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The Children’s of Alabama collection is a kaleidoscope of art forms from some 70 significant artists who are diverse in gender and ethnicity. Almost all of the 180-plus works are by Alabama artists, and they represent a wide range of subject matter and varying artistic styles and media.

The art complements the interior architecture of the magnificent new Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children and appeals to the children we serve, their families and friends, and our staff as well. OnGuy Kemper the coverof Versailles, Kentucky Tango Acid Etched Blown Glass While entertaining, the art also offers a delightful introduction to Kemper is a painter who creates distinctive spaces using glass, color and light. He works closely wi h master craftspeople to translate his paintings into blown glass, distinguishing his the art and the artists of Alabama. art from mere glass painting or stained glass. Active in the corporate, liturgical and public art fields, his designs are inspired by heir particular setting and the surrounding community. Celebrated for heir strength and emotional expressiveness, Kemper's inte nationally recognized projects have won several prestigious design awards. In this guide, art is arranged alphabetically by floor. The color bars Motor Lobby, Main Entrance at the top of the odd-numbered pages correspond to wayfinding colors used throughout the Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children.

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Catherine Cabaniss of Birmingham Fly Away Painting on Canvas Motor Lobby (first floor) Cabaniss’ ongoing interest has been the problem of preserving our environment while pushing technology. She has painted in the landscape for initial impressions and later in her studio developed Sloane Bibb of Decatur hem into larger works in oil on canvas. From 1991 1996, she Birthday Cake Mixed Media, 2012 taught classes for emotionally disturbed children at a non profit “My techniques for creating textures have been agency Studio by he Tracks in Birmingham. conceived hrough ‘happy’ mistakes. As far as Motor Lobby, Imaging Registration the imagery/theme goes, I know what he main element will be when I start, but as I flip hrough old magazines and catalogs he story grows and usually changes. I try to put hings toge her hat don’t go together or are just comical together.” Motor Lobby, Imaging Registration

Hope Brannon of Wetumpka Tumblers I-5 Acrylic on Board, 2012 (Two of he five tumblers are shown here.) On a symbolic level, he works and spaces Brannon creates are sites of memory and passage suggestive of both history and transition. Motor Lobby, Emergency Department Corridor Elizabe h Elliott of Birmingham Jean Jacques Gaudel of Birmingham Shoe Be Do Acrylic on Canvas, 2012 The Black Fakir Oil on Canvas, 1992 Elizabe h Elliott is an artist and published Gaudel graduated in mechanical engineering and author. As an applied sociologist, she worked in he Far East as an oil prospector before worked in inte national heal hcare moving to he United States 1974. Entirely self development and also taught at he taught as an artist, he began painting wi h oils university level, most recently at the on canvas in the mid ‘80s. Later, he became very University of Alabama at Birmingham. interested in collections of small ordinary objects She now paints and writes full time and the affects of strong directional light on in Birmingham. different kinds of shapes, surfaces and textures. Motor Lobby Motor Lobby Emergency Department Family Waiting Emergency Department Sub Waiting, Sports Lounge

