Atlantic region. She works techniques. Her work is whimsical do art for art’s sake and not competition exhibition (March 12, did as a child. The only difference As a 70+-year-old senior citizen, painter who can now indulge the viewer to recognize a familiar mostly in oils but has also done and satirical and has been shown attempt to make any kind of grand 2016, through January 8, 2017, from her childhood is that she is O’Neill spent 25 of those years her passion for painting nearly subject in a new fashion.” silkscreens, watercolors and nationally and internationally. statement. His style and subject the show traveled to Tacoma no longer going from door to door as a successful glass etching/ full time. Orth’s work tends to acrylics. Paul acknowledges matter have been influenced Art Museum, Art Museum of Mary Paschos Philadelphia, PA Tom Nordeman Philadelphia, PA to sell her work. O’Hara enjoys carving artist. Though she emphasize how contrasting light that her limited vision has made by the fact that he is a mostly South Texas, Kemper Museum Paschos is drawn to the process Nordeman started painting to working with fiber and using the enjoyed completing various and shadow define a subject and it more difficult to create her self-taught, and accomplished of Contemporary Art, Ackland of creating and the release that relieve anxiety and says he loves many colors and textures to make commissions, they lacked color how they can create a mood. As artwork and she’s trying to paint athlete, and is seriously attracted Museum of Art, Artis—Naples The follows. Her medium is typically escaping in his art. He uses bright her designs. “ I have incorporated and expression. So when O’Neill a long-time resident of Chester more abstractly now. She feels to Fauvism as well as Latin Baker Museum). watercolor or acrylic paint, as

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that her passion for art helps adding watercolor and even paint jewelry twice. She favors beads the dried painting. Each piece of days a week. “On the wall of the metal purses, and knitted jewelry. to give her a positive outlook marker to the mix. Pereto says, that are organic and come from glass is hand-cut. The cut pieces warehouse. In my father’s office. Raskin also specializes in spoons on life. Paul just celebrated her “I’ve never had any conception nature. Many of her pieces feature are used to create a mosaic and Inside my house. I have no clue and tableware. “I get lost in the 100th birthday and says she still of what role art played in my semi-precious gems but her are adhered to the painting using where. I start with a line that goes pleasure of working with the gets great joy from painting and life as an autistic man; however, work also incorporates seeds, a heavy gloss medium. Quinlisk all around.” metal, how it forms or shapes creating. neither have I had an idea of how horn, bone, shells, and vegetable says her paintings can look very under my hands, and eventually Judy Quitoriano Pacifica, CA my condition may impact how I sources such as tagua and acai different throughout the day becomes a functional piece of art.” Treavor Pence El Paso, TX Quitoriano is an award-winning create. Both would seem to be Sriharsha Sukla, Brooklyn Bridge nuts. She favors fair trade beads depending on how the light hits Pence has been an educator for artist in photography and Desiree Reed Dallas, PA something beyond words, fully such as Kazuri porcelain beads the glass. There are times when 20 years, teaching art at the high sculpture. She completed a double Reed attends the Verve Vertu Art coming from intuition and the Ellie Pfautz Glenmoore, PA forms, culled from then space from Kenya and paper and linen Quinlisk is in the throes of painting school and college levels. He major in art and humanities, and Studio, a community-based art subconscious.” A graduate of Pennsylvania State of memory, fostering dialogue beads from Uganda. Her pieces and the pain of arthritis suddenly paints oil landscapes and has sold has been exhibiting all over the studio, which focuses on tapping University with a BA in Applied between images, text and are “jewels” of chunky and funky, interrupts, and for a time, the more than 350 of his works to Cassandra Petruchyk San Francisco Bay Area for may into the creative energy of Arts, Pfautz worked in the arts materials. He is legally blind with touches of whimsy and potential and promise of a new clients across the United States, Philadelphia, PA decades. With her two strokes, people with diverse abilities, one departments of Wanamaker’s, GE and was born with an incurable, creative use of unusual materials. picture falls prey to her disease. Canada and Australia. Pence Petruchyk believes that in many Quitoriano has modified her work day a week. She is an amazing and McGraw-Hill before opening progressive retinal disorder “My arthritis may limit the duration is motivated by a quote from ways her artwork contradicts her Jane Quartarone Wilmington, DE in sculpture, but she still achieves illustrator and painter. She is a graphic design studio. After (retinitis pigmentosa). “Despite of time I paint but it does not the famous El Paso artist, Bill disorder. “Obsessive compulsive As long as she can remember, recognition in her mediums. very skilled at detailed artwork a brain aneurysm, she turned encouragement from medical compromise the beauty and joy of Racoky, “You have to paint a mile disorder has the tendency to art has been a constant need Quitoriano has been married 45 and is very focused when she to fine arts, which has become experts to give up on visual art, what I create.” of paintings before you can call control my life; the choices I therapy and escape. She works I instead followed my passion, in Quartarone’s life, a constant years to the same great guy and creates. Reed is inspired by a yourself a master.” As a person make, the