ART IN THE GARDENS

THIS EVENT HAS SOME OF OUR ARTISTS FROM THE BOOK~

7th Annual "Art in the Gardens"
Description: More than 75 artists will participate in this juried open-air art show featuring Alabama artists.
Date: June 6, 2009 – June 7, 2009
Full Description: Buy an original from an Alabama artist! Shop the works of omore than 75 talented painters, potters, woodworkers, jewelry makers, photographers and other fine craftsmen who will exhibit during this two-day juried art show featuring only Alabama artists. Many artists are returning from last year, plus many more new faces! Here are just a few:

Nada Boner Don Estes
Tamara Shadinger Tena Payne
Beverly Klamer Toby Klein
Maurice Cook She She
Jayne Harrison Rollina Oglesbay
George Elliot Julie Jackson
Ken Gables Ron Lewis

This event is free to the public.
Food vendors and continuous shuttle service will also be available for your convenience.
Phone Number: (205) 682-8019
Other Event Features: Kid-Friendly; Outdoor Event; Handicap Accessible
Location: Aldridge Botanical Gardens
3530 Lorna Rd.
Hoover, AL 35216
Geographic Area: Jefferson County
Link to Map: View Map
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Event Website: http://www.aldridgegardens.com
Price: Free Admission

Artist Profile

Joyce Cates Byrd

is another of the artists in Birmingham Sketchbook.

Joyce has loved art her entire life and was encouraged to draw and paint by her high school art teacher. Her inspiration has come from God’s beautiful earth, as shown in her main subject matters of landscapes, water scenes, seascapes and flowers. Her painting mediums are oils, acrylics, watercolors and mixed media. Mainly a self-taught artist, she has taken workshops from internationally known and local artists, namely, Margaret Hoyback, Dirk Walker, Donny Finley, Bill Cleere, Bettye Howell and Carol Weston.

Joyce has been an exhibitor in galleries and juried art shows. Her work has been featured in the Birmingham -Hoover Sketchbook.

Joyce currently resides in Alabaster, Alabama.

Affiliations: Mountain Brook Art Association
Vestavia Hills Art Association
Hoover/Shelby Art Association
The Watercolor Society of Alabama
National League of American Pen Women in Art
Hoover Arts Alliance

E-Mail: JCByrd2@bellsouth.net

Phone: 205-663-4184

Be watching for newspaper, radio and television coverage for Homewood's Four Seasons Antiques and Art's Birmingham Sketchbook Signing

Be sure to come on Friday, February 20, for a one of a kind Book Signing with the artists and author of Birmingham Sketchbook.

Author Allison Puccetti Adams and artists Warren Mullins, She She (Vaughn), Justin Banger, Kevin Jones, She She and Linda Vance, Craig Gallaway, Joyce Byrd, Julia Pope, Vicky Hopping, Barbara Prior and Beverly Klamer are some of the artists who will be there to sign your copy of Birmingham Sketchbook.

Artwork by each of the artists will also be available for sale.

This book not only has beautifully rendered images of a city's past, but the story also weaves a narrative that encourages the reader to think about their own unique fingerprint that might create the future of this bright city.

Be thinking about this as a great gift for Mother's Day, Easter or an inspiring treat for yourself.

Click on the links here to meet the artists and author and to get a peek.
We look forward to seeing you on Friday in Homewood
on the main street in Homewood (2910 18th Street South)
or call 803-4059 for more information. www.fourseasonsantiquesandart.com


Artist information:

Four Seasons Gallery
2910 18th Street south
Birmingham, Alabama 35209


Kevin Jones
Phone: (205) 335-4256
Email: artbykj@yahoo.com
Web site: www.artbykevinjones.com

Justin Banger
justinbanger@mac.com
527-2279

Shelia (She She) Vaughn
991-5775/ cell 422-6861
Artwork represented by Four Seasons

Warren Mullins
warrenmullins@warrenmullinsart.com
240-4306
(Four Seasons artist)

Richard Russell
www.allthingsgallery.biz
e-mail: info@allthingsgallery.biz
local: 205-637-6374
Toll Free 866-234-6659


Craig Gallaway
979-5443
www.gallawayart.com

Joyce Byrd
jcbyrd2@bellsouth.net

Vicky Hopping
vjhopping106@aol.com

Linda Vance
822-6044 or contact at Four Seasons (artist)

Julia Pope
mpope1@bellsouth.net
871-6087

Beverly Klamer
www.hoover/shelbyart.com
baklamar@bellsouth.net
Four Seasons artist

Barbara Prior
www.cobblanegallery.com

Artist/Author
Allison Puccetti Adams
chetti7@aol.com
914-2400
www.allisonpuccettiadams.blogspot.com

A bit about Theresa Snell Peterson

We hope you enjoy getting to know the artists in Birmingham Sketchbook.

