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Steena Fullmer-Anderson

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Website: Buddhakittyglass.com
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/buddhakittyglass/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/buddhakittyglass
Top 100 Artists on “Fused Glass Artist” (number 13): http://www.fusedglassartists.org/Buddhakittyglass

ARTIST STATEMENT

Glass is a beautiful luminescent medium, which is amazing to experience visually. The play of light through the glass changing its color and consistency creates visual sensations that are rarely paralleled in other materials. This play of light on glass also emphasizes the amazing textures of glass. I am drawn to the beauty in glass that comes out in its changing colors and textures. I strive to call attention to the texture and color of glass by creating a three dimensional experience for both the eyes and the hands. By layering handmade glass dots, pulled cane, and cast images on my work, I create realms of texture and layers of color that can be seen with the eyes and felt with your hands.

ARTIST BIO

Buddha Kitty Glass is the fused glass art of Steena Fullmer-Anderson. Steena has a life-long passion and fascination with all types of glass. She was raised in a small town in the San Juan Islands in Washington State, where she collected beach glass as a child. A trip to Europe in college spurred a fascination with stained glass. After returning home, Steena took her first class in glass art at a stained glass workshop. This workshop began a long and diverse journey through the numerous glass art disciplines. As a resident of Seattle, Washington Steena was surrounded by glass art. The Seattle area in renowned for its glass art community. While living in Seattle, Steena studied with many of the phenomenal glass artists in the area. After a decade of working with glass in her free time, Steena decided to leave work for the government and pursue glass art full-time. In 2008, Steena launched Buddha Kitty Glass, named after her cat who would sit at her feet while she worked on her first stained glass window. Steena is now a proud member of several artist co-operatives and galleries in Virginia and a Juried Artist of the Virginia Artisan Center.

GALLERY AND ARTIST COOPERATIVE MEMBERSHIPS:

  • Gallery Art Underground, Arlington, Virginia, September 2014 – Present.
  • The Gateway Gallery – Round Hill, Virginia, January 2012 – Present.
  • The Waterford Foundation Corner Store – Waterford, Virginia, October 2013 – Present.
  • The Art Gallery Group – Mount Jackson, Virginia, May 2014 – Present.
  • Over the Moon Bookstore & Artisan Gallery – Crozet, Virginia, March 2014 – Present.
  • Books and Other Found Things – Leesburg, Virginia, May 2014 – Present.
  • Burtons Jeweler and Fine Arts – Anacortes, Washington, April 2010 – Present.
  • Earthworks – Leesburg, Virginia, September 2012 – January 2013.
  • Everett Artist Gallery – Everett, Washington, January 2009 – September 2011.
  • I Heart Rummage – Seattle, Washington, January 2009 – September 2011.

AFFILIATIONS:

  • Arlington Artist Alliance, Member, September 2014 – Present.
  • Artisan Center of Virginia, Juried Artist and Member, June 2012 –Present.
  • Loudoun Arts Council, Member, June 2012 – Present.
  • Gateway Gallery, Treasurer, August 2013 – Present.
  • Gateway Gallery, Member at Large, June 2012 – August 2013.
  • Waterford Homes Tour and Crafts Exhibition, Co-Chair January 2012 – January 2013.

SHOWS AND EXHIBITIONS:

  • “GRUMP Holiday Arts and Crafts Show” Artisphere, Arlington, Virginia, December 2014.
  • “Empty Bowls 1st Annual Dinner and Art Show” Leesburg, Virginia, August 2014.
  • “Glen Echo Park 44th Annual Labor Day Art Show” Glen Echo, Maryland, August 2014.
  • “Gateway Gallery Traveling Art Show” Loudoun County, Virginia, May 2014 – Present.
  • “Three Days with the Artists” Great Falls, Virginia, December 2013 – 2014.
  • “Will the Circle Be Unbroken” Franklin Park Arts Center, Purcellville, Virginia, October 2013.
  • “Outstanding in Their Field” Round Hill Art Center, Round Hill, Virginia, June 2013.
  • “Western Loudoun Artists Studio Tour” Leesburg, Virginia, June 2013.
  • “Waterford Homes Tour and Crafts Exhibition” Waterford, Virginia, October 2012 – 2014.
  • “Back to School Artisan’s Bazaar” Hillyer Art Space, Washington D.C., September 2012.
  • “Think Outside the Box” Round Hill Art Center, Round Hill, Virginia, June 2012.
  • “Spring on the Wing” The Gateway Gallery, Round Hill, Virginia, April 2010.
  • “Bumbershoot” Seattle, Washington, June 2009.
  • “The Fremont Fair” Seattle, Washington, June 2009.
  • “Seattle Men’s Chorus Black Tie and Sequin Ball” Seattle, Washington, July 2009.
  • “The Jazz Night School Annual Auction” Seattle, Washington, September 2009.
  • “The Pratt Fine Art Center Holiday Fair” Seattle, Washington, December 2009.

