Catherine Whall Smith . . . suggests two “Save the Dates”

Posted on March 9, 2020 by Catherine Whall Smith

#1 – Up Date on “Thread Count”* Gallery talk by Clara Nartey.  Thursday, March 12th, 5:30 – 6:30 Clara Nartey will be giving a lecture titled, “A Brand New You”: How to Effectively Create Your Personal Artist Brand Online.

*From January 11th – March 31st, 2020 Hartford Fine Art and Framing, has filled their gallery with color, warmth and life! “Thread Count” includes  beautiful fiber, quilting and felting artwork of five extremely talented artists: Judy Ross, Kate Themel, Diane Cadrain, Clara Nartey, and Catherine Whall Smith. All of the pieces hanging on display would make a wonderful addition to any art collection, so stop in between now and March 31st to see what’s hanging!  Featuring:  Clara Nartey  claranartey.com/  :Diane Cadrain  dianecadrain.com/ :Catherine Whall Smith  catherinewhallsmith.com/   :Judy Ross artquiltsbyjudyross.com :Kate Themel  http://katethemel.com/

#2 – Since NATIONAL QUILTING DAY is Saturday, March 21st, why not see some quilts at the OPENING RECEPTION of “Local Color: Rails, Roads & Rivers” celebrating the range of metaphors evoked by human-built and nature-carved modes of movement and transportation and the people who build and/or use them. The Studio Art Quilt Associates CT Regional Exhibition will be on view at Windsor Art Center, Windsor, CT – March 21 – April 25​​. Opening Reception: March 21​st 5pm – 7pm.

“Sanctuary in the City” (30H x 40W) by Rita Hannafin.AllRightsReserved

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Catherine Whall Smith . . . thinks it’s time to move and don’t forget Saturday’s demo by Kate Themel

Posted on February 24, 2020 by Catherine Whall Smith

Time to move to another color palette.  Red, red, and more RED, that color in a variety of prints has dominated my work in my “Transfusion” series for quite awhile.  But as you can see below, there are some new colors emerging.  Beautiful Pat Pauly ( http://piecesandresistance.blogspot.com) and Carol Eaton  (http://carolreatondesigns.blogspot.com) hand dyes as well as commercial prints in golds and greens.  My design wall is now full of fabric ideas.  I’ve added some of my photo images of hay bales, some covered in white plastic and interesting images of a corn crib door and farm equipment.  Time to let that “perk” until I am ready to start creating and stitching the next piece.

  Reminder:  The next “Thread Count” lecture at the Hartford Fine Art and Framing Gallery https://hartfordfineart.com/events/thread-count/ will be Saturday, February 29th, 11 am – 1 pm.  Kate Themel will be demonstrating her sewing machine techniques, using a camera and projector for all to watch as she works.  A not to be missed event.

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Catherine Whall Smith . . . shares “Thread Count” demo and lectures for February and March 2020

Posted on February 12, 2020 by Catherine Whall Smith

There is a lot going on at the Hartford Fine Art and Framing Gallery. “Thread Count” Winter 2020 Lecture Series and Demonstrations are free to all artists and art lovers. Check out Facebook for up-dates. https://www.facebook.com/hartfordfineartandframing/
Sat.  Feb. 15th, 11AM – 1PM: Diane Cadrain – will be performing a demo using her unique felting and sewing techniques to create an image.
Saturday, February 29th, 11AM – 1PM:- Kate Themel
Thursday, March 12th, 5:30 – 6:30PM: Clara Nartey
Saturday, March 28th, 11AM – 1PM: Judy Ross

So if you haven’t had a chance to stop by the Hartford Fine Art and Framing Gallery in East Hartford to view all the Fiber Art in “Thread Count”, this Saturday might be the day!

 

Reminder: The Mystic Museum of Art in Mystic, Connecticut is hosting their 2020 Members and Elected Artists Exhibition through March 29th; as well as the “Six by Six” Elected Artist show which is up and will continue through April 4th – 2020. My pieces in this show are shown below.  Each one is part of my “Transfusion” series. 

