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here is much to be said for knowing what you want out of life, creating a plan and sticking with your ultimate dream; few actually do. Pursuing your genuine happiness usually gets placed on a back burner as a family comes along, bills have to be paid and the years just sail by. Let's meet one man who decided that being an artist was the only thing in life that he was going to be and has not wandered from his passion while plugging through life's roadblocks, one boulder at a time. When I sat down and talked with Tom Lynch, listening to the obstacles he had faced, choosing the life of an artist ever since his childhood, I felt very inadequate. Mind you, Tom does not have one intimidating bone in his body, but showing us that there is a path to achieving what you want and working very hard to get there, makes Tom one of the greatest motivators and mentors that we have today.
By Kate Eglan-Garton
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Man behind the brush

As the author of seven books, Tom has also hosted several awardwinning PBS TV Art Series. Additionally, he is a main spokesperson for many of the major companies in association with the leading museums and art galleries; and is currently well known for his featured role at Art Academy Live, an international on-line education source, started in 2007 and growing in leaps and bounds. A patient individual who discovered teaching quite by accident, Tom teaches seminars on watercolor and how to find your own niche in painting. He began this career thirty-five years ago when, yes, he had to pay the bills and found the students fell in love with his techniques and motivational mannerisms. You can't help but feel the excitement of life when you are around Tom. He credits his ability of a service- oriented style and the forming of relationships to his first position in commercial graphic arts after his graduation from the American Academy of Art in Chicago, Illinois. But I think the personality was already there. The son of a railroad worker, there had been no artists that Tom could think of in his family and when he turned down scholarships in gymnastics and tennis to the several universities; his parents thought he was making a big mistake. You just didnt turn down a

National Art Materials Trade Association; is represented in many

sports even though he still stays active in gymnastics and running. After all, his wife has a gym where two of his children also work. He had to work his way through the American Academy of Art in Chicago by painting landscapes, cityscapes and illustrations. It was also during his younger years that Tom took his teaching on the road. A small resort in Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin was looking for someone to stir up some

seemed to be on the road so much. He rattled off a precise schedule of how many days he was gone, how many days he was home and why it worked so perfectly. I don't know

proclaimed, and proud of his ability to balance and spend time with kids, Tami, Traci, Michael and Alysha. He and wife, Linda, now manage the

many Dads that can go to a school play in the middle of the week at 2:00 pm , but I was there," Tom

Big Catch
14 x 19 watercolor paper

free ride to a college in the 60s. I did finally go to the University of Illinois, but it only lasted a year," said Tom.
He just did not want a career in

business and they thought that housing seminar attendees was a good angle. Thirty-one years later, not only is Tom still holding seminars at Dillman's Bay Resort, but also his children and grandchildren are carrying on the tradition of the once a year vacation. I asked Lynch if his work ever interfered with family since he

branch or along the side of a building but its always there.

same balancing act with six grandsons and two granddaughters. His family is always foremost in his thoughts as he shows when including his wifes name in every painting he has ever done. It might be in a tree

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And he has. John Pike, Ed Whitney and Robert E. Wood are examples of artists that Tom just had to learn from. His insatiable eagerness to learn was obvious to the Canadians, when 20 years ago, he was honored as the first American selected for Honorary Membership in the Canadian Watercolor Society. Just completing a workshop in Canada, Tom describes Canadian students as some of the best in North America. "They are so eager to learn, so grateful." He also makes one trip a year overseas to teach European students.

"Never stop learning," says Tom. "I am always the first one to a class and the last one to leave, even now. If I want to know something, I will drive across the country to find out."

