Interview in Spanish

Los Bloguitos
recently ran a long interview with me, entirely in Spanish! Click here to read the piece, written by Argentinian writer and poet Leticia Pontoni.

Judging

Alexandra Tyng and I were invited to judge the Parkland Art Association's Annual Juried Show, at the Allentown Art Museum. Judging is difficult but interesting work! Just FYI, the AAM is a beautiful small museum, with some very fine pieces in its collections.

Nancy Bea Miller (l) and Alexandra Tyng (r) in front of the Allentown Art Museum, December 2009
Photo: David Lee

Small Works

Vapor Trails at Lobster Cove, Nancy Bea Miller, 5 x 7 inches, 2009

I have several pieces, a few plein air studies from my recent trip to Monhegan island and some still-life as well, in a small works group show, at Artists' House Gallery in Philadelphia.

Small Works-2009
Artists' House Gallery
First Friday, December 4, 5 - 8:30pm
and
Sunday Reception,December 6, 1 - 4pm
57 North Second Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106
(215) 923-8440

I'm planning to be at the Sunday reception; please stop in if you are downtown!

Plein Air at Beaver Farm Exhibit

Ani and Guy Alma and me at the Plein Air at Beaver Farm exhibit. We are standing in front of paintings by Lynne Campbell and Stuart Shils.
Photo: Alexandra Tyng.

Plein Air at Beaver Farm exhibit

Last Tuesday, November 3rd the Plein Air at Beaver Farm exhibit took place to benefit Camphill Special School. I am still coming down from the rush of organizing this event, staging it and experiencing it. It was simply incredible. Held at Rosenfeld Gallery in Philadelphia, the attendance was more than twice than anticipated; we ran out of wine three times and half the work was sold in two and a half hours. I'm still a bit knocked back by all this, and very grateful to the many people who helped make this such a big success! To see an excellent, pithy, recap of the event with a few choice photos, head over to my friend Alex Tyng's blog. I thought she did a great job describing the evening.

Here are some shots of the evening, all taken by Courtney Coffman:

PABF in American Artist Magazine

Wow!
Many thanks to Steve Doherty and the other folks at American Artist magazine for giving this wonderful shout-out to Plein Air at Beaver Farm! (As always, click pix to enlarge .)



American Artist
November 2009
page 8
Photo credits: Carol Goetz, Garth Herrick and Nancy Bea Miller

Art of the Still Life

Still Life Invitational

ART OF THE STILL LIFE

September 2 to September 27, 2009
Artists' House Gallery
57 North Second Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106


(215) 923-8440 Wed - Sun 12-5 PM or by appointment

Review of Two Art Books

A Tale of Two Art Books
I was surprised and delighted to find that the magazine kept my somewhat facetious working title as the print title for this review! Had I been really following the Dickens formula I would have begun the review with "It was the best of books, it was the worst of books..." but in fact both books are wonderful! Very different from each other, but each is excellent in its own way. Classical Painting Atelier by Juliette Aristides and Alla Prima by Al Gury



This just came out in Fine Art Connoisseur, October 2009, page 38.

Curious

Magazine coverage
of Plein Air at Beaver Farm has kicked off with a local freebie but goodie,
Curious Parents! Thank you Kelly Wolfgang for a nice article.
We've already gotten many web mentions, including Fallon & Rosoff's Art Blog, American Artist Magazine's blog (and blog highlights!), The Autism Society of America's website and more. More to come, as well, I think.

Plein Air at Beaver Farm!

The Big Day
was a very big day indeed! On August 8th, 34 artists converged on Beaver Farm in Phoenixville PA for a wonderful day of painting, delicious food and camaraderie. The weather gods cooperated and we had a lovely day. Joyful reunions were happening all over the place as old friends saw one another again, and many new friends met for the first time, too.

Of course the main attraction was art-making. This working biodynamic farm is a place of such quiet but intense beauty many of the artists felt almost overwhelmed by choices. However this is a nice problem to have, and everyone got to work:


Rachel Constantine in the garden


John Sevcik tackled the big old farmhouse


Stuart Shils at work under the tall trees


Eliza Auth worked both in pastels and in oils


Me (Nancy Bea Miller) courtesy of Marianne Mitchell


Marianne Mitchell stops to take a look at her piece in progress


Jeffrey Reed contemplating his next piece


Al Gury and Nancy Bea Miller


Rebecca Thornburgh, Jo-Ann Osnoe, Dianne Morrow, David lee, Mary Walsh, Elizabeth Wilson, Alex Tyng et. al.



Aina Roman breaking in a new french easel and experimenting like crazy!


