Date/Time
Date(s) - November 10, 2020
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Categories
Please join UCWN on a Virtual Studio Tour! We will visit eight UCWN members who work in sculpture, painting, photography, jewelry, ceramics, glass, and graphic design, visiting the artists, viewing examples of their work and touring studios.
To encourage attendance, members may invite one guest at no charge.
Artists’ Bios
See full biographies of all the artists here.
Jerilyn Babroff has worked in art for over 40 years. She makes contemporary, whimsical ceramics that sell in galleries and stores worldwide. They are in many private collections, as well as the Jewish Museum in NYC. These days she has been painting on canvas with acrylic paint with the same whimsy as her ceramics. She likes to bring out the moments in life that have passion.
Sara Beames, and her husband Michael, produce hand-made, fused-glass Judaica, home accessories and jewelry. Beames Designs! work can be found in galleries and craft shops throughout the United States, as well as in Europe, South Africa, Australia, and Japan, and in Special Collections. Their goal is to create artwork that is functional, aesthetically appealing and accessibly priced.
Liz Horn and Ron Zukor have been making jewelry professionally since the 1970s. Studies have included such places as Hunter College, fine arts, The Jewellery Workshop, The Arts Students League, The Craft Students League, Parsons School of Design, and The Fashion Institute of Technology.
Judith Kerman, a poet, has designed and created books, jewelry, and small sculptural objects over many years. Her work is sold on Etsy.com at MayappleArts, and at the Woodstock Art Exchange. She is publisher, editor and designer at Mayapple Press, a small literary press.
Lissa Queeney Matthews studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in NYC and worked as a designer at Van Cleef & Arpels. She works in gold, silver, precious and semi-precious gems and teaches at Hudson Valley Silverworks in Kingston.
Basha Ruth Nelson, sculptor and installation artist, received her M.A. from New York University. Her solo exhibitions include the Noho Gallery, 60 Washington Square East Galleries, and the Project Space (NYC), York College in Queens, NY, Woodstock Artists Association & Museum, Woodstock NY.
Shelley Parriott’s Color Field Sculpture®, from miniature interior wall pieces to large-scale interactive works, speaks of the dichotomy and integration between our physical and spiritual aspects and the transitory nature of form. Exhibited in NYC, throughout the Hudson Valley and the U.S., and Europe, her work has received numerous honors and awards.
Naomi Schmidt has been a graphic designer for more than 30 years, working on websites and print. She has also worked in watercolors, sketching and batik. She enjoys the creative potential of website design.
Gloria Waslyn’s family of blue and gold macaws have been the primary subjects of her documentary photography. Gloria was a VP of the Professional Women’s Photography Association in NYC for years before moving upstate. Her exhibitions throughout NYC and at the United Nations focused exclusively on the portraits of people holding the peace parrots at various peace, ecology, and educational events.
Agenda
5:00 p.m. Open Chat with members and friends
5:30 p.m. Virtual Tour
6:30 p.m. Meeting ends
Zoom
Registration and tickets required. Members may attend at no charge and may bring one guest at the member price; guests are only $5. Once you register or purchase a ticket (see below), you will receive a confirmation email with the direct, unique, Zoom, hyperlinked text; the Zoom Meeting ID #; and Password. Please keep this email as you will need it to attend our Zoom event. One day before the event you will receive an email reminder with the needed information.
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Those who do not feel comfortable downloading the app (download here) or who may wish not to use video, may join by telephone. The Phone Numbers to Call into the conference event (audio only) will be listed on the Zoom registration confirmation, which will also contain the Zoom meeting ID # and password.
Consider Joining UCWN
If you are not yet a member, please consider joining UCWN now, so you can attend this webinar free of charge and enjoy other benefits for the next 12 months. Go to Join Now for sign up. If you’re not ready to join UCWN ($25 annual fee, rolling basis), you can attend this event for only $5.00 that helps defray some organization expenses, including our Zoom subscription fees. N.B.: Members must login with their email and password to attend for free. For problems logging in, email admin@ucwn.org.
We hope you’ll join this webinar so you can continue to engage with other UCWN members and friends while continuing to practice physical distancing as required to keep us safe.
Bookings
Bookings are closed for this event.