actions I take, my in pastels and acrylics striving which serves as both a source presence. She believes that Tim Quinn Narberth, PA she has one adult son. Quitoriano variety of subjects, from drawing with scoliosis, Pence says, “ I have interactions with others, the way to capture initial reactions to of therapeutic escape and is a expressing art is such an integral Quinn uses markers, paint had her first one-woman museum and painting animals, nature and learned to overcome the pain I live my life, and the life that landscapes, seascapes and still unique avenue in which I can part of who she is, it is a normal markers, pens, ink, and watercolor show in 2018 at the Heritage people, to unique mandalas. Her with art as my therapy.” I am able to have. In contrast, lifes. Pfautz also serves on the Art investigate and express complex and natural expression of her on paper and wood panels. He Gallery of the Tulare Historical beautiful artwork is appreciated the lines I make in my drawings being. When Quartarone was works at a studio in Philadelphia Museum. and has been exhibited at various Christopher Pereto Ability Committee. concepts and unconventional are loose and wild, not rigid diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, one day a week, and at the venues. Reed enjoys learning new Weymouth, MA narratives.” Joy Raskin Bedford, NH and restrictive.” Petruchyk Bill Porter Littleton, MA art was a lifeline to her sanity Center for Creative Works four techniques and experimenting Pereto has been drawing since Raskin says she has a restless uses drawing to communicate In his art practice, Porter engages Cathy Pregmon Drexel Hill, PA and physical well-being. “The with new mediums. She has before age five. He can’t imagine soul, a need to experiment, a and advocate for animals, wild with influential imagery from Pregmon has had multiple re-grounding of my creative evolved as an artist and also art not being a part of him. When need to keep pushing the limits. and domestic. She sees these his childhood, from comic careers including being a school process, moving forward, afforded teaches others what she has Pereto first began trying to be She may be a trained silversmith/ creatures undervalued and strips to illustrated bibles. This teacher, artistic director for a me a path towards integration learned. Art is a very important “serious” about art, he used metalsmith, but she believes she’s abused by human society. With serves as an investigation into touring theater company that and allowed me to maintain a part of Reed’s life, it gives her colored pencil and aspired to be really a wire tinkerer at heart. this intimate art form of pencil the labyrinthine narratives toured plays of empowerment connection to my health, my-self confidence and joy. like illistrator Richard Scarry. It Raskin covers a wide range in line, pen, prismacolor, and oil that influenced his formative for children, consultant with the and the Divine.” wasn’t until the second half of metalsmithing, from tiny jewelry Ginette Richard Rochester, NY pastel, Petruchyk can express her understanding of heritage, Bureau of Special Education his college career that Pereto got Meg Quinlisk West Chester, PA pieces, to flatware, to large-scale Richard is originally from intention to show the viewer that identity and the mysteries of in Pennsylvania, and now as into marker and pen, thinking Quinlisk creates her artwork using welded sculptures. She very much Montreal, Quebec, and has lived animals have feelings too and life. Working with house paint, a designer of handcrafted, more in terms of animation cells. mosaic glass on top of acrylic enjoys knitting and shaping wire in Rochester, New York, for 23 should be treated with respect book pages and reclaimed one-of-a-kind jewelry. Pregmon Somewhere along the way he paint. She creates the painting to create unexpected metalwork years. She has a Bachelor of Arts and honor. wood, Porter re-contextualizes never makes the same piece of combined the media and began first, then adds the glass on top of Rebbeca Scheuer, Curious Cow such as knitted wire clothing, in Ceramics and Studio Art from 40 41 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

SUNY, College at Brockport. She freedom, independence and pieces. Often she will add another him because each stroke reflects herself immersed in painting Giotto. “Living with a neurological playing music after his injury Molly Schappert Dallas, PA works mainly with ceramics but artistic collaborations through element combining ceramics with his expressive spirit; rough on a daily basis in order to help disability has led me to find to regain his coordination. That Schappert attends the Verve also uses some mixed media. art-making and a place to fully another material. Rosen says that and impulsive while also being alleviate the physical pain that refuge in my imagination and the was his first experience with any Vertu Art Studio, a community- Richard says she loves creating give my energy, spirit, and heart.” art is her outlet and fills her need contemplative. “To me art is MS can cause. She has been a peaceful place of my panels.” art medium. He always had an based art studio which focuses on with her hands. She observes to be creative. With her hearing about adventure and pushing the featured artist in local South interest in photography, and on tapping into the creative energy Kasey Riley Dallas, PA Joseph Saxon Philadelphia, PA what goes on in the world and disability, it is something she can limit. It is saying, ‘What if I can do Jersey juried exhibitions, and a trip to Germany with his dad, of people with diverse abilities. Riley attends the Verve Vertu Art Saxon, born in Philadelphia, is places her own spin on what she do alone and without distraction. this?’ and then doing it.” currently has paintings hanging he decided to take along an old She is