February Events

Upcoming Events in February

Friday evenings in February from 6:00 - 8:00 pm will warm up your winter nights at the Artists Hand Gallery.    The line up is as follows:  February 1st will be the musical group Look Left, February 8th is jazz with Al Craige, February 15th contemporary music with Brock McGinnis and as always the last Friday, February 22 is the IUP English Department's Open Mic Night.  Come join us for an evening of fun!

Be sure to visit "Sow's Ears to Silk Purses:  Finding the Extraordinary in the Everyday", an exhibit of photography by Victoria Dicken.  The show will run from February 5 to March 2, with an opening reception on Friday, February 8th from 6:00 - 8:00 pm.

  



Upcoming Classes:
February 10 and 24, March 10 & 17 Indiana Art Association will be sponsoring a Comics Class taught by Amber Engelmann.
February14  Majolica Ceramics Decoration for Lovers: a BYOB Event taught by J.R. Sherburne
February 23  Polymer Clay Amulet taught by Barb Kubala
February 21 & 28 Patriotic Fruit Basket: For Beginning Weavers taught by Wendy Fetterman

Joy Fairbanks

Joy Biesinger Fairbanks received her BS/ED and MA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Her Masters of Art was in the field of jewelry with a sculpture minor. During her graduate work she became interested in photography and has been exhibiting in that field for the past 35 years. Her work is included in museum collections as well as private collections. Joy is a member of the Indiana Art Association,  the Pittsburgh Society of Artists, the National Collage Society and the Allied Artists of Johnstown. 

Joy currently has cards, collages and photographs on display in the gallery, which exhibit her photography skills and collage work. 

Joy's use of photographic layers and space create a sense of depth within her two-dimensional pieces. "Passageways Collage" transforms itself into a three-dimensional container with various rooms that the observer feels like they are actually looking into. The collage effect of this work also produces a great amount of texture, almost as if the viewer can feel the wooden floors and dry-wall peeling off. 

Passageways Collage
$200

In "Golden Pear" Joy uses a variety of mediums including tangible strings of beads along with her photographs. She is very skilled at bridging the gap between the two-dimensional aspect of collages and the three-dimensional feel of texture and layers. 

Golden Pear
$130

Hsiao Busch

Hsiao is from Taiwan, a small tropical island in the Pacific. She has had an interest in art since she was young, and while working in Taiwan as an elementary teacher she had a desire to pursue her interest. She came to IUP for her MFA and to get accreditation in Art Education and now teaches elementary art in Apollo Ridge. 

 

Her mediums are mainly watercolor and oil paints, because she enjoys the different processes and results. Hsiao is inspired by random objects and landscapes that surround her daily life. " To me, life is accumulated fragments of moments, events, experiences, and memories."

Fields #2

$225

Hsiao has a soft, naturalistic approach to her subject matter. Her works in the gallery are no larger than 16x13 , yet the capture the eye. Her treatment of light and shadow creates depth and adds a softness to her landscapes. Her paintings of objects are extremely intimate and are smaller than her landscapes. Look for them in the gallery, its like finding buried treasure.

Bird's Nest

$135