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Contributing Artist’s for the Auction:
Title: The Fisherman
Medium: Pastel
Size: 18X24”
Bio: AAS Graphic Communication and Printing LCCC 2002, AAS Painting/Illustration LCCC 2004, Wyoming Valley Art League
Email: janeklesh@intergrafix.net
Title: Rainy Day – New York Medium; Limited Edition Print
Bio: Jane Klesh Butkovsky is an artist and art instructor who resides in Hazleton, PA. She has shown in both one-person and group shows including the Bradshaw House gallery in Birmingham Ala., Kings College, Wilkes Barre, PA. and the Hazleton Art League, Hazleton, PA.
Her work has also been accepted to numerous national and regional exhibitions in New York City and around the country. Among them, The National Academy of Design, The American Artists Professional League, Audubon Artists, The Salamagundi Club, Allied Artists of America, and the American Impressionist Society.
Jane is the recipient of several awards such as The American Artists Fund Award, The American Artists Professional League, 75th annual Exhibition NY, NY, The Butler Institute of America Art Award, Allied Artists of America, 90th Exhibition NY, NY, the Catherine Lorillard Art Club Award, and Salmagundi Club 22nd Annual Exhibition NY, NY.
She has studied under renowned artists including, Robert Brackman, Henry Hensche, Charles Reid, and Everett Raymond Kinstler. Jane teaches drawing at Luzerne County Community College and drawing and painting privately.
Title: Flowers for Alyssa
Medium: Graphite and ink
Size: 3 3/4 X 5 1/8 (11X14 Framed)
Marie Duclos
Email: dulcosmarie@hotmail.com
Title: Susquehana Sojourn
Medium: Photo Emulsion Transfer
Size: 10X10”
Medium: Oil
Size: 5 X 7 (9 1/2 X 11 1/2 Framed)
Stephanie Janiga
Email: dweedles@aol.com
Title: Seated Nude
Medium: Oil
Size: 8"X10”
Artist’s Statement: Only discovering the wonderful world of art a few short years ago, it has become a major factor in my life.... I just wish I had more time to persue the passion instead of working for a living.
Title: Tea Time
Medium: Oil
Size: 22 1/2 X 18"
Michael Hockenbury
Email: meh_19@yahoo.com
Title: Or and Appeal
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 14X14”
Artist’s Statement: I am an academic painter using traditional and contemporary subjects. These subjects are personal in nature creating a feeling of time or description from my life. This work exemplifies a commitment capturing the illusion of form, space, and composition. I work directly from both life and photos carefully depicting the interplay of light, shadow, and space. My compositions are academically designed arranged in a theme with each object complementing the other in a meticulous formation of balance, repetition, and diversity.
Bob Kray
Email: krayrc@msn.com
Web Site: www.natureartist.com/krayr.htm
Title: Lonely Quest
Medium: Limited Edition Print #382/950
Size: 26.5X33”
Artist’s Statement: If my work sparks more interest in our great wilderness and creatures of the wild, then my mission was accomplished.
Bio: Awards: Award of Excellence, Society of animal Artists/1989 Artist of the Year, Wyoming Valley Chapter, Ducks Unlimited/ IN the top 20 of the 1991 Federal Duck Stamp Contest/ 1993 Artist of the Year, Tunkhannock Chapter, Ducks Unlimited. Third Place, 1993 Federal Duck Stamp Competition / Winner of the 1994 and 1996 Pennsylvania Trout and Salmon Stamp Contest/ Awarded two citations from the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
Published: Winchester-Western Arms Corp. / The Franklin Mint (World Wildlife Fund) / Outdoor Life / Sports Afield / Readers Digest / Ideals Pub. Co. / Bobbs-Merrill Pub. Co. / Blackbirch (book Illustration)/ Highlights for Children / Organic Gardening and Farming / Prevention Magazine / NY State Conservationist / PA Game News / PA Angler / Donald Art Co. (prints) / National Wildlife Federation / Portraits on Nature (Limited Editions) / Applejack Publishing Co. (Limited Editions) / Streamside Pub. Co. / Wilderness Editions (1994 and 1996 Tout Stamp) / Moriah Pub. Co.
Exhibited (*juried Shows) Grand Central Art Galleries, NYC. / Leigh Yawkey Woodson, Wausau, WI / Sportsmans Edge, Ltd. NYC / James Ford Bell Museum, U of MN / Owens Gallery, OK/ Tidewater Inn, MD / McBride Gallery, MD / Academy of Natural Sciences, Phila, PA / Game Coin, TX / Driscoll Gallery. Denver, CO. / Mulvane Galleries, Topeka, KS / Cleveland Museum of Natural History, OH* Merit Award of Excellence / Everhart Museum, Scranton Pa.