Tom Lynch's art shows can be found in the Chicago area where he has made a recognizable name for himself and his work, many of which are limited editions. He also presents shows in Sedona, Arizona where he has a second home and travels the west coast He doesnt stray from his watercolor media but just recently, has begun the challenge of painting on a larger canvas, creating more than one focal point. I create

reframe a painting to enhance its look, build your shows as an experience around the room, never stop marketing. Toms list of future plans include a program on Art Academy Live for home schooling, a

success was based on. Offer to

they are. Some examples; each book that was written, being honored in the American Embassy in France with a one-man exhibition, making the drastic change from paper to canvas, starring in a PBS series on watercolor, and the list just goes on and on.

milestones that I want to meet and when they are met, I create a new one, says Lynch. And milestones,

You go that extra mile for customers, when asked what his

possible new series on PBS, an upcoming show in Chicago featuring cafes from around the world, and his release of 30x72 watercolors on canvas. If you ever have the opportunity to attend one of Tom Lynchs workshops, you will find an experience unmatched by any other. Visit his website for a list of dates and cities at www.tomlynch.com. You can also find more information on Art Academy Live and broadcast dates. Motivational leaders and great mentors in todays world are very hard to find so dont let this one pass you by.

Sainte James Cafe

24 x 36 watercolor on canvas

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Venice Light 30 x 60 watercolor on canvas

Rainbows 14 x 19 watercolor paper

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Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Bythemselves,concrete,stainlesssteelandgraniteconjurematerialsthatseemcoldand devoidofwarmth.Add40fttransparentwindows,apoolofshimmeringwaterover pebblescreatinglightandtexture,pavilionsofglassthatappeartofloatonwaterandthe resultisTheModernArtMuseumofFortWorthwhichopeneditsdoorsin2002,and designedbyworldknownarchitectTadaoAndo.Thoughthebuildingisnew,theModernis theoldestmuseuminTexasandoneofafewoldestinthewesternUnitedStates.
The Museum is designed with simple lines and windows transforming light within the galleries that showcase post-WWII era art. It houses more than 2,600 pieces of art ranging from photography and video to pop art. Picasso, Lichenstein, Andy Warhol, Thomas Ruff, Mark Rothko and Jacques Villegle are only a few of the artists that can be found in the long hallways or artfully constructed in simple rooms where the works reside. From the windows that create the museum, this piece of work can be seen from almost every angle and depending on the light one can see something new every time it is viewed. This spectacular 40x45x28 piece of work is titled, Conjoined, 2007 that was created by Roxy Paine. It is the third outdoor sculpture to be placed on the grounds of the Museum. The other two,

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Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 2 by Henry Moore and Richard Serras Vortex can be found as one enjoys the delights in this destination. Other works showcased in these long hallways are Carrie Mae Weems gelatin silver print from her Kitchen Table Series, Ron Muecks mixed media Seated Woman and Andy Warhols 1986 self portrait comprised of synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas. Kehinde Wileys Colonel and Prince Tommaso2 graced the museum as part of a special exhibit that came in the early spring and were so popular they continued to adorn the walls of the museum. Not to be outdone on the inside, the outside is also a work of modern art. As one walks on the exterior pavilion one is tempted to go wading in the cool waters encompassing the back of the museum. Pavilions that jut out from the main portion of the building appear to float on the pool having that one piece of art inside appear to go on forever. If a crystal pool of water does not take the breath away, their most recent acquisition would. Beautiful life-like trees created in stainless steel intertwine themselves together and are displayed across the shimmering pool. The Museum enjoys visiting artists and their pieces of works as well. Their recent summer program showcased Kara Walker My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love. It was a full-scale American Museum Survey that included her signature black cut-paper silhouettes and more than one hundred works on paper. The Survey also includes film animations. Inspiration for these works comes from Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Known World by Edward P. Jones, and Beloved by Toni

Morrison. It is art that is mature in nature depicting antebellum history of haunted by sexuality, violence, and subjugation. It is that playing off of stereotypes and subversion of the past that makes the works grotesque and mesmerizing at the same time. No Room to Answer: Teresa Hubbard/ Alexander Birchl will end in January 2009. Not only does it include colorsaturated photographs and slow-paced videos, but also black-and-white

Education Center that includes a studio and classrooms for hands-on art activities and lectures accommodating thousands of school children visiting the Museum. Lectures, film festivals and musical performances enjoy a 250-seat auditorium.

