Dear Artists/Designers,
I want to personally thank each one of you for participating this year. Our merchants were very pleased to work with you. You are truly an inspiring and unique artist. The comments and feedback have been very positive, and the community loves to see the mannequins on the streets of Delmar! YOU ARE ALL WINNERS - and you bring so much to this project. This year the winners are: S. Jewell S. McGhee and Nikki Leeper Title: Words Into Dreams Merchant: Subterranean Books 2nd Place Winner: Cameron Tesson/Title: Sandalwood/ Representing Sunshine Daydream 3rd Place Winner: Divinemoira Studio/Title: Maiden on a Mission/Representing Mission Taco Congratulations to S.Jewell and Nikki for their outstanding creative masterpiece. Their mannequin will be on displayed at the Regional Arts Commission, second floor window for the community to see! Thanks again for all of your support. See you again next year. Audrey Jones
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S. Jewell S. McGheeJewell is an artist who has come to be known also as an author. She often writes a reflection to go with her art pieces and has been paraphrasing the psalms for many years. Categories
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About the Artist
S. Jewell S. McGhee likes to call her art “painting with pencils.” She first started using colored pencils to help her mother write names on lunch bags for school. “My mom would pick matching themes for the names on our bags; all balloons, or sunrises, or sometimes just geometric shapes. She always made them so beautiful; a plain brown bag lunch was, all at once, a love note, a story, a hug, and simple colors to enlighten us for the rest of the day.” These bags also became a constant reminder that art was simple, attainable, and a necessary part of every day. “I always start with a story.” Every time you hear a story you have a physical (tears, a chuckle, or a smile) or mental (confusion, contentment) reaction which is unable to be explained in words alone. “I like to use abstract art as a medium to dive deeply into the complicated mess of a story and discover something more about it and about myself.” She follows the flow of a story and finds the shapes and colors that express its fundamental emotions and questions. Jewell uses her art to interpret the stories of Shakespeare, the newspaper, the Bible, and her own life. “As I grapple with Hamlet, I see lines-sharp and violent-cutting through relationships and into love. There is red: obviously for blood, but also for love (a riddle itself). A golden crown, a golden son; a golden sun breaking through ghosts, clouds, and lives to reveal blackness and blood.” How black is the blackness of hate? What texture is grace? What shape is confusion, or desperation, or promise? These are the questions these pieces ask. |
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