Committee for Arts Displays - 1999: Christ Congregational Church, Silver Spring Maryland

The Committee for the Arts has named the Brewster hallway "The Tate Gallery" for future reference. In doing so, we hope to both honor the Rev. Marian K. Tate who was a member of the Fine Arts Committee and who had a life-long devotion to art and to further honor the exhibiting artists in the future. Fine Arts offer
additional opportunity to praise God

Fine Arts offer
additional opportunity to praise God

Please note the special plaque hanging in the Tate Gallery designed to celebrate this event in the life of our church. It reads:

HOOKED RUGS AND HANGINGS

Rug hooking started in the mid-1800s in New England and the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Settlers created utilitarian rugs and bed covers by pulling up loops of strips of material through burlap backings. Over the decades, the craft has changed and developed, and now we see both rugs and wallhangings made by this technique.

The work in this exhibit has been created by participants in the Friday morning rug hooking class which meets at the Phelps Senior Center in Laurel, Maryland. The rug hookers range from people who have been hooking for a couple of years to long time rug makers. Many of the exhibitors have seen their work included in Rug Hooking magazine, have won awards at the Montgomery County Fair and the State Fair, and have shown their work in other local exhibits, such as the Montpelier Cultural Arts Center and the Federal Courthouse in Greenbelt.

The exhibitors include CCC's own Joanne Hollcroft, Sarah Province, Bernice Howell, Carol Koerner, Carol Weingartner, Beverly Auckenthaler, Jane Bettien, Jean Shultz, Billie Jean Levely, Sally D'Albora, Madeline Cholwek, Peg Murphy, Peggy Godwin, Berta Morray, and Mary Noonan.

	Born in 1912 in Helena, Montana, Ruth Ferguson grew up in a large family in Missoula, MT, and in Seattle. She graduated from the University of Washington, majoring in art. She worked and taught in several different media. She sold many watercolors- still lifes and landscapes- at shows in the 1940s. She liked scenes of California, where she moved in 1941. In the 1950s, she won recognition for her experimentation with new forms and designs for handcrafted jewelry. She died in 1959 after a long struggle with breast cancer, setting an example of courage for her family.

	OUR ARTISTS: PENNIE HARVISON MURIEL KILLERLAIN We celebrate here the work of two artists among us. Both grandmothers, Pennie and Muriel started watercolor lessons a few years ago in the same cIass. They've shown work in local exhibitions …and garnered prizes.

COMMITTEE FOR THE ARTS
(AND THEN SOME)

The Committee for the Arts is delighted to present an eclectic, all committee show during March 1999. Our own members and some members-in-spirit have each hung a few works in the Tate Gallery and in the Living Room for you to enjoy. The artists, poets, photographers, and storytellers among us are:

Elsa Brandt
Carl Brandt
Evelyn Byers
Bill Carnahan
Susan Gray

Eleni Martin
Alicia Taylor
Vicki Taylor
Eleanor Waldrop
Gail Withuhn

John Haigh
John Hildebrandt
Bill Johnson
Alma Lugo
Lori Pickett

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The February CCC Art Show, "Images of The Retreat House," in the Tate Gallery is a display of photographs and paintings related to the CCC Retreat house.

		Christ Congregational Church's Retreat House in West Virginia has been a place of inspiration for many CCC folks. The two paintings of the house were aids to the church many years ago, and recently found again. It is not known who the artist was. One of the paintings was done before the front porch and kitchen porch were added to the house. The Spring Women's Retreat in 1997 was the inspiration for Judith Blanchard's poem. The photography was donated by Dave Anderson, Bill Carnahan, Jim and Kristin Brown and Susan, Wayne and Cory Gray.

The January CCC Art Show in the Tate Gallery is a photography display provided by Robin McElhenny, a friend of Gail Withun.

Robin McElhenny works as a civil engineer at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (METRO), and as an architect on a part time basis with Studio One Architects in Kensington, Maryland. Photography has been a personal pursuit since 1992, with her first classes at the Maryland College of Art and Design. Since then she has been a dedicated student of the art form and has participated in three group exhibitions at the College.

Ms. McElhenny works primarily in black and white, which allows her to pursue her interest in the subtleties of light and shadow. Her subject material is found most often in nature, where she explores both the real and the abstract qualities of the forms and textures she finds.

An exhibition of photographs from places near and far by CCC members Elsa and Carl Brandt and Edie Rasell was on display in the Tate Gallery and the Living Room.