photography, sculpture, mixed-media installations and performance-based works. The works demonstrate their seemingly contradictory positions and their desire to be in the doing mode of operation. A better explanation by the artists, We have to see it, live it, and experience it. This particular program is no different with inspiration coming from expressions. I need room to think, or Ive got no room to speak here. The result is an artistic study of how the spatial becomes psychological. Currently on the exhibition agenda for July 2009 is William Kentridge: Five Themes. Born in 1955 in Johannesburg, artist Kentridge is a member of a prominent Jewish South African family. Since 1981, his work has been shown in over 165 exhibitions, and he is the recipient of numerous international awards. The exhibition features the first American presentation and catalogue of the new work Kentridge has created since 2000 that dramatically expands his technical innovations as an artist filmmaker, enlarges the scale of his work in stage design and installation art, and extends his themes beyond the impact of apartheid in South Africa. The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth also houses an

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With a hearty population of 82,000, Youngstown, Ohio, sets in the states northeast corner, ten miles from the Pennsylvania line. Not unlike many other cities located in the rust belt, the steel mill and coal mining industries attracted the working class, creating a boomtown many decades ago. Those days are gone now, residents left wondering what will replace the bustling activity that was once the major source of the towns existence. Although their principle work life cycle is quickly becoming history, the residents have no desire to jump ship. They have become a strong, dedicated community with very few finding reason to leave.
There is one organization that is a perfect example of citizen driven advancement regardless of economic climate. For forty plus years, Ballet Western Reserve has been a rock of the cultural scene in Youngstown, providing physical and aesthetic benefits to everyone, regardless of age. Visitors are quite surprised to find such an impressive, professional, and popular dance program continuing to take shape in Mahoning County, pulling in students from all over the country and attracting worldly instructors who have performed in large city and international theatres. Started in 1962, a group of parents decided to begin a dance program, providing an opportunity for anyone to develop the skills, experience, and discipline necessary for a professional career in dance. At that time, it was known as the Youngstown Symphony Ballet. In 1979, the Ballet was renamed Ballet Western Reserve and was incorporated as a regional company. Anita Lin served as Artistic Director from 1982 until 2007 and was instrumental in designing educational programs for all forms of dance. A professional dancer with the Cincinnati Ballet Company and the New Orleans Ballet Company, Anitas relentless achievements in collaboration with the Youngstown Symphony, Youngstown Playhouse, Pennsylvania Young Peoples Concerts and countless other strengthening groups, gave this organization a tremendous start to a healthy future. . Richard Dickinson, present Artistic Director, brought with him an extensive resume, when appointed in 2007. Past choreographer for the Boston Ballet, Chicago Ballet, Ohio Ballet and the Honolulu City Ballet, Dickinson, associated with Ballet Western Reserve since 1988, was perfect for the position that required juggling increased enrollments, program development and growing popularity as Ballet Western Reserve continues to grow and has become one of the most professional dance schools in the Midwest. Ballet, pointe, pas de deux, creative movement, pre-ballet, modern, jazz, hip -hop, pilates, and yoga are many of the different forms of dance available to learn, taught by a professional staff, some of whom are past students. Ages range from three years of age to adult with instructors specializing in different areas and age groups. Watch for Youngstown to become a well-known institution of professional dance accreditation, replacing a past of brawn with ballet and education, in a cultural sense, into the next century and beyond. Whether the town grows toward technology, education, energy or manufacturing, the foundation has been laid to keep this city vibrant and alive in education and community support. Located at 218 West Boardman Street, the Ballet office and studio hours range from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., six days per week. For more information, telephone 330-744-1934 or see www.balletwesternreserve.org

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Muffler people brighten up a dreary highway

When a small muffler shop on the highway near Walters, Oklahoma, started piling old, beat-up mufflers around their store sign, they didnt realize they were laying the foundation for an attention-getting art display that would bring lots of good publicity to their business. Beverly Scott, art teacher at MacArthur Junior High School in Lawton, Oklahoma, had passed the Hathaway and Simpson Muffler Man Shop many times, idly noting the ever-growing pile of old mufflers. One day she realized that this was a potential art project for her students, who had just finished studying cartooning and commercial art and were discussing ways to advertise products in unusual ways using graphic art.
cott had often thought how funny it would be if the mufflers piled under the sign all had faces painted on them. She had even considered stopping by the shop with a paintbrush to make her daydream a reality. Now she realized that her students could amuse the community and brighten up the muffler shop while learning more about advertising art. The shop owners laughingly agreed to be part of the unusual assignment, and hauled over 100 old mufflers to the school on a trailer. Each art student chose what they felt was the perfect muffler for his or her project. he artists began by doing a rough draft of their muffler person. Some students sanded and cleaned rust off their mufflers, while others used any defects, rust, or dings as

