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here is much to be said for knowing what you want out of life, creating aplan and sticking with your ultimate dream; few actually do. Pursuingyour genuine happiness usually gets placed on a back burner as a familycomes along, bills have to be paid and the years just sail by. Let's meetone man who decided that being an artist was the only thing in life thathe was going to beand has not wanderedfrom his passion whileplugging through life'sroadblocks, oneboulder at a time.When I sat down andtalked with Tom Lynch,listening to theobstacles he hadfaced, choosing the lifeof an artist ever sincehis childhood, I feltvery inadequate.Mind you, Tom doesnot have oneintimidating bone inhis body, but showingus that there is a pathto achieving what youwant and working veryhard to get there,makes Tom one of thegreatest motivators andmentors that we havetoday.By Kate Eglan-Garton

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Man behind the brushAs the author of seven books, Tom

has also hosted several award-

winning PBS TV Art Series.Additionally, he is a mainspokesperson for many of the majorcompanies in association with theNational Art Materials TradeAssociation; is represented in manyleading museums and art galleries;and is currently well known for hisfeatured role atArt Academy Live, aninternational on-line educationsource, started in 2007 andgrowing in leaps and bounds.

A patient individual whodiscovered teaching quite byaccident, Tom teaches seminarson watercolor and how to findyour own niche in painting. Hebegan this career thirty-fiveyears ago when, yes, he had topay the bills and found thestudents fell in love with histechniques and motivationalmannerisms. You can't help but

feel the excitement of life whenyou are around Tom. He creditshis ability of a service- orientedstyle and the forming ofrelationships to his first positionin commercial graphic arts afterhis graduation from theAmerican Academy of ArtinChicago, Illinois. But I think thepersonality was already there.

The son of a railroadworker, there had been no

artists that Tom could think of in hisfamily and when he turned downscholarships in gymnastics and tennisto the several universities; his parentsthought he was making a bigmistake. You just didnt turn down afree ride to a college in the 60s. I didfinally go to the University of Illinois,but it only lasted a year,"said Tom.He just did not want a career in

sports even though he still stays activein gymnastics and running. After all,

his wife has a gym where two of hischildren also work. He had to workhis way through theAmericanAcademy of Artin Chicago bypainting landscapes, cityscapes andillustrations. It was also during hisyounger years that Tom took histeaching on the road. A small resortin Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin waslooking for someone to stir up some

business and they thought thathousing seminar attendees was agood angle. Thirty-one years later,not only is Tom still holding seminarsat Dillman's Bay Resort, but also hischildren and grandchildren arecarrying on the tradition of the once ayear vacation.

I asked Lynch if his work everinterfered with family since he

seemed to be on the road so much.He rattled off a precise schedule of

how many days he was gone, howmany days he was home and why itworked so perfectly. I don't knowmany Dads that can go to a schoolplay in the middle of the week at2:00 pm , but I was there," Tomproclaimed, and proud of his abilityto balance and spend time with kids,Tami, Traci, Michael and Alysha.He and wife, Linda, now manage the

same balancing act with sixgrandsons and two granddaughters.His family is always foremost in histhoughts as he shows when includinghis wifes name in every painting hehas ever done. It might be in a treebranch or along the side of abuilding but its always there.

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"Never stop learning," says Tom."I am always the first one to a classand the last one to leave, even now.If I want to know som ething, I willdrive across the country to find out."And he has. John Pike, Ed

Whitney and Robert E. Wood areexamples of artists that Tom just hadto learn from. His insatiableeagerness to learn was obvious to theCanadians, when 20 years ago, hewas honored as the first Americanselected for Honorary Membership inthe Canadian Watercolor Society.Just completing a workshop inCanada, Tom describes Canadianstudents as some of the best in NorthAmerica. "They are so eager to learn,so grateful." He also makes one tripa year overseas to teach Europeanstudents.

success was based on. Offer toreframe a painting to enhance itslook, build your shows as anexperience around the room, neverstop marketing. Toms list of futureplans include a program onArtAcademy Livefor home schooling, apossible new series on PBS, anupcoming show in Chicago featuring

cafes from around the world, and hisrelease of 30x72 watercolors oncanvas.

