The Stars of GPHC’s Evening of the Arts
Greater Park Hill Evening of the Arts
Thursday, June 20th from 5 to 9:30 p.m. at 2823 Fairfax Street
Tickets $20/advance, $25/door
Raffle tickets $20 or $50/three
Grand prize: Devin’s painting
• Tickets include two drinks, appetizers and desserts
• Live painting by Devin Montagne
• Live music in the garden
• Artisan booths
All proceeds benefit GPHC
In addition to live painting from Devin Montagne, featured in the May issue, the following artists will exhibit their art at the Greater Park Hill Evening of the Arts.
Vicky Smith | Ceramics
Vicky Smith is a ceramic artist that creates hand-built organic clay forms that are surfaced with oils and other materials. Her work has been exhibited in shows around the country. She has taught ceramics at many local art centers, schools and institutions. Currently she is the studio manager and a teacher at the Mizel Arts and Culture Center, as well as a ceramics instructor at Arapahoe Community College. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design. Living and working in her Park Hill studio since 1999, she truly enjoys creating with clay and the clay community at large. She can be reached at vicky.smith.clay@gmail.com.
Paul Myrick | Photography and Watercolor
Paul Myrick is a Denver artist who grew up and resided most of this life in the deep south. Inheriting an innate artistic ability from his mother, southern rural artist Peggy Myrick Knight, Paul is naturally creative and expressive in several art forms including photography, watercolor and graphic design. Paul was also mentored by Atlanta-based photographer Robin Davis, who teaches bi-annually at the Cortona Center of Photography in Italy. A previous career working in information technology provides Paul with a technical background that fits perfectly with today’s digital art mediums.
Paul’s photography and graphic design work was chosen in 2008 by IBM and Ricoh to represent technological innovation in their US and international offices. Additional photographic scenes of Colorado were also selected by IBM for their Boulder office complex. In 2009, Paul exhibited his photographic work during First Friday in the Santa Fe Arts District in Denver. In 2012, Paul’s photograph, “Bull Wheel”, was selected for the entrance of the new Marriott resort in Breckenridge. For the Greater Park Hill Evening of the Arts, Paul will be showing a new collection of watercolor prints created in both analog and digital mediums. He can be reached at paulmyrick.com.
Carolyn Jones Martyn | Painting
Always a passionate artist, Carolyn was sidetracked in college when all the Fine Arts classes were full. She was welcomed into the theatre department because they “needed artists” and went on to earn a Masters degree in theatre design. After a long and happy career in theatre education, Carolyn retired to pursue her original life goal: to paint. She particularly enjoys working in series as she explores the vast potential of this engaging art form. An avid traveler, Carolyn is inspired by the unusual as well as the familiar elements of our world. She is a signature member of the Colorado Watercolor Society.
Artist’s Statement: There is a special magic created as light falls upon form; it is that drama I attempt to capture in painting. I relish observing human nature and the expressive problem solving of mankind. Usually my subjects are “ordinary” scenes celebrating everyday life. She can be reached at cjmartyn@viawest.net.
Becky Richardson | Paper
Unwanted books, maps, sheet music, wallpaper, post cards, stamps, even placemats and menus, are all materials Becky uses in her artwork. If it’s made of paper, she will tear it, burn it, fold it, cut it, glue it, paint it. The results range from collaged botanical canvases to functional decoupage items to whimsical origami ornaments. After retiring in 2009, with more than 20 years as an auditor for the Colorado General Assembly, Becky enrolled in the Denver Botanic Garden’s Botanical Illustration Program and began rediscovering her long-dormant artistic side. Since then, her work has been displayed in numerous venues including the Park Hill Home Tour Street Fair and the recent Cotton District Arts Festival, an annual juried art event in her hometown of Starkville, MS. Becky is also a much-requested teacher of origami and decoupage to both children and adults. Vintage PaperWorks can be reached at richardson1821@comcast.net.
Patricia Barr Clarke | Plein Air Watercolor
Patricia Barr Clarke is a nationally recognized watercolorist exhibiting still life and landscapes in galleries in Santa Fe and in Colorado, including the Vail Alpine Treasure. She is a signature member of the Colorado Watercolor Society. Pat has taught Watercolor workshops to students of all ages for the past 26 years. She will be exhibiting her work at the Santa Fe Art Brokerage in July and at the Arts Student League. Pat has lived in Park Hill for 30 years and graduated from the University of Kansas.