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Catherine Whall Smith . . . shares her trip to the Mystic Museum of Art today

Posted on February 2, 2020 by Catherine Whall Smith

So, if you remember, during July 2019 I shared my post  “Catherine Whall Smith . . enjoys-driving-the-back-roads-of-connecticut.  At that time the plastic covered hay bales were dressed up with bunny ears and sunglasses. Today I drove that same road and guess what – Mr. Bunny is now Mr. Snowman .

So perfect since this Winter we have been pretty much “snow-less” in Connecticut.  The purpose for my trip today was to hang my pieces in the MMoA “Six by Six” invitational Show and Sale of Art.  On view form February 2nd – April 4th, in the Schuster Gallery (MM0A). All of the art is for sale, you will need to contact the artist to purchase a piece in the show. Artists contact information is available at the museum.

Here are some images from the installation of that show.

The artists hanging their art

Steve pounding the hanging hooks

The “Transfusion” pieces hung on my 6 foot section of the Schuster Gallery.

The top piece is “Transfusion #3” (41H x 71W) which has been hand-quilted. Each one of the “PARTS” (below “Transfusion #3) have been mounted on 12 x 12 x 1.5 inch canvas.  The 1.5 depth adds some interest to each “PART” and gives me a chance to extend the viewers eye to the canvas sides with the addition of some wonderful fabrics.

 Hope you will be able to get down to visit the “6X6” show as well as the Annual Members/ Elected Artists Exhibition which is on view from January 30th – March 29th, 2020.

 

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Catherine Whall Smith . . . shares “Thread Count” – Opening Day!

Posted on January 26, 2020 by Catherine Whall Smith

Opening day  – https://www.instagram.com/p/B7wVuFwJ6AL/ – post from the Hartford Fine Art & Framing Gallery;  “What a great turnout!!! “Thread Count” had it’s opening reception on Saturday and it was a massive success!! Thank you so much Clara Nartey, Kate Themel, Catherine Whall Smith, Judy Ross and Diane Cadrain for letting us hang your amazing artwork in our gallery space. It’s been an honor working with you all!! Stay tuned for demo schedules and our “Piece of the Week” series, where we feature some of the beautiful fiber art that is showing in our gallery right now! ” Note: Demo Days – so far Kate Themel is scheduled for Saturday, February 29th: and Judy Ross for Saturday, March 28th, 2020.

See the whole show via Clara Nartey’s post; https://claranartey.com/thread-count-fiber-art-exhibition/.

 

Next week I will be hanging more of my “Transfusion” series pieces at the Mystic Museum of Art, Mystic, CT.  New for 2020 will be a museum store and a series of shows by Elected Artist members. The first “Six by Six” Invitational Show and Sale of Art in the Shuster Gallery will include; Ralph Acosta, Catherine Whall Smith, Joan(J.R.) Dill, Mary Gazda, Catherine Weiss, and, R. Douglass Rice. Dates: February 2nd – April 4th.

Beautiful sunny day, go see some art!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Catherine Whall Smith’s New Year’s Resolutions include . . . working at a slower pace???

Posted on January 4, 2020 by Catherine Whall Smith

Happy New Year 2020! A year that I resolved to work at a slower pace, but maybe that is not what will happen.  Starting January 11th thru March 31st, 2020 my Fiber Art will be included in “Thread Count” an Invitational Show and Sale of art by Five Connecticut Fiber Artists at The Gallery at Hartford Fine Art, 80 Pitkin Street East Hartford, CT 06108  (860) 528-1409.  OPEN:  Monday thru Friday 9:30AM – 5:30PM Saturday 9:30AM – 3:00PM. On view will be works from the following artists;

Diane Cadrain   https://www.dianecadrain.com/

Judy Ross   https://artquiltsbyjudyross.com/

Clara Nartey   https://www.ClaraNartey.com

Catherine Whall Smith https://catherinewhallsmith.com/

Kate Themel   http://katethemel.com/about-kate-themel/

Please join us for the OPENING RECEPTION on Saturday, January 25th, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.  So, what’s your new year’s resolution?

