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News from our President
Finding Your Artistic Voice
Meet the Members: Elizabeth Linares
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In spite of a cold and somewhat snowy winter, 2014 is starting off on the right foot for LRA. We have already had 2 successful group exhibitions at the Reston Chamber of Commerce and the Parkridge 5 building, as well as four solo shows at the Reston Center I & II buildings. We have also awarded over $3,000 in scholarships to high school seniors in Fairfax County, thanks to the efforts of Cheryl Parsons. Other recent highlights are mentioned elsewhere in this issue.
We are looking forward to a great exhibition in April at the JoAnne Rose Gallery for the Founders’ Day activities, as Reston celebrates its 50th year. Additionally, for the first time, we are also looking into organizing an “Art Night” event at Parkridge 5 in May or June. For that event, we will be sending out invites to “ArtNight” to members of the Reston Chamber of Commerce, which has over 700 members.
With all of our activities, I would like to encourage each of you to take advantage of the many group exhibitions that we hold over the course of the year and enter your work. The quality of the work our members create is outstanding! These exhibitions provide public access to your paintings and photographs and have the potential for more exposure of your work.
One last item, share the advantages of LRA and get a like-minded friend to join the LRA for 2014.
Jim Schlett
LRA President
Finding Your Artistic Voice- Lynn Goldstein
The League of Reston Artists is proud to continue its speaker’s program with Lynn Goldstein’s presentation “Finding Your Artistic Voice”, Tuesday, March 25th, at 6:30 pm, at the Reston Community Center at Lake Anne (1609 Washington Plaza). The presentation will start at 7:00 pm and last about an hour.
After we have worked out the technical intricacies of making our art, we are faced with the challenge of finding our voice. After all, we are communicating with artists. This presentation will provide a guide to finding your voice. Lynn will give examples of how she worked to find the direction that she is currently taking in her artwork. Lynn will discuss her history to help illustrate how so many areas of her life and past inform her art today. She will cover composition, format, subject choices and more. After this presentation, participants will be encouraged to delve into their artistic choices to better understand their work and to help develop a consistent artistic voice.
Gennara Moore
Exhibit Committee
The event is free and is open to members and non-members, no reservations are required.
“Divine Love,” a solo exhibition of work celebrating the beauty and manifestation of God’s love all around us.
As an artist, I strive to capture God’s divine love and light through my photographs. In life, we as humans are subject to the frailties of life. We are born, we live, we love, and yes, we leave this place when we die. During our lifetime, we experience the turbulence of life with its ups and downs, sometimes overwhelming grief and, at other times, overwhelming joy. The ups and downs are part of the journey, part of our human experience. We come to know God’s love in these moments and in the little things we see each day. At a young age, I discovered a unique ability to capture light and life in a single moment, freezing it in time. I am ever awestruck by the beauty in all I see — in nature, in people, in His creations. It brings me great joy to capture these moments and forever preserve them so that others can see the world as I see it and experience His divine love.
Thank you for reading this. May we all witness and experience “Divine Love.”
About Me: I am the first-born daughter of Puerto Rican parents. Born and raised in New York, I was hit hard by the September 11th attacks on our nation. An avid photographer since childhood, it was this moment that caused me to reevaluate my life and focus on my art. I believe in divine love and I paint with light; therefore, I am a lightworker.
Top Picture: Miracles – Bottom Left: Divine Love – Bottom Right: Recovery Road
www.elizabethlinares.com
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Art Show Opportunities with LRA click the link: http://www.leagueofrestonartists.org/exhibits/shows
On the evening of February 18th at the Annandale Campus of NVCC, the Fairfax County Public Schools Annual Scholastic Art Program awards was held with attendance in excess of several hundred from all over Fairfax County. Jim Schlett, LRA President, and Ginny Moore attended the event and presented six awards of $500 scholarships, membership to LRA and inclusion in an exhibit to the following students:
Nakita Balani – Chantilly High School
Katie Freix – Westfield High School
Jiangnan Lu – Chantilly High School
Savanna Olimpo – McLean High School
Liam Owen – South County High School
Jocelyn Ventura – Falls Church High School
Works from each of the students will be part of one of our Parkridge exhibits with a reception for their parents and friends. I want to personally thank everyone who helped to make this possible. LRA provided the largest scholarships of the evening and brought recognition to our efforts.