Lila Graves of Alexander City I Can Fly Oil on Panel, 2010 Graves was born in Alexander City, where she grew up influenced by the craftsmanship of the works she was Annie Butrus of Birmingham exposed to in her fa her’s fu niture business. After a Jasmine Hill: Dogwoods with Red Buds miraculous recovery at age 26 from what had been Set of Three Paintings on Panel, 2012 diagnosed as terminal cancer, her work took a spiritual Butrus pursues work about our perception of the places in which we live. Her projects document direction. Her bright, cheerful images are painted with a changes in the landscape and he emotions evoked in response to that change. Mainly realized child like brush stroke that reflects a child like innocence. in painting, her work has concentrated on he grow h around he Birmingham metro area. Motor Lobby, Emergency Department Family Waiting Motor Lobby, Imaging Family Waiting 4 5 Bob Joslin of Do han Lila Graves of Alexander City Polyphemus Larva Feeding Carnival Ride Oil on Panel, 2011 Dewy Dragonfly Though trained in studio art, Graves’ style changed after Box Turtle a struggle wi h cancer. Since then, her work has been Portrait of a Green Frog successful in bridging the gap between trained and self taught art. “I hink people need to know hat it’s possible Ladybird Beetle on Butterfly Weed not to be a victim of unhappy memories,” she says. “Now Photography I speak from a healed child’s voice. God has blessed me Joslin has been creating images of the wi h my story, and I hink it’s my obligation not to abandon natural world for more than 50 years. ei her that healed child or hat cancer survival story.” His artistic vision, technical mastery Motor Lobby, Emergency Department Ambulance Corridor and knowledge of natural history formulate his distinctive style. He is he creator of an award winning nationwide children’s environmental education program entitled “Nature’s Way Series,” and his nature programs often appear Kevin Irwin of Birmingham on the “Discovery Channel.” Garden Fun Watercolor, 2011 Motor Lobby There is recurring imagery in Irwin’s work, a common Emergency Department Family Waiting hread that weaves together her art, whether in clay, glass, watercolor or a combination of media. Using plants and animals as narrative symbols, she gives form to her world view, one that is positive in he face of obstacles, presented in deceptively simple Taylor Moore of New York, NY form or imagery. Aqua Bicycle Acrylic on Canvas, 2011 Motor Lobby, Emergency Department Family Waiting Red Bicycle Acrylic on Canvas, 2011 Moore, an Alabama native, is currently a senior at Parsons he New School for Design where he is focusing on Jennifer Ivanovic of Birmingham Communication Design. His works span Healing Garden Acrylic on Canvas, 2011 he worlds of fine art, graphic design, “My paintings are representative of my hybrid art photography and illustration and are practice. Installations, still lifes and performances regularly stunning, provocative and in a are photographed, manipulated in he computer and constant vertigo of evolution. Moore printed. I use he resulting prints and the real objects hrives on unconventional processes to to paint from.” bring his visions to life. Motor Lobby, Emergency Department Sub Waiting Motor Lobby, Imaging Sub Waiting Children’s Play

Yvonne Wells of Tuscaloosa Tongue and Beak Quilt, 2004 Wells is a native of Tuscaloosa and a graduate of Stillman Jennifer Ivanovic of Birmingham College. She also holds a master’s degree from Alabama Imagination Acrylic on Canvas, 2011 State University in Montgomery. Her works have been “Butterflies are a recurring motif in my displayed in Japan, Canada, Italy and France, The White work and often represent transformation,” House, The Smi hsonian and many national museums Ivanovic says. across the Americas. Motor Lobby, Imaging Corridor Motor Lobby, Emergency Department Family Waiting 6 7 Gary Chapman of Birmingham Girl with Puffin Mixed Media on Panel, 2008 Chapman, a professor of art at the University of Alabama Main Street (second floor) at Birmingham, has had over 50 solo exhibitions. “Wi h good intentions, my subjects are passionately searching,” he says. “They are engaged in he proverbial, if not clichéd, pursuit of meaning, knowledge, experience or tru h. They are on the quest of ‘finding hemselves,’ looking exte nally and hrough he eyes and experiences of others. The children in hese paintings are still pure in this search, determined and armed with a clear vision.” Main Street, At Gift Shop Entrance

Mary Aiken of Vestavia Hills Resilience Stained Glass, 2012 “The Cahaba Lily requires a very specialized habitat. These beautiful lilies start heir lifecycle in a rocky riverbed … and bloom into fantastic, perfect flowers,” Aiken says. Meditation Room, Main Street

Ron Bayens of Auburn County Fair Oil on Canvas, 2011 Chris Clark of Birmingham Amy Crews of Birmingham Painting in a traditional 19 h century Going to School and Hopscotch Nest Oil on Canvas, 2012 academic impressionist manner, Bayens is well Painting on Quilt, 2010 A keen appreciation for all hings known for his ability to capture not only Clark began quilting after being diagnosed has been he hallmark for Crews in a likeness, but also he subject’s personality. wi h diabetes in 1990. By he following year, her artistic works. She has received Main Street Corridor his quilts were selling in galleries hroughout numerous awards at juried shows Near Russell Family Panels the South. A deeply spiritual man, Clark often across the Sou h, but her greatest depicted Biblical scenes on his quilts Noah’s desire, she says, is to “be a blessing Ark, he Sermon on he Mount and Jesus and encourager to others” hrough Feeding he Multitude. her talents. Main Street, Performance Room Main Street, Admitting

