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This Is My Home

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This Is My Home, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, Dance Macabre, Jay Helfrich, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, Dance Macabre (Diptych), Jay Helfrich, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, Ghost of a Broken Home, Carl B. Johnson, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, Ghost of a Broken Home, Carl B. Johnson, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, True Romance, Liz Nicklus, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, True Romance, Liz Nicklus, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, Kater Street, Lilliana Didovic, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, Kater Street, Lilliana Didovic, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, Skippy, Liz Nicklus, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, Skippy, Liz Nicklus, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, Empty Nest, Yvonne Smith, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, Empty Nest, Yvonne Smith, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, Blue House and Barn, Susan Hanna Rau, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, Blue House and Barn, Susan Hanna Rau, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

This Is My Home, Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts, Millville NJ

The Witt Gallery in the Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts created an art challenge and collaborative effort for artists to take a standard shape, an elongated pentagon of wood, and create their vision of home.

Millville celebrated the tenth anniversary of their monthly Third Friday art crawl, a community event that is a model for invigorating small town down-towns with art, culture and fun.  DoN is a born and raised South Jersey swamp-stomper, it feels real good to go back home and see art made by friends.

“I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the type who’d like to sit home and watch every party that I’m invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.”
Andy Warhol

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Books by artists in This Is My Home at Riverfront Renaissance Center for the Arts

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Theodore J. Amick

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Theodore J. Amick, The Plastic Club, Downstairs Gallery

Theodore J. Amick, The Plastic Club, Downstairs Gallery

Theodore J. Amick, The Plastic Club, Downstairs Gallery

Theodore J. Amick, The Plastic Club, Downstairs Gallery

Theodore J. Amick, The Plastic Club, Downstairs Gallery

Theodore J. Amick, The Plastic Club, Downstairs Gallery

DoN talked with Erica Amick, artist Ted Amick‘s daughter about her Dad’s memorial art show in the Downstairs Gallery of the Plastic Club.  “The memorial show for my dad, Ted Amick, is full of his life’s work.  He was always creative.  He was always happy.  He always had a good story to tell you and loved to be around people.  And loved a good time.  So, he would enjoy the show in the gallery, filled with people drinking and laughing and talking.”  So, what’s your favorite piece?  “I don’t have a favorite, it’s all different parts of his life and you can see the progression of his scientific alien stage to a more impressionist stage to just happy picture stage.  He did a portrait of me and my sister and I think that’s one of our favorites.”

DoN mentioned Ted in a blog he wrote back in 2009, the Red, White and Green show and Ted instantly became a buddy with lots of compliments and questions about photography at every Plastic Club reception.  At the awards ceremony February 5th for the current exhibition, Urban Observations, past president Mike Guinn said it best, “He was my brother.”

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Urban Jungle, DoN Brewer at The Plastic Club, Urban Observations, February 2012

Urban Jungle, DoN Brewer at The Plastic Club, Urban Observations, February 2012.

DoN shoots all his photographs for DoNArTNeWs art blog and Side Arts art blog with a Kodak Easyshare Z981 14 MP Digital Camera with Schneider-Kreuznach Variogon 26xWide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom Lens and 3.0-Inch LCD Sreen, the third digital camera DoN has used since 2000.  DoN‘s first digital camera was four megapixel resolution with a postage stamp sized screen, the current iteration with 14-megapixel resolution for stunning prints up to 30 x 40 inches.  In January, DoNArTNeWs changed advertising strategy to affiliate marketing through Commission Junction and Amazon in order to provide links to products and resources little DoNsters would benefit from most.  DoNArTNeWs now has improved ads on the side bar including an exciting advertising widget with DoN‘s favorite Amazon picks for Philadelphia artists and authors including DoN‘s new book Her Philadelphia Tales, The Art of Lilliana S. Didovic (Volume 1).

The reason DoN is promoting Kodak is because they are an American manufacturing company in Rochester, NY, USA, Planet Earth, Milky Way, they invented digital photography and they recently declared bankruptcy.  Kodak has a long history, “Kodak has made it easy to enjoy your pictures. The expression ‘You Press the Button, We do the rest’ was a common advertising slogan in the 1890s. This familiar expression was also set to music. Visit our interactive history of Kodak products to listen and see some of today’s latest digital products and our early film and cameras from the 1880s.” Kodak website.  DoN used a Kodak Brownie camera growing up and still relies on the reliable quality and customer support of Kodak for his Kodak Easyshare Z981 14 MP Digital Camera with Schneider-Kreuznach Variogon 26xWide Angle Optical Image Stabilized Zoom Lens and 3.0-Inch LCD Sreen to create images for DoNArTNeWs Philadelphia art blog and Side Arts Philadelphia art blog.  So, did DoN pick a loser in Kodak as an advertising affiliate?  Coffee did shoot out DoN‘s nose as the news of Kodak‘s bankruptcy crawled across the bottom of Morning Joe brought to you by Starbucks.

