Artist Reception - Food, Farm & Foliage Exhibit & My Catch Up Week - Oct 9-16, 2010

Great News Articles Help Tell the Story:  I was so pleased to have a feature article concerning the Holly Branch exhibit appear in our daily paper, The Delaware State News.  Photos and 2 full pages telling the story behind the exhibit really brought the National League of American Pen Women to Central and Southern Delaware.  Our mission is to promote the creative arts (visual arts, literature and music) and assist in continued professional development of like-minded artists.  All net proceeds from this exhibit will help provide for a scholarship for a deserving art student entering college in 2011.  Here is the Dover Post article for 10/5/2010:  http://www.doverpost.com/entertainment/arts/x1423335796/Post-Picks

Artist Reception for Food, Farm & Foliage Exhibit:  Occured on Oct 9 at the Delaware Agricultural Museum, Dover, DE and WAS GREAT.  A very well attended event, a success by all measures.  I was ultra happy, but very tired.  The exhibit of 58 works of art by 22 artists is amazing.  These artists represent all of Delmarva and a tribute to the beauty of rural landscape, our agricultural heritage and the food and other resources produced to sustain us.

Best of Show Award went to Betsy Greer of Wilmington for her oil painting, "Things Remembered".  Betsy is also the Diamond State Branch, American Pen Women President!  Her painting as described by our judge, Professor Roberta Tucci, is "a warm and inviting still-life painting in oil." Her other comments include:  Highly focused, realist views of familiar Delmarva landscapes are soundly represented with works such as “Bay Views”, a meticulously rendered watercolor painting by Tammy Kearney (of Seaford).
Also included in this highly diverse group exhibition are semi-abstract observations of homegrown agriculture, like the end-of-season farmed fields revealed in the energetic pastel painting, “The Last Crop”, by Trina Gardner (of Wilmington).

 "Things Remembered", Oil

Betsy Greer & Best of Show

I will bring you additional images of the award winners after I retake them with a tripod.

The Peoples Choice Awards will be placed on October 26.  The public has been voting for their favorites and will continue to have the opportunity to vote until October 23.  If you are within the Delaware area please visit the exhibition and cast your ballot.   We choose different categories for the public to vote by, not to conflict with the professional judges rulings.

Liberto's Art  - Dover Bay Health Exhibit  was changed by me this week adding my 8 "Daily Paintings" and removing a few to give the exhibit a fresh look.  So many visitors and employees stopped to talk and comment on my work.  That is a real boost to an artist and keeps us creating more works of art. 

Daily Recipes:  Believe me I have been cooking and baking, trying out  a few new recipes as usual.  I will be adding them in my next blogs.  My husband really likes the good old favorites that he enjoys.  But I grow tired of of the tried and true and love to experiment.  A great past time is looking through my many recipe books and researching recipes through the internetup ingredients in the frig, left overs or frozen meats and vegetables.  I (like Martha Stewart) probably have more condiments on hand than other ingredients.

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Night to All and to All a Good Night

Maria L B