The Art Marketer

Coloring Pages & Posters from April Dippy Design

I absolutely Love these! My friend, April Dippy, a Graphic Designer and a young mother, created these designs for parents, home schoolers, teachers, librarians and children of all ages to enjoy a little creative family time together.

Works well for solo adults too! 

Available as:

Dry Erase Coloring Posters in Fathead material
Easy floor, window or wall application (LOW TACK, so very movable and durable)

$30 each 24x24" or $100 for your choice of 4 mix & match.

There are 25 designs available for all different ages. 

No contact local pickup (Chicago area) -OR- shipping available ($5-$10)

Electronic Payments accepted. 

Also available as PDF's. 

For more information & a selection of other available designs: email [email protected].

 

*All rights reserved on images & content. Permission must be granted to reproduce either or both. 

ACES Magazine April 2020

The April 2020 issue of ACES is available online only. Given the current circumstances in the world today, the Publisher made the difficult decision not to have a print version this month.

 

ACES Magazine April 2020

 

I have two articles in this issue.

The first article I wrote for this issue, April Showers on the East End of Long Island (pages 17-19), is in keeping with my previous columns for ACES, and highlights upcoming events on the East End of Long Island originally scheduled for this April.

 

However, as we reached our deadline in mid-March, at least one of these events was postponed. Please check the venues for cancellations, as I am certain others have since followed suit given our 'new normal' in the moment. Some venues, I am told, will be streaming, or offering other options online. Which brings me to my second article. 

 

 

My second article in this issue, A World of Art at your Fingertips (page 6-7), celebrates so many of the wonderful websites that we are able to access while remaining quarantined at home with our families. With every challenge we collectively face, we manage to collectively find the silver lining in those challenges, very often summoning dormant creative forces within ourselves to do so.

 

 

Where we can’t leave our homes, we find new ways of bringing our creative talents to your homes, be it through an online publication, or through the many links you will find in my second article that bring the magic of live theater, opera, art fairs and national parks to you.

 

We hope you are all staying safe, responsible and healthy while finding your own creative ways to be utilizing your newfound time.

 

<3 Lisa

 

Want to be featured in an upcoming issue of ACES?

Please contact [email protected].

 

 

 

Susan Skoorka to exhibit in The Southampton Artist's Association 2020 Winter Art Exhibit

 

 

Susan Skoorka, an artist based in NYC and Southampton, NY. will have several pieces in the Southampton Artists Association 2020 Winter Art Exhibit.

The Exhibition is at The Levitas Center for the Arts, Southampton Cultural Center, 25 Pond Lane, Southampton, NY from February 19th thru March 1st 2020. There is an Opening Reception on Saturday, February 22nd from 4-6pm.

 

 

 

 

About Susan Skoorka 

Susan Skoorka has been an award-winning graphic designer for over thirty years. Before launching her own design firm, Skoorka Design, Susan was an art director at Time magazine. At Time and Skoorka Design, Susan won national and international recognition for her innovative graphic design work from the Art Director's Club, The Type Director's Club of New York, Graphis and various international design publications.

Susan's work has been exhibited at the Carter Burden Gallery in NYC; Guild Hall in East Hampton, NY; Gail Wilson Gallery in Southampton, NY; the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, NY and The Gallery in Washington, Connecticut.

Inspired by such artists as Matisse, Susan works with brightly colored paper cut into bold shapes and artfully arranged in collage fashion, a style she calls Çut Paper Collage.  Her constructions have been exhibited at the Carter Burden Gallery. Her illustrations and constructions are in private and corporate collections. Her work may also be seen on Artsy.net. 

 

The Southampton Artists Association (SAA)

The SAA provides opportunities for artists to exhibit their work in various venues, such as Agawam Park, where they host an annual summer outdoor show and at Southampton Town Hall, where the SAA hosts one-person shows on a monthly basis. 

SAA members are artists eighteen years and older who reside on the eastern end of Long Island - on the South Fork from Remsenburg to Montauk and on the North Fork from Calverton to Orient Point. The SAA also welcomes Supporters of the Arts who are not artists themselves. For more information on SAA visit Southampton Artists Association.