Gina Castle of New Orleans, LA Children Reaching Up Batik Wall Hangings, 2011 Castle specializes in Frank Fleming of Birmingham traditional batik on silk. Standing Rabbit Bronze Sculpture, 2012 Batik is an ancient Javanese Fleming is an inte nationally acclaimed sculptor and art form of design on fabric Sou he n artist whose love of nature and mankind in which hot wax is applied comes alive wi h his unique talent, whimsical insight to clo h and then dyed. and craftsmanship. As a child with a speech impediment, Castle uses the basic dye he chose not to speak until he was about 8 years old. colors of yellow, red and blue Instead, he spent hose years building a close bond to create an endless variety of wi h nature. This unique connection wi h he natural shades and hues. world remains an important creative force in Fleming’s Main Street Corridor art and life. Across From Admitting Main Street, 17 h Street Terrace 8 9

Bob Gile of Huntsville Do These Things Spit? Paul Looney of Tuscaloosa LeRoy Neiman of New York, NY Puppy Power Magic City Skyline Oil on Canvas, 2012 Circus Serigraph Quacker’s Quest Working primarily in oils, acrylics, watercolor Neiman was an American artist known for Why, Hello and graphite, Looney exhibits his work extensively his brilliantly colored expressionist paintings Wondering Whiskers hroughout Alabama and the Sou heast. His and screen prints of a hletes, musicians and Photography from the Collection Beastamongus A Look paintings now hang in many private collections sporting events. “I seek to make the task of into he Unspoken World of Animals hroughout he state and region,and his work also he spectator increasingly difficult,” he once Gile discovered his passion for design and photography has been displayed in several regional galleries. wrote. “I set traps for him. Modeling takes while studying at Alabama A&M University. “Beastamongus Main Street, Information Desk place where emphasis does not lie; accents started out as a way for me to immortalize my pets, but are subordinated; foreground and background through the photo shoot I found a whole new way of looking merge up close, and then expand wi h at animals and their way of living,” he says. “I view hem as distance. As one advances on my painting masters of their lands, even it hat is just a small back yard.” it becomes more abstract, more fluid, and Main Street, Admitting as one moves away it falls into focus and is realistic. By venturing into and penetrating John Heine of Birmingham he painting, he spectator discovers for Oil on Canvas, 2005 Coyote Breathing himself new substances and has a Heine was a professional cartoonist for more prolonged contact.” han 25 years. In 1990, answering he call for Main Street a deeper creative challenge, he Washington, Corridor to Children’s Harbor Crosswalk DC bo n artist retired from cartooning and dove headfirst into contemporary oil painting. He has been painting exclusively in oils since hat time. He is mainly self taught except for hree years of art instruction at he University of Montevallo. Main Street, Admitting Lobby

John Hyche of Birmingham Amasa Smith of Birmingham Happy Days Mixed Media on Canvas, 2012 Untitled Pastel on Fine Art Paper, 2012 Even as a child attending Birmingham schools, Hyche knew Amasa Smith his painting style was abstract. However, it would be 35 years Smi h, a graduate of Aubu n University wi h a bachelor of applied art degree, worked as associate art (after retirement from his first career) before he retu ned to his director for Luckie & Fo ney Advertising. He says, “My work as an artist includes portrait commissions, love of art. His sophisticated use of asymmetric balance, mass, comprising a range of figurative art that has provided me the opportunity to investigate ‘a psychology line and negative positive spatial relationships, along with a of ourselves.’ Non objective art, particularly within the surreal and often manifested in the realm of strong combination of hue and texture, creates an image of collage, remains delightfully boundless to me.” ordered chaos that appeals to the eye. Main Street, Corridor to UAB Women and Infants Center Main Street, Admitting Lobby 10 11

George Taylor of Montgomery Toni Tully of Birmingham Old Selma Road Oil on Canvas, 2011 Untitled Taylor ea ned a bachelor of science degree in Mixed Media on Canvas Accounting from the University of Alabama in 1989 Tully was best known for her work wi h but resigned after a year wi h a CPA firm to pursue his painted fabric, fabric installations and lifelong dream of being an artist. Since 1995, he has wearable art. She studied art at several lived in Montgomery, where he was born and raised, institutions, including the University of and painted he people, places and landscapes that Alabama at Birmingham, and participated in he loves. ”The subjects I choose are fraught with numerous advanced workshops to further her meanings and associations for me, and their knowledge of textiles and couture. appearance in my paintings is a synthesis of how they Main Street look to me and how I feel about them, filtered hrough Corridor to UAB Women and Infants Center he practical constraints of he medium.” Main Street Corridor Corridor to Children’s Harbor Crosswalk

