Visual Artist Retreat July 11-17, 2022
Artists
Jerry Georgeff
My love of art, in particular, painting began at an early age when I was fortunate to visit a museum of art as a 3rd grader in Dayton, Ohio. I found myself attracted to the paintings by French impressionists. I was fascinated by the technique, the capturing of light and the moment, by the use of paint.
That field trip would lead me to dabble in art for years as a hobby. Fast forward a couple decades later and a career move to New Mexico, where once again, I would be exposed to great art. Inspired for a second time in life I decided to act on what was, for me, a calling. I had to pursue the desire to become an artist, at least I had to give it ago. I did not want to spend the rest of my life wondering, " What if?"
The light, subject matter and history of great artists pursuing their craft in New Mexico was motivating and inspirational! Places like Santa Fe and Taos were a mecca. Art was a way of life. My life's direction was forever changed. I was on the road to becoming a professional artist!
My career as an artist has spanned 39 years with representation in galleries across the nation. From southwestern landscapes, to lush gardens and waterlily ponds, to a palette knife still life I paint what surrounds my everyday life! In my studio I can travel to every corner of the world.
Currently residing in Scottsdale, Az. I have owned fine art galleries in New Mexico and Colorado. As a gallery owner I have promoted and represented over 40 artists!
Voytek Glinkowski
I received Paintings and Lithography Masters Degree in Fine Arts from Strzeminski Fine Art Academy.
I have spent almost thirty years traveling into the secret world of visual communication. It isn’t always a pleasant adventure but, I consider myself very lucky. I do what I love.
I have done over thirty individual and group shows in the US and in Europe: Srticoff Fine Art Gallery in New York, Discovery Galleries in Bethesda, Atlas Galleries in Chicago, Vail Fine Art Gallery in Vail, Signature Gallery of Chicago, Triada Gallery in Gdansk, Newbourgh Avenue Gallery in Boston Fingerhut Galleries of California and Breckenridge Fine Art Gallery.
Since this life is the only one given to us, I love to see as many sides of it, as my body and mind can handle… racing bicycle, skiing and sailing… to list a few…
Years ago, I had my adventure with theater and stage production, as well as with motion picture, where I designed the sets…
What and Why?
The Light is my art motto.
It hits many obstacles on the way from its’ source to infinity.
The adventure with The Light is like a story without an end. The nature of it challenges me.
I am not looking for cheap effects; I just follow The Great Wizard who awakens our senses.
Voytek the Artist
Clarence Heyward
Clarence Heyward (American, b.1983) is a painter whose work explores notions of the Black American experience. His work has been exhibited nationally across the US including the 21c Museum of Durham, the Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh, the Harvey B. Gantt Center of Charlotte, and the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Heywards’ work is in the collections of several notable private and public institutions. He was selected to participate in the emerging artist regional residency program at Artspace NC (2020), as well as the Brightwork fellowship program at Anchorlight NC (2019). He also was selected as the 2022 Artist in residence at NC State University. He attended North Carolina Central university where he studied art education. He currently lives and works in Raleigh, NC.
Artist Statement
Like many artist, my practice has evolved through my life experience. My early years were spent referencing the imagery of my “art idols”with no real connection to concepts or “why”. Those years were key in that they influenced the way I viewed myself, Black Americans and our identities. This has led me to critically engage image-making and ultimately be constantly conscious of narratives in regards to the contemporary Black American experience. My art practice challenges stereotypes and myths, takes on social commentary, critiques perceptions, and creates dialogues all through the lens of the Black American male experience. As a Black man, husband, and father living in America, my paintings draw from life experiences. It contains personal and collective narratives that position black bodies in the forefront and examines the reinterpretation of black existence in imagery addressing.
Beverly McIver
Beverly McIver is widely acknowledged as a significant presence in contemporary American art and has charted a new direction as an African American woman artist. She is committed to producing art that consistently examines racial, gender, social and occupational identity.
McIver was born in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1962. She is the youngest of three girls born to Ethel McIver. Her oldest sister Renee is mentally disabled, with the mindset of a second grader. Beverly is Renee’s legal guardian. Renee is a frequent subject of the artist, as are other family members.
McIver’s work is in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian, the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the NCCU Museum of Art, the Asheville Museum of Art, The Crocker Art Museum, the Nelson Fine Arts Center Art Museum at Arizona State University, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the Cameron Art Museum and the Mint Museum as well as significant corporate and private collections. McIver is currently the Ebenshade Professor of the Practice in Studio Arts At Duke University. She was the Suntrust Endowed Chair Professor of Art at North Carolina Central University, 2007-2014. Prior to this appointment, McIver taught at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. for twelve years, Duke University, North Carolina State University and North Carolina Central University. She has also held residencies at many of the nation’s leading artist communities, including YADDO, the Headland Center for the Arts, Djerassi, and Penland School of Arts and Crafts. She has served on the board at Penland, and currently serves on the board of directors at YADDO in Saratoga Springs, NY.
“Raising Renee”, a feature-length documentary film produced in association with HBO by Academy Award-nominated and award-winning filmmakers Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan, tells the story of the impact of McIver’s promise to care for her sister when their mother dies. The film played in festivals around the country, was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Arts and Culture Programming, and now is available on Amazon Prime.
Recent honors include a yearlong residency at the American Academy in Rome, where she was featured in a Beverly McIver e il colore nero, a documentary for Italian television. In 2017 she received the lifetime achievement award from the Anyone Can Fly Foundation in a ceremony hosted by Faith Ringgold. McIver was named as one of the “Top Ten in Painting” in Art in America in 2011, and her work has been reviewed in Art News, The New York Times and a host of local newspapers. She has received numerous grants and awards including the Anonymous Was A Woman Foundation grant, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship from Harvard University, a Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation award, a distinguished Alumni Award from Pennsylvania State University, a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and Creative Capital grant. She had a solo exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art in 2011, and at the Mint Museum in 2012. During the fall of 2014, McIver was Artist-in-Residence at the McColl Center for Art + Innovation in Charlotte, N.C. McIver received a master of fine arts degree in painting from Pennsylvania State University, and an honorary doctorate from North Carolina Central University.
A career survey of the artist’s work begins at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in 2022, before touring the country. McIver is curating a show of contemporary African American artists working in North Carolina for Craven Allen Gallery in Durham, NC in 2021.
Dale Savit
Dale Savit has been an artist, first as a jeweler, then as a ceramicist and welder for over 30 years. As an artist, he tries to bring to Stonybrook Fine Arts a range of knowledge to guide students in using their own abilities to create objects to enhance their lives. He believes the creative process brings a sense of self, and that creativity, once practiced, will always be available for working with whatever issues present themselves in art and life. It is the making of objects using hands, minds, and heart that excites him. It is the teaching of this process as a guide that lets him give something back to the community.Dale Savit, B.F.A. SMFA ’81 and M.F.A. MICA ’86, has been making steel and ceramic sculpture as well as drawings for over 40 years. He also has been teaching welding and jewelry making at Stonybrook Fine Arts in Jamaica Plain for 7 years. His work has always crossed the line from abstract to imagistic, and there are aspects of each style in his work. He takes the essence of drawing in space with the lines of steel sculpture and the planes and forms of ceramic sculpture and makes drawings that explore how those qualities can be activated.