Committee for Arts Displays - 2001: Christ Congregational Church, Silver Spring Maryland

Art for sale to benefit Keystones Campaign
Artists: Lou Hazam Marian TateAlma Lugo
Think ahead to Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, and other special times! Artists and/or owners of the paintings and print hanging in the living room have donated their works to be sold, with the entire proceeds to benefit the keystones capital campaign. These artists are members or deceased members of CCC. Lou Hazam was an active member in the 60's and 70's. Marian Tate, for whom we named the "Tate gallery" was a much beloved associate minister of CCC. Alma Lugo is a current member, active in the adult education class and the art committee.	The oils, watercolors, & print will be on view in the Living room through most of November. If you wish to buy a painting or print, leave a check for it in the church office with Ruth Avery. The painting will be marked as sold by a red dot and held until the end of the show. Your check will be held until you pick up your work. Those who buy prints of Alma Lugo's work may have their copies immediately, as Alma has donated multiple unframed copies of her work. Gall Withuhn & Vicki Taylor

Conrad Alberding has been painting for about 25 years after taking early retirement from the Federal Government. He tried art classes and found that he enjoyed it and had a talent for it. Conrad took art classes at Montgomery College and has done work in several different mediums: acrylic, oils, sculpture, and watercolors. His favorite medium is watercolors as shown in this exhibit of his paintings. During the winter in Florida he participates weekly in a painting group.

Mr Alberding especially loves to do watercolors of nature. The sea with its grasses, sand, and water are a favorite subject. Many of the pictures in the show were done in Florida where he visits in the winter. However, the large painting with the cubist style is of a Montgomery County School before it was demolished.

Conrad is a first generation American. His father immigrated to the Washington DC area from Holland. His wife, Betty, is also a native Washingtonian. They have been married 57 years.

They have 2 children, 2 grandchildren, and 5 great grandchildren. The Alberdings have lived in the Four Corners Area since 1956. They are parishioners of St. Bernadette’s.

Mr Alberding worked for the Federal Government as a procurement officer. For a period of time he did volunteer work at the Corcoran Gallery of Art where he helped mount exhibits. Over the years he has also volunteered at Holy Cross Hospital and Providence Hospital and helped his wife with Meals on Wheels.

Conrad is offering some of the paintings in this exhibit for sale. There is a list of prices in the office. However, some of his favorite pieces are Not For Sale.

Mr Alberding proudly presents these works of art for your enjoyment. Some of them have won prizes at local art shows. He has, also, been juried into the annual Art Show at Brookside Gardens but will not be showing this year due to his wife’s health.

*Paintings on West Wall from office end*	Price
Tennis Shoe	$100.00
Sailboats (oil)	$250.00
Umbrella on dock	$50.00
Beach/seashore	NFS
Still Life	NFS
Sea Grasses	NFS
Palm Tree	NFS
Lake with Swans	$75.00
Fence along Dunes	NFS

*Paintings on East Wall from office end*	Price
Brookside Gardens	$150.00
Seascape	NFS
Cotton Bolls	$50.00
Montgomery County Public School	$200.00
Autumn - won a first prize	$75.00
Stream	NFS
Yellow Tin Roof	$50.00
Two Beach Chairs	NFS
Contacts: Vicki Taylor 301-593-0597 (church) Conrad Alberding 301-593-4280 (artist)

Christ Congregational Church has been the home of Cub Scout Pack 275 since the late 1940s, more than 50 years. Today the Pack includes nearly 30 boys, grades 1 through 5, and their families. Most of the Cubs live in the neighborhoods surrounding the church.

The art displayed was created and mounted by the boys of the Pack to reflect Cub Scouts' basic goals of encouraging respect for nature, good citizenship, and self-esteem. In addition, Cub Scout activities encourage spiritual growth, introduce the boys to new activities and interests, and strengthen their ability to get along with and respect others.

The boys of Pack 275 not only work on scouting achievements that help them to progress through the ranks of Cub Scouts, but they also collect food for area food banks at Thanksgiving, host a pot-luck dinner for their families and friends in February, build and race wooden cars in March, go camping with their families in June, and launch model rockets that they have built themselves in August.

For more information about Pack 275, call Cubmaster Kelly Kilmer at

(301) 589-4312 or Pack Committee Chair Beth Martin at (301) 587-8404.

*White Roses $125*	*Red Flowers - $100*
*Winter - $125*	*Lilacs -- $125*
*Fruit -- $125* *Fishing Boat - $35*
Lou Hazam
*Banana Plant -- $20 Unframed Print*	*Fishing -- $175*
Alma Lugo	Marian Tate

	From October of 1928 through 1930 Mr. Richard F Voell traveled through Europe recording architectural forms on paper as pencil sketches, watercolors and lithographs. In the summer of 1928 he competed with 22 other top architectural graduates from mid-western colleges for the Reyerson Traveling Fellowship. His sketches of Chicago area estates and gardens won him the traveling fellowship for study abroad. One of his wining pencil sketches is in the show: "Estate of David Adler, Libertyville, Illinois". Unfortunately, work, golf and family took up Mr. Voell's time during his working years. The only artwork he did was to design an occasional Christmas card and paint Aesop's fables on Easter eggs for Vicki. When he retired to Hawaii, he was encouraged to take up painting again but declined. He enjoyed his palette of yellow ochre, cerulean blue and burnt sienna that are so prevalent in his European watercolors. He didn't feel the Hawaiian landscape lent itself to using that palette.
1930s Vicki Voell Taylor, his daughter, proudly presents these works of art for your enjoyment. Other works of Mr. Voell's have been shown previously at this church. These particular works, however, are his favorite ones and have not been previously shown as they hung in his homes in Washington, DC and Hawaii.