developing her artistic Studio, a community-based art an artist who draws from points sees. Creating art helps Richard in multiple venues across the digital camera. Schack’s artistic skills through drawing, painting studio, which focuses on tapping Daniel Rothenberg Rochester, NY Rick Ruark Pittsburgh, PA in time and conceptual themes. to keep grounded and helps in Mid-Atlantic region. Sammartino passion allowed him to master and batiks. She is encouraged to into the creative energy of people Rothenberg says his art is Ruark is a self-taught, Pittsburgh He showed a persistent passion easing the issues she faces from has always been drawn to and videography as well as different experiment with different dyes with diverse abilities in Dallas, about the connection between contemporary acrylics painter for drawing as a youth and was her disability. “I think life would intrigued by abstract art in genres of music. Soon after, he and colors as she paints nature Pennsylvania. Due to Riley having abstraction and realism. His who began painting 35 years taken to his first formal art class be a little more difficult if I could landscape scenes and everyday was in his first traveling art exhibit. and flower scenes. Schappert cerebral palsy, she has limited abstract work has elements of ago. The scope of his work spans at a Fairmount Park arts program. not create art.” life, and thus presents the viewer Schack’s artworks have been also enjoys various subject matter dexterity and mobility in her arms symbolism, while his realistic realism to geometrical pieces and His work brings to life his love of with a challenge in self-described recognized nationally as well as in such as creating mandalas. When Sally Richards Media, PA and hands. Modified art brushes work has an abstract nature to represents over three decades aesthetics. Watercolors, acrylics, “imagined landscapes” and Switzerland and Russia. With a lifelong desire to be are utilized. She enjoys painting it. He wants viewers to interpret of personal experimentation. oils, airbrushing, pastels and abstract art that often defy rules an artist, Richards undertook with acrylic paint, watercolor and the art for themselves while His love of the arts can be best pencils are the tools that have Carla Schaeffer Phoenixville, PA of perspective and dimension. a four-year program at the fabric dyes. Whether painting on connecting it to their own lives. described as stated by George canvassed Saxon’s work in a Schaeffer’s crocheted jewelry Each painting is different from the Pennsylvania Academy of the canvas, wood, or fabric, creating Rothenberg hopes every time Bernard Shaw, “Without art, the wide scale of subjects. He has and unique found-object floral next, and not easily described. Fine Arts following a successful brings Riley relaxation and that they look at his work, they crudeness of reality would make participated in several art shows bouquets are a visual illustration business career. A painter and fulfillment. She loves painting see something new in it. He the world unbearable.” In recent Diane Savino Hatfield, MA and has sold work in galleries of many of the things that make printmaker, she has a focused with spring-like colors of flowers usually selects ideas that he is years, he was diagnosed with As a young child, Savino’s and to private collectors in the her happiest in life. She was forced daily studio practice. Richard’s and nature scenes. Riley’s world is fascinated by and then tries to peripheral neuropathy on the left Italian grandfather built small Tri-State area. His use of space to leave her business career when work explores the “nature of a rainbow of colors. give the viewer that same feeling. side of his body which continues shrines in his garden as a means demands and invites the viewer chronic arm pain made it too place,” the essence and energy The process is also important to to progress. Around the same time of protecting his crops. Small to respond. Joseph Saxon’s painful for her to make it through Maxine Rosen Penn Valley, PA we feel when we experience our he was wait-listed for a dual organ birdhouses were perched on poles work has a motif of dominant the work day. Schaeffer found that Ann Marie Geiger, Though a preschool teacher Staring Contest with a Fox world in an intimate way. The transplant. Ruark believes it has like holy scarecrows, and the champions, that engages the losing her ability to be creative throughout her career, art was places in her art are imaginary, been his good fortune to be able statuary of saints and the Virgin viewer to welcome and receive made coping with her injuries always Rosen’s passion. She is creating, she enjoys utilizing relational or abstract expressions to adapt painting to new methods Mary dwelled in their interiors. This joy into their lives. more difficult. A few years later currently working in ceramics. acrylic paint, watercolor, fabric derived from observation and and techniques to continue to be memory, along with her Italian when she suffered a debilitating Being mostly self-taught, Jeremy Schack Arlington, TX dyes for batiks, paper, clay and memory. She uses color, form, creatively productive. heritage and love of the rural land, brain injury; Schaeffer knew she Rosen feels this allows her a Schack suffered a traumatic more. Creating artwork brings and structure to cause elevation has influenced her art-making. must find a way to bring creativity certain freedom of expression Maria Sammartino Riverton, NJ brain injury in a motorcycle Molly joy and pride in herself. and freedom in mood and Savino considers herself to be back into her life. Rediscovering from expectation. Many of her Sammartino was born into a accident when he was nine. Up thought. Richards has had a a visual storyteller who paints her love of the artistic process Rebecca Scheuer Narvon, PA ceramic pieces are playful with family