FEATURED ARTIST for July 2009
Mitch Crawford
Mitch Crawford is a native Las Vegan. He received his undergraduate degree from CalState Northridge (where he worked with Jerry McMillan) and his MFA at UNLV. He’s a practicing artist and art instructor, has been married for 18 years and is a proud father of two. He believes a creative life is a life well spent. Take a look at his Artisan’s page here and his website: http://www.wickedbones.com.
FEATURED ARTIST for June 2009
Erica Hendrickson
June’s featured artist at the City of the World Gallery is Erica Hendrickson, a painter and illustrator who finds inspiration in found objects. Her latest works of art have come from old record albums. Using a variety of mixed media and acrylic paint, she explores color and spatial relationships. Erica earned a B.F.A. in Illustration from the Rhode Island School of Design, following with a masters in Art Education. She currently inspires creative pursuits as an art teacher to the students of Tom Williams Elementary. She has an artist blog at www.erica-anne.blogspot.com and you can view her COTW Artisan’s page here.
FEATURED ARTIST for May 2009
Sam Chirico
Salvatore de Chirico (but you can call him Sam) was born into an Italian family in upstate New York. Believed to be a descendant of surrealist Giorgio de Chirico, Salvatore started his journey at the young age of six years old when his mother gave him a sheet of paper and a worn down pencil. He would sit around the small kitchen table with his siblings and draw for hours on end. This was how it all began. While in school Salvatore would draw pictures of classmates on the back of textbooks or book reports which sometimes landed him in hot water with his teachers; but, even they recognized his talent and praised him for it. Now, some forty-five years later, that little boy sitting around the kitchen table has become an accomplished artist and musician and he’s the featured artist at the City of the World Art Gallery for May, 2009.
About Sam’s music — he moved to Las Vegas in 1994 where he took on the role as the front man in the Enterprize show band. After much success, Sam formed his own band, going by his stage name, Sam Walker Cherico. If you have visited Las Vegas in the past 14 years, you would have seen Sam. He was featured on Back Stage Live, The Dennis Bono show.
Sam will entertain you with his art work and his music on First Friday, May 1st. You can learn much more about him, his start in music and the arts on his website. He’s a very interesting person.
FEATURED ARTIST for April 2009
Kristin Burling
Kristin Burling is City of the World’s featured artist for April. She has had a passion for art since she was young. Kristin received an art scholarship when she graduated from Monona Grove High School in Wisconsin; got her BS in Art Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a GPA of 3.75 in 1990. Her emphasis was on painting. She has taught elementary and middle school art in Wisconsin, Illinois, and Nevada for the last 18 years. She took graduate level art classes at the University of Wisconsin, Northern Illinois University and UNLV and received her Masters from Lesley University in the “Creative Arts in Learning” Program. She has a wide range of art from social political art to abstract - to a whole series from the conception and birth of her daughter, Kaelani to numerous portraits using her daughter as subject matter. Many nature pictures and fun cartoon people complete the collection. Acrylic, watercolors and oils are the art media she works in. See Kristin’s artisan’s page here.
FEATURED ARTIST for Mar. 2009
Carrie Bourdeau
City of the World’s featured artist for March is Carrie Bourdeau. Carrie is an accomplished Las Vegas artist. Her joy and enthusiasm for painting can be seen in her large body of work, executed primarily in oil or acrylic. Carrie’s work includes trees, rolling hills, florals, beaches, livestock and prairies. Her style is the perfect cross between realism and abstract.
Be sure to check out her artisan’s page here.
FEATURED ARTIST for Feb. 2009
Suzanne Marie LeClair
Suzanne Marie LeClair is City of the World’s featured artist for February. She is mainly a self taught artist from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and loves to paint on canvas in oil, acrylic, watercolor and mixed media, Suzanne paints daily using her own life experiences in many different ways and referring to it as “therapy”. She’s our own Frida Kahlo and she brings many different surprises to each First Friday exhibit. Come view her work on February 6 - First Friday! Checl out her artisan’s page here.
FEATURED ARTIST for Jan. 2009
Jerome Barkley
Jerome was born in Harlem, NY. He embraced the cultural experience at a very young age, studying at the famous high school of Music and Art, working as the assistant to the curator in the Museum of the City of New York. His job was to paint item numbers on hundreds of museum artifacts. Jerome later attended Wagner College in Staten Island, NY, studied under many outstanding professors, including Faith Reingold. He graduated with a B.A. in Fine Art. Jerome has taught art, regular ed and special ed in New York, Florida and Las Vegas. His love for abstract art on abstract surfaces has brought him to the world of time and art. “Incorporating time and art brings an added feature to my work” - “Time is endless in art as much as art being endless in time.” See Jerome’s Artisan Page here.
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