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.