of artists, and has spent until that time he had a desire severe hearing disability for 25 narratives and small tableaux. She while finding a way to participate Scheuer is a wife, mother, and ideas coming from the “art of many years creating art alongside to become a sports athlete. years, which required enormous has drawn inspiration from such in it, despite her limitations, high school counselor. After a living.” She enjoys thinking in her grandfather and brother. After Those experiences taught him to energy and accommodation Renaissance masters of narrative brought her joy and has allowed serious car accident in 2015, the narrative which has a story being diagnosed with multiple never give up and always push in business. “I have found new as Botticelli, Fra Angelico and her to reclaim her life. she started taking oil painting attached to each of her sculptural Joy Raskin, Dancing Triangles pendant sclerosis in 2009, she found himself everyday. Schack began 42 43 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

lessons as part of her vision material she works with needs to to a spinal cord injury he received invisible forms and textures, made as commercial and editorial Nancy Smith Santa Monica, CA was thrown into a creek when therapy. She realized early on be lightweight. Weaving jewelry in a car accident. In the mid- up feelings. These are delicately photographer. Since 1991, he has Smith started sewing when her car was hit on I-95. She that painting brought her joy. was the perfect fit along with 1980s he became interested entwined to a memory I seek to been concentrating on limited- she was 10 years old. She realized immediately that she was Learning about color, value, and pine needles for her baskets. in photography and has used reproduce in my mixed media edition fine art, primarily in the didn’t have the same means of paralyzed but thought, “Thank composition has helped her to Severson believes that creating various techniques, including gum works, where memory and tactile still life genre. He also works with communication as the other God, I have my hands.” Art had see the world in a different way. has changed her from viewing dichromate printing, film, and forms commune.” Skeete says landscape and the female form. kids, so through the creation of become a driving force in her life Scheuer says that painting has herself as a patient to viewing digital manipulation of original her work is a spiritual communion Smith prints his work in black- something physical, the visual before her accident. The accident provided an opportunity for her herself as an artisan. images. In recent years, Sheely that allows her to experience her and-white as well as color, using became her voice. She had an sharpened this focus and through to be creative and relieve stress. has begun experimenting with a surroundings as a dance, in and traditional photographic processes innate affinity to the tactile nature her painting, she found courage. Carol Shannon Aldan, PA She plans to continue learning technique some call scanography. out of a place that has no name, and archival pigment ink, printed of things and a great sense of Before being diagnosed with William Spiker Wilmington, DE and painting and enjoying her Debbie Huff,Eye of the Tiger His inspiration for photographing form or presence. on fine cotton printmaking color. Smith wants materials to be rheumatoid arthritis in 2007, Spiker has been a bilateral, below- time in the studio. nudes began in college, where he papers. He also works in mixed appreciated, as they come with a you can relate to other people, Shannon would have never Amy Smith North Wales, PA the-knee amputee since 2011. was exposed to the artistic aspects media. “My role as an artist is to history and traits of their own. She Erika Schwarz Watertown, MA release your inner feelings and considered herself an artist. Smith began her career as a While recovering from surgery and of this subject. Sheely enjoys be open, curious, and available to will combine anything that works. Schwarz resides in the Boston capabilities and find other people However, art has provided her marketing writer and editor. In before mastering prosthetics, he photographing other subjects, but experience beauty, and then to Store-bought fabric or alley trash, area and is primarily committed to you can share common interest with an activity that exercises 2015 she began taking art lessons was consumed with a desire to being in a wheelchair presents a interpret that beauty into my work it doesn’t make a difference to environmental issues in her work as with.” Scott has been involved her hands, wrists and arms and while also teaching herself to return to making art, specifically challenge regarding accessibility. so the viewer may be moved by her. In the end, she sees them all opposed to any specific medium. with the Exploring Art Group for provides an escape from the paint. She left corporate life in welded steel sculpture. Spiker Art has always been a major part the feeling within it.” Smith says as threads and she will use their Many environmental themes almost four years. physical pain and limitation 2016 and now focuses entirely soon discovered that working of his life. “Before my accident his work reflects on his walking character to make her world. Ann intersect with her experience caused by arthritis. Sometimes on writing fiction and painting. with power tools and welding Christine Severson Richmond, VA I was a musician. My disability disability, encouraging patience, Bancroft told her, “Talk in a deep of autism spectrum disorder she needs to make a modification Smith paints using water-soluble equipment, while confined to a Severson, a nurse, suffered a life- left me unable to perform, but it and the understanding of how to voice…they will listen.” diagnosed in later life. “Very to her process, such as using oils on