Dirk Walker of Birmingham Sloss Furnace --- Day Fair Oil on Canvas Tres Taylor of Birmingham “The only absolute statement I profess to Monk on a Bike make regarding he language of painting House Paint and Acrylic on Tar Paper, 2012 is hat it is a life long struggle, but one “I am closest to God when I am painting,” Taylor says. that is well worth he jou ney,” says Walker. “He uses my hands to show my brothers and sisters what “Painting is, to me, a merger of past he has shown me, which is, when our hearts are free to techniques and present accomplishments love, hen we will see and experience the world as that form a vessel of creativity.” Gerald Manley Hopkins once wrote, ‘charged with the Main Street grandeur of God.’” Corridor to Children’s Harbor Crosswalk Main Street, Corridor to UAB Women and Infants Center

Tres Taylor of Birmingham Sacred Chord Mural House Paint and Acrylic on Tar Paper, 2012 Taylor, a biochemist for more than 20 years, tu ned to painting after visiting Georgia folk artist RA Miller in 1998. His subjects are usually monks, couples, houses and bicycles, but always he subjects are symbols of love. He carves his images into the tarpaper hat enables him to draw freely, and he paints wi h house paints and acrylics. Main Street, Corridor to UAB Women and Infants Center 12 13

Third Floor Sloane Bibb of Decatur Finch Mixed Media on Wood, 2012 Part painting and part assemblage, Bibb’s art combines wood, metal, paper, found objects, tar and wax into quirky tableau with a strong narrative presence. “As you can see, he heart and soul of my work is texture,” he says. 3rd Floor, Surgery Family Waiting

Ellen Grigg of Fai hope Coaster Wagon Ride Walking Home A Summer’s Race Chip Cooper of Tuscaloosa The Winning Goal Sunflower 1, Sunflower 2, Sunflower 3 From The Cloud Series, Acrylic on Canvas, 2004 Photography, 2010 It was after Grigg’s move from Malibu to Fai hope, when she became so Cooper is artist in residence in he Honors College at taken wi h he beautiful skies and incredible cloud formations she saw there, he University of Alabama, where he was director of hat she began including them in her subsequent paintings. For her, here Photography for 33 years. "Most of my career has was a spiritual component in he clouds she painted. They became symbolic been devoted to photographing a sense of place. of infinity and ete nity a visual reminder of the relative smallness of one’s Through he numerous shows and photography books being in he cosmos. I have done, I have tried to define he South. I have 3rd Floor, Surgery Family Waiting Hallway used landscapes, details and abstracts, as well as people, to help tell he story.” 3rd Floor, Pre Op Corridor

Whitney Hamilton of Brooklyn, NY Pony Ride Oil on Canvas, 2004 Frank Fleming of Birmingham Originally from Birmingham, Hamilton Spirit Sticks Mixed Media currently lives and works in Brooklyn, Upon graduating he University of Nor h Alabama in Florence, where her work can be seen in the Fleming worked at Boeing/NASA as an technical illustrator collections of Wall Street firms and New before attending graduate school in ceramics at he University of York advertising agencies. Her art also has Alabama. After an eventful 1972 trip to San Francisco where he been acquired by production companies was exposed to he work of Robert A neson, Peter Volkus and and can be seen in Tim Burton’s “Big Fish” Marilyn Levine, Fleming set up his Birmingham studio he and he NBC show “Paren hood.” She is a following year. In 1974, he had his first one man show at The graduate of Birmingham Sou he n College Birmingham Museum of Art where he received rave reviews and wi h a bachelor of fine arts degree in his work gained the attention of curators from around the country. painting. 3rd Floor, Surgery Family Waiting 3rd Floor, Surgery Family Waiting 14 15

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John Heine of Birmingham Peggy Parker of Birmingham Nada Boner of Birmingham Getting Into La La Land Oil on Canvas, 2008 Ray of Light Oil on Linen Ceramic Fish Raku Fired Ceramic Heine has always been committed to creating art Inspired and led by God and he beauty of he Influenced by people and the world hat comes honestly from wi hin himself. He stays world around her, Parker captures referential around her, Boner aspires to capture a humorous glimpse of true to his unique vision and creates original images of people, still life and landscape he human spirit. She uses a reduction glaze technique that paintings hat provide a high level of visual, including his painting inspired by he face of incorporates he extremes of nature’s elements fire, air and emotional and intellectual impact. Heine is a “Rashmi,” a Hindi name meaning “Ray of water to make each piece unique and impossible to duplicate. long time resident of Birmingham, where he lives Sunshine.” She explains: “This painting was 4th Floor, Cardiovascular Family Waiting a simple lifestyle to better devote himself to his bo n after a mission trip to New De hi, India. A artistic and spiritual grow h. believer in her Savior Jesus Christ, Rashmi and 3rd Floor, Surgery Family Waiting her family are a ‘Ray of Light’ to the world around hem.” 3rd Floor, Surgery Family Waiting Hallway

