BAYarts will be showcasing our faculty in an exhibition this January. We are looking forward to sharing with the community and the local art scene the amazing talent we have in our Education Department. Opening January 10, 2025, we will be featuring thirteen artists—all of them part of our esteemed faculty, and all of them artists with their own artistic […]
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Artist Tony Skinner is a figurative artist and illustrator. His work is characterized by layered illustrations of people. Color and texture are two of the tools he uses as he explores the human figure and condition. This body of work deals with the housing insecurity problem that continues to plague our country in every community—Skinner noticed the problem magnified in […]
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BAYarts Executive Director Nancy Walters Heaton will step down after twenty years, and it’s not exaggerating to say she and a team of women who were not soccer moms saved the organization. BAYarts Board President Mary Conway Sullivan says she and Executive Director Nancy Heaton met before either of them was actively involved at the gallery and community art center. […]
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Artists are most celebrated for their big shows at major institutions. Nonetheless, measured in terms of impact on the world, commercial artists and teachers give big names a run for the money. Commercial artists are the image makers who define the look of the world—from the way people are remembered in portraits to the way landscapes are perceived, to how […]
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Imagine a turbine always in motion; it spins quietly and eternally in the background, barely humming, gathering energy and transforming it into something else. It’s a sort of mechanical alchemy: a cool, perpetual transmogrifier that harnesses power from one source and outputs something completely different. Welcome to Allison Bogard Hall’s creative process. For the past eighteen months, Hall has immersed […]
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According to Christopher Kaspar, the start of Shifts can be traced back to his and Greg Martin’s participation in group shows at Photocentric, curated by Michael Loderstedt. It was amidst these exhibitions that they found themselves drawn to each other’s creative processes, recognizing the subtle nuances that distinguished their respective styles. They are exhibiting together this summer at BAYarts. The […]
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And now for something completely different. Edward A. Raffel creates modern art—i.e. physical items that haven’t existed before in a style that is new—using combinations of materials and techniques chiefly unexplored. He does not, however, currently use a computer as part of his process. This exhibition at BAYarts contains a condensate of roughly four years of life/work product, with a […]
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Artist Christopher Pelrine thinks his art may not be for you—a feeling he openly points out with the title of his solo show at the BAYarts Sullivan Family Gallery in January. His large abstract pieces are active and in your face. They approach subjects that not everyone wants to think about: visual ruminations on darker subject matter, such as isolation, […]
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It’s an extremely varied collection of media and message in Barbara Martin’s exhibit, Now and Then, on view August 11 through October 7 at BAYarts. The artist’s highly skilled scratchboard portraits of birds mingle with found object assemblage and 2D collage in a couple of different veins, and one larger installation that makes a category of its own. Taken altogether, […]
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I received a BFA from Washington University School of Fine Arts in 1984 with a major in illustration and minors in painting and printmaking. I currently teach adult watercolor and middle school graphic design at BAYarts. I have spent the last 39 years working in commercial design while continuing my own creative explorations. The one constant in my work was […]
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