Peg Meagher | Watercolors
Peg Meagher studied art in high school. At age 50, after many years in a nursing career, Peg returned to painting. In retirement she has studied watercolor painting with teachers in US, Ireland, and Italy. Peg has shown her art frequently in the Denver area. Many of these shows were solo shows. She has a refreshing style and a free use of color. She prefers to paint outdoors in Colorado, Utah & New Mexico. Peg is married with one son and is a Grandma to Ben, Noah, and Marina.
Michael Gadlin | Mixed Media
Michael Gadlin has been dedicated to his art career for over 20 years. Gadlin studied at the Art Students League of Denver, then went on to study at the prestigious Pratt Institute in New York where he advanced his skills. In 1999 Gadlin was the youngest artist ever to win “Best Of Show” at Denver’s nationally renowned Cherry Creek Arts Festival. Exhibiting in select galleries and museums worldwide, Michael has been commissioned by governments, Fortune 100 corporations and private
collectors. Besides working daily on ArtHaus studio and gallery business, Michael is currently dedicated to working with under-served and special needs artists both at ArtHaus and on location, including autistic artist, Zachary Inkeles, a longtime student and friend. Most recently Michael has extended his community outreach to work on the Facilitate Painting workshops with the disabled through the Art Students League of Denver and partnered with VSA Colorado Access Gallery in Denver. He can be reached at michaelgadlin.com.
Susan O’Connell | Mixed Media
Local artist, Susan Q. O’Connell, a painter, printmaker and jewelry maker, has been in the art field for many years. With a few degrees in art, Susan created a career teaching college and high school fine art classes, printmaking workshops, and afterschool workshops for kids. During this time Susan was a single mom raising her daughter, Lea, and teaching her the joy of making things. Three years ago, Susan and her best friend, Kelly, from college re-met and kindled a romance which turned in marriage. Being both artists, they have turned much of their home into studio space and art adorns the walls. Susan enjoys working with paper and designed after school workshops to make something fun for kids to learn some new skills. She turned her ideas into viable designs for light weight paper jewelry for adults. Susan continues to teach privately, work on her “serious art”, and her small art businesses, if i…Creative Studios, llc and online store which features Quiet Hand Paper Jewelry, her line of jewelry. She can be reached at ificreativestudios.com or susanqharrington.com.
Melia Reece | Pastels
Melia has always been passionate about gardening and nature. Any garden craft or piece of art she creates is inspired and driven by that love. Currently she works in pastels designing gourd birdhouses and gourd animals. Each creation is one of a kind and painted with the hopes that it will make and find a good home in someone’s outdoor room or garden.
Mackenzie Gault | Music
Mackenzie Gault is a Violist, Violinist, Composer, Songwriter and Teacher from Denver, CO. A graduate of the Denver School of the Arts and the University of Denver (BM, Viola Performance), Mackenzie has a long history of performing in and around Colorado and has always tried to use the traditionally classical viola in new and different ways, incorporating jazz, rock, and fiddle styles into her playing. She currently lives in North City Park with her husband and 16-month old son.
In 2006 Mackenzie co-founded the band Flobots, who have had great success including a platinum selling single (Handlebars), sold out tours in America and Europe, and TV Appearances with Jay Leno, Conan O’Brian and Carson Daly. She also helped to found Flobots.org, a non-profit organization that brings music education and recording arts to both Denver Public Schools and centers for troubled youth.
Now on hiatus from touring with Flobots, Mackenzie is opening Denver Music Tree – a music education studio in Park Hill that features baby and toddler music classes, private lessons and tutoring in music theory and ear training. It is her hope that Denver Music Tree will serve the community’s musical needs and provide a fun, warm and educational place for all children to come and receive the benefits of early music education. She can be reached atdenvermusictree.com.
A warm thank you to the event sponsors:
Oblio’s Pizzeria
Johnson & Wales University
Cake Crumbs
The Garden Restaurant
Latke Love