stretched canvas because wheelchair, proved to be quite changing event in the late 1970s also presented a new and more find beauty in the commonplace. generally speaking, for several extra long paintbrushes, a stylus, she loves to experiment with color Carol Spiker Wilmington, DE challenging. He worked on small while transferring a quadriplegic gratifying means of creating art.” decades now both have been a hand-vice to hold the brush, or and texture. In 2009, she was Spiker’s early career was in pieces that later became parts of patient into a wheelchair. She misunderstood and dismissed as a tripod or monopod to stabilize Yoland Skeete Newark, NJ diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. graphic arts. While raising larger pieces. Spiker says, “The incurred significant damage to petty. Today these varied abilities her camera. She continues to Skeete has made art and taken Smith was 28 at the time and the children, she dove into volunteer process demonstrated for me that her spinal cord, which continues are included and utilized the way work and try new techniques. photographs since she was a diagnosis forever changed her projects and took up running. making art was an important part to limit her mobility and left her we must honor and work with Shannon is drawn to abstract child. Coming from a time and life. In the ensuing 10 years, she Those lonely, long-distance runs of recovering an enjoyable life with chronic pain. Severson still nature, not against it.” paintings and designs with bold country where there were no suffered several relapses that left brought her clarity and in the in the face of considerable loss.” managed to raise two daughters, colors and textures as well as ready-made clothes, prayers, permanent disabilities impacting late ‘80s she returned to school Producing welded sculpture for Jacqueline Scott Philadelphia, PA and in the meantime creating black-and-white and landscape sewing and embroidering were her vision and hand strength. to study painting. She fell in love more than 15 years, Spiker has Scott is from North Philadelphia became her passion, which to photography. She combines what she learned at school. As a Painting provides a creative with 1950s Bay Area figurative shown his work widely in both and has lived at Inglis House for this day provides her with a sense mixed mediums of photography child, Skeete lost her hearing and outlet that helps Smith when she painting—expressionistic and Pennsylvania and Delaware. 20 years. She has always loved art of pride and purpose. Severson and digital painting as well. Her then later developed alopecia. needs it most: navigating difficult anonymous. Her figures come and her favorite medium is pencil works on her jewelry during the Susan Stahlsmith Philadelphia, PA artistry provides a space for Being different made her mother emotions due to living with MS. from memory and she loves drawing. She says, “Being at Inglis day and on her baskets in the Stahlsmith never practiced art spiritual renewal and peace. keep her near, and Skeete focused the smell and the serendipitous House gives many opportunities evening. Her work is done from a Ken Smith Riverside, WA until she came to live at Inglis on art. “Because of the silence discovery that comes with to explore and express yourself. semi-reclining position wearing Craig Sheely Littlestown, PA Smith’s creative life began House, a specialty nursing care inside me, visible as well as painting with oils. In 1998, Spiker Once you’re able to do that, elbow and wrist splints. The Sheely is quadriplegic attributed as a freelance writer as well Joanne Orth, Secret Garden facility providing long-term, 44 45 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

care facility providing long- Oni Strother East Orange, NJ Sriharsha Sukla Cuttack, India “ In my mind I can still see the incredible colors dyes. She is open to creating a all photographers are looking term, residential care for adults Strother is a photographer Sriharsha Sukla was born with variety of unique themed artwork. for, is a “good” photo. Due to a with physical disabilities, since with a diagnosis as being on hearing impairment. He says of shadows, see the light dancing on distant water, Creating art is relaxing for her and retinal eye problem, Tujak could 2011. He loves to stay busy and the autism spectrum. She does he has not let his disability and see the movement of joyful people. That is what she takes pride in her completed no longer use his right eye when enjoys participating in programs. not see this as a disability, dampen his desire for a full life. pieces. Tribendis participates in taking pictures. This required Stephens is married to fellow rather that it is more of a Sukla credits his mother for her I paint now—memories.” —Mimi Barclay Johnson local exhibits and her work can him to retrain himself to use Inglis House resident Mindy challenge with advantages encouragement and inspiration to be found in private collections as his left eye to look through the Orth-Stephens. He loves to create and disadvantages. Strother pursue his artwork. He also feels Elizabeth Sullivan Elgin, TX followed. Terrar needed stability well as public venues. She enjoys camera’s viewfinder. Tujak hopes abstracts and landscapes in pastels has always been very aware of he has received a tremendous Sullivan gets inspiration from and hope to get through it. On a learning the use of new mediums that everyone enjoys looking at and paint. Stephens gives his the sights and sounds around amount of support from his many things around her, but wintery walk through the woods, and techniques. the photos as much as he did in father credit for originally getting her, often noticing things that community and patrons, both taking them. the styles of art that have most he saw his struggle played out Leo Tujak Floral Park, NY him interested in art and