"Indiana's Fine Art Marketplace"

 

Charles Battaglini

Charles Battaglini is Professor Emeritus, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He received his Master of Fine Arts Degree, in Printmaking, from Tyler School of Fine Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. The Master of Education in Art Education Degree was previously received from IUP. Prior to and during teaching Advanced and Graduate Printmaking at IUP his art form had been color relief prints and eventually included monotypes. In 1986, Battaglini received the National Art Educator of the Year for Pennsylvania, awarded by the Pennsylvania Art Education Association and presented at their annual conference.

Believing that artists need to constantly challenge themselves with changes to the ideas and concepts of their art, Battaglini has currently extended his media and process to include a return to oil painting and photography. This, as well as, extensive travel to different countries, has helped initiate new directions in his recent artwork.  His color relief prints, paintings, and photographs have been exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally, most recently two solo exhibitions in Taiwan. During his career as an artist he has had gallery representation in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. Some corporate collections Charles has worked on include: Illinois Bell Corp, Chicago, IL, Price Waterhouse and Co., Philadelphia, PA, and H.J. Heinz Co., Pittsburgh, PA.  Some of the Juried & Invitational exhibitions Battaglini has been in include: National Acadamy of Design 163rd & 161st Annual Juried Exhibition, National Acadamy of Design, New York, NY, and Wenniger Graphics Gallery Group Exhibition, Boston, MA.

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Richard L Coy

Richard L Coy a life time resident of Indiana County, started photographing as a youngster around 12 years old. He grew up with the little Brownie film camera in his hand and later graduated into a few other film cameras. He bought his first digital point and shoot camera about 8 years ago and got addicted. Since that time he has owned several digital cameras He got really into photography about 5 years ago, thanks to a special friend Jennifer Mckendrick He was inspired to move on up. He now works as a stringer for the Blairsville Dispatch and has been published in Small Time Life Magazine, The Pennsylvania Outdoor Journal, and just recently published in the Indiana County Tourist Bureau's 2010 calendar. He is, for the most part, with the help of a few friends, mostly self trained and still learning there is no end to what you can do if you really put your mind to it. His main interests lay in the outdoors with landscape and wildlife photography; he has also done a couple weddings and banquets.

Victoria Dicken

Victoria Dicken a native of Indiana County, graduated from the Art institute of Pittsburgh with an Associate’s Degree in Graphic Design. She has been in the photographic industry for 20 years and has traveled the world teaching photographers and retouchers the art of digital retouching and illustration. She presently lives in Northern Indiana County with her husband and three boys. The beauty of her farm and fiber related prints, notecards and bookmarks shouldn't be missed.

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Trish Dodson

Trish has always been interested in making art. She went to Indiana University of Pennsylvania for both her undergraduate degree in Art Education as well as her Masters in Art. She has given many workshops on making paper and had several local shows of her work. Her artwork can be found in collections from Massachusetts to Florida and Minnesota to London England. She has been very involved in the Indiana Art Association having founded the yearly summer Arts Camp for local students in grades 1-12.

Father Chuck Esposito

Father Chuck Esposito has been the pastor at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Kent, Indiana County since October of 2008. He has served the Diocese of Greensburg in parishes in New Kensington, Murrysville, Monessen and Belle Vernon—all in Westmoreland County –before coming to Indiana County. He has been working in oil on canvas for approximately seven years. He attributes his choice to express his artistic creativity to his fourth year of undergraduate study when he lived in Rome, Italy, surrounded by great works of art from the whole spectrum of art history—ancient through contemporary. He also found great inspiration from the modern works in the Tate Modern Art Museum in London, the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. His favorite painters include: Caravaggio, Sandro Botticelli, Marc Chagall, Mark Rothko, and Sean Scully. Father Chuck has been a Roman Catholic priest since 1999 and was a Spanish teacher before studying for the priesthood. He attempts to express the results of spiritual reflection on the canvases he paints and seeks to recreate the unexpected beauty of ordinary moments in daily life.

Joy Fairbanks

Joy Biesinger Fairbanks received her BS/ED and MA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her masters were in the field of jewelry with a sculpture minor. During her graduate work she became interested in photography and has been exhibiting in that field for the past 35 yrs. Her work is included in museum collections as well as private collections. Joy is a member of the Indiana Art Association, the Pittsburgh Society or Artists, the National Collage Society and the Allied Artists of Johnstown.

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Wendy Fetterman

Originally from Groton, CT, Wendy Fetterman has lived in Penn Run for the last 22 years. She has always loved to paint, and was drawn to basket weaving when a friend showed her a basket she had made. Wendy started weaving at a continuing ed. class at I.U.P. nineteen years ago and loved it from the beginning. Wendy has had great fun learning to merger two of her favorite things to do, painting and weaving.

Jessica Green

Jessica obtained a Bachelors degree from IUP in Graphic Design with a minor in Ceramics in 2005 and is currently working on a second degree in Art Education. Visual and performing arts have always played major roles in her life and plans to continue being a lifetime student of the arts and share as well as spark passion for the arts in future generations of artists.

Robert Henry

Robert "Bob" Henry has lived in Indiana County his whole life. He learned a passion for woodworking and woodturning from his father, who built him his first lathe at age 9. Actively seeking learning opportunities, he has served as President, and as various board positions for several area clubs including Turners Anonymous of Pittsburgh, the Western Pennsylvania Woodworkers and more recently, the Indiana County Woodturners. Robert has studied under IUP's finest woodworking professors, world-known woodturners and attended hundreds of national and local conventions. He loves making unique, handcrafted furniture and turned items that have special meaning, and bring joy to the recipient.

