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September 2021 Exhibits
September 3, 2021 @ 9:00 am - September 25, 2021 @ 4:00 pm
Featured in the Thaler Gallery:
Artists Exchange of Delaware
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The Artists Exchange is a group of full-time, professional artists who share a contemporary focus. Through this unique camaraderie, interesting elements of interdependency and collaboration to become apparent. The group's goals include elevating the quality of each member's work by providing a forum for exchange of ideas and critiques, as well as promoting, showing, and selling high quality original art. The first show of the Artists Exchange was held at the Nassau Vineyard in 2001. Since then, the group has exhibited in numerous venues across the Delmarva region.
Exhibiting artists include Constance Costigan, Laura Hickman, Michael Krausz, Nina Mickelsen, Eileen Olson, Steve Rogers, GW Thompson.
In Studio E:
Eileen Olson
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Eileen is an abstract artist, painting in acrylic, oil, collage and pastel. She uses instinctive expressions of movement and rhythm with dramatic color to echo what she sees in nature. She hails from Brooklyn, N.Y. She conducts workshops and has exhibited in galleries and exhibitions throughout the Mid-Atlantic region. Eileen spent a month as “Artist-In-Residence “in Dinan, France, followed by an exhibition of her work at the La Grande Vignè. A selection of her paintings is in the town’s permanent collection. After a 30- year career as an R.N. she took up painting fulltime. Eileen and her husband live in Bethany Beach.
In the Spotlight Gallery:
Jim Schaefer
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Jim Schaefer was born and reared in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a child he spent long summers at the Jersey shore where he felt an intuitive connection with the windswept beaches, the tumultuous surf, the green-grass marsh lands and the star-lit summer skies.
He attended public schools and went to college at the University of Pennsylvania where he majored in architecture with a strong emphasis on studio art and art history. He stayed at Penn for graduate study in painting where he participated in an innovative program based on an ever-changing array of guest critics, rather than a permanent faculty. The program was coordinated by Neil Welliver, the only faculty member in painting. Critics included Rackstraw Downes, Paul Georges, Rosemarie Beck, Elaine deKooning, James Brooks, Brice Marden, Yvonne Jacquette, Alex Katz, Clement Greenberg, and many others. He worked for 30 years as an instrumentation technician and technical support specialist and is currently retired, spending the bulk of his time painting and promoting his artwork.
In the Artisan Showcase:
Joan Danoff
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Joan Danoff is a DC based metalsmith and enamelist creating modern, affordable sterling silver and copper jewelry. She began this creative journey a while back as an art major at Penn State University.
From Penn State, Joan moved to Washington, DC and started working as a waitress in a downtown restaurant in order to afford to go on a Florida vacation. The vacation never happened, but the love of the restaurant business did, and Joan spent many happy years in the business, culminating in owning her own. After that 10-year adventure, Joan sold the restaurant deciding to explore another path.
Taking classes at a wonderful studio in Glen Echo Park, Silverworks, Joan fell in love with the craft. She spent some years learning and working as a silversmith, then found enameling.
Joan is married to musician and songwriter Bill Danoff, founding member of the Starland Vocal Band, famous for the song
Afternoon Delight. She re-embodied the Starland name for her DC restaurant Starland Café, and now for her jewelry business Starland By Hand.
Joan continues to take classes to expand her knowledge and skills. She spends her time creating her collection in her basement home studio next to the drum set and numerous guitar cases.