 

About the Southampton Cultural Center

Southampton Cultural Center (SCC), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, combines art, education, dance, music and theatre to engage and nourish the entire community with the arts. Established in 1985, SCC serves all East End residents and visitors by providing a variety of programming including classes, art exhibitions and live performances for children and adults at affordable prices. A bequest by the late Willard Levitas and his wife Aura allowed a renovation and expansion that led to the 2006 opening of SCC’s lauded performance space the Levitas Center for the Arts. https://www.scc-arts.org/

 

 

SAA Winter Art Exhibit

February 19th - March 1st

Opening Reception - Saturday, February 22nd, 4-6pm

Levitas Center for the Arts at the Southampton Cultural Center

25 Pond Lane, Southampton, NY

 

Viewing Hours: 

Friday - Saturday: 12-6pm

Sunday - Thursday: 12-4pm

 

*the framed cut paper collage by Susan Skoorka shown top left measures 15 1/2" x 19 1/2" and is titled Ócean. Signed and dated by the artist, the piece will be exhibited at the SAA 2020 Winter Art Show and is available for sale at the show or through the artist. 

Umbrella Eric, A Sculpture by Graham Ibbeson

Say Hello to Umbrella Eric, a fiberglass resin sculpture by renowned British Artist, Graham Ibbeson. Dated back to 1991, Umbrella Eric will be celebrating his 30th birthday in 2021. He is
created from fiberglass resin and is from a Limited Edition series of 10.

Umbrella Eric measures 23.5" high (from the top of his head to the bottom of the base), 10" across (at the widest point, from the tip of one hand to the other) and he stands on a base that measures 7" x 10". He is all in one piece, and in perfect condition. 

He derives the name 'Umbrella Eric' because a close look at his head and you will see that he has been designed with an open umbrella as his inspiration. His face is concave with a cane-like handle protruding from his mouth. You can even see the spires emanating from the center of his face. And if you turn Umbrella Eric around, you see the back of his head protrudes where his face sinks back, just as an open umbrella does. 

Eric wears an old fashioned outfit, that speaks to his British creator's origins: Grey shorts, a blue vest and a white shirt, rolled up at the sleeves. A belt holds his shorts up, while we see his shirt coming out in the back. Traditional black shoes and grey socks cover his feet. He is standing on a grey, stone-like base.

He is signed, dated and numbered by the artist on the back of his stone-like base.

 

Umbrella Eric was given to a client of mine as a gift by a NYC artist dealer friend of hers back in the 1990's. His provenance is impeccable, as is the condition he is in. My client has enlisted my help in finding this extraordinary piece a new home as she downsizes her collection.

Umbrella Eric has taken residence in my home until we find him a new home. He is at once, endearing, unusual, charming, sweet and I can greatly appreciate the wonderful creative mind of his creator. Indeed, everyone I have introduced to Umbrella Eric has commented that 'he grows on you'. With each turn, the viewer notices something else about him. And with each viewing one discovers new folds, shadows and expressions.

But, alas, his time with me will be limited until we find the appropriate collector, home or gallery to call his forever home. We are excited to meet you! 

 

ABOUT THE ARTIST, GRAHAM IBBESON

Graham Ibbeson was born in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, in 1955. Graham studied at Trent Polytechnic and Royal College of Art.

Graham Ibbeson's public collections have been shown in: 

• The British Council
• Yorkshire Sculpture Park
• The London Toy Museum
• The Victoria and Albert Museum

 

He received the Madame Tussauds Award for Figurative Art in 1978 and has received various commissions from the following: 

• 1978   Commonwealth Institute (London)        
• 1978   London Symphony Orchestra                 
• 1978   Victoria and Albert Museum (London)    
• 1978   British Airport Authority (London)         
• 1985   Victoria and Albert Museum (London)    
• 1991   Eurotunnel                                             

 

Although most of Ibbeson's sculptures are in bronze, he spent a short period of his life creating fiberglass sculptures. He is no longer creating fiberglass sculptures, which greatly increases their value and appeal. 