William Goodwin of Birmingham Chris Ellis of Birmingham Shrimp in Sponge Photography Flowetry Linda Ellen Price of Springville Ka hryn Vaughn of Harvest Photo is representative of other works by Goodwin Painted Metal Sculpture, 2011 A Day at the Zoo Painting on Canvas The Swimming Lesson Oil on Canvas located hroughout he Pre Op Corridor Ellis has been working with metal Price is a registered nurse who found art Vaughn was encouraged by her parents since Seventy five feet under Bonaire's Caribbean waters, since 2000. His sculptures consist of to be her true calling. She was inspired by age 5 to create and study art, and her education a peppermint shrimp lurks inside a branching vase welded metal layered into geometric Russian art, and after studies with Russian included studies in Rome and bachelor of fine sponge. The photograph by Goodwin was chosen patterns, and he experiments with the Artist Max Heldman and with his arts and masters degrees in graphic, digital and from among 208,000 entries as he best nature unpredictable nature of patinas, as encouragement, she launched a professional studio art. She worked as a professional photograph overall in National Geographic well as acrylic, oil, tempera wood career in oil painting. She is a painter of bo h freelance graphic designer/illustrator in Texas magazine’s 2009 Inte national Photography stain and spray paint. “The organic creative work and portraiture. Her paintings before becoming an art professor. She now Contest. The magazine’s design editor says: quality of metal and how it patinas is are in private and public collections in South teaches full time at Ca houn Community College “This image transports he viewer to ano her world. what I enjoy most about his medium,” America, Europe, The United States in Decatur. Her work, which has been termed The technical execution is flawless, the spiraling he says. and Canada. “romantic realism,” is in public, corporate and composition frames he shrimp and draws us in, 4th Floor, Family Waiting Kitchen 3rd Floor, Surgery Family Waiting private collections. and the lighting and varied colors add dimension.” 3rd Floor, Surgery Family Waiting 4 h Floor, Cardiovascular Pre Op Corridor 16 17

Ellen Grigg of Fai hope Summer Camp Tug of War From The Cloud Series, Acrylic on Canvas, 2004 Grigg was bo n and grew up in Wisconsin. She received her bachelor of fine arts degree from the University of Wisconsin and immediately moved to Chicago to work as an art director for various advertising agencies and winning awards for Pillsbury, General Mills, Proctor & Gamble and Sally Johnson of Birmingham McDonald’s. From there she moved to San Francisco Land Turtles where she began a career as a free lance graphic Babies Return to the Sea designer while developing her water color skills. Aquatic Turtles Later, in Malibu, she turned to painting with acrylics Turtle Triptych on board and canvas. Acrylic on Gesso and Fine Paper, 2012 4th Floor, Cardiovascular Family Waiting “Creatures and atmospheric phenomena offer me a source of inspiration,” Johnson says. “Turtles have an interesting biohistory, Everett Hatcher of Birmingham and he design of bo h sea and land turtles Swallowtail Acrylic on Panel, 2011 intrigues me.” A graduate of Aubu n University, Hatcher is a successful architect 4th Floor, Cardiovascular Family Waiting who enjoys painting in his free time. He has studied painting wi h well known artists such as Robert Bateman, John Banovich and Daniel Smith. Hatcher is president of CMH Architects, Inc., in Birmingham. His firm has designed a number of well known Alabama projects, including The Summit in Birmingham, Spain Park High School in Hoover, EastChase in Montgomery, Easte n Shore Center in Spanish Fort and he Miller Gorrie Center at Auburn. 4th Floor, Cardiovascular Family Waiting

