---

Paul Bellotte, Wheeling, WV

Painting, drawing, photography, poetry, colorist, texture oriented, abstract compositions mixed with introspective self portraits.  B.A. degree fine art studio W.V. Wesleyan. Singular and collaborative efforts.  Philosophy or art: The inspiration comes.  Accept it. The spirit witnesses itself aesthetically.  abwal@comcast.net

 

---

Michael Doig

I work in oil, acrylic, encaustic, and mixed media. I attended WVU where I received my BFA. Much of my artwork reflects a deep appreciation and respect for the interrelated and complex systems of nature and society. My upbringing in the hills of West Virginia has greatly influenced my work, and has led to a general recurring theme of "Appalachia" and the relationship of humans to a changing landscape and environment.

Rt 3 Box 126, Elkins, WV  26241 (716) 361-1630 doigart@yahoo.com <mailto:doigart@yahoo.com>

 

---

Jackie Forcucci

 Jackie Forcucci is a portrait artist, working in charcoal, pastel and oil.  She has studied with many well-known portrait artists, including twelve workshops with Daniel Greene.  She has done portraits at the Stonewall Jackson Jubilee for twenty-two years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

---

Don Hall

Don Hall, a native West Virginian, is a professional artist who began to paint when he was 33 years old.  His work has been greatly influenced by French Impressionism and the Hudson River school of painting.  He paints a variety of subjects, concentrating primarily on landscapes.  For many years he combined his interest in painting with a career as a motion picture director and editor, spending most of his time doing studio painting.  After retiring in 2000, he has concentrated on his love of painting en plein air.  He paints exclusively in oils on linen, canvas and artist board, capturing lovely mid-Atlantic, New England and western landscapes in a style that reflects both realism and impressionism.  He is a member of Oil Painters of America, the Tucson (AZ) Plein Air Painters’ Society and the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association.   Website:  www.donhallart.com - Potomac Highlands Art Workshops

 

---

Mary Ann Honcharik

 

Mary Ann Honcharik, a graduate of Towson State University (BS in Biology, summa cum laude 1979) has combined her interests in art and science by exploring, mapping, and photographing the Highlands of West Virginia, concentrating on the Dolly Sods area, with the goal of convey8ing the spirit of the natural landscape with artistry and accuracy or color, light, and detail.  Mary Ann shoots digitally and processes her own photos from digital raw files to matted prints using the latest Adobe Photoshop software, archival materials, and pigment inks.  Her work is exhibited at Tamarack, the Art Company of Davis, the South Side Depot in Petersburg, and the Los River Co-op in Lost River, West Virginia

---

Brenda House

Brenda House is an Elkins resident. Owner of the QBH Frame Shop,  she says she likes going out in the wild, backroads, or bike-trails - with her children who often select the scenes for her photographs.

 

 

 

---

Joan Toy Kefover 

Joan Kefover is a potter.  She holds a BFA in painting and printmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art.  She has done advanced study at Mains and San Diego College, California and has studied with various ceramic instructors. 

---

Kadra Kramer

Kadra Kramer, an Elkins native and graduate of West Virginia Wesleyan College, studied painting and monotype under Carol Pelletier.  Along with creating watercolor and oil paintings, monotypes, and intaglio prints, Kadra has been teaching various art workshops and classes in Randolph and Upshur Counties for the past five years.  She currently instructs at the RCCAC as well as The Mountain Institute’s Outdoor Education Program for Randolph County elementary students. 

 Specializing in creating oil monotypes, Kadra was one of the few recipients of the Mollohan Foundation’s Mary Olive Eddy Jones Scholarship for excellence in art and has exhibited at the Mollohan Innovation Center in Fairmont, WV.  Kadra is a member of the Seneca Trail Art Guild and regularly contributes to the ArtsBank program.  She recently opened The Blue Door Studio in downtown Elkins and displays her work at Artists at Work.  Please contact Kadra at: kadranicole@yahoo.com

 

---

Mike Ledden

Mike Ledden is a self-taught painter who has developed his painting techniques through a variety of workshops, as well as trial and error, since his retirement in 1997. He paints a variety of subjects from landscapes to portraits and has won many awards in competitions.  He has had several paintings chosen for the DNR Wildlife calendars; his most recent wildlife painting is of a bird and chicks in the 2008 calendar. Ledden enjoys painting on location for his landscape works in addition to portraiture and wildlife painting.

