The Anita Shapolsky Art Foundation, Jim Thorpe, PA, will feature following exhibitions in summer 2009:
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
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.
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.
