Murray Dock Dwellers
by Dale Bishop
Seven Oaks Art League
Tomatoes on the Fence
by Geri Bradley
2010-11
Meetings
September 16 , 2010
October 21 , 2010
November 18 , 2010
January 20 , 2011
February 17 , 2011
March 17, 2011
April 21, 2011
May 19, 2011
The Seven Oaks Art League is open to amateur and professional artists interested in supporting the fine arts. Meetings are held on the third Thursday of the month, unless otherwise stated, at 7:00 pm at Seven Oaks Park located at 200 Leisure Lane, Columbia, South Carolina.. Refreshments and fellowship time begins at 6:30 pm and we meet September through May.
September 16 Program
J’ Renee is the featured speaker at Seven Oaks Art League for September 16, 2010. Meeting will be at Seven Oaks Recreation Park on Leisure Lane, Irmo from 7PM until 9 PM. Public is invited to attend.
Artist J'Renee remembers the McKenna Museum of African American Art when it was a broken down derelict waiting for the wrecking ball. She's happy that Dr. Dwight McKenna restored the old ante-bellum beauty.
J'Renee, her mother, 5-year-old son, 2-year-old daughter, and niece, were stranded in the flooded Treme after Hurricane Katrina, when a passerby offered them a ride out of town. She hasn't been able to get back yet.
She studied art at Xavier University and her determination to be an artist was validated by her professor, the late John Scott, one of the guiding lights of New Orleans art. Scott encouraged her to experiment.
Her experiments with Senegalese glass painting that began 12 years ago, led to the glinting, lushly-colored works on display at the McKenna.
"Everything is backwards," she said of the demanding technique in which images are brushed on the opposite side of window panes. "The details and highlights go first, not last. My name goes on first."
Her glass paintings include tropical Gauguin-inspired figures, surrounded by poignant scenes from the city she loves and pines for -- cemeteries, second lines, iron work, flood wreckage and rescue helicopters. She often includes photo clippings to lend unexpectedly realistic touches. Like many Katrina evacuees, J'Renee, 42, has leap-frogged around the country, currently living in South Carolina.
President
Donna Gore
Vice President
Mildred Krause
Secretary
Cathy Purdy
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Donna Reid
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June Tucarella
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Gail Cunningham
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Donna Reid
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Chris Carlsson
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Mary Monroe
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Jan Key
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Rose Ostrowski
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Adele Hoadley
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Melinda Smith