Janice Hobson of Chicago, IL Paradise Contained Multi Media Quilt, 2011 Underwater images courtesy of Birmingham Photographer William Goodwin Hobson is a self taught fiber artist and painter who Jane Marshall of Birmingham grew up in Pratt City. A retired dentist, she became Chakra 1: Lobster, Chakra 3: Frogs, Chakra 4: Turtles intrigued with textures when different textured fabrics Wood Block Prints, 2005 2009 were rubbed against her skin to desensitize he This series of reduction block woodcuts symbolize life force he ‘wheel of life’ physical pain during rehabilitation and recovery from a representing balance in nature. “Nowhere is he importance of balance more prevalent traumatic neurological injury. “Fabric is tactile and can han in the medical community, where Easte n concepts of healing are given increasing be to n, shredded, recycled, pieced, painted, dyed, credence,” Marshall says. “Since he seven chakras represent different points in the human printed, embellished and fur her altered by stitching,” body and are often associated wi h certain colors, I chose to create my own interpretation she says. “A canvas once flat, when altered becomes by adding animal forms, starting wi h red he root chakra represented by the lobster.” textural, layered and dimensional, mimicking life and 4th Floor, Cardiovascular Family Waiting sensitizing one to the human existence.” 4th Floor, Cardiovascular Family Waiting 18 19

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Hope Brannon of Wetumpka Courtney Garrett of Atlanta, GA Jane Marshall of Birmingham Mixed Media Paper Weaving White As Wool Chakra 2: Six Cats, Chakra 5: Barred Owls, Chakra 6: Two Dragonflies Mixed Media, 2012 Mixed Media Oil on Birch wi h Resin, 2011 Wood Block Prints, 2005 2009 Brannon uses a variety of media to create Garrett, who was bo n and raised in rural “Animals and nature are recurrent hemes in my art,” Marshall says. “Balance in nature her artwork, choosing whatever seems Alabama, has created a minimal yet sophisticated and the fragility of life form he subject matter for my more recent work. Nowhere are appropriate for the site and execution of he approach to capturing inspiring images of storms, hese conditions more apparent han in he struggles for survival playing hemselves out concept. She often incorporates an element rural landscapes and architectural sketches in her around me. My immediate environment provides me a rich inventory of visual information of memory with symbolic components to oil paintings and mixed media works. “It’s about whe her bird watching from the back deck where a soaring hawk or a blue heron wait create a universal sensibility. orchestrating an intimate moment between a to pounce on their prey or simply observing the antics of he household cats.” 6th Floor painting and its observer. Through layering 6th Floor, Family Resource Center Quarterback Tower, Endcap Sub Waiting images, simple horizon lines, and even he manipulation of resins my messaging and style remain hauntingly hopeful.” 6th Floor, Family Resource Center

Ellen Grigg of Fai hope King of the Teeter Totter From The Cloud Series Jayne Morgan of Birmingham Acrylic on Canvas, 2004 Jiffy Peanut Butter, Grape Jelly, Honey Bear, Wonderbread For Grigg, the clouds she paints are symbolic Oil on Panel, 2011 of infinity and ete nity a visual reminder Morgan holds a bachelor of fine arts degree in Painting from he Savannah College of Art and Design. of he relative smallness of one’s being in he This is how she describes her work: cosmos. “The contrast will always interesting, ”Her style is unique; creative by far humbling and helpful wi h maintaining an Honeybears, landscapes, peanut butter and jelly jars, appropriate perspective in life,” she says. She studied in he East, Savannah the town Grigg has won numerous awards Jennifer Ivanovic of Birmingham Being inspired in the grocery store, looking up and down, participating in many juried shows Calming Sea Acrylic on Canvas, 2011 Her work is done now in her little yellow house in Sou hern Califo nia and on the “The lusciousness of paint has always fascinated Commissions aren't limited, bring a picture of your spouse, Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay. me,” says Ivanovic. “All my work is poured unto Her art is in galleries and she does many shows 6th Floor, Family Waiting he canvas, blown wi h straws and manipulated Most times you can find her painting; the one in layered clothes, wi h too hpicks and knifes. This spontaneity Through all of her efforts she's kept one goal in mind creates magic on he canvas.” Bring happiness to o hers.” 6th Floor, Family Resource Center 6 h Floor, Family Resource Center