If you ever have the opportunity tattend one of Tom Lynchs workshopyou will find an experienceunmatched by any other. Visit hiswebsite for a list of dates and cities awww.tomlynch.com. You can alsofind more information on ArtAcademy Live and broadcast dates.Motivational leaders and great

mentors in todays world are veryhard to find so dont let this one passyou by.

Tom Lynch's art shows can befound in the Chicago area where hehas made a recognizable name forhimself and his work, many of whichare limited editions. He also presentsshows in Sedona, Arizona where hehas a second home and travels thewest coast He doesnt stray from hiswatercolor media but just recently,

has begun the challenge of paintingon a larger canvas, creating morethan one focal point. I createmilestones that I want to meet andwhen they are met, I create a newone,says Lynch. And milestones,they are. Some examples; each bookthat was written, being honored in theAmerican Embassyin France with aone-man exhibition, making thedrastic change from paper to canvas,starring in a PBS series on

watercolor, and the list just goes onand on.You go that extra mile forcustomers,when asked what his

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The Museum is designed with simplelines and windows transforming light withinthe galleries that showcase post-WWII eraart. It houses more than 2,600 pieces of artranging from photography and video to popart. Picasso, Lichenstein, Andy Warhol,Thomas Ruff, Mark Rothko and JacquesVillegle are only a few of the artists that can

be found in the long hallways or artfullyconstructed in simple rooms where theworks reside.

From the windows that create themuseum, this piece of work can be seenfrom almost every angle and depending onthe light one can see something new everytime it is viewed. This spectacular 40x45x28piece of work is titled, Conjoined, 2007 thatwas created by Roxy Paine. It is the thirdoutdoor sculpture to be placed on thegrounds of the Museum. The other two,

M odern A rt M useum of Fort W orthBythemselves,concrete,stainlesssteelandgraniteconjurematerialsthatseemcoldand

devoidofwarmth.Add40fttransparentwindows,apoolofshimmeringwaterover

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Two Piece Reclining Figure No. 2 byHenry Moore and Richard SerrasVortex can be found as one enjoys thedelights in this destination.

Other works showcased in these longhallways are Carrie Mae Weems gelatinsilver print from her Kitchen TableSeries,Ron Muecks mixed mediaSeated Woman and Andy Warhols 1986self portrait comprised of syntheticpolymer paint and silkscreen ink on

canvas.Kehinde Wileys

Colonel andPrince Tommaso2graced themuseum as part ofa special exhibitthat came in theearly spring andwere so popularthey continued toadorn the walls ofthe museum.

Not to beoutdone on theinside, the outside is also a work ofmodern art. As one walks on the exteriorpavilion one is tempted to go wading inthe cool waters encompassing the back ofthe museum. Pavilions that jut out fromthe main portion of the building appearto float on the pool having that one pieceof art inside appear to go on forever. If acrystal pool of water does not take thebreath away, their mostrecent acquisition would.Beautiful life-like trees

created in stainless steelintertwine themselvestogether and are displayedacross the shimmeringpool.

The Museum enjoysvisiting artists and theirpieces of works as well.Their recent summerprogram showcased KaraWalker My Complement, MyEnemy, My Oppressor, MyLove. It was a full-scaleAmerican Museum Survey

that included her signatureblack cut-paper silhouettesand more than onehundred works on paper.The Survey also includesfilm animations.Inspiration for these workscomes from Uncle TomsCabin by Harriet BeecherStowe, The Known Worldby Edward P. Jones, andBeloved by Toni

Morrison. It is art that is mature in naturedepicting antebellum history of hauntedby sexuality, violence, and subjugation. It isthat playing off of stereotypes andsubversion of the past that makes theworks grotesque and mesmerizing at thesame time.

No Room to Answer: Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchl will end in January2009. Not only does it include color-saturated photographs and slow-paced

videos, but also black-and-white

photography, sculpture, mixed-mediainstallations and performance-basedworks. The works demonstrate theirseemingly contradictory positions andtheir desire to be in the doing mode ofoperation. A better explanation by theartists, We have to see it, live it, andexperience it. This particular program isno different with inspiration coming from

expressions. I need room tothink, or Ive got no room tospeak here. The result is an

artistic study of how the spatialbecomes psychological.Currently on the exhibition

agenda for July 2009 is WilliamKentridge: Five Themes. Born in1955 in Johannesburg, artistKentridge is a member of aprominent Jewish South Africanfamily. Since 1981, his work hasbeen shown in over 165exhibitions, and he is therecipient of numerousinternational awards. Theexhibition features the first

American presentation andcatalogue of the new workKentridge has created since 2000that dramatically expands histechnical innovations as anartist filmmaker, enlarges thescale of his work in stage designand installation art, and extendshis themes beyond the impact ofapartheid in South Africa.