 

---

Carolyn McCauley 

Carolyn McCauley is a self-taught artist with some concentrated study of composition and design.  Her favorite mediums are pastel and watercolors, depending on the subject matter.  She regularly exhibits her work through out the state in various juried exhibits.  Carolyn feels art and the atmosphere of art gives back lots of joy to the viewer as well as the artist.  She is a signature member of the West Virginia Watercolor Society and the Seneca Trail Artists Guild. 

 

 

 

 

---

 Robin McClintock

Robin McClintock was born in White Plains, New York and moved from lower Manhattan to rural Tucker County in 1998. She has a BFA from the State University of New York.   She is an abstract painter influenced by time, weather, landscape and politics.  Her work has been in numerous exhibitions in West Virginia, Pennsylvania and New York. 

---

---

Deborah L. McHenry

I am a civil trial lawyer with a passion for art. My work generally represents a tension in my thinking. I am often struggling with art as Van Gogh would say "as magic" and the notion best expressed by Bertolt Brecht that "art is not a mirror held up to reality; but rather a hammer to shape it." Thus, some work is simply an expression of color, texture, shape - magic and joy. A completely different type of work involves collage elements addressing issues of peace, justice, gender, and race.

 

 

311 8th Avenue, St. Albans, WV  25177 (h) (304) 727-9247 (w) (304) 344-9100

 

---

William McWhorter

Bill McWhorter graduated from California State University with a degree in fine art. He paints in oil and pastel.   Galleries in San Francisco, Denver, Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston represent his work.  His art comes from his love of the land and the spirit and light of the West Virginia environment.

Click HERE for Bill's website

 

 

---

Marjory Moses

B. 1951. Charleston, WV. Married, 4 children in the blend

Education

Hollins College, Art
BA WVU, Visual Art
MS WVU, Community Health Promotion
Certified Art Education, K-12
Studied under Wil Peterson, William Gerhold, among others

Current Employment

Davis Health System, Community Health and Volunteer Services Director

Art Highlights

- Prints in various collections in region including WV Cultural Center; regular contributor to  Arts Bank Auction in Elkins
- Founding member of Artists at Work, Elkins- Have taught children’s workshops in Elkins through Art Medium and the YMCA
- Work includes woodcuts, monoprints, pastel, watercolor and photography

Current Art Focus

Re-entering teaching and showing
Exploring color and shape through pastel
Beginning to work in mosaic

---

Bob Musick

I have no formal training but have always been involved with some form of art work as a hobby. Sign painting, silk screen art, cartoonist for local paper, and some cartoon contributions for national publications. When Bill Alexander and Bob Ross made their appearance on PBS my painting career began.

 

 

Morgantown, WV  (304) 282-0161    www.wva-art.com <http://www.wva-art.com> (e-mail: bob@wva-art <mailto:bob@wva-art>)

 

 

---

Betty Neely

 

Neely, a lifelong resident of West Virginia, earned her BS from Fairmont State College in fine arts.  Here paintings are expressionistic, created from memory and her surroundings.  Her unique in style and texture has earned her many awards and opportunities for solo shows.  Neely is a West Virginia Watercolor Society member and a member of the Morgantown Art Association.


http://www.bettyneely.com/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

---

 

Michael McHugh

 

 

Michael McHugh is a stone sculptor from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Pittsburgh Sculptor Society. This work,  Contrasts,  is sculpted from Indiana limestone on a granite base and is a study in contrasts between organic and non-organic shapes and textures.  The textures of bark and shapes of rain drops as opposed to the sharp angular straight lines of non organic man made forms. The work measures 8 x 12 x 4.  McHugh can be contacted at DFLAN77@aol.com <mailto:DFLAN77@aol.com>  or at (412)421-0327.

