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November- January Exhibit
Gene Chaney, Photographic History

How do we choose to compose a picture? The question begs for an awareness of how the outline of objects and colors in the frame can be arranged to lead one's eye to the center of interest, where the meaning will reside.
Gene is a photographer of long standing, starting with photojournalism skills at the University of Tulsa. this was followed by shooting and editing 16mm film at KCRA-TV and more than 30 years of regular shooting with 35 mm film and digital cameras. Gene uses what he calls "semantic loading" as well as pictorial composition in choosing his pictures. Take a few minutes in the Gathering Place with the printed guide and see if you can find examples of "semantic loading." Below are some examples of Gene's work.

October-November Exhibit: Quilling

This quilling exhibit is by Ruth Egger who has been quilling since she retired in 1998. Quilling is the art of creating designs with narrow strips of paper that have been rolled , shaped and arranged to form designs. by 2005 she had accumulated about 300 quilling pieces. Modern variations of quilling have evolved such as Art Nouveau, Husking, Punch, Geometric and Paper Sculpture, each beautiful in its own way. Ruth taught elementary school, took an early retirement, then secretaried for her husband, a construction manager for Target stores.
Below are a few examples of Ruth's quilling art.

July-September Exhibit: The Grand Canyon Exposed

Seven CPC members submitted photographs for this exhibit. While all of the photographers and are not known primarily as photographers, the “Canyon” has a way of making photographers of all who experience it. Our photographers are: Jim Aaron, who decided to test the Colorado River in a large, catered, professionally guided motorized raft after experiencing a “Never Again” seven-day unguided float trip in Alaska. Jim says “The Grand Canyon offers from any angle, time of day or bend of the river an awe-inspiring view of nature; Len Tozier and Karen Gray fulfilled a lifelong goal as the father-daughter team backpacked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon (and back out) in April 2009. Although they agree that the trip is on their Top Five list of the hardest things they’ve ever done, the grandeur of the canyon, the company and knowledge of their guide and fellow travelers, and the joy of shared time together on this life-changing journey made it well worth the aching muscles and blistered heels; Phil Mishler and his wife Jimmi, have taken at least three trips that included the Grand Canyon, usually from the rim. The most recent and most unusual visit was with an Elderhostel program that took them through the Hualapai Indian reservation (with permission, of course) to the Colorado River and had lunch on the bank while looking up the canyon walls; Dave Segur, since his early years, has looked for and experienced challenging adventures, including down to the Colorado River and back up using the Bright Angel Trail in the Grand Canyon. “To be included in the Colorado River Trip of 2006 at age 79 was an " adventure of a lifetime;" Garrett Torgerson took an opportunity to raft the Grand Canyon with his dad. In retrospect, the trip ended up being so much more. With incredible scenery, thrilling rapids, and wonderful camaraderie, the experience was so rich and absorbing that all of us on that trip spoke of taking about a week to re-acclimate to our regular lives after it was over; and Darrell Torgerson, who says, "Show me a dad that would not want to go rafting through the Grand Canyon with his son and I will show you a person just a little more cautious than I. My wonderful memories of the raft trip come in sentence … Grand Canyon ... segments: 40 degree river water…90 degree days…lacy Tamarisk trees…water-carved grottos…hearing the roar of a rapid around the next bend one-half mile away…star-lit night sky silhouetted between vertical dark canyon walls… fun paddling through splashing rapids in a “rubber ducky” kayak with Garrett…and on and on.

May - June Exhibit: Spring into Creativity

In the 9th year of the Carmichael Presbyterian Church Art Gallery, nine artists are featured in our spring exhibit. Mary Kay Exstrom was the first artist to display her paintings at the CPC Gallery. She still enjoys painting and has two paintings in our current show.

Dena Pro, Trisha St. Clair, Joan McMurray, Ann Kerr, and Sally Stephenson have all had individual shows during the past nine years. We welcome Caddy Brown, John Davidson, and Mary Kroger to our gallery. Caddy Brown is now in her 90's and has been an artist for many years. John Davidson is learning to paint with oils after using pastels for his artwork previously. Mary Kroger shows her work in other galleries in Sacramento.

All of our artists have been inspired by the wonderful light and colors of spring. They have used oils, acrylics, watercolors, and pastels to create landscapes, still life and scenes from nature to celebrate spring.

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January -February Exhibit
Considering Children's Art

    For the child, making art is the actual process of formulating, organizing, and understanding experience - of making something of it. Art can give form and meaning to the puzzling, scary, interesting, funny, familiar, and unfamiliar things the child encounters in school, at home, on the street, on television, in books, in play. Given materials and opportunity, children will represent whatever is on their minds. For children the process is educational in the deepest sense. It allows them to explore, - sort out - events and feelings they experience in daily life.
     For the adult viewer the product reflects the child - his or her knowledge, interests. Concerns, and ways of going about dealing with a complex world. Children's creative work is one of the most valuable and deeply interesting sources of insight into children's minds.
                                                                                            By Brenda S. Engel

Click HERE for past art exhibits of 2009

Click HERE for past art exhibits of 2008

Click HERE for past art exhibits of 2007

Click HERE for past art exhibits of 2006

 

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