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Tavares Art in the Square to Feature Crealdé Artists Exhibit Opens May 6
Contact: Tamera Rogers, City of Tavares Community Services Phone: 352-742-6319
Tavares, FL (April 18, 2010) - Stop by Tavares to visit the newest “Art in the Square” exhibit featuring works from the faculty of Crealdé School of Art. The exhibit opens with a reception on Friday, May 6, 2011, 5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Tavares City Hall, 201 E. Main Street; admission is free.
Crealdé School of Art uses the visual arts as a means of connecting communities, fostering cultural awareness and promoting understanding. The core of their mission is that art is for everybody. Crealdé is a not-for-profit community arts organization located in Winter Park, Florida. Since 1975, Crealdé has provided accessible hands-on arts experiences to people throughout Central Florida.
The public is invited to view an eclectic mix of photography, sculpture, painting, ceramics and other mediums by 11 award winning Crealdé faculty members.
Tavares Art in the Square is a part of the Tavares Chamber of Commerce’s Art About Town event.
Visitors are encouraged to attend the Crealdé Exhibit on May 6, 2011 at 5:30 p.m. at City Hall, and then tour downtown businesses, where additional artworks will also be on display.
The Art in the Square, Tavares City Hall exhibit will be open to the public through July 5, 2011.
For information on the artists, contact Rick Lang at Crealdé School of Art, 407.719.5004 or email him at [email protected]
*Photos of select artwork and brief biographies are attached.
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City of Tavares Art in the Square
Exhibiting Artists from the Creadlé School of Art
May 5 - July 5, 2011
Ken Austin, Adjunct Faculty, Painting and Drawing
Ken Austin is the founder of the Central Florida Watercolor Society. Formerly president of the
Watercolor Art Society in Houston, Ken has been a watercolor teacher in the Orlando area for over 15 years, and is a signature member of the NWS and the FWS. His paintings have been juried into 18 national competitions, won five major awards in the last seven years, and are in private and corporate collections across the U.S. He is known from Texas to Florida for his supportive, informative, fun delivery, as well as his ability to inform students with valuable information and experience.
Brian Becker, Adjunct Faculty, Photography
Brian has a connection to Crealde that dates back to 1984 when he attended classes here. He was part of the Documentary Photography class: The Winter Park Documentary 1984 - 1985. From here he went on to study at VCC, New York University and the Art Students League. While studying in New York he took seminars from such photographic luminaries as Annie Leibovits, Ralph Gibson, Gregory Hiesler, Richard Avadon, A.D. Coleman, Eugene Richards, Eli Reed, and Ernst Haas. After his studies were over, he worked for noted photographers including Robert Farber and Bruce Davidson. In addition he worked as a printer, printing for collections of James van der Zee, Robert Farber and Walter Chapel. While working for the best photographers in New York City Brian produced his own photography and paintings that were offered for exhibition. He has a 23 year exhibition record including showing his work at the Orlando Museum of Art, Valencia Community College and the Florida Gulf Coast Art Center. While in New York he did work about the city streets and now he is doing a new project on the Orange Blossom Trail. Brian is well liked by his students, bringing them a mix of technique and aesthetics that expands their vision of what they can do photographically.
David Cumbie, Senior Faculty and Sculpture Garden Curator
David has been an active member of the Central Florida arts community for more than 29 years. In addition to showing in galleries and museums throughout the U.S. and Europe, he has created art for public places, including a bust of L. C. Jones at the Callahan Center in Orlando and life-size marble statues at the Church of the Annunciation in Altamonte Springs. Commissions include the Dick Butkus Award and the Pete Maravich Award for the National Collegiate Athletics Association.
Presently creating an annual NFL award for the Dick Butkus Foundation. In 2000, his work was included in an important exhibition of Central Florida Bronze Artists in Milan, Italy. At Crealdé, David directs the sculpture programming and Central Florida’s only community-based bronze foundry. He is curator of the sculpture garden, featuring more than 60 pieces of contemporary outdoor sculpture.
Belinda Glennon, Senior Ceramics Faculty and Youth Program Coordinator
Belinda joined the Crealdé faculty in 2002 and became the coordinator for the Youth Programs in 2009. Currently she teaches hand building for adults, wheel throwing for teens and has been the coordinator and primary instructor for on site, public school field trips for seven years. Belinda holds a bachelors and masters degree from the University of Central Florida.
