Eclectic Chaos: Kinetic, Recycled, and …
The 3rd Saturday Arts Night group is exploring an exciting art trifecta of kinetic, recycled materials, and everything else in an art show and auction venue called Eclectic Chaos on Fri-Sat, Nov 19-20 at Ethical Culture Society of Essex County. This will be the 3rd Saturday Arts’ first—and hopefully annual—4-50 Art Show Auction to raise money in support of programs for the children of families served at the Society.
The viewing starts at 2 PM on Friday afternoon, Nov 19th, continues through a “meet and greet” with the artists Friday evening starting at 7 PM, then viewing again on Saturday from 10 AM to 6 PM, with the auction starting at 7 PM that evening. During the viewing periods the items may be purchased for their listed prices and silent bids with deposits for the auction may be submitted.
Meet Greet the Artists
From 7 to 9PM, Friday, Nov 19, the public will be able to meet some of the artists in the art show. Shandon Campbell, pianist, will provide the music to set the mood for conversation and conviviality. Tina Kelley will read from her new book of poetry around 8 PM.
Drawbot Workshop for kids
Make a Drawbot Drawing – Saturday, Nov. 20, 1 to 5PM
Kinetic
Foals – Created by Douglas Irving Repetto
Drawbot – Created by Jonah Brucker-Cohen
Get more information on the ArtBot artists and their creations that will be on display at Eclectic Chaos in the kinetic collection—including Drawbots—at:
www.3rdsatarts.org.
Recycled
Teresa Helmkamp, whose recycled wood and crushed paper with polyurethane artwork is part of many NYC area collections will offer several pieces, including Woodstock and Windswept on front panel.
And …
Other featured artists will include Yasmeen Anderson, whose photography can be seen at: www.yasmeenphoto.com; Nancy Bohn, offering artwork from her collection, Karen Bokert, whose paintings currently hang at the Society until the show; Eva Bouzard-Hui, whose website: www.bouzardhuiart.com/index.html acquaints you with the range of her work; Barbara Krales Cotler, whose offering of work will provide a rare opportunity for the public to add some of her pieces to their collections; Liana Francesca, award winning beer journalist and crafter;; Betty Levin, also offering artwork from her collection; Rosalie Sussman, needlepoint; and Gloria Torrice, with a rich legacy of abstract expressionist textiles spawned in her studies at Columbia University, Hans Hoffman School of Painting, and the New School in New York City.
4-50 Art Show Auction
A 4-50 art show and auction follows these guidelines:
– 50% of proceeds to sponsoring organiza-tion.
– 50% of proceeds to the artist.
– 50% of individual artist’s artwork does not have to be offered at auction.
– 50% of art show list price is the minimum bid that will be accepted at auction.
Note: Not all of the artwork displayed will be offered for sale or at auction.
Additional information
Yasmeen Anderson, Yasmeen Anderson Photography LLC, realized six years ago that photography moved her. Since then, she has studied and nurtured this passion and turned it into a fulltime profession. Her previous professional life as marketing consultant with an MBA in marketing in management comes in handy while networking and building her current business. Yasmeen fills her days with headshots, graduating senior photo sessions, family photos, corporate and private events. Her work can be viewed at:
www.yasmeenphoto.com
Teresa Helmkamp‘s work is represented in numerous private collections. Her list of exhibitions and shows include Bay Ridge Festival of the Arts, annually since 1967; Keenan Arts Center, Lockport, NY; Brooklyn Public Library Art Show; Brooklyn Museum Fence Show; Atlantic Gallery Invitational, Brooklyn, NY; Belanthi Gallery, Brooklyn Heights, NY: selected work displayed, 1982-1988 and two individual shows, 1983 and 1987; and currently at Mona Lisa Gallery, Maplewood, NJ, since 2008. She has a BFA from Pratt Institute and—as part of her professional experience—was Festival Week Chairperson, Bay Ridge Festival of the Arts, 1987-2005.
Tina Kelley is on the staff of Covenant House, where she is co-writing a book of profiles of homeless teenagers. She was a reporter at The New York Times for ten years, and ran The Local blog for Maplewood, Millburn and South Orange. She and also worked at the Seattle Times and Philadelphia Inquirer. Her first book of poems, The Gospel of Galore, (Word Press, 2003) won a Washington State Book Award, and she won a fraction of a Pulitzer Prize for being a part of the Times’ coverage of the Sept. 11 attacks, and wrote 121 “Portraits of Grief,” short descriptions of the victims. She will be reading poems from her second collection, Precise, which is in search of a publisher. She lives with her husband and two children in Maplewood.
Note: More to follow as it becomes available …