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THE AMERICAN SOCIETYOF MARINE ARTISTS News& Journal VolumeXLII Summer2020 HOLLY BIRD A Printmaker's Voyage ofDiscovery THE 18TH NATIONAL EXHIBITION MARY PETTIS The State ofthe Art Shines at premiereOn Life, Art and Inland Waters BEYOND OUR WALLS Marine Artists We've Noticed VITA:CHARLES RASKOB ROBINSON Leader, Artist and Adventurer 3RD NATIONAL MARINE ARTS CONFERENCE The Society Comes Together to Learn, Grow & Share 1 Constantin Brancusi (1876- 1957), 'Fish' 1924, brass andsteel, 6x 20 inches Upcoming June - July, 2020 18thNational, RevisedSchedule * Jamestown Settlement March-December 2020 GulfQuest Maritime Museum NowonlineonlyFall2020 Burroughs-Chapin Museum ofArt in Myrtle Beach, SC January-April 2021 Minnesota Marine Art Museum June-September2021 Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Fall 2021 (*dates maychange due to Covid-19 relateddelays andclosures) June 16-20, 2021 4th National Marine Art Conference Join us for presentations by the country’s top marine artists, writers and scholars at the fourth National Marine Art Conference in beautiful Winona, Minnesota, as well as the Opening Reception ofthe 18th National Exhibition at the Minnesota Marine Art Museum, a world-class museum. We are optimistic for a healthy summer in 2021 and will take whatever steps and precautions are necessary to provide a safe and enjoyable event. Look for more information to come, but please mark your calendar. 2 THE AMERICAN SOCIETYOF MARINEARTISTS News&Journal VolumeXLII Summer 2020 Published Quarterlyby THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MARINE ARTISTS VÉÇàxÇàá 501(c)3 Organization NicolasFox, Editor &Layout OUTSIDE THE GARDEN WALLS 5 LenTantillo, Design There are many gifted marine artists out there. It's time we get to know some ofthem. LisaEgeli, President Nicolas Fox, Vice-President Mike Killelea, Secretary VITA:HOLLY BIRD 12 Laura Cooper, Treasurer Printmaker Holly Bird illuminates an artist's Odyssey BOARD OF DIRECTORS James Bickford PriscillaCoote INFLUENCES:MARY PETTIS 14 Sheri Farabaugh Anne Brodie Hill Mary Pettis shares her profound connection to Russ Kramer the inland waters on which she's made her life. Carol McClees Len Mizerek Mary Pettis MUSEUM: Kim Shaklee Len Tantillo THE DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART 27 Marilyn Wear Website: www.americansoci- EVENTS OF INTEREST 30 etyofmarineartists.com Email: [email protected] Phone: 239-290-0965 NEW MEMBERS 33 MailingAddress: ASMA PO Box 2903 IN MEMORIAM:BILL RYAN 34 Gainesville, GA30503 NEWSLETTERDEADLINES REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES 35 Dec.1,Mar.1,Jun.1,Sept.1 Disclaimer: The opinions, beliefs andviewpoints expressedbythe various authors andparticipants in this publication do notnecessarily reflectthe opinions, beliefsand viewpoints ofthe Editor or official policies ofthe American Societyof Marine Artists. AllmaterialintheASMANews & Journal is copyrightedandmaynot bereproducedinwholeorinpart ON THE COVER: withoutpriorwritten consentof Holly Bird, Sentinel — Anclote Keys Lighthouse, the American SocietyofMarine multiple-color linoleum block print oil-based inks, Artists© 2019 printed by hand on Hosho, 9 x 12 3 FELLOWS OF THE SOCIETY ManagingFellow Sheri Farabaugh Deputy ManagingFellow Bill Farnsworth David Bareford FROM THE PRESIDENT Chris Blossom Roger Dale Brown Lisa Egeli, Churchton, Maryland William Davis Don Demers William Duffy Lisa Egeli Neal Hughes DearMembers, Michael B. Karas Russ Kramer Why belong to an organization like American Society ofMarine Artists? We Loretta Krupinski askourselves this when we first join, then again each year when we payour dues, Richard Loud andevenmoreso whenwebegincontributingourtimeandmoneyto supportthe Leonard Mizerek work of the organization. It’s healthy to ask the question, and important to Paul Mullally remember that the strength ofthe Society is the people that it brings together. C.W. Mundy Together, we more effectively show the world what we do. Together, we can learn Charles Raskob Robinson and find newways to improve our work. And together, we can inspire each other Sergio Roffo andsupportother, even through tryingtimes. Kim Shaklee Len Tantillo Kent Ullberg Here we are in the midst ofa global pandemic, with nearly everyone either isolated at home or just emerging from isolation, museums and galleries have ASMA Fellow Emeriti been shuttered and events are cancelled. Some artists are appreciating the sudden John Barber abundance oftime to create, others are worryingabouthowto sell theirwork, and June Carey manyare strugglingwith the isolatinganduncertain times. Peter Egeli Norma Jay We are also seeing our nation face the ugly racism that has been with us from Raymond Massey our very beginning. It’s a good time to consider that we are stronger when we William G. Muller