part of the design. There was a lot of thinking, and even more laughing as the muffler people took shape. Hats and wigs were brought from home, and the mufflers took on real personalities. Some students took their mufflers home to do extra work on them. More than one puzzled mother asked the school, Can anyone tell me what a muffler is doing in my living room? hen the project was finished, the muffler people were displayed in the halls of the school for a week so that everyone could enjoy them before they went back to the muffler shop. Prizes were awarded for the best mufflers, but many people said that every muffler deserved an award for creativity. Then the mufflers were returned to the muffler shop and stacked around the signpost once more.

The muffler shop owners were more than delighted with the results of the project. They donated $100 to the schools art fund. The excitement didnt stop there. The local newspaper ran an article on the muffler people, and the Lawton television station came out to film them. The only problem seemed to be that motorist had a hard time keeping their eyes on the road while they were laughing at the artwork on the mufflers. his unusual art project not only drew positive attention to a small muffler business, it brightened up a rather dreary section of highway and served as a junior high art display that the entire community, as well as people just passing through, could enjoy.

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Door Corps
Series Three - mixed media

"Their shape is a symbol. They could represent so many phases that one could go through in life's journey. A closing, a new beginning, a passage or transition--so many possibilities."

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Photographs of brightly painted doors march through a combination of oil and watercolor canvas titled Door Corps. A lily in vibrant hues of red, orange and yellow in quantifying detail stands out on a dark bluish-black silk backdrop titled Gloriosa Lily. These are only two of the paintings that make Peggy Milburn Brown a popular and award-winning artist.

A life undressed
By Colleen Ayala
aised in Chattanooga, attending school at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, and meeting her husband, who retired a Lt. Colonel in the Air Force, she sighs happily, I went literally off into the sunset. As an artist and military wife she dabbled in everything from ceramics, pottery, lithography and paintings on silk while raising her children and moving around the United States. After settling in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1980s, her husband suggested she take art classes at Auburn University and there she received her degree. However, before I could begin my second career, we were relocated to Copenhagen. In Copenhagen, she was Community Liaison Officer at the American Embassy and began her art career oversees. She designed the Ambassadors Christmas cards, created pen and ink invitations, and even

took time out to hold her first onewoman art show. The successful show featured paintings on silk and

lithography making her a name in the Dutch art community. Some of her pieces are displayed in the Royal Greenland Trade Company in Copenhagen. After three years of success overseas, they were reassigned to Montgomery, Alabama and never left. She became a freelance art director and obtained a position at the University of Montgomery as their first graphic designer. She later taught the first graphic design classes at the University finally retiring two years ago to further pursue her art career. She loves to experiment and at the moment has found great success in experimenting with mixed media where she pushes all to the limit. Her third door series beginning with Door Corps allows her to get into the messy side of art - dirtying up
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her hands in print making, watercolor, collage, and relief printing; sometimes all on one canvas. Peggy has people tell her Oh, youre the one who paints the doors, and laughingly tells me , I am fast becoming The Door Lady. However, she is not limiting herself to doors. Her newest work is using Prismacolor. After using the waxy colored pencil she mashes, the strokes and blends them together so they play together nicely in a technique called Burnish. Her favorite Prismacolor drawings feature the Vietnamese Gooseneck Gourds. These large 20x20 pieces of art are minimal but very detailed. In October of 2007, she completed 45 different pieces of work for another successful onewoman art show at the Performance Center in Selma, Alabama. She will be working with another artist to have a show again in the Center. This exhibit will focus on her mixed media pieces of work and her watercolors. When not preparing for shows, Peggy spends her time traveling, teaching workshops or creating pieces in her workspace, PM Brown Studio. Door Corps and Up from the Depths were recently chosen for an exhibition by the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art for their Biennial Celebration. More work is showing at Selma Art Guild Gallery in Selma, Alabama and Black Belt Treasures, Camden, Alabama. Her one love is to leave the viewer to determine what they see. So what is it you see when you look at colors that appear to change, in a set of vibrant tulips titled, Springtime - or Santa Fe doors against an abstract Rio Grande Gorge in John-Wayne Doesnt Live Here Anymore? The choice is yours. 36 - The Art-to-Art Palette - Main Section - 2008-09 Fall/Winter Edition

