After a summer of robust art activity, submissions were slim for this week’s online gallery.
Perhaps our artists are out on the water. Nearly half of our works this week show a nautical theme.
Of course, the quality remains high. And the subjects, wide-ranging.
With back to school near, we continue to welcome atercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage, needlepoint — whatever you’ve got. Email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world! (PS: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.)
Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited to contribute.
“Sunset Reflected From a Car Window” (Benji Porosoff, age 16)
“Sailing Near Fishers Island with an Easterly Wind” (Peter Barlow)
“Three Masted Galleon in a Manischewitz Bottle.” Steve Stein explains, “I did this with my grandsons one Sunday afternoon. The boat is built outside the flat-sided wine bottle with the masts hinged back and down, to be pulled up by long threads after placement in the bottle. The hardest part is getting the green clay ocean to lie flat.”
Untitled (Werner Liepolt)
“Spud Chef” (Lawrence Weisman)
“Standing Together: Our Past and Future” — Kathmandu, Nepal (Mike Hibbard)
“Poppy” (Ken Runkel)
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It’s Saturday morning — time once again to open the doors to our online art gallery.
As always, everyone is welcome to enjoy our collection.
And submit.
Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions. Everyone is invited to contribute.
All genres are encouraged. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage and (yes) needlepoint — whatever you’ve got, email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world! (PS: Please include the medium you’re working in — art lovers want to know.)
“Yet Another Chagall: The Tribe of Issachar” — Artist Steve Stein explains, “Issachar was the 5th of 6th sons of Jacob with Leah. The name translates to ‘his reward will come.’ Yet of the 12 tribes, no one uses Issachar as a name for their kids!”
“Sentient” — Photographer Jerry Kuyper says this is 8 feet tall, including 2 feet of rock below the surface. It’s part of the “Rock On! Celebrating Stone in the Garden” exhibit at Garden in the Woods, Framingham, Massachusetts.
“Man vs. Nature” (Tom Doran)
“Roses” (Amy Schneider)
“Stone Planter with Flowers” (Karen Weingarten)
Untitled — Photographer Ellen Horowitz notes, “Yes, the elephant was that close!”
“Stunning” is an apt description of some of today’s dozen works.
Our online art gallery continues to impress, inspire, and innovate.
Which makes sense. This is your feature. Everyone is invited to contribute. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions.
All genres are encouraged. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage and (yes) needlepoint — whatever you’ve got, email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world!
“Spy Balloon” (Ken Runkel)
“The Birth of Spring” (Dorothy Robertshaw)
“Tax Season” (Lawrence Weisman)
“Buildings” (Patricia Driscoll)
“Democrat, Republican or Independent?” (Mike Hibbard)
“‘Long Lake’ Rise From Slime to Sublime” (Janet Luongo)
“Front License Plate, Westport” — enamel on metal (Peter Barlow)
“Imitating Nature’s Fine Light” (Tom Doran)
“Weston Historical Society” (Mona Brown)
“Truffle Hunting Umbria” (Werner Liepolt)
“Westport Naturally Seen in our Backyard” (Steve Stein)
“View From the Window Seat” (Amy Schneider)
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“06880” readers go far afield — and far back in time — for subjects for submissions. This week’s online art gallery roams all over the world, and dips back into the early 20th century, for inspiration.
Remember: This is your feature. Everyone is invited to contribute. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions.
All genres are encouraged. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage and (yes) needlepoint — whatever you’ve got, email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world!
Untitled (Tom Doran)
Untitled (Mona Brown)
“Tiki Bar, BVI” (Werner Liepolt)
“Beak Envy” (Mike Hibbard)
“How in the World Does She Do That?” (Lawrence Weisman)
“Optics” (Amy Schneider)
“Name That Tune!” (Steve Stein)
“Come Away With Me Lucille In My Merrie Oldsmo…. No, Cadillac” (Peter Barlow)
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Every week is a new experience. But always: This is your feature. All readers are invited to contribute. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions.
All genres are encouraged. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, collages, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage and (yes) needlepoint — whatever you’ve got, email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world!
(NOTE: The online art gallery will be closed next week. We’ll reopen on January 21. Come visit then!)
“Winter Sunset” (Karen Weingarten)
“Winter Walk” (Werner Liepolt)
“Waterfall” (Amy Schneider)
“Dancer” — mixed media (Peter Barlow)
“Mommy, I’m Scared” — Photographer Mike Hibbard says of this photo from Tanzania: “Will 2023 bring us humans more or less fear?”
Tanks. trees, elephants, chrystanthemums, yaks — our “06880” artists cover the world this week.
Remember: This is your feature. All readers are invited to contribute. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions.
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“Garden of Hope/Slava Ukraini” — oil on canvas (Norm Siegel)
“Spaces.” Photographer Peter Barlow says of this Compo Beach image: “Instead of seeing a tree, try observing all the different shapes defined by the branches. Every shape is unique.”
