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This page is still under construction. All participating artists are not included in this list. Watch this space for additions and artists photographs and examples of their work. Call CAE for more information on other artists not yet published on this page 479.474.7767.

WILBERTA SPEARS

Wilberta (Willie) Spears is an Arkansas native. She works mainly in oil, favoring the beautiful landscapes and florals native to our area of the state. She is a member of the CA&E Board of Directors.

SUSAN KENNIGSEDER

Susan Kennigseder is a self-taught artist. She studied under George Kontoupis and Vicki McMurry and has taken classes from Carold Hallock, Lin Chen, and Patricia Lappin. She is a native of California, living just one mile from the Pacific Ocean and just across the lane from a national reserve containing beautiful redwood and fir trees. She has loved animals and nature all her life. Susan prefers to be loose and shadowy with painting and also enjoys doings portraits of family and other intersting faces with a hint of chracter that beckon to her.

BETTY CAMPBELL

Betty has been an active member of CA&E for many years. She loves all phases of art and paints in all mediums. Her watercolors capture the delicate beauty of flowers and architecture. Betty's whimsical and perceptive side is evident with her rock paintings. She discovers images in the natural lines and shapes of the rocks. Betty enjoys studying art history and maintains the Art Center Library. Betty's "Garden Entrance - Philbrook" was selected as the Purchase Award in the 1997 Adult Art Competition and hangs in the City National Bank in Van Buren.

PATRICIA LAPPIN

Patricia has been involved in the local art community and teaching at the Art Center since moving to Fort Smith in 1996. Patricia just completed a one-person exhibit at CA&E earlier this year. For the last ten years, her paintings have been inspired by the diverse environments of tropical islands, high deserts of the southwest, the Rocky Mountains, Yosemite, Yellowstone and now the mountains, lakes, river and valleys of this region. Patricia teaches a variety of classes through the Art Center. She is the coordinator of CA&E's Art Spaces in Work Places program.

JULIE MAYSER

Julie Mayser has been an artist/member for a number of years. Julie's specialty is pastels and is a long standing member of the Pastel Society. Julie has also contributed her time to the summer art camps for kids and participates in the Art Spaces in Work Places. Julie also has won several "Best In Show" honors at the Adult Art Competition.

PATSY O'KELLEY

Patsy works in oil, watercolor, pastel, pen &amp ink, and acrylics; but she prefers watercolor and oils. Her favorite subjects of her artwork include wildlife, still-life and landscapes. Patsy's original designs have appeared on many of the tickets, which are bookmark gifts for each guest, used at Art Center events. Patsy is a member of CA&E's Artist Roster and volunteers in art classes at local schools.

SUE STEELE

Sue began drawing at a young age. She majored in art during college and began teaching art in the Poteau Public Schools in Oklahoma. After retiring in 1995, Sue began exploring a variety of mediums; however, she still prefers acrylics. Each of Sue's paintings is accompanied by an original poem.

MAGGIE MALLOY

Maggie Malloy b egan studying with Julie Mayser of Greenwood. Maggie has studied with Ann Griffen and with Sanford Birdsey, Key West, Florida, and has brodened her scope of media to include watercolor, acrylic, oil, and pastels. She says, "Crayons were precious to me as a child, but oney for study was not available...my time to study and explore has arrived. I am triving with the freedom of expression and experimenting with colors. My friends who support my 'addiction' are the greatest."

 

BARBARA LOFTIN

Barbara Loftin describes her painting as her passion, her release, and her frustration. Most of her work wonsists of landscapes and stil lifes. She works with oil paints on a prepared hard board using palette knives and brushes. She has introduced the human figure into her work. The challenge of painting the fiure began while she was recovering from breast cancer in 2005. Loftin shares that "Creating a self-portrait while bald from chemo helped brin back my concentration and awareness." She has studied with Carol Hallock, Patricia Lappin, George Kountoupis, and Janet Frankovic.

RALPH IRWIN

Ralph Irwin, a native of Long Beach, CA, began his informal artistic training well before rceiving both an Associoate Degree in Art at City College and a Bachelor of Art History at California State University. After two years as a medic in Viet Nam. Ralph returned to civilian life full time in the fine arts. Since 1968 he has been creating notable work in a variety of media including brass, wood, glass, copper, bronze, marble, oil, acrylic, and watercolor.

GENE GRAHAM

Gene Graham first found a love for drawing as he tried over and over to drw the same pictures left to his mother by his grandfather. His formal art education began at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, where he studied for four years with Edwing Fullwider, a nationally recognized commerical artist for Ford magazine. He spent a year in Norway as an art teacher on the faculty of Fana Folkehgscula. His career eventualy brought him to Ft. Smith with KFSMTV. Retiring as Presient & General Manager in 2000 Gene returned to his love of art and has studied with six additional nationally recognized artists at the Penninsula Art School in Fish Creek, Wisconsin. His paintings portray diverse subject matter with varied techniques in watercolor and oil.

MICHAEL ELLISON

Michael Ellison creates spacious compsitions that let the color and energy of his world shine through. This is not only evident in the art work he creates but inthe poetic perception of his art. His quirky sense of humor entices viewers into the subtle interplay of the art he creates. He works in pastels, charcola, acrylic, and oil.