 

 

---

 

Lisbet Okun

Lisbet has been a resident of Elkins, West Virginia for twenty-five years. She is a member of the Artists at Work Co-op, and a contributor to Mountain Made, Tamarack, and Appalachian Piecework. Lisbet belongs to the Mountain Weavers’ Guild and has been twice selected as Master Artist by the West Virginia Folk Arts Panel at Augusta Heritage Center, where she also has taught a Folk Arts for Children workshop.

Lisbet’s fascination with string began at an early age, and she continually seeks new ways to tie the strings of her current life to her roots. Learning to know at the age of six in her native Denmark; learning to weave in her twenties while living in New Mexico; learning to spin, dye yarn, and quilt fabric after moving to West Virginia; each technique reflects another stage of the journey, and each new stitch helps tie it all together.

 

 

 

---

 

Dale Ong

Displaying a talent for experimental music at an early age, Dale caught the attention of synthesizer inventor, Robert Moog, and was soon engaged as Moog's protege and chief technician. Moog referred to Dale as a "synthesizer guru," and together at Moog's design facility, Big Briar, in Asheville, North Carolina, the two collaborated as hand-crafted synthesizer producers to the stars. In 1984, a move to Jacksonville brought him into Florida's electronic music scene and he began working alongside Jack Tamul as a composer-in-residence at the Alexander Brest Planetarium. This was the beginning of a long-time musical partnership, as the two went on to compose scores for a number of corporate and industrial films, toured the college and museum circuit, and taught electronic music courses at Jacksonville University. In 2000, Dale's career took a new turn when he decided to take up glass making as a more tangible, hands-on creative alternative to the high-tech world of synthesizers. His attraction to this new medium, he says, stems from "the contrasting challenges of working with the infinite sonic range of the synthesizer, versus the limited palette available to the stained glass artist.”

Click HERE, for a sample of Dale's audio work,

 

---

Jesse F. Reed 

Jesse F. Reed, professor of Art emeritus at Davis & Elkins College, is a world traveler who is a painter and etcher of people and places.  He was born in Belington, WV.  He studied art at the Grand Central School of Art and the Art Student’s League in New York.  A nationally exhibiting artist, he is a member of the Salmagundi Club in New York, the Print Club of Albany, the Boston Printmakers and the West Virginia Watercolor Society.  Jesse is listed in Who’s Who in American Art, Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, Dictionary of International Biography and Art in America – Annual Guide to Museums, Galleries and Artists.  Click HERE for Jesse Reed's website

 

---

Linda Walker Roberts 

Linda Walker Roberts, a native of Summersville, WV and an ordained American Baptist minister, is primarily a self-taught artist.  She has chosen the medium of watercolor because of the bright, clear colors and the element of surprise and unpredictability one can achieve with watercolor. She exhibits her work in numerous juried watercolor exhibitions throughout the United States.   Linda feels that watercolor painting adds an exciting and satisfying dimension to her life.  

Website:  oberts.explorewv.com

 

 

---

 Pam Roberts

Pam has been drawing and painting since 1972. She has done watercolor, oil, and is now doing pen drawings. She studied with various art professors at Marshall University and Glenville State College and has taken watercolor workshops from various local artists. She apprenticed with a thirty year experienced jewelry maker. She has taught jewelry making, wild flower drawing, and song writing in the local school system and for local organizations. She continues to draw and make jewelry and displays them at Poplar Forest in Flatwoods, WV and at Artists at Work in Elkins, WV.

---

Jeannine M. Romano 

Jeannine Romano enjoys creating portraits that capture a moment in time.  The emotions expressed through the subject’s eyes can immediately show what he/she is feeling.  She states, “I love to paint ‘ornery’ characters!”