Ellen Cooper painting through the roses


Paul DuSold faces the paparazzi with good grace


Giovanni Casedei was so absorbed in his work he didn't notice


Suzy Schireson tackled the silo


Elaine Lisle got some canine companionship


Alex Tyng painting by the laundry line


Ellen Cooper, Laura Kaderabeck Eyring and Frances Galante, hard at it


Fred Danziger and one of his miniatures, with Stuart Shils


Sarah Barr and her big old monster camera


Garth Herrick out sitting in the field


Betsey Batchelor and "her" tree


The stragglers pose for one more shot at the end of an utterly amazing day! Participating artists not previously mentioned include Michael Bartmann, Joe Sweeney, Lynne Campbell, Dale Roberts, Fay Stanford, John Ennis, Carla Tudor, Elana Hagler and Mary Hiltbrandt. Thank you so much everyone!

A one day exhibit and sale of the work to benefit Camphill Special School, will be held November 3, reception 5:30-8 pm at Rosenfeld Gallery, 113 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
All are welcome!

For more information on Plein Air at Beaver Farm just click!

Blog Mention

Wonderful Roberta Fallon of The Art Blog has just posted about Plein Air at Beaver Farm: thank you Roberta! In case I have not mentioned it, Plein Air at Beaver Farm is an outdoor painting event I'm organizing to benefit Henry's school: Camphill Special School at Beaver Run. The fully subscribed painting day will take place this coming weekend, with thirty artists painting their hearts out and feasting on delicious farm fresh food. The exhibit and sale of work will be held November 3rd at the Rosenfeld Gallery in Old City, Philadelphia.

More about Plein Air at Beaver Farm can be found here!

To read the full write up on The Art Blog, just click here.

Artist of the Month

Judson's Art Outfitters features an artist in every month's newsletter and I am it for July! If interested, click images below to read in higher resolution.

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Consider the Lobster!

Lobster with Brioche, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches, 2009

If you are in Stonington, Maine I hope you will stop in and see

Consider the Lobster
The gWatson Gallery is presenting a group exhibition of new paintings entitled Consider the Lobster. Twenty-three artists, most of whom regularly exhibit in the Gallery, have created images inspired by Maine’s iconic crustacean.
The paintings range from the photo realism of Mark Workman to the abstractions of Robin Reynolds and Hannah Bureau. Pamela Parsons and Nancy Morgan Barnes contribute pictures of lobsters in their environment. Nancy Bea Miller and Alexandra Tyng prepare their lobsters on a plate. To the table, Joel Janowitz delivers six montotypes; and Jon Imber brings three small paintings. The exhibition celebrates the creativity of these twenty-three artists and salutes the men and women who sustain the area’s most important industry: lobster fishing. ~Stonington Galleries News

Consider the Lobster opens on Friday, June 26. A Celebration of artists and their lobster images will take place on Friday, July 3 from 4 to 7 PM.
gWatson Gallery
68 Main Street
Stonington, Maine 04681
207.367.2900
http://www.gwatsongallery.com/

The full story on how I became acquainted with this lobster can be read here!

New Class Starting Next Week

Figure in the Landscape
all levels
Tuesdays, 10 am to 1 pm.
Starts May 5, goes for six weeks.
$145

One of my painting students offered me the use of her wonderful farm in Berwyn, PA: outbuildings, spring house, creek, woods, fields, pond, paddock with horse etc. I'll have a model available for those who care to pursue that aesthetic line, but people can paint whatever they want! There is a barn in which to paint the model on any rainy days, and also covered porches and loggias for the sun sensitive, and best of all for women landscape painters: access to bathrooms!

For more information or to register, call the Wayne Art Center at 610-688-3553 or click here.





A few winter images of the farm. It is an amazing place!

One Person Show

One Person Show

Nancy Bea Miller: Genre Paintings
March 31-April 22. 2009
Crawford Campus Center Gallery
The Episcopal Academy
1785 Bishop White Drive
Newtown Square, PA 19070.
8 AM - 5 PM weekdays

Opening Reception
April 3, 2009
5:30 - 7:30

All are welcome!

An important note: Mapquest and GPS directions to Episcopal are way off. For clear directions click here!

Spring Teaching

SPRING TEACHING

I am teaching several classes next semester at both the Main Line Art Center and the Wayne Art Center.

At MLAC in Haverford, PA:
Figure Drawing and Painting
Class Level: All Levels
Day: Tuesday
Time: 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Start: Mar 31, 2009 End: May 26, 2009

and

Painting with Oils
Class Level: All Levels
Day: Thursday
Time: 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Start: Apr 2, 2009 End: May 21, 2009

For more info click here.

Through the Wayne Art Center:

The Figure in the Landscape
all levels
Tuesdays, 10 am to 1 pm.
Starts April 28, goes for six weeks.

This is a new class and I am very excited about it! One of my students offered me the use of her gorgeous farm in Berwyn, PA: outbuildings, spring house, creek, woods, fields, pond, paddock with horse etc. I'll have a model available for those who care to pursue that aesthetic line, but people can paint what they wish! There is a barn in which to paint the model on any rainy days, and also covered porches and loggias for the sun sensitive, and best of all for women landscape painters: access to bathrooms!

For more info or to register, click here.

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