 

CAROL PACE

Carol has been painting since she was a child. Growing up in Hot Springs, Arkansas, she was surrounded by beauty. Carol later studied at the Memphis Art Academy in Memphis, Tennessee and, after working in commercial Art for a few years, Carol began a business in needle arts keeping her close to home while raising her family. Carol now works daily from her studio in Marshall, Tx., taking time out to teach adult classes in Watercolor, drawing and mixed media. She has won many awards over the years. Carol continues to grow as she creates new works of art. Her work has been purchased and hung in the Nation’s Capitol and in the Texas State Capitol as well. She has exhibited in several states including, Arkansas, Texas, Kansas and Louisiana.
Website: www.therwm.com/BCP

CINDY SUGG

A native of Ft. Smith I studied art in high school, U of A FS, and workshops with Barry Thomas, Dan Leary, Janet Frankovic, David Bates, Vicki McMurry and Julie Mayser.  I paint the natural state in oils and pastels in a style that I love from the old masters. In my work I hope to bring to you tranquility and even bring out some great old memories. 

Email: cgushing@att.net
Website: www.artwanted.com/CindySugg

INGRID GIPSON

Ingrid Gipson was born  in Germany. She chose to study Fashion Design and Marketing in Wiesbaden, Germany. She built for herself an impressive career in the field of fashion from designing to heading up companies. Her work took her to markets of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago,and to come full circle, to several Countries in Europe.  

After retiring to a very isolated area in  South Eastern Oklahoma's Ouachita  Mountains she took the opportunity to return to her first love of art and the creation thereof. She chose clay as her medium for its wonderful property to be worked by hand into three dimensional form.

Ingrid Gipson selects the motif for each work very carefully and edits rigorously where it has collective meaning and thus automatically addresses the deepest most ancient parts within us all. She insists that all her work be original and created without any molds whatsoever.

E MAIL : iwgipson@gmail.com
WEBSITE: www.ingridgipson.com

JENNY DAVIS

Jenny Davis - returned to painting about three years ago under the direction of Lois Hulse. When asked how she became so involved in [painitng her reply was: "I find it difficult to put into words why I paint. There is so much to it. Initially painitng was a hobby to keep me occupied, but now it is so much more. Painting is a way I can express myself. I can put on canvas feelings that I find so hard to put into words. It's challenging, satisfying, enjoyable, ad perhaps most of all, relaxing."

DANICEL WALTERS

Daniel Walters, a native of Oklahoma, spent most of his youth exploring the hardwoods and thickets just outside his backdoor. Speaking of his art, he says, “I have vigorously worked to become proficient in several different mediums and have tried not to limit myself o one subject matter. I try to explore many different aspects and possibilities in my art.

EILEEN DINELEY BAATZ

Eileen Dineley Baatz grew up in Sandy Creek, PA, and began studying art a the Carnegie Museum of Art. She continued her studies at the Cleveland Institute of Art while working as an artist in the greeting card industry. Her love of fine art was evident in the paintings and illustrations she created for greeting cards. Eileen now devotes her time to oil painting and continues to discover and express the artistic gift God has given her.



GWEN HAVERLAND

Gwen Haverland’s photographs look beyond appearances. Her earliest memories of photography were of her grandmother taking family pictures – a time when the seeds for her future interest in the medium were first planted. Haverland says it was never about the object, which was always rendered beautiful, but the life of the object that transcends reality.

MARTHA EFURD

Martha Efurd, says her mood and the subject matter being rendered determines the medium in which she works. She enjoys pen and ink, colored pencil, oil, acrylic or watercolor. Traveling around the country and living abroad she has learned to appreciate the beauty of each place. However, living in west Texas she has grown to love the southwest. This area seems to dominate the theme of her paintings.

MARTIN PEERSON

Martin E. Peerson, a plien air artist, brings the stark beauty of the southwest and the contrasting verdant beauty of his native Arkansas to life in his paintings. Peerson paints in oil and enjoys painting still life and landscapes. Peerson has retired from a career n landscaping to devote himself to perfecting his art.

SHARON DEVORE GONZALEZ

Sharon DeVore Gonzalez was born and raised in Panama City, Republic of Panama. She has painted in oil, sold her black lacquer mola boxes, and has won awards with her photography. She and her husband moved to northwest Arkanas in 2002. Arkansas’ beauty inspired her to start painting Arkansas scenes with acrylics.

JAMES BROOKSHIRE RABE

A retired architect, Rabe’s wife encouraged him to enroll in a watercolor class at CAE. The enthusiasm of the instructor, Betty Campbell, and Helen Hallum, Rabe ‘jumped into drawing and painting with all four feet’, as he describes it. His forte is capturing old homesteads, barns, and stores which are rapidly disappearing from the Ozark countryside.

 

KAREN CARNEY

Karen Carney finds expression for a lifelong pursuit of God’s wisdom and family happiness through the act of painting. Carney says, “When I’m painting, I feel so excited by the beauty of the colors…there’s something about the blending of the paints that allows me to reflect the beauty of all the good that is around me.”

CATHY MASON

My personal expression of art is an expression of life. I have painted since the 7th grade in Alma High School. Received my AA from the Uof A Fort Smith in 2008 and will receive my BA in Psychology and a Minor in Studio Art in the spring of 2010 from the U of A Fort Smith and a current member of the Arkansas Arts Council. I have studied under, Peter Collum Ernest Cialone and Chad Wilson from the University of Arkansas, Fort Smith.

My mediums are: oils, acrylics, watercolors, charcoal ceramics, granite, marble and I enjoy found art creations.. The expressions I capture are sculpture, portraits, landscapes, seascapes and still life. My work has been published in Applause Magazine, U of A Fort Smith, Land & Life, Division of Agriculture, UA Little Rock, Arkansas Democrat Gazette and others. My work is in both private and public collection.

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