 

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Catherine Whall Smith . . . is getting ready for a “Simplified” Thanksgiving 2019

Posted on November 27, 2019 by Catherine Whall Smith

This Thanksgiving my focus is to “Simplify . . . Simplify . . . Simplify”. We will host Thanksgiving dinner again this year – but in addition to the whole turkey we will edit it to it’s parts. One whole turkey and one turkey breast should do it.

The table is almost set;

My art in 2019 has also been reflective of this idea. “Transformation #3 (41H x 71W) shown below was “carved ” into it’s PARTS;Here are the PARTS

         Each mounted 12″ x 12″ PART copies a section in the larger “Transformation #3”.

So, Happy Thanksgiving 2019 and enjoy all the that this holiday has to offer.

P. S. After all that turkey, if you get the feeling that you need to “Get Me Out of Here” – (shown right) don’t forget to head out to visit the artists that are participating in the 2019 Artists Open Studios of Northeast Connecticut – November 29, 30, December 1, 7, & 8 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.  https://www.aosct.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Catherine Whall Smith . . . is thinking only two more days to see “American Barns and Farms”

Posted on September 24, 2019 by Catherine Whall Smith

Hard to believe that September will be over soon and so will the “American Barns and Farms” art show at Arts of Tolland  https://artsoftolland.org/home/events-calendar/.  On Wednesday, Sept. 25th the center will be open from 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. and again on Saturday, Sept. 28th from 10:00 a.m.- 2:00 p.m. Stop by if you can!

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Catherine Whall Smith . . . invites you to the Opening of “American Barns and Farms”

Posted on August 29, 2019 by Catherine Whall Smith

Please join us as we celebrate the Opening of “AMERICAN BARNS AND FARMS,” our two person exhibit at the Arts of Tolland Gallery, 22 Tolland Green, Tolland, CT 06084, Opening Reception: Saturday, September 7, from 2 – 4 pm.

The show runs until September 28. Gallery hours are Saturdays 10 – 2, and Wednesdays 2 – 5 pm. We plan to be at the gallery on these days to demonstrate our creative processes. Hope you can stop by!

“Big Sky,” oil on canvas, 30 x 30″ by Jane Collins
http://www.JaneCollinsArt.com

 

“Are You Leaning to the Right” fabric art 12 x 12″ by Catherine Whall Smith
http://www.CatherineWhallSmith.com

 

 

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Catherine Whall Smith . . . thinks there is still time!

Posted on August 13, 2019 by Catherine Whall Smith

My last post included the “Bunny with the Sunglasses” picture from Ledyard CT.  Next Monday, August 19th, I will once again pass by that installation art to pick up my piece at the Mystic Museums of Art. “Blue Bloods” Transfusion #8 (42H x 42W) shown here  is in two parts connected by fabric lines that allow you to see the wall behind it.  The piece is in their back gallery, on the far wall where it has a lot of impact. The two framed pieces on either side work beautifully with my large piece. So, thank you to the person who hung The Mystic Museum of Art Member’s & Elected Artist Exhibition on view until Saturday, August 17th, 2019.   If you should head down to Mystic, CT you will also be able to take in the yearly Sidewalk Sale in Downtown Mystic (just a short walk from the Museum) – August 16th, 17th, and 18th https://thisismystic.com/event/downtown-mystic-sidewalk-sale-2019/.  Enjoy the drive!

NOTE:  During September, I will be participating in a joint show at the Tolland Art Center (TAC) in Tolland, CT. “American Barns and Farms” includes Oil Paintings by Jane Collins and my scenic Fiber Art. Opening Reception is Saturday, September 7th 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.  On Saturdays during the month of September Jane and I will also be doing  demonstrations on how we each use our different mediums in creating our art.

 

 

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