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| Artist
Roster
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.
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| PATSY
O'KELLEY
Patsy works in oil, watercolor,
pastel, pen & 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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." |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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." |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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| 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. |
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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.” |
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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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