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Steven Davis of Montgomery Bulldog Oil on Canvas, 2010 Even during the early years of childhood, Davis knew that his desire was to produce and create art, and he graduated from Auburn University wi h a bachelor of fine arts degree in Art. He began painting professionally in 1981 and has since painted hundreds of portraits and won numerous art awards. Painting landscapes, still lifes and portraits, along wi h restorations, has Scott Stephens of Montevallo only increased Davis’s love for painting. Davis says he feels truly Magnolia Relief Print, 2006 blessed to be able to be part of something so desired and Stephens’ long term involvement wi h appreciated by families for generations. big prints resulted in the creation of 7 h Floor, Family Waiting large format printmaking facilities at the University of Montevallo. The Paul Looney of Tuscaloosa plant features a 44 x 84 inch Takach Girl in Africa Oil on Canvas, 2011 etching press. In 2002, Stephens Looney is executive producer/artistic director organized the Alabama Big Prints emeritus of Theatre Tuscaloosa and executive project where 12 accomplished artists producer of the Alabama Stage and Screen Hall were invited to campus to create new of Fame. Originally from Birmingham, he and his large scale prints. A selection of he wife moved to Tuscaloosa where he received the work produced was featured in a master of fine arts degree in Theatre Directing traveling exhibition hat premiered at and Design. In 1979, he undertook leadership the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art. of Theatre Tuscaloosa. In 2001, he retu ned to 7 h Floor his lifelong passion for he graphic arts and is Harbert Tower, Endcap Sub Waiting now heavily involved in his “new” career as a studio artist. 7th Floor, Family Waiting

The Ticking Family of Birmingham Birdbath Boy in Wheelchair Cityscape Ameri’ca Jones of Fai hope Landscape I Home Mixed Media on Wood Panel, 2012 Landscape II Jones, a cum laude graduate of Savannah Paint on Panel, 2012 College of Art and Design, is an award winning The Ticking Family is a group of Carolyn Goldsmi h of Birmingham artist who has worked in large scale sculpture young artists being raised by heir The Novice Acrylic on Canvas, 2010 and mixed media arts for more han 15 years. grandmo her, Dorothy Ticking. A native of Gainesville, Florida, Goldsmi h Her three dimensional paintings are an She gracefully accepted her role graduated from Stephens College in Columbia, evolution of the imagery she uses, combined wi h little money, but wi h enough Missouri, and continued her studies in art at the wi h he craft of metalworking she has mastered. faith to make he seemingly impossible, University of Alabama, Huntington College and Her use of color varies from graphic planes possible. Due in large part to her faith The University of he South. She now lives and highlighting steel forms, to hand painted and hard work, her grandchildren are works in Birmingham and Watercolor, Florida. surfaces of dep h and color, and her palette not only talented, but polite and joyful “I love the thought of being part of a centuries flows from subtle and reflective to vibrant as well. old tradition of making art,” she says. “I also and whimsical. 7 h Floor, Family Waiting love every hing about he physical act of painting Home is representative of her works, which are and creating something completely unique.” located above he sink in patient rooms on 7th Floor, Family Waiting multiple floors.

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Ninth Floor Kevin Irwin of Birmingham Garden Play Watercolor, 2011 Chris Beck of Selma “Art saves me,” Irwin says. “It makes sense out of Mrs. Patterson, Ella or Maddie, a world I don’t understand. It leads me to beauty, Andy, Owen joy and laughter. It gives me a place and shows Metal Sculpture me that life truly is an amazing gift.” Beck was drawn to outsider art after 8 h floor, Harbert Tower Endcap Sub Waiting discovering an RA Miller of a purple dinosaur painted on an old saw. “I was intrigued, and I wanted to know hat same feeling inside hat pushes ‘ he greats’ to create. I trust hat it comes from God.” 9th Floor, Family Waiting

Jamie Caplinger, Washington, DC Stay Sweet Stay Smiley Stay Playful Stay Innocent Scott Stephens of Montevallo Oil on Canvas, 2011 and 2012 Untitled Set of Three Photo Etchings, 2004 Caplinger is a working artist in Washington, DC. Stephens is a printmaker who specializes in large scale relief prints. His work depicts abstracted natural In 2010 2011, she lived in Montgomery, where her forms and landscapes featuring a variety of textures and techniques. He ea ned his bachelor of fine arts exhibits included a juried show at the Montgomery degree at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, and completed his master of fine arts at the University Museum of Fine Art. Her work investigates he of Alabama in 1983. His prints have been seen in over 100 exhibitions and are held in regional public nature of personal narratives and how capturing collections as well as private and corporate collections nationally. In 2006, Stephens was designated the a fleeting moment can tell an entire story. While Ca negie Foundation CASE Alabama Professor of he Year. her painting is representational, each piece 8th Floor, Lowder Stem Cell Transplant Unit, Family Waiting incorporates abstraction in he brushwork and playful tension on he surface. 9th Floor, Family Waiting The Ticking Family of Birmingham Skyscraper Bird Tree Nan Cunningham of Aubu n Paint on Panel, 2012 The Ticking Family is a group of young artists Spots Acrylic on Canvas, 2012 who are have been working with artist Tres Cunningham is best know for her still life paintings Taylor and his wife for more han 8 years. Their filled wi h color and patte n, but today she is art is, of course, playful and joyous in the way inspired to capture animals horses, dogs and only children’s art can be. The Tickings have others on canvas. “I don't really know exactly shown nationally, and their art is in he collections where it all comes from, an abstraction, an image or of Le Bonhuer Children’s Hospital in Memphis, a pot of hydrangeas,” she says. “It is he feeling, the TN, the University of Alabama at Birmingham emotion, the light of a good day hat shines Transplant Unit and the Birmingham YWCA. hrough it. It's magic.” 8 h Floor 9 h Floor, Family Waiting Lowder Stem Cell Transplant Unit, Family Waiting

