Our featured speaker will be Leonard Everett Fisher with a survey of his painting and illustration over a period of 71 years.

Sea Songs II by Leonard Everett Fisher

Born in New York City in 1924, a WWII veteran, and Yale graduate,  Leonard Everett Fisher is a longtime Westport resident.

In a career spanning 65 plus years, he has illustrated some 260 books for young readers (authoring 90 of these), designed United States postage stamps, executed paintings for the Norwalk Transit District Building, and created numerous easel works. His paintings, drawings, and illustrations are in collections nationwide including those of the Butler Art Institute, the New Britain Museum of American Art, the Library of Congress, the New York Public Library, Mt. Holyoke and Union Colleges, and Brown University. The Universities of Connecticut, Minnesota, Southern Mississippi, and Oregon maintain significant archives of his works and papers.

Leonard holds many awards from Yale, Catholic Library Association, and University of Minnesota; an Italian Pulitzer painting prize, a National Jewish Book Award, and the Christopher Medal for Illustration.

He is Dean Emeritus of the Paier College of Art and a member of the Low Illustration Committee of the New Britain Museum. He is a founding member of the Westport-Weston Arts Council, past president of the Westport Library Board of Trustees, and recipient of Westport’s Lifetime Achievement Award for the Visual Arts.

Leonard’s art has been seen at the Brandywine River Museum, the Chicago Art Institute, and the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. The International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England includes him in its Y2K compendium, 2000 Outstanding Artists and Designers of the 20th Century.

Refreshments and feedback on art by members will follow.

MEMBERS ART SHOW RECEPTION

Bring appetizer or dessert to share.

Our FEATURED PRESENTER will be  Bridgeport artist, KEVIN CONKLIN. He will show his work and talk about how he has earned a living as an artist.

City Song by Kevin Conklin in oil and oil pastel

Kevin attended Paier College and Massachusetts College of Art. Then, for many years, he was a successful illustrator for numerous advertising, corporate and editorial firms, including Amex, GE, Citicorp, Golf Digest, Tennis Magazine, and many more.  He now is a painter and a frame maker. His oil and oil pastel paintings of cityscapes and landscapes show his fascination with light and shadow and with color. He is inspired by “the beauty and serenity of nature” and by “the dynamic energy of cities”. He says that his “goal is to create paintings infused by the spirit within the subject matter”.

Kevin has shown his paintings in many galleries in New York and Connecticut, including a recent show at the Southport Gallery.

FCAA MEMBER SHOW at Independence Hall in Fairfield. December 1, 2011 to January 30, 2012.  Click for entry form (you may fill this in online before you print)

The featured presenter will be Jak Kovatch. discussing “Sketching/Drawing and Structure Visualization.” He will show pages from his sketchbook because he believes the drawing methods he employs can be useful information for artists. The works he will show were done as part of an Image Ideation process developed over many years and drawn from his imagination.

Jak has been on the faculty of Silvermine for fifteen years, and taught industrial design for many years at University of Bridgeport and at Yale. He has exhibited his paintings, drawings, sculpture, and graphics in more than 700 regional, national, and international museums, universities, and institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art and the National Academy of Design in New York.

The presentation will be followed by refreshments and a feedback session on the artwork of attending members.

Ernest Hemmingway US Postage Stamp by Greg Rudd

Featured presenter: professional artist, Greg Rudd. He will discuss his career as a painter, illustrator and stamp designer.

Greg attended The Illustrators Workshop at Marymount College, where he studied with Gold medal winning artists at The Society of Illustrators in NYC who were inducted into The Society of Illustrators Hall of Fame with others like Norman Rockwell and N.C. Wyeth. His training also involved Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, the New York Academy of Art, and study with portrait painter John Howard Sanden.

Greg’s stamp design of Ernest Hemmingway was included in the United States Postal Service show at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and was selected as one of the best designs put out by the U.S.P.S. between 1960 and 2000. He also exhibited at The American Society of Portrait Artists in New York and at their national exhibition.

Greg has done work for corporations like Pepsi, UPS, The American Stock Exchange, The Los Angeles Times, The Postal Commemorative Society and Golf Digest. He is currently exploring the origin and influences of America’s Founder’s as they created the United States of America for a project called Original American Mind. He has created tee shirt designs for it and is planning to do a very large triptych painting depicting America’s roots and identity.

There will be time for questions, refreshments, and a showing of one work by any attending member.

REMINDER: Lockwood Mathews Art Association Presents: “SUMMER IN FAIRFIELD COUNTY” featuring the artists of the Fairfield Count Arts Association.  The show is open May 7 to August 18.  The Lockwood Mathews Mansion Museum is located at 295 West Avenue Norwalk, CT

Funes alone had more memories than all mankind combined by Karin Hillmer

• Karin Hillmer will speak about her surrealistic photography. Karin’s talk is called, “Memory and before”. It is structured along the entries for memory in the dictionary and how they relate to her work. Her digital photos are shaped by her interest in philosophy, history, art, music, and science and combine the Renaissance, technology, genetics, and Botticelli.
• Refreshments
• Bring 1 piece of artwork for feedback

CALL FOR ENTRY

NON-MEMBER ARTISTS– Any artists interested in entering art in a juried show at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion on May 6, 2011 should contact Eve Rogoff at 203-261-7982 or at eveandalan@aol.com. Include your mailing and e-mail addresses, phone number and mention the show if leaving a message. The theme of the show is Summer In Fairfield County. Click for FCAA-Lockwood Prospectus .

• Film: “Years in the Making” about well-known, senior artists in Westport
• Art Swap of art materials and books brought in by members
• Refreshments
• Art Feedback of work of members

NON-MEMBER ARTISTS–
Any artists interested in entering art in a juried show at the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion on May 6, 2011 should contact Eve Rogoff at 203-261-7982 or at eveandalan@aol.com. Include your mailing and e-mail addresses, phone number and mention the show if leaving a message. The theme of the show is Summer In Fairfield County. Click for FCAA-Lockwood Prospectus .

Happy Eating by Alice Katz

JANUARY MEETING