Laura Schadler: Teenage Auteur.

Laura Schadler studied Film at Bard College in the 90's. She also made a million videos as a teenager, along with the gracious collaboration of many willing and unwilling people, most notably Elliott Coon and Tessa Adams, along with all of the boys she ever dated or had crushes on.

Laura is now a writer and lives in San Francisco. She still loves movies, but doesn't make them anymore. She is writing a novel though and sometimes records music videos with her sister on her cell phone.

The above image is from 'Band of Outsiders' from the best scene when they all run through the Louvre. Laura did not make this movie. Jean-Luc Godard did.

Michael Doyle; Sculpture and Iron Works

Biography

Mike Doyle has been doing custom metal work since 1989.

He graduated with a BFA from Mass. College of Art. Michael apprenticed with Sculptor David Strohmeyer after college and then moved to Rappahannock County, Virginia.

Sam Cliffton

Artist Statement

I was born in Tucson, AZ in 1950 and spent my formative years in London, where I enjoyed photography, drawing and painting and had a great art teacher. I received a degree in Industrial Design from Pratt Institute in 1972 and have lived and worked in Rappahannock County since 1973.

Most of this time I have designed and built custom homes and other structures. My art is about creating stored energy primarily with tensile constructions and I really enjoy working with lights, fabric, wire, etc. to create structural tensions. Basically I like imagining things and then figuring out how to make them.

I guess that, so far, building houses is the only way I’ve been able to do that and make a living in Rappahannock County.
scliffton@wildblue.net

Gaelan Finney-Day

Artist Statement

I graduated from the sculpture department at VCU in 2007. Until then, I made works of art that reflected a deep hope in the trans-formative power of boredom and lethargy.

This May, it will be two years since making any sculpture.

I've been thinking about going into advertising.

Beth Wellemeyer

Lost and Found...

Because we have lost…
Because we are hoping to find…

Because we have found beauty in an oftentimes despairing world
Because...
Everything has its beauty, yet not everyone sees it

This piece will be a shared installation with a place to put something you have lost, hope to find, or have found – whether it be photos, words, your marbles, your religion, peace, joy, a way to carry on…

The Richmond Indigenous Gourd Orchestra Comes to Rappahannock!!

Dressed in custom made costumes and headgear, they give gardening tips,
delve into gourd lore, brag about their vast, if questionable, ethnomusicological knowledge, and generally try to explain themselves. But mostly they play "gourdeous " music. "I planted a seed and grew an orchestra!" proclaims Arthur " Professor of Gourdology" Stephens.
The Orchestra performs at schools, galleries, museums, garden clubs, weddings, parties and festivals. Recently they created, for a film festival, an original score that is performed live with the 1922 silent documentary " Nanook of the North ". In schools they teach workshops and give lecture demonstrations. Once a year they take a pilgrimage to the worlds biggest gourd show, in Mt. Giliad Ohio, where they perform for the crowning of the Gourd Queen.
"We're out standing in our field " says Arthur. And that's probably where you'll find them.
Please check out their wonderful web site at www.gourdorchestra.com to learn more and hear their music.

Janet Kerig, Fiber Artist

Biography

Janet Kerig holds a BA from the University of Maryland. As an artist her many talents include being an acclaimed fiber artist specializing in earth basketry, wheat weaving, and paper making utilizing Eco-friendly materials such as natural fibers, botanicals and natural dyes. Janet brings magic to all her events and honors Mother Nature by co-creating art with natural fibers, keeping alive the ancient Wise Woman traditions which honor the harvest and fertility. In addition to her artistic craft, Janet is also a celebrated percussionist and drum circle leader, an active teacher in the arts and crafts

field and an organic gardener.

Palmer Smith, En Plein Air Artist

Biography


Palmer Smith paints "en plein air"... a French expression which means " in the open air." The phrase is particularly used to describe the act of painting outdoors.

His works in oils on canvas are executed almost exclusively from life.

Palmer has a Bachelor of fine arts degree from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond and displays his works at Studio frame shop and Cresendo restaurant in Warrenton , Virginia. Palmer lives and works in the Virginia Piedmont. His wife Michele is also an artist, and daughter Aliyah will turn 8 on April 1st.

Elliott Coon migrating towards sculpture

Recent projects have been exhibited in New Orleans, New York and Virginia as public installation - a small mirror clad creole cottage, a river of fire, a free-standing sidewalk fireplace of old brick and smaller sculptural houses.

Jules Coon, Photographer

I love taking photos! Here I am on the left with my good friend Judi Hunt in Nola for halloween dressed as the democracy repair people. We were well received.I have been jokingly referred to as the paparazzi of Rappahannock because I take my camera with me everywhere I go.

Rappahannock is so beautiful its hard not to get a good photo



I'm also a gardener here in the county so I have LOTS of pictures of
flowers and little bug guys that hang out with the flowers.
You can check out more of my photos on myspace......
www.myspace.com/twilazone



Look forward to seeing all of you on May 9
Love,
Jules Coon

William Martin, Life without Walls

Biography

William Martin, artist/creator

Born to cause a stir, one cannot help but take notice of anything William has put his creative energy into. Whether it be a painting, a restoration and design project, graffiti inspired mimicry or some other form of creative outlet, the idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

In his paintings, there is a certain neo-impressionism. Bright, vivid color, attention to detail, and the use of simplistic subject matter celebrate the subtle beauty and intensity of ordinary scenes in a way that is both intense and dramatic.

When asked to describe the intention behind his work, he gave me these words...
*Self Gratification
*Humor
*Amusement
*Visual Stimulization

THOSE DARLINS