Mark Myers listen to one another, and understand that not everybody enjoys the same William Ryan American experience. I’ve always been proud that ASMA is unique in including John Stobart diverse media and styles within the art we represent, but I believe we also need to represent more raciallydiverse artistic voices. ASMA Honorary Members MaryBurrichter I’m grateful to belong to a Society that supports and connects and grows. I’m J. Russell Jinishian grateful for the amazing friends and colleagues I saw at our National Marine Art Robert Kierlin Conference in March, for the reopening of our magnificent 18th National Jean Marshall Exhibition at Jamestown Settlement, and for the beautiful News & Journal you’re Peter Maytham Graham Stiles reading now. The American SocietyofMarine Thank you for being a part ofour Society and all that makes it great, and let’s Artists is anon-profit organization make iteven better. whosepurposeis to recognizeand promote marine artandmaritime Be well, history. Weseekto encourage cooperation amongartists, Lisa historians, marine enthusiasts and others engaged in activities relating LisaEgeli, PresidentandFellow, ASMA to marine artandmaritime history. Sinceits foundingin1978, the Societyhas broughttogethersome ofAmerica’s most talented contemporaryartists in the marine art field. 4 OUTSIDE THE GARDEN WALLS `tÜ|Çxct|ÇàxÜájx:äxaÉà|vxw ABOVE: Ronal Parlin, Traveling Sisters, focused on their work and their milieu College ofArt and Design in Boston. She oil, 12 x 16 they’ve never needed to find a society led a successful career in commercial beyondthe ones thatnurture andsupport graphics for nearly 10 years – creating by Nick Fox them. storyboards, character portraits and As members of the American Society Because our mission is dedicated to special effects animation for several ofthe ofMarine Artists, we often feel confident promoting and educating ourselves and nation’s leading computer game we know and are seeing the best of the public about marine art, we’re taking companies before pursuing her lifelong America’s marine art. But as a frequenter the time to present some of the dream ofpainting professionallyin 2002. of galleries, exhibitions and art outstanding artists who might be Armed with a knowledge of balance, association shows I’ve discovered a whole members of the Society, but aren’t--at scale, color harmony, and texture (the world of marine artists out there that I least yet. tools of both the painter and the never knew about. Many of them don’t I’m runningthrough these guest artists designer), J.C. embarks on each painting self-identify as marine artists. They’re alphabetically, as there’s no way to rank as an individual journey. She feels thather simply painters and sculptors who find them otherwise. paintings are the result of "taking the themselves by the shore. And then there First up we have J.C Airoldi, who time" to experience the wonders she finds are hard-core marine artists who are so earned her BFA from Massachusetts everywhere in nature. 5 DearMembers, Why belong to an organization like American Society ofMarine Artists? We askourselves this when we first join, then again each year when we payour dues, andevenmoreso whenwebegincontributingourtimeandmoneyto supportthe work of the organization. It’s healthy to ask the question, and important to remember that the strength ofthe Society is the people that it brings together. Together, we more effectively show the world what we do. Together, we can learn and find newways to improve our work. And together, we can inspire each other andsupportother, even through tryingtimes. Here we are in the midst ofa global pandemic, with nearly everyone either isolated at home or just emerging from isolation, museums and galleries have been shuttered and events are cancelled. Some artists are appreciating the sudden abundance oftime to create, others are worryingabouthowto sell theirwork, and manyare strugglingwith the isolatinganduncertain times. We are also seeing our nation face the ugly racism that has been with us from our very beginning. It’s a good time to consider that we are stronger when we listen to one another, and understand that not everybody enjoys the same American experience. I’ve always been proud that ASMA is unique in including diverse media and styles within the art we represent, but I believe we also need to represent more raciallydiverse artistic voices. I’m grateful to belong to a Society that supports and connects and grows. I’m grateful for the amazing friends and colleagues I saw at our National Marine Art Conference in March, for the reopening of our magnificent 18th National Exhibition at Jamestown Settlement, and for the beautiful News & Journal you’re reading now. Thank you for being a part ofour Society and all that makes it great, and let’s make iteven better. Be well, Lisa LisaEgeli,