Untitled (Kathleen Burke)
Photographer Celia Campbell-Mohn asks: “Pothole on Sherwood path, or art?”
“Jazzman” – Tom Doran
“Last Chrysanthemums” (Werner Liepolt)
“Burger with ‘The Works'” (Lawrence Weisman)
Untitled (Martin Ripchick)
“A Yakety Yak” Artist Steve Stein says: “They live at extreme high altitudes in Tibet, India and China. They come both as domesticated or wild hairy bovines that produce milk used to make cheese and butter. But they don’t yakety yak — they only grunt”
“The Queen Needs Her Rest” — taken in Tanzania. (Mike Hibbard)
Several trees came down, all over town. Jo Shields reports says that one, on North Avenue south of Charcoal Hill, took down power lines.
A Fire Department truck waited an hour and a half for Eversource crews to arrive. (She was told they were working on Newtown Turnpike lines.)
Power lines down on North Avenue. (Photo/Jo Shields)
Traffic was diverted, but turning around was not easy on the northern curve. It was especially tough for an 18-wheeler hauling vintage cars. It had to back down North Avenue for a third of a mile. Meanwhile, cars tried to get around it — despite the closed road ahead.
Jo directed traffic by Coleytown Elementary School, helping the truck make it down the road.
An 18-wheeler backed carefully down North Avenue, until it reached Easton Road (shown here). (Photo/Jo Shields)
But the Westport Library’s 2023 VersoFest will have a strong Rolling Stones presence. Record producer Steve Lillywhite — whose credits include not only “the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band ever,” but also U2, the Dave Matthew Band, Phish, Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, the Psychedelic Furs, XTC, Morrissey, the Pogues, Guster, the Killers and more — has just been signed as a headliner.
Last spring’s inaugural VersoFest was a smash. The 2nd annual music and media conference and festival will draw even more media creators, artists and fans to the Trefz Forum, and meeting rooms throughout the Library.
Lillywhite’s April 1 appearance will include a conversation with Chris Frantz, the Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club drummer, and a Sturges Highway resident.
Lillywhite began as a staff producer with Island Records. With great success in pioneering recording ethos and technique (and popular sales), Lillywhite was made a Commander of the Order of The British Empire for his contributions to music in 2012.
VersoFest is set for March 30-April 2. Many more artists and contributors will be announced soon.
The Westport Police have released arrest reports for the November 24-30 period.
Four people were detained in custody. One was charged with possession of child pornography; one with failure to appear; one with both operating a motor vehicle under suspension and failure to keep plates readable, and a fourth with operating a vehicle under the influence of drugs or alcohol, operating a motor vehicle under suspension, operating an unregistered vehicle, and improper stopping or turning.
The following citations were issued:
Traveling unreasonably fast: 8
Operating an unregistered motor vehicle: 6
Misuse of plates: 4
Operating a motor vehicle without a license: 3
Stop sign violation: 3
Insurance fails to meet minimum requirements: 2
Speeding: 1
Following too closely: 1
Failure to obey traffic control signal: 1
Violation of any traffic commission regulation 1
Driving with an out-of-state license after 30 days: 1.
Historical plaques from the Westport Museum for History & Culture honor the heritage of over 470 local homes.
The latest is for the longest known continuously operating store.
Old Mill Grocery & Deli has served the neighborhood (and beyond) since 1919, when it was built by Harry F. Sherwood. He hired Sylvester and Florence Young to operate it; in 1927, they bought from him.
In 1929, the Youngs sold ½ interest in the store to Kenneth Montgomery. Both families operated the market until 1937, when the Youngs sold their half interest to Mabel Montgomery.
She died in 1960; he son Kenneth ran the store until his death in 1985. The next year, it was transferred to Old Mill Associates. Several owners followed, and the name changed to Elvira’s and then Joey’s by the Shore. The current owner — as of last year — is Soundview Empowerment Alliance (SEA) Inc.
Bob Weingarten (far right), house historian and plaque coordinator at the Westport Museum for History & Culture, presents the sign to founding members of the non-profit that rescued and preserved the community market. From left: Chris Tait, Tom Febbraio, Jim Hood, Emil Zobl, Ian Warburg. In front: Koda.
Sure, it’s just the first day of December. But we’ll be hard pressed to find decorations any day the rest of this month that top these, at 134 Birch Hill Road in Weston:
Westport will be well represented at “Layers Revealed” — the new exhibit at Norwalk Art Space.
Photographer Jerri Graham and artist Melissa Newman are in the show, which explores “all of life’s intricacies and complexities.”
“Slowly, the layers of our lives are revealed and once they are, we fully come through,” Graham says. Through “each frame of the camera,” she aims to highlight “a fraction of a second of a life that will be lived for a time unknown. Within these fractionated layers, we find our lives and ourselves.”