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Gloriosa Lily
silk painting Top right:

The Business End

Prismacolor Center

Springtime
watercolor Bottom left:

No Way Out
mixed media

efore photography, no one was really sure how animals and people moved during fast action. This resulted in a lot of racing paintings in which the horses looked like rocking horses with front and rear legs sticking straight out.

It took a bet made by a wealthy man with a stable of horses to settle the question of exactly how a race horse moved while running. In 1872, Leland Stanford, a former governor, bet a friend $25,000 that a race horse had all four feet off the ground at one time at some point during its running gait. He hired photographer Eadweard Muybridge to photograph Occident, a famous trotting horse in Stanfords stable in San Francisco. Although Muybridge invented a special fast shutter and covered the track with white sheets to provide extra light, the wet-plate Horse in Motion {1878} photograph by Eadweard Muybridge. The first successful photo process of the photographs of a moving horse. The horse Sallie Gardner, owned by Leland Stanford, is time was too slow to shown running at a 1.40 gait over Palo Alto track. give proof. However, the photos taken indicated that Stanford was right, so Photographing animal and fitted with a drop shutter triggered Muybridge was asked to continue. human locomotion became by a spring or rubber band. From The process was postponed for a Muybridges main interest. With each camera a fine wire was few years first because Muybridge support from the University of stretched across the track, activated was photographing the Modoc Pennsylvania, he took more than by the iron rim of the wheel of the Indian War at the California-Oregon 100,000 photographs from 1872 to sulky, which closed an electrical border and then again because 1885. These showed not only people circuit, releasing the shutters one Muybridge shot and killed his wifes in motion, but also domestic dogs, after another. lover. He was acquitted by a jury, cats and horses as well as moose, elk, To photograph the mare Sallie but felt it wise to leave the country bear, raccoon, lion, tiger, monkey Gardner, fine black threads were for a while. and birds. He published eleven placed across the track at intervals of In June 1878, Stanford invited the volumes showing animal 27 inches, striking her breast high media to witness Muybridge locomotion, and in 1901 he and releasing the shutters. The photographing a trotting horse and published The Human Figure in resulting photographs proved racing mare, using a new technique Motion. conclusively that the four feet of a with which they hoped to capture Muybridges books are still used galloping hose are all off the ground the animals with all four legs off the as reference by educators, at one time only when they are ground. To photograph the trotter, anatomists, students and artists. bunched together under the animals twelve cameras were set up, each belly. The Art-to-Art Palette - Main Section - 2008-09 Fall/Winter Edition - 37

The mission of the Erie Art Museum is to maintain an institution of excellence dedicated to the promotion and advancement of the visual arts by developing and maintaining a quality art collection by encouraging art in all its forms by fostering lifelong art learning by building community among artists, art students and the public.
The 100-year old Erie Art Museum anchors downtown Erie, Pennsylvanias cultural and economic revitalization, occupying a group of restored mid-19th century commercial buildings, including an outstanding 1839 Greek Revival Bank. It maintains an ambitious program of 15 to 18 changing exhibitions annually and holds a collection of over 6,000 objects, which includes significant works in American ceramics, Tibetan paintings, Indian bronzes, contemporary baskets, and a variety of other categories. In addition, the Museum offers a wide range of education programs and artists services including interdisciplinary and interactive school tours and a wide variety of classes. Performing arts are showcased in the 24-year-old Contemporary Music Series, which represents national and international performers of serious music with an emphasis on composer/performers, and a popular annual two-day Erie Art Museum Blues & Jazz Festival scheduled in August 2009.

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Erie Art Museum

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