---

Dave Shombert

Dave Shombert is a woodturner who resides in Elkins.  His specialty is segmented turning, in which the object is first constructed in rough form of many individual segments of wood, then turned to its final form on the lathe.  This allows the use of different species of wood and control of grain orientation, thus adding color and geometric figure to the object.  Dave learned the segmented technique from Paul Weinberger of Weston, WV, and enjoys the challenge of achieving the precision that this work requires. He is a member of Tamarack, a gallery for West Virginia artisans, and the Southern Highland Craft Guild, Ashville, NC.

Website: www.woodspunworkshop.com

---

Debbie Sorensen

I'm always on the lookout for something new to photograph four times. After 15 years in business I'm always looking for a new 4 Seasons subject. 2008 brings 2 new collections: (1) Cass, WV Main Street and (2) Valley Falls. So far I have photographed over 18 sites and I'm still looking.

 HC 73 Box 26A Valley Head, WV  26294 (304) 339-4239 golddomewv@meer.net <mailto:golddomewv@meer.net>

 

---

Doug Van Gundy

While he is best known for his appearance on ABC-TV’s Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, Doug Van Gundy has been writing poems since he was five years old and leading poetry and writing workshops for the past seven years. His poems rooted in his West Virginia heritage while retaining a wide appeal, never veering into the provincial.

Doug has presented a paper at the annual Associated Writing Programs (AWP) conference, taught composition to inmates, helped high school teachers integrate writing into their classrooms, led creative writing weekends for university students and worked with poets from age 5 to 75. He also organized and hosted the Augusta Poets Gathering for five years.

His work has been published in numerous regional literary magazines and has won second place in both the Eve of Saint Agnes and Lullwater Review competitions. His poems have been included in the anthologies xconnect: Writers of the Information Age, and Wild Sweet Notes: Fifty Years of West Virginia Poetry.

He has given readings throughout the East and has appeared on Grace Caveleri’s The Poet and the Poem program on Pacifica radio. A portion of one of his poems has appeared in an ad for Who Wants To Be A Millionaire.

Doug is a tireless teacher of and advocate for poetry. He holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in poetry from Goddard College in Vermont.

Doug Van Gundy has been taking photos since his early teens.  He feels that the best photography creates a visual poetry out of the ordinary moments of life and is rooted in the irreproduceableness of a given moment.                                 

---

Laurie Warren 

Laurie Warren is originally from New York, living in West Virginia since 1999.  She has been painting for six years.  She lives in Buckhannon with her husband Lee and two children, Jessica and Sky.  Laurie believes that in art all avenues should be explored: different techniques, teachers, subject matter, etc.  Although she has explored various art media, her favorite is watercolor.

 

Website:  www.warrenwatercolors.com

 

 

---

---

Charles Yeater, Wheeling, WV
 
Paint, Photography.  Self taught landscape, skyscape, works emphasizing texture. Strong investments in process generating near automatic work. Emotional experiences of the works are primary focus. abwal@comcast.net

 

 

 

 

An artist membership to the Randolph County Community Arts Center  - through a donation of $25 or more to the Arts Center - provides artists with several benefits.

 

·        Inclusion on the RCCAC Artist Registry.  Visual artists who would like to participate in the artist registry on the RCCAC website should complete the attached form and return to us with your jpeg images.  Musical artists and creative writers who would like to participate in the artist registry on the RCCAC website should complete the attached form and return to us with a wav or MP3 file. (Our webmaster will post additions to the registry once each month.)

·        Reduced entry fee to the RCCAC’s Annual Juried Gala Exhibit.

·        Notification of member’s only exhibit/performance opportunities at RCCAC.

·        Notification to attend visiting guest artist workshops at RCCAC.

·        Notification of exhibit/performance opportunities outside of RCCAC as we receive notification from other organizations.

·        Notification of workshop opportunities for area artists as we receive notification from other organizations.

·        Notification of grant opportunities for artists.

·        Invitation to participate in the annual holiday Arts Sale in December.