“Layers Revealed” encourages viewers to explore the many cycles and layers of humanity, nature, beauty, creation and decay.
At the opening reception December 15 (6 to 8 p.m, 455 West Avenue, Norwalk), Graham will take portrait photos at a pop-up space.
She’ll also host 3 portrait photo sessions (December 18, 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 3 p.m.; January 8 (10 a.m. to noon) and January 15 (noon to 2:30 p.m.). Book sessions at 203-252-2840; donations are accepted. Students ages 13 to 18 who are interested in helping Graham (and learning about lighting, composition and more) can apply here.
On January 15 (3 p.m.), Graham will give a talk. On January 28 (11 a.m.), Newman — who is also a vocalist — will join guitarist Tony
Lombardozzi for a jazz brunch performance at The Norwalk Art Space.
Also nearby: The Mark Twain Library Art Show celebrates its 50th — that is, golden — anniversary with an event about gold.
“Gleam, Gossip & Gold: Love and Loss in American Art” is the title of the December 8 (7:30 p.m., in-person and Zoom) presentation. Westport art Dr. Robin Jaffee Frank will discuss the “untold dramas behind American art objects that were crafted in the precious metal.”
Frank is the former chief curator at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, and senior associate curator of American paintings and sculpture at the Yale University Art Gallery. Her Ph.D. in the history of art is from Yale.
Another Westport connection with the Mark Twain Art Show (December 3-11): Artist (and former teacher) Werner Liepolt has had a piece (“Dune Restoration #4) juried in.
It was originally shown in the “06880” online art gallery.
And finally … Christine McVie — Fleeetwood Mac’s noted singer/songwriter/ keyboardist — died yesterday. She was 79, and had been in ill health. Click here for a full obituary.
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Posted onOctober 29, 2022|Comments Off on Online Art Gallery #134
Great minds think alike.
Great artists do too.
Four submissions to this week’s online art gallery feature leaves. Two are of sunflowers; another two are apples.
But every artist and photographer offers a different take on what are definitely not tired subjects. That’s what makes art so wonderful — and our online art gallery so interesting.
Remember: This is your feature. All readers are invited to contribute. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions.
All genres are encouraged. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage and (yes) needlepoint — whatever you’ve got, email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world!
Untitled. Photographer Jerry Kuyper explains, :A leaf with a spherical growth falls onto a pumpkin,”
“Cedar Waxwing” — Artist Steve Stein explains, “This is a kind of finch. They eat berries, spread the berry’s seeds, and are noted to be serially monogamous,”
“Gettin’ Around” (Lawrence Weisman)
“Splendid Autumn in the Berkshires” — Housatonic River, Stockbridge, MA October 22, 2022 (Laurie Sorensen)
“View From a Connecticut Prison” — Suffield correctional facility (Wendy Levy)
“Hanging On” (Karen Weingarten)
Untitled — Photographer Bonnie Connolly says, “This a dall scene on my front walkway. After a cold rain, the fallen pine needles and leaves seemed to dance together.”
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Sculpture — one of the greatest of all art forms — returns to our online gallery this week. Thank you, Alan Goldberg!
A reminder: This is your gallery. All readers are invited to contribute to it. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions.
All genres are encouraged. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage and (yes) needlepoint — whatever you’ve got, email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world!
Photo montage of flowers on the GG & Joe’s wall (Amy Schneider)
“Seascape” — alabaster (Alan Goldberg)
Untitled (Werner Liepolt)
“What is the Problem We Are Trying to Solve?” Photographer Mike Hibbard explains: “These men collaborated in the development of Lima, Peru. The process of experiencing an image that stimulates a thought/emotion is very interesting. I cannot find these images if I go looking for them. The image comes to me.”
Untitled (Lawrence Weisman)
Untitled (Bobbie Herman)
“Passing Sailors Admire the 104-foot 1926 houseboat yacht ‘Freedom’ on the Mystic River” (Peter Barlow)
“Mother Nature in All Its Glory” (Karen Weingarten)
This week’s online art gallery subjects are as near as here and Westchester, and as far as New Mexico.
That’s what makes this feature so intriguing. And remember: This is your gallery. All readers are invited to contribute to it. Age, level of experience, subject matter — there are no restrictions.
All genres are encouraged. Watercolors, oils, charcoal, pen-and-ink, acrylics, lithographs, macramé, jewelry, sculpture, decoupage and (yes) needlepoint — whatever you’ve got, email it to 06880blog@gmail.com. Share your work with the world!
“Reflecting Light” (Linda Franco Doyle)
“Westchester County, View From a Bus” — colored ink and black enamel (Peter Barlow)
“Contortionist (Don’t Try This at Home)” (Lawrence Weisman)
“Sailing with Kimberly” (Steve Stein)
“Adobe Hallway, Albiquiu, New Mexico” — oil on linen (Werner Liepolt)
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