ART
Patrice Scheiner displays her photography. Potter Eileen DiTullio forms a bowl.
keeping and showing the spaces to interested artists, works
in mixed media and assemblage but also paints in oil and
acrylic. Wynne uses her talent in mixed media and constructions
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for her role as community educational art outreach
artist. Her first program was held at Hibiscus House in Vero
Beach this summer. Street, whose fellow Gaga Girl, Anita
Prentice, has a studio at ArtBank, works in bronze, mixed media
and collage.
“My role as I see it,” says Street, “is to continue to come up
with ideas for Art Mundo’s future offerings and programs,
then facilitate their implementation.”
With the short-range goals well on the way to being met,
the women are looking ahead. “We have long-range plans of
having full faculty, comprehensive curriculum and residential
facilities similar to (the prestigious) Arrowmont, Penland and
John Campbell schools,” Comer says.
Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts is in Gatlinburg,
Tenn., and Penland School of Crafts and John C. Campbell
Folk School are at home in North Carolina.
“We’ve had to run to keep up with the momentum,” Street
says. “We have so much we want to give to the community.”
She’s joined in that sentiment by Horton, who says, “I love art
and truly believe that it is a tremendous enrichment for a community.
Art brings beauty, vision, hope. Our vision has wings
of its own and we are flying as fast as we can to keep up.”
Wynne adds, “We do not take the time to look about and be
awed by what we have accomplished.” Today the art, tomorrow
the mundo (world).