MAS 2010 Members' Show

MAS 2010 Members' Show



We will be dedicating our 35th Annual Members' Art Show in memory of Joe Veckerelli, BOD Member and Watercolorist.

Prospectus will be sent out the following week to all members. We need volunteers, so let Patricia Barone orPaula Solimene, the coordinators, know if you can help them (pattonybarone@aol.com or mommyart@sbcglobal.net) .



Feb. 1st-Feb. 27th - Scranton Memorial Library, 801 Boston Post Rd., Madison, CT



Receiving: Saturday, January 30, 2010 from 9:30 a.m. until noon

Entry fee is $10 and you must be a member of good standing with dues paid. External frame size can not exceed 40 inches in length or width. Please be sensitive when selecting your artwork since the venue is used by young children.
Reception: Friday, February 5, 2010, 5-7 p.m.
Critique: Sunday, February 7, 2010, 1:30 -4 p.m. by Jack Broderick



A plein air painter and a studio painter, Jack uses both image and feeling in developing his paintings. To him, painting is a collaboration of artist and subject whether the subject is a model, a landscape or a still life. - Art is a conversation. –

He has traveled and painted extensively in Ireland, Argentina, Spain, Cuba and Italy. He has exhibited internationally in Paris, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Palermo and Tilcara. Eastern Connecticut is his home and the land and the people are subjects of many of his paintings. Jack teaches painting and drawing at the Lyme Art Association and at the Glastonbury Art Guild. He is a graduate of Marist College, the University of Notre Dame and the University of Connecticut.


Lecture on CT Impressionists: Thursday, February 18, 2010, 6:30 p.m. by Fred Biamonte
Connecticut Impressionism: A Celebration of Beauty

New Britain Museum of American Art educator Fred Biamonte will present the works of the American Impressionists who studied in France, and came home to paint in Connecticut. The talk will highlight images of Connecticut from the art colonies at Cos Cob and Old Lyme by William Chadwick, Charles Davis, Childe Hassam, Ernest Lawson, Elmer MacRae, Willard Metcalf, Theodore Robinson, John Twachtman, and J. Alden Weir.

Fred Biamonte has worked for 40 years as a management consultant and taught organization behavior at New York University and Pace University. Since his retirement from the corporate and academic worlds, he has directed his energy to the study of Art History, with a focus on the psychobiographies of American artists. Fred has given recent talks on more than twenty American artists. Fred is married, has three children, and one grandson.