Medium: Oil on board
Size: 8 X 10 ”
Kathy Moyer
Ken Newman
Email: newstu@epix.net
Title: The Hidden Among Us
Medium: S/N Giclée
Size: 16X20
Joan Newman
Email: newstu@epix.net
Title: Variations on an Allium
Medium: S/N Giclée
Size: 15X19
Susan Obaza
Email: obazart@hotmail.com
Web Site: www.obazart.com
Title: The Penitent
Medium: Oil
Size: 11.5X13.25”
Artist’s Statement: My Goal in creating any image is to reveal the unseen and spiritual through the seen and familiar.
Bio: I received my formal art education through the commercial art program at LCCC, graduating with honors. I then attended the Waichulis Studio, and have enjoyed a career doing commissioned portraiture and gallery art.
Thomas Price, Jr.
Title: On the Shoulders of a Giant
Medium: Galvanized and Stainless Steel Wire
Size: 21"X18"X9"
Artist’s Statement: Work is a tribute to Alexander Calder and the School (LCCC). A life long student, I have studied extensively at LCCC.
Donna Smith
Email: roundmom@bwkip.com
Title: Bits and Beads
Medium: Jewelry, Necklace and earrings,Carnelian, Peridot, Poppy Agate, Crystals & Silver Clasp. Earrings are Surgical Steel.
Size: 24”
Artist’s Statement: I like to create things out of other things.
Bio: Interested in art and arts and crafts forever. Studied at LCCC, graduated with an AAS in Graphic Design and Painting/Illustration. Found a home and career here.
Susan Sponenburg
Bio: Susan Sponenberg is the Chairperson of the Visual Communications Department. She has been with LCCC since 1971. In addition to teaching, Susan is an equine artist, an Associate Member of the Academy of Equine Art, and a member of the Cider Painters of America. She has 22 limited edition prints and 3 open editions published through Sportsman Specialties. She has self published several giclée prints. Her largest project was a series of eight murals 6X26 feet each that she did for Yonkers Raceway.
Susan had developed identity packages for several large horse farms and organizations including Graemont Farm, Hobbie Horse Farm, International Equestrian Federation, Carl Asmis Dressage Federation, Northeastern Horseman’s Association, FairHill International, and Radnor Hunt to name a few. She designed the current specialty license plate for Kentucky.
Susan has had work published on several covers of the Chronicle of the Horse and The Equine Marketer. She has done portrait commissions for many noted horseman and exhibits her work through Delphine Gallery in Chestnut Hill, Berdsford Gallery in Unionville and Saratoga Springs, and Chadds Ford Gallery.
Frank Symbula
Title: Spirit of the Water
Medium: B/W Sepia Toned on Fiber Paper
Size: 18X22”
Artist’s Statement: Shot at Rickett’s Glenn and printed on fiber paper, sepia toned framed out to 18”X22” with custom cut moulding – all matting is 100% archival (permanent) preservation and framing is the top of the line.
Leah Waichulis
Email: yychulis@epix.net
Web: www.thewaichulisstudio.net
Title: Messanger
Medium: Pastel on Paper
Size: 18X22”
Artist’s Statement: “Messanger” was exhibited at the American women Artist’s invitational in San Antonio, TX, and won an award of merit.
Bio: Enthralled with fine arts since a young age, Leah F. Waichulis, enjoyed drawing and painting before attending elementary school, was a finalist in a national art competition at age 11, and had artwork exhibited at a gallery by age 15.
Her strong educational background, earning an Associated Degree in Painting/Illustration and studying at The Waichulis Studio, a phenomenal atelier founded by her husband Anthony J. Wachulis, enables her to combine unique contemporary subject matter with a traditional technique.
Leah F. Waichulis has exhibited nationwide, including invitational exhibits at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the McLarry Fine Art Gallery in Sante Fe, NM, where she exhibited with the American Women Artist’s and won an Award of Merit. In July, she was awarded an Honorable Mention at the Salon International 2005 at the Greenhouse Gallery. International Museum of Contemporary Maters, in San Antonio, TX.
Anthony Waichulis
Email: yychulis@epix.net
Web: www.thewaichulisstudio.net
Title: Portrait of Isabella Brant (after Ruben’s)
Medium: Mixed Media
Artist’s Statement: Portrait of Isabella Brant was one of the last works completed by A. Waichulis at LCCC. The work contains every medium (less oil) covered in the Material and Technique class he now teaches.
Jimmy May
Email: jimmy@jimmymay.com
Web Site: www.jimmymay.com
Title: Grand Cayman Wall
Medium: Color Photography
Size: 17X24
Artist’s Statement: This particular image is off the north west wall of Grand Cayman Island in the Caribbean.