And while he is widely known throughout England, he is not as widely known in the USA, which also creates the new appeal in the art of discovering this talented sculptor whose work stands out from so many others, and will only continue to increase in value with time. 

We are entertaining any serious offers.

Please email us with your interest at: [email protected].

Umbrella Eric may be shipped, or if you are in the NYC metro area, we can set-up an appointment for you to see him. We look forward to hearing from you soon. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*Photographs of Umbrella Eric by Peter Scifo Photography. 

images are subject to copyright laws. Please request permission for use before doing so.

 

 

January on The East End

It's a new day, a new week, a new month and a new year, not to mention, a new decade! That also means a new issue of ACES Magazine, the Magazine for Arts & Events on Long Island which has just published its' newest issue for January 2020.

With this new issue, comes a new look, new layouts, new ideas and expanded articles on events happening throughout Long Island.

Take a look at my article, January on The East End (pages 12-15) for some of the highlighted events you won't want to miss on the East End of Long Island this month and early into next month.

ACES Magazine January 2020

Lots of other great articles throughout the entire publication celebrating this glorious month on our beautiful island. The publication is Free in print and online. You may pick up print copies at any of these locations. Or link to the digital version above, copied for your convenience below: 

Kudos to Amy Oliver, Publisher Extraordinaire for another beautiful & informative issue of ACES as we start the New Year, and, a New Decade this month. 

This is my seventh article on events in the Hampton’s and on the North Fork for ACES Magazine, in what has become a regular (and expanded) monthly feature offering this Insider’s Guide to East End Events in season and off.

 

As we move forward into the New Year, we are expanding on this section and offering new opportunities for businesses to connect with new audiences within the publication and for readers everywhere to be more fully informed of events, celebrations and new businesses happening on the East End  of our beautiful, vibrant, exciting and tranquil Long Island.

 

 

If you have upcoming Events on the East End (or a new business) that you would like promoted, please contact [email protected].

Working on the February issue as we speak!

We look forward to hearing what you have planned for your own East End business! And we look forward to bringing you more valuable content and events through ACES Magazine in all the months that follow from February 2020 and beyond. 

With All Good Wishes for a very Happy, Healthy & Safe New Year!

 

 

If you have upcoming Events on the East End (or a new business) that you would like promoted, please contact [email protected].

Working on the February issue as we speak!

We look forward to hearing what you have planned for your own East End business! And we look forward to bringing you more valuable content and events through ACES Magazine in all the months that follow from February 2020 and beyond. 

With All Good Wishes for a very Happy, Healthy & Safe New Year!

Happy BIrthday to my Dad in Heaven

Happy BIrthday to my Dad in Heaven. Born 12.12.1914. Today marks your 105th Birthday. Sadly, you passed away nearly 39 years ago on January 2nd 1981 shortly after your 66th birthday as we entered that New Year. New Years has never been the same for me.

You have been gone for more years than I had you here in my life. Yet, there isn't a day that has passed that I haven't felt your presence, your influence, your guidance, your wisdom and your love.

Grateful for the luck of the draw I had in having you as my Dad. Grateful for the time we did have together. Grateful for the memories, the lessons learned, the love we shared, the positive influence I could see you had on so many others who were equally blessed to have you in their lives. You live forever in my heart and will forever be a part of my soul. Thinking of you today and always. Until we meet again <3

Fun fact, today also marks the birthday of Frank Sinatra, born a year after my Dad, on 12.12.1915 (died 05.14.1998) Which has me singing, appropriately enough, 'Thanks for the Memories'! 

On a side note, and as it also happens, I recently shared a story about you with a friend of mine who writes for Newsday. Valerie Kellogg's article on Collectibles includes that story about a treasured collectible I have from your estate, which coincidently enough, is in this week's paper. One of many memories and keepsakes I have of you and Mom. Now to organize all the photos & clippings!