The Modern Art Museum ofFort Worth also houses an

Education Center that includes a studiand classrooms for hands-on art activitand lectures accommodating thousandof school children visiting the MuseumLectures, film festivals and musicalperformances enjoy a 250-seatauditorium.


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With a hearty population of 82,000, Youngstown, Ohio, sets in the states northeast cornerten miles from the Pennsylvania line. Not unlike many other cities located in the rust beltthe steel mill and coal mining industries attracted the working class, creatinga boomtown many decades agoThose days are gone now, residents left wondering what will replace the bustling activitthat was once the major source of the towns existenceAlthough their principle work life cycle is quickly becoming history, the residenthave no desire to jump ship. They have become a strong, dedicated communitwith very few finding reason to leave


There is one organization that is a

perfect example of citizen drivenadvancement regardless of economicclimate. For forty plus years, Ballet

Western Reserve has been a rock of thecultural scene in Youngstown,providing physical and aestheticbenefits to everyone, regardless of age.

Visitors are quite surprised to findsuch an impressive, professional, andpopular dance program continuing totake shape in Mahoning County,pulling in students from all over thecountry and attracting worldlyinstructors 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 todevelop the skills, experience, anddiscipline necessary for a professionalcareer in dance. At that time, it wasknown as the Youngstown SymphonyBallet. In 1979, the Ballet was renamedBallet Western Reserve and wasincorporated as a regional company.

Anita Lin served as Artistic Director

from 1982 until 2007 and was

instrumental in designing educationalprograms for all forms of dance. Aprofessional dancer with the CincinnatiBallet Company and the New OrleansBallet Company, Anitas relentlessachievements in collaboration with theYoungstown Symphony, YoungstownPlayhouse, Pennsylvania Young PeoplesConcerts and countless otherstrengthening groups, gave thisorganization a tremendous start to ahealthy future. .

Richard Dickinson, present ArtisticDirector, brought with him an extensive

resume, when appointed in 2007. Pastchoreographer for the Boston Ballet,Chicago Ballet, Ohio Ballet and theHonolulu City Ballet, Dickinson,associated with Ballet Western Reservesince 1988, was perfect for the positionthat required juggling increasedenrollments, program development andgrowing popularity as Ballet WesternReserve continues to grow and hasbecome one of the most professionaldance schools in the Midwest.

Ballet, pointe, pas de deux, creative

movement, pre-ballet, modern, jazz, hi-hop, pilates, and yoga are many of thedifferent forms of dance available tolearn, taught by a professional staff,some of whom are past students. Agerange from three years of age to adultwith instructors specializing in differenareas and age groups.

Watch for Youngstown to become awell-known institution of professionaldance accreditation, replacing a past ofbrawn with ballet and education, in acultural sense, into the next century anbeyond.

Whether the town grows towardtechnology, education, energy ormanufacturing, the foundation has beelaid to keep this city vibrant and alivein education and community support.Located at 218 West Boardman Street,the Ballet office and studio hours rangefrom 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., six days peweek. For more information, telephon330-744-1934 or seewww.balletwesternreserve.org


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Muffler people brighten up a dreary highwayWhen 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 displaythat would bring lots of good publicity to their business.

Beverly Scott, art teacher atMacArthur Junior High Schoolin Lawton, Oklahoma, had passedthe 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 cartooningand commercial art and were discussing ways to advertise products in unusual ways using graphic art.

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cott had often thought how

funny it would be if the mufflerspiled under the sign all had facespainted on them. She had evenconsidered stopping by the shop

with a paintbrush to make herdaydream a reality. Now sherealized that her students couldamuse the community and brightenup the muffler shop while learningmore about advertising art.