Jane McElvany Coonce

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Email: Jane.Coonce@verizon.net
Website: www.jmcelvany.com

Jane McElvany Coonce has been in the art field for over 30 years. She works primarily in oil, pastel, and terra cotta. Her favorite subjects are children, seascapes, and bridge scenes. She is particularly skillful at capturing the luminescent quality of sunlight reflecting on water and on the interplay of water and sky.
Her works are held by private and corporate collectors. Her corporate collectors include the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland and the International Country Club, Fairfax, Virginia and the Rickover Academy in Chicago. She has won numerous awards for both her paintings and her sculptures.
She has been an art instructor for Arlington County Adult Education since 1980.
Born in Washington, DC, Jane McElvany Coonce lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and three sons.

Kerry Britton

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Email:  kerrybritton001@gmail.com

Kerry Britton is a textile artist striving to share insights about light, shape, color and texture through wall hangings that capture her experiences in natural settings. An avid photographer, she often uses multiple photographs to create unique compositions that capture essence of place, interesting botanical structures, and the play of light on surfaces. She uses commercial and hand-dyed fabrics as well as original paintings on cotton which she embellishes with stitchwork and mixed media.

Ann Bolster

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Ann Bolster is a retired English as a Second Language teacher and the wife of an American diplomat. She has lived in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Europe and continues to travel extensively. Her time overseas has given her an appreciation of the beauty of natural dyes and pigments used in old textiles, carpets and paintings. She likes to use these rich earth and jewel tones in her own works in oil and sometimes enriches them further with the use of gold, silver or copper leaf details. This technique is sometimes used in her paintings of cats (domestic and wild), foxes, wolves and other wildlife and in her paintings of angels. Her love of color is also evident in her still lifes and landscapes. Her landscapes are often given a brooding quality because of her use of blues, deep reds, greens and purples. While working primarily in oil, she also uses acrylic, mixed media and collage techniques.
 
Ms. Bolster has studied with Jane McElvany Coonce and Shirley Blanchard and has taken workshops with Walt Bartman, Robert Johnson and others. She is a member of the Arlington Artists Alliance and the McLean Art Society. Her works are shown in various venues in Northern Virginia and are in private collections.

Donna Lomangino

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Instagram: LomanginoArt
Twitter: dlomangino
Facebook: LomanginoArt
I am inspired by the overwhelming beauty and serenity of nature, its subtle shifts in color and mood, its warmth and its ferocity. The sea is particularly compelling to me as a painter—the reassuring sound and rythm of the tides, the vast blue, the stillness and the roar.
When I paint, I allow my moods and my instincts to guide me, from selection of color to application. My goal is to preserve as much spontaneity and rhythm as possible, not overworking the paint, so that the energy of the painting remains and the force of the brushstrokes are preserved. Oil is my medium of choice, although I paint in acrylics as well, sometimes as an underpainting, and recently have been exploring cold wax and oil.
Painting has always been my passion. My artwork has been exhibited internationally, and my paintings have been collected across the U.S. and Europe. Please go upstairs at Gallery Clarendon to see some of my paintings!
In addition to her painting career, Donna Lomangino has been the principal and creative director of Lomangino Studio, an award-winning design firm, since 1988.

Ilona Lantos

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Website: http://mindfulartcreations.com

Ilona Lantos is an educator and artist, whose passion can be summed up in a few words, “art is for everyone.” Teaching and art making have been part of her whole life. She taught languages, computer graphics, music and jewelry making. When her only child, Chris died from cancer when he was 12, Ilona was devastated. Her heart broke into million pieces and she could not see any purpose of her life. She not only lost her son, she also lost her role as a mother. When she was introduced to silk painting a tiny light entered her heart. She immediately became seriously interested in learning more about painting, so she attended several workshops. With the brushes and paints she was able to express what is hard to say in words. She committed to rebuilding herself as an artist. She has studied Intentional Creativity with Shiloh Sophia McCloud, acrylic painting with Flora Aube, silk painting with Clara Graves, mandala art with Kathryn Costa and Cassia Cogger. She and her husband established the Chris Lantos Foundation in memory of their son to help kids with cancer and their families. Ilona hopes that art making will be integral part in her personal and professional life. She is a member in the Intentional Creativity Teacher and Guild and the Arlington Artists Allience.

Artist Statement

I enjoy making art that activates a sense of being in touch with my deeper self and wisdom. My work centers around the old stories that we have been telling ourselves while they control our lives unconsciously yet when we bring them into consciousness we can transform them into new legends on the canvas.

My process is based on intuition, intention and inquiry. I love to dig deep into my heart and mind until the unconscious essence of me becomes conscious and materializes into something physical to touch and see and have a dialog with. I love to express feelings with symbols and patterns.

Making art is part of cultivating self-love and learning about myself at a deeper level and authentically.