This is where I get my Gold Stars ******!!!
I've passed by this place a 100 times; it’s near where I live. One day, I was rushing around, hunting for supplies for an exhibition. I decided to run in for a minute to see what they had. The minute turned into an hour and half. New England Scrapbook Company is a trove of stickers, papers, scrapbook supplies, etc. The owners, Sue Wentzell and Lynn Harrington, are very nice and have an incredible eye for cool, hard to find stuff. Thank you!!!!
Their contact information is:
New England Scrapbook Company
200 Albany Turnpike (Route 44)
P. O. Box 70
Canton, CT 06019
Phone: (860) 693-9197
Fax: (860) 693-9086
e-mail: info@newenglandscrapbook.com
www.newenglandscrapbook.com
AWARD CEREMONY (filmed using a cell phone)
Monday, December 17, 2007
Friday, December 14, 2007
Cui Fei Wins Award For Her Art!!!!!!!
I am happy to announce that Cui Fei has received the STEVE LEHMAN 6 GOLD STAR AWARD for her wonderful art.
Cui Fei has developed an accessible and unique style of art. She explores patterns, natural beauty, and our relationship to our surroundings. Using mostly natural materials, she has created art that is both conceptually important and visual pleasing. I feel her work makes an important contribution to a long tradition of art, which uses nature as a motif.
Please visit her solo exhibit at the Cheryl McGinnis Gallery.
1287 Madison Avenue (between 91St and 92nd Streets)
New York, NY 10128
Phone: 212.722.1144
www.cherylmcginnisgallery.com
Gallery hours:
Monday: By Appointment
Tuesday: 9:30-4:30
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 9:30-5:30
Saturday: 11:00-5:30
Her work is also on display in a group show entitled “Touched by Women’s Hands” at the Flushing Town Hall. This show is curated by Lin Yan and features Cui Fei, Song Xin, Emily Cheng, Liang Hao, Hilda Shen. All are very talented artists. This show runs until January 20, 2008.
Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts, Inc.
137-35 Northern Boulevard
Flushing, New York 11354
Ph. (718) 463-7700
www.flushingtownhall.org
Tuesday- Sunday 12-5 PM
The lovely Cui Fei at the "Touched by Women's Hands Opening" in Flushing, NY.
Cheryl McGinnis Gallery Press Release
For Immediate Release
Contact: Cheryl McGinnis
Phone: 212-722-1144
Cui Fei
Manuscripts of Nature
The Cheryl McGinnis Gallery is honored to exhibit Cui Fei’s Manuscript of Nature solo exhibition December 4, 2007 - February 14, 2008.
The exhibit focuses on Cui Fei’s newest body of work as well as revisiting some earlier work.
The concept of nature has been a consistent theme in Cui Fei’s work. As a Chinese artist active in the United States, witnessing radical social changes in China and experiencing cultural differences in the United States, she says her thinking has been permanently altered. In response to a continually changing outside world she seeks the underlying essence of our lives, something that is real and permanent, which cannot be altered by social, political, cultural, or geographic conditions. Cui Fei sees nature as consistent and ordered, thus providing a therapeutic agent for healing and harmony in an otherwise chaotic world. She utilizes materials found in nature, such as tendrils, leaves and thorns composing a manuscript symbolizing the voiceless messages in nature that are waiting to be discovered and to be heard.
Both the concept of nature in her Chinese heritage, which emphasizes the interconnectedness of all beings, and the Western theory of transculture, which stresses living beyond the limitations of any particular culture offer her a unique vision to view the relationships between cultural differences: between culture and nature and between nature and human beings. While the ideas are consistent, the artist explores the expressive possibilities of different media: painting, printmaking, installation, and photography.
Recent Exhibits:
Touched by Women’s Hand, Flushing Council of the Arts – Smithsonian Institution, Flushing, NY
New Britain Museum, CT, Delaware Art Museum, Art
Complex Museum, MA, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum,
Queens Museum of Art, Wave Hill, Bronx Museum of the Arts
Cui Fei has developed an accessible and unique style of art. She explores patterns, natural beauty, and our relationship to our surroundings. Using mostly natural materials, she has created art that is both conceptually important and visual pleasing. I feel her work makes an important contribution to a long tradition of art, which uses nature as a motif.
Please visit her solo exhibit at the Cheryl McGinnis Gallery.
1287 Madison Avenue (between 91St and 92nd Streets)
New York, NY 10128
Phone: 212.722.1144
www.cherylmcginnisgallery.com
Gallery hours:
Monday: By Appointment
Tuesday: 9:30-4:30
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday: 9:30-5:30
Saturday: 11:00-5:30
Her work is also on display in a group show entitled “Touched by Women’s Hands” at the Flushing Town Hall. This show is curated by Lin Yan and features Cui Fei, Song Xin, Emily Cheng, Liang Hao, Hilda Shen. All are very talented artists. This show runs until January 20, 2008.
Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts, Inc.
137-35 Northern Boulevard
Flushing, New York 11354
Ph. (718) 463-7700
www.flushingtownhall.org
Tuesday- Sunday 12-5 PM
The lovely Cui Fei at the "Touched by Women's Hands Opening" in Flushing, NY.
Cheryl McGinnis Gallery Press Release
For Immediate Release
Contact: Cheryl McGinnis
Phone: 212-722-1144
Cui Fei
Manuscripts of Nature
The Cheryl McGinnis Gallery is honored to exhibit Cui Fei’s Manuscript of Nature solo exhibition December 4, 2007 - February 14, 2008.
The exhibit focuses on Cui Fei’s newest body of work as well as revisiting some earlier work.
The concept of nature has been a consistent theme in Cui Fei’s work. As a Chinese artist active in the United States, witnessing radical social changes in China and experiencing cultural differences in the United States, she says her thinking has been permanently altered. In response to a continually changing outside world she seeks the underlying essence of our lives, something that is real and permanent, which cannot be altered by social, political, cultural, or geographic conditions. Cui Fei sees nature as consistent and ordered, thus providing a therapeutic agent for healing and harmony in an otherwise chaotic world. She utilizes materials found in nature, such as tendrils, leaves and thorns composing a manuscript symbolizing the voiceless messages in nature that are waiting to be discovered and to be heard.
Both the concept of nature in her Chinese heritage, which emphasizes the interconnectedness of all beings, and the Western theory of transculture, which stresses living beyond the limitations of any particular culture offer her a unique vision to view the relationships between cultural differences: between culture and nature and between nature and human beings. While the ideas are consistent, the artist explores the expressive possibilities of different media: painting, printmaking, installation, and photography.
Recent Exhibits:
Touched by Women’s Hand, Flushing Council of the Arts – Smithsonian Institution, Flushing, NY
New Britain Museum, CT, Delaware Art Museum, Art
Complex Museum, MA, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum,
Queens Museum of Art, Wave Hill, Bronx Museum of the Arts
Friday, December 7, 2007
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