says he others may not. She frequently nationally and internationally. influenced her are primitive cave in nature. The struggle to get Tujak thinks that photography is Jerry Turner Fort Bragg, CA appreciates art and what it has notices something beautiful and Sukla works in both oil and and rock paintings as well as a through the winter was the a great thing. It allows him to see Turner has been making art for given to him and added to his life. is moved to take a picture of it. watercolors but his specialty is Elizabeth Sullivan, Watching You style of oriental painting executed snow. The sun struggled in the something and transfer it to a more than 20 years. He creates She enjoys modifying images in collage work. His hope is that Sal Strom Newport, OR quickly, where you express the last half hour of the day. All the photograph, but with some input drawings with colored pencils or residential care for adults with with Photoshop or Topaz. his work creates enjoyment for all Strom says he is the person who subject with a few strokes. She colors changed, yet the golden from him as he takes the picture. he makes prints. He says art helps physical disabilities. She has These programs help her create who view it. jumps in first and calls the work often paints in watercolors, sun coming through the trees By controlling the composition, him to escape to other places. multiple sclerosis and chooses powerful images. to action. He is the alchemist Billy Sukus Dallas, PA because she enjoys the natural was a sign of hope. The struggle lighting, and angle at which the “Art makes me feel that I’m going to use a manual wheelchair to artist experimenting. He pours Siddhartha Sankar Sukla Sukus is an artist with autism, flow. The paint contributes to the inspired his work using acrylic photo is taken, one can alter into another world. Sometimes it’s maintain her fine motor skills, incompatible mediums and Cuttack, India who attends the Verve Vertu motion in the painting. “I love and 23K gold leaf. Gold has been many things. But the outcome tough in this life.” exercise her arms, and keep her luscious colors, inviting chemical Siddhartha Sankar Sukla is a Art Studio a community-based to paint motion—the graceful an artistic symbol for hope and independence. She now loves all reactions. He tears, cuts, glues, formally trained Indian artist art studio which focuses on and powerful motion of running heaven for thousands of years the arts including writing, reading staples and pins old work into who was born with hearing tapping into the creative energy horses, the stealth of a cat, the and the trees in his paintings are about history, and listening to the new work. The materials and impairment. He chooses to think of people with diverse abilities. curious pecking of chickens a symbol of strength and stability. classical music. Stahlsmith was Strom begin a debate as they of himself as not disabled at all He enjoys painting and utilizes trying to decide if that speck on “When my mind is not fixed on born in Aberdeen, Washington, experiment. Every layer reveals but rather, as he describes it, acrylic paint, watercolor, fabric the ground is edible.” Sullivan worry and anxiety, I know my and graduated from Pennsylvania a part of the previous layer. The “differently abled.” His work has dyes, batiking, block printing and specializes in watercolors and healing is happening.” State University with a music energy of his work comes from been recognized both nationally felting. Geometric shapes appear murals. She’s painted 18 public education degree. She enjoys Tracy Tribendis Dallas, PA the sheer joy of discovery. Due to and internationally and he very in much of Billy’s creations. He art murals, plus many more for working collaboratively and helps Tribendis attends the Verve Vertu being on disability, Strom moves much sees this recognition as a loves the creative outlet art gives private patrons. Her disability to make discarded art distinctive Art Studio, a community-based between friends’ houses and he blessing to be cherished. Sukla him. His artwork “Squares” is exists and she takes care of it, but and bring it back to life, using studio, which focuses on tapping needs his work to be easy to store is skilled in computer graphics part of the permanent collection her life is the joy of creating. It bright colors in cheerful scenes. into the creative energy of people surpasses all. and transport. He continually and has also worked in both oil at Misericordia University in the with diverse abilities. She enjoys Craig Stephens Philadelphia, PA recreates his last series into new and watercolors. His focus now is Speech Pathology Building. Billy David Terrar Gaithersburg, MD painting utilizing fabric dyes, Stephens is from South work. “Having FUN while making producing collage works and he enjoys every aspect of being an Terrar survived a major heart inks, acrylic paint and watercolor. Philadelphia and has lived at art is the most important activity hopes the people who view his artist from creating to selling his attack. His life changed suddenly Tribendis creates bright-colored Inglis House, a specialty nursing in my life.” artwork find it engaging. artwork. and a long depressing struggle gutta batiks on muslin with fabric Morgan Johnson, Windrift 46 47 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

