Each year at The Freeman Stage, the Arts & Jazz Festival showcases some of the most talented local visual artists and craftsmen. Check out the artists featured at the 2009 Arts & Jazz Festival below!
ELISABETH BARD
Phone: (202) 456-0484
Email: ebimage@yahoo.com
Website: www.ebimages.com
Art Type: Photography
Structure, strong color and intersecting lines are the graphic elements that Elisabeth Bard employs to challenge the viewer to lose themselves in a maze of lines and color. She uses telephoto lenses and typography elements in her work, which includes landscapes, doors, windows, and flower images as well as more abstract pieces.
JOHN DONATO
Phone: (302) 604-4209
Email: artophonic@yahoo.com
Website: www.artsmack.com
Art Type: Paintings, Murals
AUBRE DUNCAN
Phone: (302) 537-4171
Email: aubre@dca.net
Website: www.aubre.com
Art Type: Watercolors
Aubre Duncan works primarily in watercolors. She also enjoys painting florals and simple porch scenes, and likes giving human qualities to fish and dogs.
CHRIS ECKER
Phone: (202) 359-1930
Email: naturepics@mac.com
Art Type: Photography
In 2003, Chris Ecker began trying to capture images of the beauty that has always drawn him to the wild places around us. He quickly became hooked on nature photography and hopes his work will draw attention to our precious but dwindling natural world.
JANEI FOLZ
Phone: (703) 909-0898
Email: janeisart@comcast.net
Art Type: Paintings
GERILYN GASKILL
Phone: (302) 856-4999
Email: hggask@comcast.net
Website: www.gerisartworld.blospot.com
Art Type: Watercolors
Gerilyn Gaskill has been working seriously with watercolors for the past three years. She has also studied oil painting and black & white photography and done several craft projects over the years.
MARY HARABURDA-BRADY
Phone: (484) 995-5933
Email: Mharaburdabrady@gmail.com
Website: www.haraburdabradyart.com
Art Type: Oil Paintings
Mary Haraburda Brady works mostly with oil paints. She most typically sketches and paints flowers.
LAURA HICKMAN
Phone: (302) 539-0494
Email: laurahickman@verizon.net
Website: www.laurahickmanfinearts.com
Art Type: Pastels
Working on paper that she paints black, Laura Hickman has created over a thousand pastel drawings based on her environment. She works in her studio from photographs that she has collected from her hometown of Bethany Beach and her travels in Italy.
GRANT MASSEY
Phone: (302) 539-4092
Email: lamassey@ce.net
Website: www.grantmassey.com
Art Type: Wood & metal sculptures and furniture
Grant Massey works in metal and wood. His work includes a wide variety of indoor and outdoor lamps, garden sculpture and furniture.
LESLEY McCASKILL
Phone: (302) 226-2975
Email: jlmccaskill@comcast.net
Website: www.lesleymccaskill.com
Art Type: Paintings
Lesley McCaskill is a painter who is currently trying to capture rural areas before they are developed.
JEANNE MUELLER
Phone: (302) 537-1652
Email: beachartistsjeanne@verizon.net
Website: www.jeannemueller.com
Art Type: Paintings
Jeanne Mueller is a self taught artist who explores creating visual sensations on an assortment of subjects in her paintings. Painting places or things that have caught her eye, Jeanne creates landscapes, still life and an occasional abstract work in a variety of mediums.
DAMON PLA
Phone: (302) 537-6945
Email: pla@damonpla.com
Website: www.DamonPla.com
Art Type: Paintings, Murals
THERESA RICHARD
Phone: (302) 228-8649
Email: theresadrichard@mchsi.com
Art Type: Pastels
Theresa is known for her large pastel paintings that reflect a unique view of natural objects. Her art is bright and symbolic.
PETER SAENGER
Phone: (302) 738-5349
Email: peter@saengerporcelain.com
Website: www.saengerporcelain.com
Art Type: Clay & porcelain sculpture and pottery
Peter Saenger has been designing clay objects since 1970. He has recently expanded the collection from the earlier black and white, opaque-glazed pieces, by developing a new translucent porcelain body and colorful glazes, as well as work that can be hung on the wall.
RALPH SEMSKER
Phone: (302) 732-9387
Email: ralphizzy@mchsi.com
Website: www.ralphsemsker.com
Art Type: Paintings
Ralph Semsker’s style is “whimsical” to say the least, drawing his beach houses from his colorful imagination. The only things that are real in his paintings are the landmarks, which he adorns on the various towels that drape the railings. Most of his paintings have some sort of reference to crabs.
DIANNE SHEARON
Phone: (302) 226-3443
Email: eivdbeach@aol.com
Website: www.dianneshearon.com
Art Type: Needlework
Dianne Shearon did a lot of creative needlework while her two sons were growing up. She began her journey to becoming a Artist when the family moved to Hockessin, Delaware, where she opened a counted cross stitch and custom picture framing business.
DALE SHELDON
Phone: (302) 226-1669
Email: dale@coastalwatercolors.com
Website: www.dalesheldon.com
Art Type: Watercolors, Photography
Dale Sheldon is a studio painter of watercolors, collecting images and impressions from around the world. Working in a variety of mediums, Dale enjoys the immediacy of silkscreen monoprints with vibrant colors and collage materials, and combines her love of photography with both serigraphy and Polaroid transfer methods.
JILL THOMAS
Phone: (302) 448-0782
Email: Jmthomas.fineart@gmail.com
Art Type: Fiber Art
CHERYL WISBROCK
Phone: (302) 537-9339
Email: CAWisbrock@aol.com
Website: www.eastcoastartistsonline.com/CherylW
Art Type: Watercolors
Although she occasionally works in other mediums, Cheryl Wisbrock's primary focus is on watercolors. Her work reflects her love of regional land and seascape themes and local events, as well as florals, still life studies and figures.