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Artist
Bio
Rob
Shorter
“I’ve
always loved to draw,” says Robert Shorter. “In the
beginning I did quite a bit of oil paintings on
canvas, but clean up and space were always issues. I
found over time that I was able to draw and achieve
the results I wanted without the clean up problems
using color pencils. I eventually taught myself to
‘paint’ with pencils. The richness of Prismacolor
pencils allows me to capture any subject in the
vivid colors of oils without the sometimes messy
cleanup.”
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Artist
Bio
Gale
Stephens
Gale
Stephens, a talented artist, was born and raised in
Toledo, Ohio. She graduated from Scott High
School and just recently retired from Toledo
Hospital, after thirty three (33) years of service.
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Artist
Bio
Paula Elaine
Fullilove
I was in the
kindergarten when I first discovered the POWER of
art. The teacher on this particular day had given us
all some clay (maybe you are old enough to remember
clay when it looked like a green stick of butter).
My teacher, Mrs. Churchill had given but one
instruction: “Play with it.” However you choose to
look at it, there’s power in both the creator and
the observer of art.
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Artist
Bio
Alice
Grace
Cookie Jar Lady Expands Her Horizons
“My work
shows how I grew up and each piece tells a story,”
says Alice Grace. “It is therapeutic … getting rid
of some of those things I grew up with … a form of
self expression.”
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Artist
Bio
Klaire
She Just Started Painting
When one
asks an artist how or when she started her creative
efforts, the response is, more often than not, that
it has always been so. ‘I have been painting ever
since I was a child,’ she generally replies.
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Artist
Bio
Mack
Walton
Mack Walton’s Passion: Art as a
Life’s Work
For so many artists, their work is simply what they
feel compelled to do. For such artists, releasing
their creative juices is as much a part of life as
breathing.
“It’s my
life’s work,” says local artist Mack Walton. “I love
this.”
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Artist
Bio
Ronald
Jamison
Blending the Cosmic, and the Comic,
with Nature
Ronald Jamison has been painting for
as long as he can remember. The Toledo native
remembers being influenced at an early age by his
uncle, Johanna Nichols, an artist who was one of the
founding members of the Conference of Black Artists
(COBA) during the 1970’2, a group that also included
the estimable Marvin Vines, another Jamison
influence.
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Artist
Bio
Mary C.
McColough
Mary has been
studying, teaching and creating art for the past 30
years. For the past ten years, she has worked from
her studio at Common Space in Toledo, Ohio. Best
known for her colorfully, abstracted work in
watermedia, she also creates art using printmaking
techniques specifically linoprints.
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Artist
Bio
Wade Anthony
Harrison
Born and raised in Toledo, Ohio, the
son of Grover Cummings, Wade was encouraged to
express himself through art from the very beginning.
He started painting from the bed sheets, to the
walls, onto paper. He used his art as a way of
expression and to release his emotions.
Growing up in the late 60’s and early
70’s, Wade became influenced by the tide of the
Black Power movement. Taking his self awareness cues
from his mother and coupling that with the creative
talent of his photographer father, he gravitated
towards those musical expressions that were
revolutionary; namely jazz, reggae, and hip hop. He
consequently became infamous and influential in
another revolution, the emerging Toledo graffiti art
revolution, under the tag “Swade”.
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