The shop owners laughinglyagreed to be part of the unusual

assignment, and hauled over 100 oldmufflers to the school on a trailer.Each art student chose what theyfelt was the perfect muffler for hisor her project.

The artists began by doing a roughdraft of their muffler person.

Some students sanded and cleanedrust off their mufflers, while othersused any defects, rust, or dings as

part of the design. There was a lot

of thinking, and even more laughingas the muffler people took shape.

Hats and wigs were broughtfrom home, and the mufflers tookon real personalities. Some studentstook their mufflers home to doextra work on them. More than onepuzzled mother asked the school,Can anyone tell me what a muffleris doing in my living room?

When the project was finished, themuffler people were displayed

in the halls of the school for a weekso that everyone could enjoy thembefore they went back to themuffler shop. Prizes were awardedfor the best mufflers, but manypeople said that every mufflerdeserved an award for creativity.

Then the mufflers were returned tothe muffler shop and stackedaround the signpost once more.

The muffler shop owners were

more than delighted with the resultof the project. They donated $100to the schools art fund. Theexcitement didnt stop there. Thelocal newspaper ran an article onthe muffler people, and the Lawtontelevision station came out to filmthem. The only problem seemed tobe that motorist had a hard timekeeping their eyes on the road whilthey were laughing at the artworkon the mufflers.

This unusual art project not onlydrew positive attention to a smal

muffler business, it brightened up arather dreary section of highway anserved as a junior high art displaythat the entire community, as well apeople just passing through, couldenjoy.

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Door CorpsSeries Three - mixed media"Their shape is a symbol. They could represent somany phases that one could go through in life's journey.A closing, a new beginning, a passage or transition--somany possibilities."


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A life undressed

By Colleen Ayala

Photographs of brightly painted doorsmarch through a combination of oil and watercolor

canvas titled Door Corps. A lily in vibrant hues of red, orange andyellow in quantifying detail stands out on a dark bluish-black

silk backdrop titled Gloriosa Lily. These are onlytwo of the paintings that make Peggy Milburn Browna popular and award-winning artist.

Raised in Chattanooga, attendingschool at the University ofTennessee in Knoxville, and meetingher husband, who retired a Lt.Colonel in the Air Force, she

sighs happily, I went literallyoff into the sunset.As an artistand military wife she dabbled ineverything from ceramics,pottery, lithography andpaintings on silk while raisingher children and movingaround the United States. Aftersettling in Montgomery,Alabama in the 1980s, herhusband suggested she take artclasses atAuburn University and

there she received her degree.However, before I could beginmy second career, we wererelocated to Copenhagen.

In Copenhagen, she wasCommunity Liaison Officer atthe American Embassy andbegan her art career oversees.She designed the AmbassadorsChristmas cards, created penand ink invitations, and even

took time out to hold her first one-woman art show. The successfulshow featured paintings on silk and

lithography making her a name inthe Dutch art community. Some ofher pieces are displayed in the

Royal Greenland TradeCompany in Copenhagen.

After three years of successoverseas, they were reassignedto Montgomery, Alabama andnever left. She became a free-lance art director and obtained position at the University of

Montgomery as their first graphidesigner. She later taught thefirst graphic design classes atthe University finally retiringtwo years ago to further pursueher art career. She loves to

experiment and at the momenthas found great success inexperimenting with mixedmedia where she pushes all tothe limit.

Her third door seriesbeginning with Door Corps -allows her to get into themessy side of art- dirtying up

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her hands in print making,watercolor, collage, and reliefprinting; sometimes all on onecanvas. Peggy has people tell herOh, youre the one who paints thedoors,and laughingly tells me , Iam fast becoming The Door

Lady.However, she is not limiting

herself to doors. Her newest workis using Prismacolor. After usingthe waxy colored pencil shemashes, the strokes and blendsthem together so they playtogether nicelyin a techniquecalled Burnish. Her favoritePrismacolor drawings feature theVietnamese Gooseneck Gourds.

These large 20x20 pieces of art areminimal but very detailed.

In October of 2007, shecompleted 45 different pieces ofwork for another successful one-woman art show at the PerformanceCenterin Selma, Alabama. She willbe working with another artist tohave a show again in the Center.This exhibit will focus on her mixedmedia pieces of work and herwatercolors.