Lynne Walding Philadelphia, PA at Inglis House including the to an emotional and spiritual which turn into dream catchers timeline of the history of emotions. She believes art is Peraporn (Rhys) Wynne Walding loves to paint using Exploring Art group, trivia, music breakdown/awakening, which and whimsical mobile artwork. education in the United States therapeutic; the key to finding a Lake Elsinore, CA digital media with adapted devices and theater. Washington loves led him to seek therapy for Welgosh loves music, and this of America. The lived experience way to express and heal tangled Wynne is a child of two cultures. because it is difficult for her to use all forms of art but admits that anxiety and post-traumatic is a theme that has inspired of learning disabilities is the emotions that are part of life. He was born in Thailand and art tools in a traditional manner. painting is her favorite. She is a stress disorder, among other him to create many beautiful primary subject matter for his Wolfe wants to share her art studied there with Khun Odai, a She uses different mediums and wonderful artist and enjoys the mental health conditions. As a guitar batiks and greeting cards. creative research. As a youth, with others, to have them say, well-known Thai cartoonist. He is enjoys blending them. Walding use of bright vibrant colors. child, artistic expression was Creating art is fulfilling for him. Wittig attended the Child “I recognize that feeling.” She currently attending Riverside City lives at Inglis House, a specialty not encouraged. Painting finally Study Center for three years, a says, “When I paint, I am no and Moreno Valley Colleges in Shoaib Wazir Fairfield, CT Kurt Weston Mission Viejo, CA nursing care facility providing allowed Weber to express himself. school in a teaching hospital, longer disabled, no longer limited; California, pursuing a vocational Transcending pain and beauty Weston, a world-class long-term, residential care for Now with 400+ canvases and where he became intrigued I enter a magical place, a time goal of storyboard writing. He through his art, Wazir creates art photographer-turned-blind- adults with physical disabilities. 3500 textile designs created with disabilities research. “I am outside of time.” also studies at American Ceramic with a unique technique that is visionary earned a Bachelor She says, “I get an idea in my head from his art, Weber’s dream is to inspired by the larger learning- Museum in Pomona, California. particularly empowering because of Arts degree from Columbia Robin Wyatt Winston-Salem, NC and try to make it on the canvas. bring people together through disabled community, to create Wynne is autistic and has a it enables him to not only College, Chicago and an Master Nancy Nalbandian, We are the music Wyatt was a 20-year-old art I’m always learning something his art, share his experiences and makers, we are the dreamers of dreams artworks that comment on the visual handicap. He considers his recreate but assign new life and of Fine Arts degree from student when she was thrown new.” Art has allowed her to knowledge with people, and help learning disabled experience autism an advantage as he can meaning to a traumatic surface. California State University, Jed Williams Philadelphia, PA from a car, crushing her right arm express herself when it is hard them be who they were meant with language, and question the concentrate better than most Wazir’s art practice is inspired by Fullerton. As a legally blind Williams is a professional artist and shoulder. Because of this to find a voice. It brings Walding to be—not who someone else prevailing systems of education people. Like many others on the the upheaval and displacement artist, Weston offers alternative who grew up in Paris but studied accident, she developed a chronic relaxation, decreases pain and wanted them to be. Weber’s art (and culture) which devalue spectrum, Wynne is very gifted he experienced as a member views and perspectives— art mostly in the U.S. Since 2010, pain disorder called CRPS. She allows her to escape stress. She tells a story—an unfolding, and fluencies and skills outside in the arts. He has published of a minority population while interpreting the world as he he has owned and operated a thought she could no longer doesn’t let her disability limit her the origin of a new beginning. prevailing norms.” With these five books and has won national growing up. His work relates to perceives it. Currently, he has studio gallery showing his own paint in any traditional way. She from expressing herself. visual representations, Wittig writing and international art the migrants and refugees around Christopher Welgosh Dallas, PA been creating stunning micro- art as well as that of others. His eventually realized she could still is studying and highlighting competitions. He writes children’s Joyce Washington the world, who must flee war and Welgosh attends the Verve Vertu textural landscapes inspired by specialty is oil, acrylic, and ink/ create and her secret weapon the solutions of historical books, paints, and sculpts in a Philadelphia, PA upheaval, and seek new lands to Art Studio one day a week. string theory, dark matter, and mixed media painting. Williams became collage. Through collage educational-built environments. contemporary style, and creates Washington came to Inglis House pursue peace and stability. Wazir He is extremely focused and black holes. His photographic finds inspiration in his daily Wyatt could put together small ceramic critters. Wynne says he in 2012. She enjoys many activities uses art to try to communicate skilled at utilizing gutta resist on silkscreen prints are a glimpse feelings. The desire to stay Rose Wolfe Lawton, MI pieces and create large finished loves and lives the life of an artist. the plight, and hopes to ricepaper or fabric. He creates of outer space phenomenon as occupied, together with the Although myotonic dystrophy works. She says it’s frustratingly demonstrate how a traumatized intricate symbols and images well as inner space reflections. fascination and energy of the may define Wolfe’s physical slow and there are times when Richard Wynne Lake Elsinore, CA soul emerging from a burned and on these batiks, which then In 2010 Weston was recognized creative process itself, often is the limitations, it does not define her. she worries that the pain will Wynne is an artist who has wounded