Selected Exhibitions
1st Thursdays, Into the Wild, Orlando Museum of Art 2010
8th Annual Regional Juried Exhibition, Thomas Center Galleries, Gainesville, FL 2008 The Art of Tea, Jenkins Gallery, Crealdé 2008
Mad Hatters Tea Party, Armory Art Center, W. Palm Beach, FL, Purchase Award 2008 100% Pure Florida, 5th Avenue Art Gallery, Melbourne, FL 2007
Awards
Great Day in the Country, Oviedo, FL 3rd Place Fine Arts 2009 Windermere Art Festival 2nd Place Sculpture & Pottery 2009 Lucas Butterfly & Nature Art Festival, Oviedo, FL Best of Show 2008 Great Day in the Country, Oviedo, FL 2nd Place Best Craft 2007
Milton Heiberg, Senior Faculty, Photography
Until his move to Central Florida in 1998, Milton Heiberg was a New York City-based photographer working from his studio in midtown Manhattan. He began both his photographic and naturalist careers at age eight with a love of nature and a Kodak Brownie-Target box camera, and has been a tree hugging shutter-bug ever since.
He was educated at New York University and Cornell University—Graduate School of Biological Sciences, with further studies in ornithology at Rutgers University. Thousands of his photographs have appeared in books and magazines published by HarperCollins, Harcourt-Brace-Jovanovich, Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, Time-Warner, National Audubon Society, and National Geographic Society, among many others. His photographs have also been exhibited at places such as International Center for Photography—New York City, McGraw-Hill Building—New York City, Gray Advertising—
New York City, and The Israel Museum-Jerusalem, Israel.
Milton has written seven books and numerous articles on photography. The most recent is The Essentials of Nature Photography, Tern Book Company—a complete handbook of nature photography.
He is the founder of the Photo Committee at the New York City Audubon Society and served for four years on their Board of Directors. He has taught nature photography courses at New York City Audubon Society and various other institutions within New York City from 1980 until he moved to Orlando, Florida. He currently works out of his studio in Orlando, and teaches nature photography at the Crealdé School of Art, Winter Park, and at DPA (Digital Photo Academy—Panasonic/Lumix's national school of photography) as Central Florida's photo instructor. He is also currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Orange Audubon Society.
David Hunter, Adjunct Faculty, Painting and Drawing
David Hunter, a native of Central Florida, dabbled in all forms of two-dimensional art all of his life. In graduate school, while working on a master’s degree in zoology, it became necessary to illustrate his master’s thesis with pen-and-ink drawings. This experience, in turn, led to continued dabbling in the medium until another artist in the Central Florida area
recognized David’s potential with line drawing and suggested printmaking as a good direction. A one-day workshop cinched the deal and at the beginning of summer in 1978 David became a full-time artist focusing on printmaking.
As of today (2010), with a list of awards pages long, David still focuses primarily on printmaking and secondarily on painting. David has taught printmaking workshops across the Southeastern United States and currently teaches printmaking at Crealdé School of Art in Winter Park, Florida. David has been a full time artist since 1977 and is the co-founder of the Florida Printmakers Society. His work is widely published, exhibited and collected, including the London Maritime Museum.
Rick Lang, Director of Photography
Rick Lang has been exploring his personal vision for the past 35 years. Born in Santa Monica, California in 1954. He moved to Winter Park, Florida with his family in 1959. Since taking up photography in his senior year in high school, it has played a major role in his life ever since. After studying at Crealdé School of Art from 1984 to 1986, Rick started at the Southeast Center for Photographic Studies at Daytona State College where he graduated with honors in 1989. After graduation Rick worked as a commercial photographer and taught part time at Crealdé School of Art until in 1995 when he was named the Director of Photography. Lang has also taught at Valencia Community College and Daytona State College. During this time he pursued his personal
documentary work of the history and culture of Southeastern United States. As part of his work at Crealdé he has curated some of the most important photographic exhibitions at the school including A Shared Legacy: Documentary Photography of Florida from the 1930s and Today (2003).
Through the years Lang has become well known as a photographer, educator, and curator. His photographic work has been exhibited throughout the Eastern United States, including his solo exhibitions at the Baldwin Gallery, Middle Tennessee State University, and The Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi. His work is in numerous public and private collections including the State of Florida. Lang’s work is published in two books: We the People ...of Orange County and Small Town Orange County.
