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CONTEMPORARY SILK PAINTING
A SPIN sponsored exhibition - April 6 – May 30th, 2009

I was invited along with Stuart Diekemeyer to curate a show at Harmony Hall Regional Center, in Maryland. This is the second time we organized a silk art exhibition as they truly appreciate the art form. The gallery is very interesting; not just straight walls, there are nooks and crannies, long windows (where see-through art can be displayed) and a very talented eclectic gallery director, Stuart Diekmeyer.

This was a wonderful opportunity for our members to show their work in a lovely gallery.

We had international participation, from Canada, two Russian artists who now live in Baltimore and one from Eastern Europe.
Two and three dimensional pieces with an eclectic appeal showed very different interpretations of silk art.
The gallery director very cleverly wove parts of the SPIN educational display with the art selected. During the opening reception, as many curators do, I gave a short talk about what silk painting is and discussed the work. I also did a quick demo.
Two of the artists selected for the show attended the reception: Elizabeth Collard from Delaware and Aileen Horn from Maryland.

Participants: Elizabeth Collard, Aileen Horn, Phillippa Lack, Peggy Richards, Karen Schueler, Selina Norov, Diane Ricks, Tatiana Eisenhart, Diane Lawrence, Judith Meeks, Deborah Younglao, Dianne Sutter, Alexandra Fadeyeva, Lee Zimmerman.

Moving forward, SPIN will be awarding ribbons for our exhibits. Dr. Lawrence Knowles, the Art Center Director and Stuart Diekemeyer the gallery director selected the winners:

First Place, Lee Zimmerman: Venus in the City, Second Place, Alexandra Fadeyeva: The Italian Street and Third Place Deborah Younglao: Goldie.

The gallery director recorded the exhibition and the video will be placed on the website when we receive it.

Diane Tuckman

	Ratner Museum The Ratner Museum and SPIN have an open ended show of silk paintings. The entry form can be found by clicking Here
	Calling All Silk Artists … *Calling All Silk Painters….* SPIN is sponsoring: *SILK IS…2009-2010*, a juried exhibition which will be held at the U.S. District Courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland from October 29, 2009 through January 26, 2010. This highly-trafficked venue is a wonderful building flooded with light from numerous large windows, it’s open atrium provides great visibility and height in which to display silk paintings up to nine feet long. More information here ENTRY FORM HERE Entry Fee
	CONTEMPORARY SILK PAINTING A SPIN sponsored exhibition - April 6 – May 30th, 2009 I was invited along with Stuart Diekemeyer to curate a show at Harmony Hall Regional Center, in Maryland. This is the second time we organized a silk art exhibition as they truly appreciate the art form. The gallery is very interesting; not just straight walls, there are nooks and crannies, long windows (where see-through art can be displayed) and a very talented eclectic gallery director, Stuart Diekmeyer. This was a wonderful opportunity for our members to show their work in a lovely gallery. We had international participation, from Canada, two Russian artists who now live in Baltimore and one from Eastern Europe. Two and three dimensional pieces with an eclectic appeal showed very different interpretations of silk art. The gallery director very cleverly wove parts of the SPIN educational display with the art selected. During the opening reception, as many curators do, I gave a short talk about what silk painting is and discussed the work. I also did a quick demo. Two of the artists selected for the show attended the reception: Elizabeth Collard from Delaware and Aileen Horn from Maryland. Participants: Elizabeth Collard, Aileen Horn, Phillippa Lack, Peggy Richards, Karen Schueler, Selina Norov, Diane Ricks, Tatiana Eisenhart, Diane Lawrence, Judith Meeks, Deborah Younglao, Dianne Sutter, Alexandra Fadeyeva, Lee Zimmerman. Moving forward, SPIN will be awarding ribbons for our exhibits. Dr. Lawrence Knowles, the Art Center Director and Stuart Diekemeyer the gallery director selected the winners: First Place, Lee Zimmerman: Venus in the City, Second Place, Alexandra Fadeyeva: The Italian Street and Third Place Deborah Younglao: Goldie. The gallery director recorded the exhibition and the video will be placed on the website when we receive it. Diane Tuckman