Jolene Joyner

Jolene is an oil/pastel painter. She has lived in Indiana County most of her life and currently lives in Clymer, PA. Her studio is in her home. She works from photographs that have been taken locally and from her travels to France & Italy. Her artwork is representational because she enjoys the challenge.

Erica Hilliard

Erica is currently working as a part-time photojournalist at the Indiana Gazette and an occasional shift at the Valley News Dispatch, as well as several other publications. She works at newspapers because it allows her to attend and photograph events where average people may not have access or even want to see, and can bring back images and evidence that show what happened. She photographs fine art mostly for herself. It is rigorous to always photograph what you are told, so fine art photography works as an outlet. Also, there are no ethics to fine art photography, so it is easier to manipulate a photograph to show what you want it to show.

Sam Howard

Sam Howard is a self-taught painter. A dabbler in the arts since childhood, he is finally taking the craft seriously and studies the classical painting methods. His early work displays a reflective gaze upon the natural world with an austere gravitas. Most recently, he experiments with both realism and mannerism to explore expressive possibilities beyond literal description. Subsisting in Johnstown, he has been a member of the Indiana Art Association since 2006 and has also volunteered with the Indiana Arts Council.

Barb Kubala

Barb is a retiree of the Indiana School district and has been active in the community for many years. Barb has practiced many different forms of woven techniques, all of which are a stunning display of her talents. Her use of simple non-objective organic works is a constant in all of her works.

Nancy Laird

Nancy is a Punxsutawney, PA, native but has hailed from Indiana, PA, since college days beginning in 1955. After teaching English for the Marion Center Area School District for over 22 years., Nancy retired from a career she loved in 2001 to spend much of her time at their second home in Kill Devil Hills, NC. Nancy is a member of the Indiana Art Association, the Punxsutawney Arts Association, Inc., and the Indiana Arts Council in PA, and the Dare County Arts Council in NC.

Greg Langham

Educated at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Greg’s work resides in many private collections throughout the United States. Professionally, Langham was employed by the Penns Manor School District as the High School Art teacher; a position from which he retired in 2008 to return to his personal art work. His work may be described as a mixture of realism and fantasy, with periodic excursions into the abstract.

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Heidi McClure

Heidi lives in the mountains of rural Indiana County in a log cabin that was built by hand by her husband and herself. Her art and jewelry are created in this tranquil setting, surrounded by nature that inspires her. Heidi’s creations reflect the colors, patterns, and designs that she can see every day in the woods surrounding her studio. Her work will bring you in touch with NATURE. Experience tranquility and peace through her eyes.

Ronald Moretti

Born and raised in Indiana Ronald has been woodworking a about nine or ten years now. He is constantly trying to learn new techniques and skills. The whole idea of taking rough lumber and transforming it into a functional and pleasing piece of furniture has always been appealing to him. He tries to pay attention to detail and grain pattern as he assembles the piece so that each part flows into the next. For Ronald there is as much satisfaction with the designing and building as there is with the finished product. Most of Ronald’s inspiration comes from Arts and Craft or Shaker design furniture. He finds the simple elegance of shaker furniture to be calming.

J.R.Sherburne

His formal background in ceramics began in 1974 in the apprenticeship program at Berea College in Kentucky, culminating with a B.A. degree. Following graduation, J.R. was a studio potter in Florida, California, and Kentucky. While in Kentucky he was very active in the Kentucky Department of Humanities Artist-in-Residence program, working primarily in rural districts presenting residencies ranging from two weeks to nine months, as well providing teacher in-service seminars, facilitating visiting artist workshops, and advocating for the arts to community groups. He earned an M.F.A in Ceramics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the spring of 2008.

Jonelle Summerfield

Jonelle graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2001 with a Bachelor of Science in Interior Design. Although she has no formal art education her mother was her art teacher. She had exposed Jonelle to art since childhood, and then in high school she took a drawing class for extra credit and discovered that she actually enjoyed producing art. After she graduated from college her mother taught her how to paint with oils. Her mother had taken a lot of workshops with Pittsburgh area artists, yet she also had not studied art formally. Jonelle currently work as a kitchen designer in addition to my art career.
“I paint in the realistic style partly for the challenge of it, partly because I want to capture moments, days and events that will perhaps never occur again. Light will never highlight my cat’s face in exactly same way twice; two people sitting at a restaurant table will never create the same mood again. I paint things that I think are beautiful and reminiscent of the good things in life. There is a lot of distress in the world and I want only the opposite to exist in my paintings.”

Courtney Thompson

Courtney Thompson is a native of Indiana. She studied Art and Spanish at Westminster College and spent a year studying Spanish art and culture in Spain. After graduation Courtney was an Art and Spanish teacher at Hampton Roads Academy in Virginia. She was also involved with the Peninsula Center of Fine Arts, Juried Exhibits, a consigned artist and member of the Blue Skies Art Gallery. She has returned to Indiana and is pursuing her Art Education Certification while teaching classes through the Artists Hand Gallery. Her work is mostly inspired by nature and her depiction of the beauty in the world.

Linda Van Gehuchten

Linda Van Gehuchten first came to Indiana in 1992. She is a wood turner out of Sarver Pennsylvania and also a teacher. She teaches her art to interested artists through the Indiana Council for the Arts. She enjoys working with wood and has an incredibly talented way of manipulating it, to make everything from mirrors to clocks, all of which turn out looking spectacular. Linda prefers to work alone but sometimes uses her husband to help with some of her projects.

Richard Vitale

A native of Western Pennsylvania, Vitale is a retired art teacher and holds a bachelors and masters degree in art education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His watercolors have hung in galleries in Western Pennsylvania and Delaware. Winner of more than 65 awards, nautical scenes as well as landscapes including studies of the Amish are favorite topics for Vitale’s watercolors.

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