Your Center for Creativity
This month our featured artist shared a very personal story, of the healing power of the arts in mental illness. It’s estimated that almost half of all adults will experience a mental illness during their lifetime. One of the first things that comes up when …
It started with a class. That’s what many artists recall, years into their art careers, and Chaffee’s August Artist of the Month Evelyn (Evie) Towsley is among them. “A couple years ago I took a colored pencil class with Myrna Austin at Fletcher Farms School …
Karen Seward says something that instantly stands out during a conversation for her Chaffee artist of the month profile. She described being a member of the Chaffee as being part of an “art family.” “The Chaffee has been a great inspiration to me,” she said …
When a painting is working out it is because the colors and values and composition are telling a story about our existence as humans. That thought comes from Mendon artist Christine Holzschuh, “Painter of Fun and Figures, and Colorful Contemporary Oil Paintings,” at her own …