DoNArTNeWs is using affiliate marketing, peppering the text with hyperlinks and ads, to generate revenue to move to an improved WordPress platform; clicking links and ads may take you to website for companies like Kodak which DoN personally uses in his art or blogging or to related resources like artist’s websites.  If you buy a product as a result of clicking a link in the art blog or the DoNArTNeWs sidebar a commission is generated for DoNArTNeWs.

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Downstairs Gallery @ The Plastic Club

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Alden W. Cole, Downstairs Gallery at The Plastic Club, Down the Intervale No. 1

Alden Cole, Down the Intervale No. 1, oil, Downstairs Gallery at The Plastic Club

Alden Cole, Down the Intervale No. 3, oil, Downstairs Gallery at The Plastic Club

Alden Cole, Down the Intervale No. 3, oil, Downstairs Gallery at The Plastic Club.

Downstairs Gallery at the Plastic Club features the work of Sylvia Fine, Phyllis Weldon, Irma Shapiro, Naomi N. Rubin and Alden Cole.  Artist, Alden Cole makes sure he dedicates time in his life to be surrounded by Nature.  Born and raised in New England, Cole makes several trips a year to the Northeast, lugging his paintbox and canvas’ on the train to visit his family farm or the homes of his friends, always returning with a reminder of the beauty and tranquility of the land he came from.

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ps Alden Cole designed this book.

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Works on Paper 2012 at PSC

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Sibylle-Maria Pfaffenbichler, Yes Indeed, at The Philadelphia Sketch Club

Sibylle-Maria Pfaffenbichler, Yes Indeed, acrylic & pastel, Works on Paper at The Philadelphia Sketch Club 1/8/2012

Sibylle-Maria Pfaffenbichler, Yes Indeed, acrylic & pastel, “The Annual Domenic DiStefano Memorial 2012 Juried Works on Paper Exhibition”, at The Philadelphia Sketch Club through 1/21/2012.

Richard Harrington, 1956 T-bird at The Philadelphia Sketch Club Works on Paper 2012

Richard Harrington, 1956 T-bird , gouache on paper at The Philadelphia Sketch Club  “The Annual Domenic DiStefano Memorial 2012 Juried Works on Paper Exhibition”.

Lisa Lawinski, Acacia Tress and Bleeding Hearts, The Philadelphia Sketch Club Works on Paper 2012

Lisa Lawinski Buchler, Acacia Tress and Bleeding Hearts, mixed media, The Philadelphia Sketch Club Works on Paper 2012

Lisa Lawinski, Acacia Tress and Bleeding Hearts, The Philadelphia Sketch Club Works on Paper 2012

Lisa Lawinski Buchler, Acacia Tress and Bleeding Hearts, The Philadelphia Sketch Club “The Annual Domenic DiStefano Memorial 2012 Juried Works on Paper Exhibition”

Judy Engle, Philadelphia Sketch Club Works on Paper 2012

Judy Engle, Loft Life with Ginger Cat, mixed media collage with tape at Philadelphia Sketch Club “The Annual Domenic DiStefano Memorial 2012 Juried Works on Paper Exhibition”.

Judy Engle‘s tape collage, Loft Life with Ginger Cat, has a depth and density that is confusingly 3D.  Judy told DoN that friend’s told her that tape would deteriorate but the artist has found just the opposite.  Ignoring the negative feedback, Judy Engle had both of her entries accepted into the exclusive exhibition and took home an Honarable Mention award.

Judy Engle, Philadelphia Sketch Club Works on Paper 2012

Judy Engle, Philadelphia Sketch Club Works on Paper 2012.  The reflected light is from the large window over the Winner’s Wall, you may even notice the model ship on the sill and the skylight which makes the gallery/studio so appealing for making art.

Harry S. Camarda, In Thought, The Philadelphia Sketch Club Works on Paper 2012

Harry S. Camarda, In Thought, charcoal, The Philadelphia Sketch Club Works on Paper 2012

Harry S. Camarda, In Thought, The Philadelphia Sketch Club Works on Paper 2012

Harry S. Camarda, In Thought, charcoal, The Philadelphia Sketch Club Works on Paper 2012

The Philadelphia Sketch Club “The Annual Domenic DiStefano Memorial 2012 Juried Works on Paper Exhibition”, through January 21st, 2012, is an opportunity to immerse yourself in the variety of media, ideas and combinations of materials that constitutes art made on and with paper.  Excluding photography, the show displays exquisite works by many of Philadelphia finest artists; the first place winner Harry S. Camarda‘s In Thought, a magnificent charcoal drawing that recalls the era of Thomas Eakins, a PSC founder, and reaffirms the mission of the Philadelphia Sketch Club – where artists grow.

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