THE GAITHERSBURG FINE ARTS ASSOCIATION was founded in 1976 as a small group of artists residing in Gaithersburg and has grown over the years to include members throughout Montgomery County. GFAA provides educational programs, promotional opportunities, multiple exhibits during the year, and outreach to local audiences.
Lesa Cook grew up in South Carolina and received a BA in Studio Art from U.S.C. in 1987. After moving to the DC suburbs, she continued her fine art studies part-time at: The Maryland Institute College of Art, The Corcoran School of Art, The Art League in Alexandria,Va. and The Shuler School in Baltimore. She was a full time student at The Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy from Oct. 2018 until March 2020, when COVID-19 interrupted her studies. She apprenticed under Brian Booth Craig in Stroudsburg, PA in 2021.
Her work has been shown nationally. She resides in Burkittsville, MD where she paints, sculpts and teaches at The Delaplaine Visual Arts Center in Frederick, MD. She has extensive teaching experience with a variety of student populations. A big believer in the power of art to reach, heal and connect, she has seen firsthand the benefits a creative outlet can provide. She is also a registered copyist at The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. and considers herself stylistically to be a classical realist, drawing inspiration from the great masters and trying to capture not only the natural form but the emotional reality as well.
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ROSBOROUGH BUILDING at Asbury Methodist Village.
You may attend either in person or on Zoom. The meeting will open at 6:30 pm and begin at 7 pm. You will receive an email with the information before the Zoom meeting.
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GFAA Art Show In the Ruth Dodge Art Gallery of the Fairhaven Retirement Community
Fairhaven is one of 26 continuing-care retirement communities owned and operated by Acts Retirement-Life Communities. This Sykesville campus sits on a 300-acre wooded property in Carroll County and, the Fairhaven Residents’ Association (FRA) maintains a gallery within the Beasman Center that’s on their campus. In addition to inviting individual artist and art groups to show their work at the Ruth Dodge Art Gallery, the FRA conducts regular art classes in their campus studio down the hall from the gallery. Entry was closed September 30 for this show.
The show will be up from October 21 – December 2, 2023,
Reception November 5, 2023 2 – 4 pm.
All GFAA artists, family and guests are invited to attend the reception. The FRA residents would love the opportunity to talk to the artists and get to know them.
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Ruth Dodge Art Gallery
in the Beasman Center on the grounds of the
Fairhaven Retirement Community
7200 Third Avenue Sykesville, MD 21784
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SHOWS COMING SOON!
• Annapolis State House Exhibit January 12 – April 8, 2024
• Delaplaine Arts Center in February 2024, in their East Gallery.
• 39th Annual GFAA Kentlands Show April 19 – July 14, 2024.
If you want to contact Bob, please reply to the email address below
Bob Maarsen GFAA\VP of Shows rmaarsen@verizon.net
NEW CATEGORY FOR THE KENTLANDS SHOW!
Photography & Digital Art
After our September 14 meeting, we took an online vote on whether to add a new category of art to the Kentlands show: Photography and Digital Art. This will be a single category. Photography starts with a picture taken with a camera or phone, and possibly modified with digital software. Digital art is made with the use of software. AI generated art is not accepted and the copyright for the whole or any part of the artwork must belong to the artist.