Bio: Jimmy has been a photojournalist since 1984 with most of his career being spent on the staff of a daily newspaper. Currently on the staff of the Press Enterprise, in Bloomsburg. May previously spent 11 years with the Citizens’ Voice in Wilkes-Barre. He has won several awards for his photography ranging from Associated Press’ national member showcase and Pennsylvania’s member showcase photo of the month along with making www. MSNBC.com Week in Pictures to state awards from Pennsylvania Newspaper Publishers Association and Pennsylvania Press Club. May has been an adjunct faculty instructor since 1997 where he teaches photojournalism along with basic photography. Along with his photojournalist work, May has had several underwater images publish whish were captured in locations from the Caribbean to the South Pacific.
Email: bkarlotski@luzerne.edu
Title: Portrait of a woodworker
Medium: Wood veneers
Sam Cramer
Email: scramer@epix.net
Title: Foxglove in Ice
Medium: Giclee inkjet print
Bio: Sam has been the co-oridinator of the Photography Program at LCCC for about the past 20 years. Prior to that Sam worked in the photo industry. Some past clients include Lawrence Liyermore Labs, San Francisco Opera, Paine Webber and Levi Strauss. His personal work is in private collections throughout the country. His most recent exhibit was this past summer at the Everhart in Scranton.
Josh Gabriel
Email: sk8jag@hotmail.com
Title: Spooks
Medium: Color Photograph
Jim Gavenus
Email: jgimage1@aol.com
Website: www.gavenusphoto.com
Title: Honey Stand
Medium: Photography
Size: 16X20”
Artist’s Statement: I work primarily as a documentary/editorial photographer that examines the human condition. As a storyteller, it is the opportunity to explore new cultures, grow as an individual, and be part of a lifestyle in which I am unfamiliar that keeps me photographing the projects I select. As a photographer I welcome the unknown and become part of the environment I am documenting. This approach has helped me develop a style that in intimae and based on the rich personalities of those I photograph.
My work can be seen in numerous publications and has been exhibited in galleries and museums within the United States and beyond.
Photographic projects include: “Faces of Haiti:, which documents the beauty of this island country and its people, “Near Death”, a photographic essay of the terminally ill, “Pride”, which captures the unity, spirit, and love within the black community, and “Southern Accents”, a look at the rural south and the civil rights movement.
Clients include: Sony Corp., Columbia Records, Rolling Stone Magazine, Farm Aid, The National Voters Rights Museum, Willie Nelson.
Jim Rodger
Title: Fall
Medium: Oil
Georgiana Cray Bart
gcraybart@aol.com
Medium: Limited Edition Print
Size: 15 X 15
Pete Nardone
Medium: Giclée
Size: 11 X 14
Mindy Nardone
Medium: Giclée
Size: 16 X 21
George Luther Schelling
Email: georges@epix.net
Phone: 570-869-1510
Title: Forksville Bridge
Medium: Artist Proof Print
Size: 12X18”
Artist’s Statement: This is an “Artist Proof” of a painting of the Forksville covered bridge in Sullivan County. There are only 10 proofs and there is no numbered edition. The print is the same size as the painting.
Bio: One Man Shows: Abercrombie and Fitch Co., NY.NY April, May 1965, 66, 67, The Sloan Gallery, South Orange, NJ – May, June 1965, The A.B. Colosson Jr. Co. Galleries, Cincinnati Ohio – December 1967- 71-74 Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc. NY NY – April 1975, The Crossroads of Sport, Inc. NY NY – October, November 1979, The General Electric Gallery, Fairfield, CT – January-March 1981
Not a complete list.
Illustrations: Outdoor Life / Field and Stream / Sports Afield / Audubon / The Garcia Corporation / Boys Life / Animal Kingdom / The Conservationist / South Carolina Wildlife / Ranger Rick / Fishing World / Aqua Field Publications / Pennsylvania Angler / Georgia Sportsman / The Illustrator / The Hartford Life Insurance Co. / Seagram Distillers Co. / Anheuser Busch Inc. / 3M Corporation / Sporting Classics / Sportsman Specialties / Intercontinental Philatelics Inc. / Not a complete List.
Exhibited: The Kennedy Galleries, NY NY / Sportsman’s Edge Ltd. NY NY / Brandywine Museum, Chadds Ford PA / Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada / Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC / Everhart Museum Scranton, PA / Madison Square Garden, NY NY / Grand Central Art Galleries NY, NY / Husberg Fine Arts Gallery Sedona AZ / Reed Galleries, Independence OR / The Art Emporium, Seattle, WA / Jackson Hole Art Gallery, Jackson WY / The National Art Museum of Sport NY, NY / The National Arts Club, NY NY / The Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum Wausau WI / The Allied Artist of America, NY NY. / not a complete list
Member: Society of Animal Painting.