30 31 Joe Giattina of Birmingham Bella Donna Drawing on Fine Art Paper, 2009 Giattina is president emeritus of Giattina Aycock Architecture Studio, Inc. He started as a project architect wi h he company in 1966, became vice president in 1976 and took over as president four years later a position he held until 2007. Since that time, he has remained active in leading design projects, but also has spent time visiting his grandparents’ homeland of Sicily and pursuing his passion for cooking. Giattina is a fellow of he American Institute of Architects. 10 h Floor, Pulmonary Family Waiting Kitchen

Jenny Johnston of Birmingham Found a Fuzzy Caterpillar Bow and a Butterfly Waking Up a Ladybug Finding Bugs Triptych, Acrylic on Canvas, 2012 Gwen Gorby of Birmingham The admiration for whimsical childlike imagination is a strong influence in Johnston’s Gus Oil on Canvas illustrative works. “Art was always present hroughout my childhood,” she says. After graduating from Ohio State University in “I remember the joy of creating artwork when I was younger and I hold that nostalgia 1984, Gorby moved Sou h and now lives in close to me as I construct my work today. I want both children and adults to look he countryside near Birmingham with her son at my illustrations and smile, because hey can connect to the imagery with ease and various pets including dogs, goats, and appreciate its light hearted simplicity.” chickens,peacocks and a donkey. The subjects 10th Floor, Pulmonary Reception Corridor of her paintings are found in the people and places she encounters during adventures wi h Leo Ticheli of Birmingham her son. “In my work, I want to bring he Girl Running Photography, 2009 attention of a busy world to something or Ticheli is a partner in Leo Ticheli Productions, someone hat might otherwise be overlooked a full service production/post production to share hose hidden treasures,” she says. facility with offices in Birmingham and Atlanta. 10th Floor, Pulmonary Family Waiting His approach to still photography and visual design is influenced by his hree decades plus Everett Hatcher of Birmingham career as a directory and cinematographer. Monarch Acrylic on Panel, 2011 He hinks temporally, about what comes before Hatcher is an outdoorsman and a member of he and after he moment an image is captured. In nature Conservancy, Ducks Unlimited, the Alabama addition to numerous awards for his television Wildlife Federation, The Coastal Conservation work, the Birmingham Art Association Juried Association and he Rocky Mountain Elk Show and the Bluff Park Art Show also have Foundation. He has won he Alabama Duck Stamp recognized him for his photography. Competition and the Wildlife Division of he 10 h Floor, Pulmonary Reception Energen Art Competition. He also has been recognized wi h awards of merit and excellence in he Alabama Wildlife Federation Art Show, and his paintings are in a number of private collections. 10th Floor, Harbert Tower, Endcap Sub Waiting Be a part of our art. As you tour the Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children, you will notice that many pieces in our wonderful art collection have been sponsored by benevolent donors.

You also will see there are still others that need to be sponsored, and we hope you might decide to do just that by choosing a piece from among the available works.

All pieces of sponsored art are designated with a plaque noting the donor and recognizing a person, persons or group that the sponsor chooses to honor or memorialize with the gift.

But our collection is not complete. Additional works in various media by talented artists have been selected by our team of art professionals as being suitable for display in the Benjamin Russell Hospital for Children. A Children’s of Alabama Art Fund has been established to assist with the purchase of such pieces as we add to our collection going forward.

For more information about donating to the Children’s of Alabama Art Fund or about sponsoring a piece of available art already in our collection, please contact the Children’s Hospital Foundation Office at 205.638.9183. www.ChildrensAL.org

Every childThe problem is an is how artist. to remain an artist once we grow up. Pablo Picasso