A retired area arts educator, was responsible for the production of instructional materials and implementation of curriculum for studio courses in photography, printmaking, art history, drawing and painting, and stage design, grades K-6 Corning; Grades 9-12; Waverly; and Adult Education Classes at the Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY. A painter and photographer, Dixon has held numerous regional and solo shows in a variety of venues, including the Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY; 171 Cedar Gallery, Corning, NY; Atrium Gallery, Corning, NY; Brown Library, Williamsport, PA; Community Arts of Elmira, Inc., Elmira, NY; and the Gmeiner Gallery, Wellsboro, PA. His professional awards include: Best in Show Photography: Regional Exhibit, Elmira 1980; Award for Painting: Arnot Museum Regional 1988; Best in Show for Drawing: NYS Art Teachers Convention 1989; NYS Art Teacher of the Year, Section 4, 1989; National Award Scholastics: 1991, 1999; Best in Show Photography: Gmeiner Regional 2005; and the Award for Photography: Gmeiner Regional 2008.
Since returning form a trip to Italy in 1996, Kathleen Huddle, a painter and photographer, has been concentrating on the theme of angels. Huddle experienced what James Joyce called “aesthetic arrest” when she saw the Bernini Angels stationed along the Ponte Sant’Angelo in Rome. Arrested by the beauty of the sculptures, Huddle said, “I forgot to breathe; the attitudes of the angels, their countenances and flowing draperies were spellbinding.” Huddle’s work includes two seven-foot angels painted on wood panels and image transfers made form her copious photographs taken in Arezzo, Florence, and Rome. Presently, Huddle’s main focus is working on hand-stamped, hand-painted, Olde World-looking Christmas ornaments, many of which have angel images and the message of PEACE ON EARTH. The artist was excited when her ornaments and other works were featured in the international magazines, Somerset Studio, November/December 2001 and Somerset Studio Gallery, Volume III. Kathleen Huddle created the first concept of Bottega in 1989 for the Elmira City School District Gifted and Talented program. Most recently, in 2008, Huddle created an entirely new endeavor and proposed a 2009 collaboration with Elmira Downtown Development, who would serve as the Bottega Project’s fiscal sponsor during the Second Annual Elmira Street Painting Festival. Huddle, who works out of her Huddle Art Studio at 1002 West Walnut Street, Elmira, New York, has received commissions from St. Joseph’s Hospital Foundation. Huddle’s favorite commission for the hospital was researching and painting the seven founding nuns who started the hospital in 1908. The painting, titled Remember the Mission, hangs outside the hospital’s cafeteria. Huddle resides with her husband of 36 years, Robert, has four daughters, Christine, Katie Rose, twins Megan and Molly, and a silver Maine Coon cat named Merlin. For additional biographical information, please visit www.kathleenhuddle.com.
A ceramics and nature artist schooled in large-scale scene drawing, is an educator at 171 Cedar Arts Center. She has instructed art at Southeast Missouri State University, Harvard Ceramics Program, School of the Museum of Fine Arts and the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. McCall has been a Project Artist at Tanglewood Nature Center and Museum, Big Flats, NY, and served as Director at Carbondale Community Arts Mega Arts Mini Camps. She has exhibited her work at Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri; Southern Illinois Artists Gallery, Carbondale, Illinois; Southeast Arts Council, Cape Girardeau, Missouri; and the Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, Virginia. Her professional awards, grants include a New York State Arts Council Decentralization Grant; 500 Figures in Clay; People’s Choice Award, Crossing Paths Exhibition; and the Southeast Arts Council Professional Development Grant, Massachusetts Arts Council.
Arthur 'Skip' Reed delights in fresh learning, and loves to share in such learning with others. From New Jersey years of grade and high school enthusiasm for mathematics and science; through Pennsylvania and European years of university passion for history and philosophy and literature; to Massachusetts and Minnesota years of fine woodworking and journeyman cabinetmaking, Skip’s life reflects his deep joy in learning. His vocation furthers the treasuring . . . from 1978-present–a woodworking venture with others; from 1991-2006–personal service and leadership to local and regional bodies. In each of these avenues, learning and sharing learning have made all the difference . . . For Skip, the Arts and vibrant learning converge in this: a focus on the transforming ways wherein our lively, lovely, generative interiority makes us ever more human beings.
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