When not preparing for shows,Peggy spends her time traveling,teaching workshops or creatingpieces in her workspace, PMBrown Studio.

Door Corps and Up from theDepths were recently chosen for anexhibition by theMontgomery

Museum of Fine Art for theirBiennial Celebration. More work isshowing at Selma Art Guild Galleryin Selma, Alabama and Black BeltTreasures, Camden, Alabama. Herone love is to leave the viewer todetermine what they see. So whatis it you see when you look atcolors that appear to change, in aset of vibrant tulips titled,Springtime - or Santa Fe doorsagainst an abstract Rio GrandeGorge in John-Wayne Doesnt LiveHere Anymore? The choice isyours.

Top left:Gloriosa Lilysilk painting

Top right:The Business EndPrismacolor

CenterSpringtimewatercolor

Bottom left:No Way Outmixed media


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B fore photography, noone was really surehow animals andpeople moved during fastaction. This resulted in alot of racing paintings inwhich the horses lookedlike rocking horses withfront and rear legssticking straight out.It took a bet made by a

wealthy man with a stable ofhorses to settle the question ofexactly how a race horse movedwhile running. In 1872, LelandStanford, a former governor,bet a friend $25,000 that a racehorse had all four feet off the

ground at one time at somepoint during its running gait.He hired photographerEadweard Muybridge tophotograph Occident, a famoustrotting horse in Stanfordsstable in San Francisco.Although Muybridge inventeda special fast shutter andcovered the track with whitesheets to provide extralight, the wet-plate

photo process of thetime was too slow togive proof. However,the photos takenindicated that Stanford was right, soMuybridge was asked to continue.

The process was postponed for afew years first because Muybridgewas photographing the ModocIndian War at the California-Oregonborder and then again becauseMuybridge shot and killed his wifeslover. He was acquitted by a jury,but felt it wise to leave the countryfor a while.

In June 1878, Stanford invited themedia to witness Muybridgephotographing a trotting horse andracing mare, using a new techniquewith which they hoped to capturethe animals with all four legs off theground. To photograph the trotter,twelve cameras were set up, each

fitted with a drop shutter triggeredby a spring or rubber band. Fromeach camera a fine wire wasstretched across the track, activatedby the iron rim of the wheel of thesulky, which closed an electricalcircuit, releasing the shutters oneafter another.

To photograph the mare SallieGardner, fine black threads wereplaced across the track at intervals of27 inches, striking her breast highand releasing the shutters. Theresulting photographs provedconclusively that the four feet of agalloping hose are all off the groundat one time only when they arebunched together under the animalsbelly.

Photographing animal andhuman locomotion becameMuybridges main interest. Withsupport from the University ofPennsylvania, he took more than100,000 photographs from 1872 to1885. These showed not only peoplin motion, but also domestic dogs,

cats and horses as well as moose, elkbear, raccoon, lion, tiger, monkeyand birds. He published elevenvolumes showing animallocomotion, and in 1901 hepublished The Human Figure in

Motion.Muybridges books are still used

as reference by educators,anatomists, students and artists.

Horse in Motion {1878} photograph by Eadweard Muybridge. The first successfulphotographs of a moving horse. The horse Sallie Gardner, owned by Leland Stanford, isshown running at a 1.40 gait over Palo Alto track.


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The mission of the Erie Art Museum is to maintain an institution of excellence dedicated to the promotion andadvancement of the visual arts by developing and maintaining a quality art collection by encouraging art in all itsforms 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 restoredmid-19th century commercial buildings, including an outstanding 1839 Greek Revival Bank. It maintains an ambitious program of 15 to 18changing exhibitions annually and holds a collection of over 6,000 objects, which includes significant works in American ceramics, Tibetanpaintings, Indian bronzes, contemporary baskets, and a variety of other categories. In addition, the Museum offers a wide range of educationprograms and artists services including interdisciplinary and interactive school tours and a wide variety of classes. Performing arts areshowcased in the 24-year-old Contemporary Music Series, which represents national and international performers of serious music with anemphasis on composer/performers, and a popular annual two-day Erie Art Museum Blues & Jazz Festival scheduled in August 2009.

Erie Art Museumwww.erieartmuseum.org - 814-459-5477

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