Here is a bit about artist Theresa Snell Peterson



I have been "making art" all of my life, but only began to study art when I attended Troy State University. Later, I attended the University of Montevallo, where I majored in commercial and fine arts. After college, I broadened my education by doing workshops with Alan Flattman, Donny Finley, Bill Carter, Milton Lenoir among others. I have worked as a portraitist for more than 25 years and my work hangs in collections all over the United States. My art has won awards from Honorable Mention to Best of Show. I live and work in Alabaster, AL.

Theresa is a member of Mountain Brook Art Association, Vestavia Hills Art Association, Hoover/Shelby Art Association, and the Hoover Art Alliance.

For more information about commissioned portraits of people, pets, homes, and other custom art, please contact me at 663-6734 or via E-mail at havaart@aol.comI am a member of Mountain Brook Art Association, Vestavia Hills Art Association, Hoover/Shelby Art Association, and the Hoover Art Alliance.

Book Signing at Four Seasons Antiques and Art- Homewood

Homewood's Four Seasons Antiques and Art hosts Birmingham Sketchbook Signing

On Friday, February 20, come out for a one of a kind Book Signing with the artists and author of Birmingham Sketchbook.

Author Allison Puccetti Adams and artists Warren Mullins, She She (Vaughn), Justin Banger, Kevin Jones, She She and Linda Vance, Craig Gallaway, Joyce Byrd, Julia Pope, Vicky Hopping, Barbara Prior and Beverly Klamer are some of the artists who will be at Four Season's Antiques and Art so you can have multiple signatures for your one of a kind copy of Birmingham Sketchbook.

Artwork by each of the artists will also be available for sale.

This book not only has beautifully rendered images of a city's past, but the story also weaves a narrative that encourages the reader to think about their own unique fingerprint that might create the future of this bright city.

Be thinking about this as a great gift for Mother's Day, Easter or an inspiring treat for yourself.

Click on the links here to meet the artists and author and to get a peek.
We look forward to seeing you on Friday in Homewood
on the main street in Homewood (2910 18th Street South)
or call 803-4059 for more information. www.fourseasonsantiquesandart.com


Artist information:

Four Seasons Gallery
2910 18th Street south
Birmingham, Alabama 35209


Kevin Jones
Phone: (205) 335-4256
Email: artbykj@yahoo.com
Web site: www.artbykevinjones.com

Justin Banger
justinbanger@mac.com
527-2279

Shelia (She She) Vaughn
991-5775/ cell 422-6861
Artwork represented by Four Seasons

Warren Mullins
warrenmullins@warrenmullinsart.com
240-4306
(Four Seasons artist)

Craig Gallaway
979-5443
www.gallawayart.com

Joyce Byrd
jcbyrd2@bellsouth.net

Vicky Hopping
vjhopping106@aol.com

Linda Vance
822-6044 or contact at Four Seasons (artist)

Julia Pope
mpope1@bellsouth.net
871-6087

Beverly Klamer
www.hoover/shelbyart.com
baklamar@bellsouth.net
Four Seasons artist

Barbara Prior
www.cobblanegallery.com

Artist/Author
Allison Puccetti Adams
chetti7@aol.com
914-2400
www.allisonpuccettiadams.blogspot.com

ABC/33 BROADCAST WITH DAVE BAIRD

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE LIVE ABC/33 STORY OF BIRMINGHAM SKETCHBOOK

There has been great coverage on The Birmingham Sketchbook.

Dave Baird visited me at home and did a great job showing the faces of the artists and may of the paintings in the book.

I hope you will take a quick peek.

Allison

So Much History- So Few Words

As the author of this book, I am asked all of the time, "Why is so and so listed, why isn't so and so listed?" I don't know that I have an answer. It is a challenge, at best to weave a story about the history of such a diverse city. Especially challenging to do that in only 2400 words.

I learned so much about the people behind the city that I tried to use INDIVIDUAL'S VISION as the thread that weaves the events together, while trying to include the reader as the NEXT VISIONARY of our city's future.

I hope that I was able to motivate readers to be the visionary that keeps Birmingham in the limelight, for arts, culture, a cooperative spirit and technology.

We are so blessed with an incredible medical community. I recently wrote about a women with cancer who chose UAB over all of the clinics in the US...she rests in knowing that some of the cutting edge research is occuring in our own back yard.
(The article was published in Southern Beauty Magazine, a Birmingham publication).

I ended that story telling about my step sister, who lived in Washington, DC, and moved here with hope of a cure for a very similar brain tumor. My sister did not survive the third operation, but she was full of life until the day she let go...almost willingly, to our amazement and with a complete peace.

Being the person that she was....she donated her body to science...in the very organization that attempts to find a cure for brain tumors for people such as the person in my story. A circle completed, as one counts on a cure and one gives doctor's hints by sacrificing her body to science.

I tell this story after a letter I received from a reader of the book, who asked that same question..."why was our organization not listed".