We raised over $3,000 within six weeks and I want to thank the following for their donations:
Patricia & Steven Macintyre – Gennara & David Moore – Kent Barnett & Kristin Bobik – Kathy & David Kautter Karen Hutchison – Cheryl Parsons & Arthur Yavelberg – Gerry & Ellis Rosenberg – Norma & Wendall Lasher Louise & Mark Gantanas – Daniel & Coleen Mihalko – Marie & Roger Wright- Loy & Jack McGaughy Gail & Jim Schlett – Jan & Ronald Master – Maggie Garten.
We have a start on next year and I do hope during the year we will find ways to improve our fundraising and be able to award even more scholarships next year. This is an important part of our organization and a way to support the next generation of artists.
Thank you,
Cheryl Parsons
This exhibition will be in the month of April, at the same time as the events celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the founding of Reston events take place. The show is held at the JoAnne Rose Gallery at the Lake Anne Community Center, which generates a great deal of walk-in traffic on a daily basis. Enter early to ensure you will be on the show. For more information, check out http://www.leagueofrestonartists.org/shows/2014-apr-founders-day-at-lake-anne
Exhibit Opportunity: Hylton Performing Arts Center
The Hylton Center is hosting its First Annual Juried Exhibition to celebrate the region’s vibrant visual arts community. A distinguished panel of judges will jury submissions and chose the top entries to be exhibited in the Center’s Buchanan Partners Art Gallery from May 25-July 18. Application forms will be available on their website on Feb 1. http://hyltoncenter.org/gallery/juried.html
Contact Briton Camphouse, Hylton Performing Arts Center, with questions at bcamphou@gmu.edu.
Reston Photographic Society Will be meeting the first Monday of each month at Hunters Woods Community Center, 7-9:30 pm. Please feel free to bring work in progress to share; either prints or on USB for projection. Guest speaker line up to follow……. This is open to the public so feel free to invite others and spread the word!
Karen Hutchison
Acrylic Mixed Media Paintings and Archival Prints Exhibit at Reston Center II
Main Floor Lobby
12005 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston
As a local abstract artist living in the Northern Virginia area, I experienced many contemporary influences that lead me to enjoy art and design. I prefer acrylic paints and the creativity it brings with the combinations of color. Many of my art pieces are mixed media using a variety of pastes, papers and collected items. In abstract art I feel you have the freedom to create your own design. Your creativity can be within yourself, from a personal experience, thought or idea.
I also enjoy customizing art for an individual’s personal space and different aspects of interior design.
Karen Hutchison is an award winning mixed media artist, and was honored by having one of her art pieces selected for a book cover. Along with the Loudoun Arts Council-Arts In The Village Gallery, she is a board member of the League of RestonArtists, Lorton Arts Foundation-Workhouse Arts Center-Gallery W-9, Herndon Arts Council, Ocean City Art League, and Rehoboth Art League.
Top picture: Boyant – Bottom picture: Selena
Jim Schlett
Exhibition of Fine Art at Reston Center
Jim Schlett has been involved in photography since receiving a Polaroid camera as a grade school graduation gift in New Jersey.
His photographs have been published in the Washington Post, annual reports, magazines, exhibited in local galleries and art shows, and won competitive awards. His portfolio was displayed in the Art Takes Times Square Exhibition in New York city in
Jim’s piece, “Beyond the Planets” was selected for a 4′ x 9′ permanent display at Public Art in Windows at Artspace Gallery in Herndon VA.
Jim’s photography includes abstracts, national parks, cityscapes, the laid-back feeling of the Florida Keys, as well as the excitement of the annual rite of baseball as seen at Spring Training.
The two pictures : Dabod Temple, Madrid, Spain (Top) and Lady In Venice, Italy (Bottom), will be exhibited in
Reston Center 1 Lobby
12001 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston, VA 20191 March 1st to the 31st, 2014
Jim’s photographs were recently displayed at the SOMA Gallery in Washington, DC, Artful August in Leesburg, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA), Artspace Gallery, and the Sherwood Community Center in Fairfax.
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