Rick Lang is well respected in the photographic community, as represented by the number of times that he is asked to judge art competitions or to lecture on a wide variety of photographic subjects.
Marie Orban, Senior Faculty, Painting and Drawing
Marie was born in Budapest, Hungary and studied classical ballet there for 12 years before coming to the United States in 1957 to work in dance and film in Los Angeles. She worked in movies, TV and on stage as a dancer until 1971 when she moved to Orlando. In Florida, she danced and taught dance classes at Walt Disney World and choreographed and staged shows for Tupperware.
Marie studied with master potters for 10 years and has practiced life drawing from models since 1967.
She attended Valencia Community College and the University of Central Florida where she received the B.F.A. in 1985. Marie has taught pottery at the Pine Castle Center for the Arts in Orlando, worked as a painter at Walt Disney World on EPCOT and at Tokyo Disney, designed and painted murals and currently works as a studio artist. She teaches creative drawing and figure drawing and figure painting at Crealdé.
Vincent Sansone, Director of Ceramics and Sculpture
Vince has more than 30 years of experience as a professional potter and arts educator. He received his Masters of Fine Arts in Ceramics from Southern Illinois University and studied at the Art Institute of Chicago. He joined the Three-Dimensional Art Department at Crealdé in the 1970s. Vince's whimsical creations have been exhibited throughout the United States, and are held in numerous private and public collections, including the Pine Castle Folk Art Center, SunTrust Bank, Orange County Public Library, and the City of Orlando. He is a four-time recipient of the United Arts of Central
Florida Individual Artist Recognition Award. He received an Honorable Mention from the State of Florida in 2000 for the Florida Individual Artist Fellowship Program.
Peter Schreyer, Senior Faculty, Photography; and Executive Director
Born and educated in Switzerland, Schreyer immigrated to the United States in 1978. He has served as the Executive Director of Crealdé School of Art in Winter Park, Florida since 1995, where he previously has been the Director of Photography. Over the last 30 years he has gained a diverse teaching experience in all levels of photography, including award-winning outreach projects in under- served communities.
Since 1980 Schreyer’s landscape and documentary photography has been included in over 100 one- person, juried and invitational exhibitions across the U.S. and in his native Switzerland. Most recently he has been honored with a major retrospective entitled Small Stories From A Big Country at the Swiss Camera Museum in Vevey, Switzerland, which featured over 80 of his American works. Mr.
Schreyer has received a wide range of public art commissions, research grants, and recognition awards for his black and white documentary photography on Florida communities. In 1993/94 he was one of three Central Floridians to receive a Visual Arts Fellowship Grant from the State of Florida.
He is the founder of the Hannibal Square Heritage Center, a newly established cultural facility that celebrates community heritage through documentary photography, oral history and public art. In 2009 he was named Arts Educator of the Year by United Arts of Central Florida.
The exhibited photographs are part of an ongoing series of cultural landscapes of northern New Mexico, a place the photographer has explored and photographed for over 30 years.
Henry Sinn, Director of Painting and Drawing
Henry Sinn was born in Florida in 1956 and lives in the Orlando area. He is Department Head of Painting and Drawing at Crealdé School of Art in Winter Park, FL. He received a B.A. in Painting from Rollins College in 1979 where he studied with Tom Peterson. He also studied extensively with local sculptor Grady Kimsey whom he regards as a mentor.
Sinn began exhibiting his work directly after graduating from Rollin College. He has held twelve solo shows since 1981. The venues include Valencia Community College, Seminole Community College, Crealdé School of Art, Maitland Art Center, Museum of Florida Art in DeLand, Davis-McClain Gallery in Houston, Texas and the Cameron-Cobb Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, among others. He also participated in a three-person show at Orlando Museum of Art.
In 2000, Sinn received an important public commission to create a floor mosaic at the 4th Airside Terminal at the Orlando International Airport. The piece entitled “Field of Ferns” measures 17 by 94 feet.
Sinn’s work is represented in over twenty significant corporate collections which include locally Orlando City Hall, Sun Bank Corporation in Orlando and the Cornell Museum in Winter Park. In Houston, Texas his work has been bought by Amoco Oil Corporation, Executive Offices of Century Development, Sunbelt National Bank and Harold Farb Company among others. His work can be seen at the Wyndham Hotel in Austin Texas, the Westin Hotel in Chicago and numerous Florida collections.