past, is still able to seek are transformed into framed by Arts Orange County with the start of projects. Art has played a She believes the struggles integral make it her last piece, but then lived and painted in many new hope and new life. artwork or wall hangings, or Outstanding Artist Achievement great role in helping him deal with to life in a wheelchair have helped she finishes and all that’s left is countries for more than 30 sewed into decorative pillows. Award and in 2012 he appeared her to discover her passions: joy. Over time Wyatt has regained years. He returned to the U.S. Joseph Weber Berwyn, PA autism and Asperger’s. Williams The finished pieces look very on CNN’s Fredricka Whitfield encouraging others to live with some painting skills but still so his autistic son could receive Weber is a former banking says, “It helps to have a passion I ancient and mysterious. Welgosh show, highlighting his art and hope, expressing herself through employs the collage techniques special education that was not professional and now self-taught can pursue and something to help enjoys creating and it makes him advocacy. Weston’s work has the magic of painting and writing by cutting out the small images available in his homeland of artist who began painting me focus outward.” happy and proud to create such been exhibited nationally and about her experiences. Wolfe’s she creates. Her favorite quote Thailand. Wynne lectured and acrylic on canvas in 2016, when Mark Wittig North Little Rock, AR beautiful work. He also creates internationally and is in private subjects include all genres with is from Shakespeare, “ I love the taught art in Thailand. He has had he realized he no longer had Wittig creates a photographic beautiful handmade fabrics, and public collections. the goal of expressing underlying stars too fondly to fear the night.” exhibitions in the USA, Middle Sal Panasci, Water Lilies 22 control over his life. This led 48 49 ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

and Far East, and collections of enlightened to take an art class. “When I paint, I am no dance. Living with multiple “ The jagged edges and bold colors and brushstrokes his work reside in many countries. She found it gave great meaning sclerosis for more than 30 years, He is a recipient of the “Golden to her life. Working in many longer disabled, no Zaremba has constantly learned that appear in my paintings represent the interface Bear Award” from the State of different mediums at first, Yeager longer limited; I enter to adapt to change. Naturally now between me and the universe.” California. Wynne uses colors, settled on pastels because of right-handed, he was able to textures, and different mediums their bright colors. She believes a magical place, a time train his left hand to take over —Robert Bohle to convey moods. Old age, that art has allowed her to be one the primary duties when his arthritis, and an ongoing battle with God and nature, so she can outside of time.” multiple sclerosis progression Linnie Greenberg, Prestige with cancer have forced Wynne express herself freely. Her primary —Rose Wolfe significantly limited his right to reduce production and spend subject matter is animals because hand’s functionality. Zaremba most of his time preparing his son she feels they are humble and says, “What makes me come Jacquie O. Young Lewes, DE for the future. meek and not judgmental. Yeager alive and forget my disability is Formally a portrait photographer, extracts and enhances patterns challenging my creative ability, Sheryl Yeager Pittsburgh, PA a speed bump better known and colors in her work. Her and thanks to art, I really like Yeager is an autistic artist who as multiple sclerosis changed marks are immediate and fresh. who I am today.” has been creating art for more Young’s life. When she returned She believes that art has taken than 15 years. She struggled to photography, she took a Leslie Zukor Mercer Island, WA away the emotional pain of her through her teens and twenties few classes as her professional Zukor has been a photographer “ I am determined to childhood and allows her to cope trying to find self-worth. In training was in film. Technology since 2005, when she received with everyday stresses. create no matter the her early thirties, Yeager was has given Young a path of her first digital camera for the therapy, creating with graphics. winter holidays. Since then, circumstances.” Capturing images in the unseen she has become an avowed —Anthe Capitan-Valais infrared light spectrum displays photography addict, someone the sense of surrealism, a who is attracted to fast motion, feeling as surreal as a diagnosis street photography, and animal of MS. Using other in-camera and human portraiture. Zukor techniques, such as specialized pursues these passions through Mark Wittig, Pleasant Valley School art lenses, also lends to her the medium of her lens, and the creative visions. creative process helps form her identity as a disabled person, “Art has saved my life. It helps me cope with Anthony Zaremba Whiting, NJ someone who sees the world in Zaremba’s art and finished her own unique way. Zukor was the symptoms of mental illness. It also gives me watercolors appear not as finely born without depth perception detailed but are loose and free. a sense of accomplishment and a way to and with multiple visual He feels he has created a new disabilities. Her depth perception communicate what I feel and experience.” style of painting that has an inability is referred to as a abstract look. His subject matter —Thomas Dillon spatial processing disorder. She reflects the things he loves in continues to seek treatment. Ina Greenstein, When the Brough Breaks life, people, music, sports and Ginger Gehres, Umami 50 51 Tozour_BrynMawr_Art_Ability_8x8_8231_BW.pdf 1 8/23/19 10:45 AM

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