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Robinet Christian
I am a visual artist working in a multi-media mode–incorporating paint, pastels, beading, embroidery and found objects.
Twenty-six years ago, I started to make jewelry, necklaces, earrings, bracelets, sculptures–and this has been one of my most rewarding endeavors. At first, I sold to co-workers, then I became a sidewalk merchant (it was so enlightening to discuss these creations with others).
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Cheryl Patrice Derricotte
(Artist Cheryl Patrice Derricotte)
In the late 1990’s Cheryl Patrice Derricotte returned to art. In 1999, she began attending the Corcoran College of Art and Design during evenings and weekends, studying under the guidance of renowned ceramicist Margaret Boozer (www.margaretboozer.com) and the wonderful stone sculptor/educator, the late Slaithong ‘Somsri’ Smutzhart.
At the encouragement of Tate (2003), she began learning glass-blowing at the Penland (NC) School of Crafts , where she studied large-scale glass with Therman Statom (www.thermanstatom.com). While on vacation later that year, she followed up with a beginning cane workshop at the Bay Area Glass Institute with Treg Silkwood (www.silkwoodglass.com).
The next year (2004) Cheryl received Penland’s Christy Wright Scholarship in Glass and returned for a two-month cane and murrine concentration with Claire Kelly and Anthony Shafermeyer(www.schafermeyerkellyglass.com).
Cheryl recently completed a two-day intensive using text and imagery on glass with Susan Taylor Glasgow(www.taylorglasgow.com) at the Pittsburgh Glass Center (2007).
Commenting on her visual arts education Cheryl says:
‘I appreciate the experience of learning in non-traditional settings from these wonderful teachers who are some of the greatest artists of our time. Whether a one-day workshop or the rarer two-month sojourn, I always leave their company inspired and ready to make new and better work when I come home to my own little studio.’
A native Washingtonian, Cheryl Patrice Derricotte’s work has been exhibited widely in the Washington , DC metropolitan region. Her work has been a juried inclusion in ‘Terrestrial Forces’ at the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts (October 2004); ‘Contemporary Glass’ at the San Francisco Airport Museum (June 2005-January 2006) and Zenith Gallery Presents: ‘Washington Glass’ (2007) and ‘Black Matter’ (2008).
Ms. Derricotte was the recipient of a 2005 D.C. Commission on the Arts & Humanities/National Endowment for the Arts ‘Artist Fellowship’ grant.
More about Ms. Derricotte:
www.cityglassworks.com
Synthia Saint James
(Artist/ Author Synthia Saint James)
Self-taught Artist/Author, Synthia SAINT JAMES was born in 1949 in Los Angeles, California. Her professional career as an artist began in 1969 in New York City where she sold her first commissioned paintings.Today she is an internationally recognized fine artist. You’ll find her work on over 60 book covers (including books by Alice Walker, Terry Mc Millan, Iyanla Vanzant and Julia Boyd), and on several licensed products.
Since 1990, she has completed over 50 commissions for major organizations, corporations and individual collectors, including The House of Seagram, Brigitte Matteuzzi’s School of Modern Jazz Ballet (Geneva, Switzerland), the Mark Taper Forum, The Los Angeles Women’s Foundation, Kayser-Roth/Maybelline, Essence Magazine’s 25th Anniversary, The American Library Association, UNICEF, Dance Africa, The Girl Scouts of the USA’s 85th Anniversary, Attorney Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr., and The United States Postal Service, who commissioned her to create the first Kwanzaa Stamp, made available on October 22, 1997 with the first issue day ceremony at the Natural History Museum in Los Angeles.
The Kwanzaa Stamp has been reissued as a 37 cents stamp. She has also completed commissions for Coca Cola for “The Lady of Soul Awards”, for the American Dance Legacy Institute in honor of Donald Mc Kayle’s Ballet “Rainbow ‘Round My Shoulder”, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles, in honor of the late Congressman Julian Dixon, Children’s Institute International, Crystal Stairs, Maryland’s Human Resource Department, the International Association of Black Professional Fire Fighters, in tribute to the 12 Black Fire lost in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, and for many other non-profit organizations.
She has 13 Children’s picture books currently on the market, three of which she wrote, “The Gifts of Kwanzaa” and “Sunday” (A Parents Choice Silver Honor Book) published by Albert Whitman (&) Company and “It’s Kwanzaa Time” (a lift the flap book) published by Simon & Schuster. She received a 1997 Coretta Scott King Honor for her illustrations in “Neeny Coming, Neeny Going” published by Bridgewater Book and 4 activity books co-authored with Bunny Hull, published by Dream A World. She also has 2 books of poetry and prose, “Girlfriends” published by Peter Pauper Press and “Can I Touch You: Love Poems and Affirmations” an audio book, and a multi-cultural cookbook “Creative Fixings from the Kitchen” published by Persnickety Press.
SAINT JAMES architectural designs include a 2?8?x150 foot tile mural for Ontario International Airport, 6 elevator doors for the East End Complex in Sacramento, CA, 3 stained glass windows for the West Tampa Library, Tampa, FL, and a 4×7 foot tile mural for Cowan Elementary School. She also created a original 3×6 foot painting for Glendale Memorial Hospital in Glendale, CA. She has received numerous awards for her outstanding contributions to children’s books and other humanitarian activities.
Sisters in Spirit
(Sisters in Spirit by Synthia Saint James)
Synthia is offering all Sisters connected with the
Afro European Sisters Network a special 25% discount on “Sisters In Spirit”($10 towards shipping expense is added into the 25% off price) . The retail prices are $500 for the Giclee on Paper and $650 for the Giclee on Canvas. Both are signed and numbered Limited Editions.
To Purchase go to:
www.synthiasaintjames.com/gallery.html
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the Afro European Sisters Network
More about Synthia Saint James
www.synthiasaintjames.com
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