EXHIBITIONS 2009 The Anita Shapolsky Art Foundation, Jim Thorpe, PA, will feature following exhibitions in summer 2009:       CURRENT EXHIBITON August 8 - September 7, 2009– SHOZO AND FRIENDS Artwork and remembrances of long-time Jim Thorpe resident Shozo Nagano, plus work of artists he influenced.       Shozo Nagano: Press Release Shozo Nagano:  TWILIGHT AND EVENING STAR by Edward Moran       Shozo Nagano - installation view at the AS Art Foundation       Shozo Nagano (1928-2008) was born in Japan but resided in the US. His work is in many collections including the collection of Steve Martin, the Allentown Art Museum, the Citicorp collection in NY and others. I met Shozo Nagano in the early 70’s. He was working as a messenger for a Japanese travel agency which my friend Bob (Yoshio) Kiyabu worked for. He brought him to meet me and show me some of his art. It was very ethereal—abstract, yet spiritual. He was working and living in a basement in the city. We became friends and I started to advise him about art. He moved to Brooklyn a few years later and showed his work in many churches. He also was included in several exhibits at the Brooklyn Museum. During that time I also collected his work. I opened my gallery in New York in 1982 and Shozo exhibited several times and we had some good corporate sales. When Shozo and Ed Moran moved to Jim Thorpe he called me many times to come to see the town.  Finally, after 2 ½ years, we made the trip. He gave us directions right to the church and was waiting with a real estate broker to show us the church- he said that I must buy it – it was my karma!! So we bought the church without having the faintest idea that it would someday house the Anita Shapolsky Art Foundation. So Shozo was the person to thank for us being in Jim Thorpe. Anita Shapolsky, August 2009             PAST EXHIBITON Frank Hyder - Oddyssey (installation) May 23 - July 19, 2009 Hyder’s Odyssey takes us on a journey through his use of the woodblock and gives a glimpse into his experimental three-dimensional forms.       Frank Hyder is a contemporary mixed-media artist working with a variety of themes and techniques in a dialogue between North American and Latin American cultures. His works involve an intense personal commitment to process and image making. Hyder has participated in over 80 solo exhibitions and 150 group shows throughout North, Central and South America. A Senior Fulbright Award in 2001 sent the artist to Venezuela for a year, where his experiences abroad inspired him to produce a prodigious body of work, which was displayed in Venezuela’s three major Contemporary Art Museums. Hyder lives in Philadelphia and teaches at Moore College of Art. http://www.frankhyder.com/       Frank Hyder - The Sentinel - installation in front of the AS Art Foundation           Frank Hyder - The Sentinel, 24 x 12 feet, reinforced nylon   Frank Hyder - Circling, 68" x 48", mixed media on panel   Environmental Art that envelops the environment by Al Zagofsky - Times News, May 21, 2009   UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS & SPECIAL EVENTS July 25, 4-6pm - MASTER ARTIST DEMO Internationally known artist Florence Putterman, printmaking. Aug 8-Sept 7 – SHOZO AND FRIENDS Artwork and remembrances of long-time Jim Thorpe resident Shozo Nagano, plus work of artists he influenced. PROGRAM & RECEPTION: Sat, Aug 8, 4-7pm Aug 22, 4-6pm – MASTER ARTIST DEMO New York artist Amaranth Ehrenhalt, abstraction. Sept 26, 4-6pm, MASTER ARTIST DEMO Internationally exhibited artist Shirley Thomas, encaustic. Sept 26 & 27 – ART ODYSSEY Local artists Aillinn Brennan, Ryan Hnat and Shirley Thomas. Oct 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25 – FALL FOLIAGE CELEBRATION Abstract Expressionist paintings from the collection, Ernest Briggs, Seymour Boardman, others.   June Drawing / Painting Workshops for Children at the Anita Shapolsky Art Foundation A special four-week drawing and abstract painting workshop for children aged 9-15 will take place on Saturday mornings, 10 am-12 noon, June 6, 13, 20, 27. Student work will be presented in a four-week exhibition July 4 - July 26th. Children will start with a collaborative painting and then work on individual paintings, finishing up with another collaborative work. Workshops will be taught by local artists Ryan Hnat and Shirley Thomas. To pre-register (4-sessions workshop is for free, there is $15 fee for material): artsite@ptd.net or (610) 442-4148. This project is supported by Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA), the regional arts funding partnership of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency. State government funding comes through an annual appropriation by Pennsylvania’s General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administered in this region by the Lehigh Valley Arts Council.     ALSO ON VIEW - Paintings and sculpture from the Foundation’s permanent collection: Works by Ernest Briggs, Seymour Boardman, Nassos Daphnis, John Hartman and others from the 1950s-1980s.