In researching, I somehow overlooked the name of this particular organization, but trust me....what you do lives in my heart as I long for my step-sister, whose purpose was to provide insight to those like you who dig deeply for the answers. Thank you for that dedication and for putting Birmingham on the map for cancer research.

Sincerely,
Allison Puccetti Adams

Ms. Adams
I have just recently finished your book "Birmingham-Hoover Sketchbook" which I enjoyed very much and thought it was very well done. However, I can't help but wonder why you failed to include Southern Research Institute anywhere in this book. SRI has played a major role in cancer research, not only in screening for anticancer agents but also in developing new drugs for cancer treatment. It was founded in 1941, had its beginnings in the Morris-Cartwright home on Southside and now employs approx. 500 people. I noticed you included the Quinlan Castle-right next door to SRI, UAB down the street (and incidentally, they now own SRI) and several other sites in the Five Points area. I hope if you should produce another book of this type that you will include SRI in your list of historic sites. In addition to cancer research, they have made a multitude of contributions in other areas of research and are certainly worthy of recognition.
Jackie Tubbs

Jonathan Benton Booksellers

Thanks for joining us for the booksigning at Jonathan Benton Booksellers in Mountain Brook Village. We had a great time together.

It was in the middle of a day of tornado warnings and exciting weather!

Thanks to those who weathered the storm!

Melanie Morris

Melanie Morris paints with a pallette knife and is one of the selected artists featured in Birmingham Sketchbook.

Click on the link above to go to her website.

Melanie Morris is an award-winning acrylic painter whose work can be found in galleries across the southeast. A featured artist in regional and national juried shows, she is often invited to lead painting workshops.
A native of Mississippi, one of Melanie’s earliest memories is sitting with her mother in the backyard sketching a pear tree. This fascination with nature is revealed today in her colorful landscapes and florals. A graduate of Mississippi College and the University of Alabama, Melanie is married to novelist Michael Morris and resides in Birmingham, Alabama.

Juried Exhibitions
• Eastern Shore Art Center’s 36th Annual Outdoor Show – Fairhope, AL 2008
• Spotlight on Art – Atlanta, GA 2008
• 33rd Annual Great Gulf Coast Arts Festival – Pensacola, FL; 2007
• 44th Annual Bluff Park Art Show – Birmingham, AL; 2007
• 36th Annual Cellular South GumTree Festival – Tupelo, MS; 2007
• Eastern Shore Art Center's 35th Annual Outdoor Show – Fairhope, AL; 2007
• The Wonders of Alabama Art - Energen Art Competition; Birmingham, AL; 2007
• 2006 Birmingham Art Association Juried Show – Art in Bloom; Birmingham, AL
• 2004 Eastern Shore Members Juried Show; Fairhope, AL


To see more events and awards, visit the website
www.MelanieMorrisArt.com

Janet Sanders- ARTIST

Janet Sanders Fine Art

Artist Bio

Some of my earliest childhood memories are of drawing constantly and contentedly. For many years I was part of the gifted art student program through the Detroit school system. Through this program, every Saturday would be spent at the Detroit Institute of Arts, sketching from the work of the world’s great artists and of course, as a child, taking it all for granted. Later studies in industrial and environmental design at the now renamed art college, The Center for Creative Studies, honed a talent for perspective and composition that still dominates my paintings. While moving around the country I have studied with several well-known regional artists and am fortunate to have studied with Cheng-Khee Chee who has now become a world-recognized watercolorist.

Several times through the years I quit work as an interior designer, or my work in display, to paint full time. However, I found painting alone so solitary that I would return to outside work. I have finally realized that I most enjoy painting in the company of other artists where I can pass the hours laughing and sharing techniques. Time spent on complicated perspective work can just fly by and I finally can produce enough paintings to share beyond my family and friends. In addition, I frequently travel in a motor- home, where I can carry all my painting supplies, and capture wonderful images from around the country.

Beyond painting, I spend as much time as possible as a docent at the Birmingham Museum of Art, where I especially enjoy sharing my love of art with blind visitors in a special hands-on tour. Working with newly blind patients from the Veterans Hospital who are learning to "see" art with their hands, or touring with children blind from birth, gives one a greater appreciation for the wonders of an art museum. I no longer take for granted being able to enjoy the world’s great artists.

Etta Yeary- Birmingham Sketchbook ARTIST

Etta grew up in a household that promoted her creativity, from building circus trains out of cardboard to life-size mini golf putt-putt. She’s spent twenty years studying new techniques in drawing and painting through a myriad of art workshops and classes. Her artwork includes photography, pencil, pen and ink, acrylic, oil, and watercolor. Etta’s work has been displayed at St. Vincent’s Hospital, the Cultural Alliance Center, Mountain Brook Art Show, and featured in the Birmingham-Hoover Sketchbook.



STUDIO/GALLERIES Private

AFFILIATIONS Mountain Brook Art Association

EMAIL ettayeary@aol.com

PHONE 205.980.9322