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Katy Shepard
With a Bachelor of Fine Arts in the Honors program at Virginia Tech also majoring in political science and philosophy Katy Shepard wishes to pursue a career in non-profit organizations’ promotion of international human rights through the use of mass media and community arts. It is her belief that the arts are a fundamental outlet for honesty with one’s self and others about not only the necessities of life, but also what can lead to happiness. Shepard has also previously studied at the Virginia Tech Center for European Studies and Architecture located in Riva San Vitale, Switzerland as part of the Honors Presidential Global Scholars program in the spring of 2013 as well as partaking in Korea University’s International Summer Campus program in 2012. These experiences have allowed her to study art and culture from around the world.
Research & Community Works
Previously Shepard has worked on research on the Developmental Stages of the Child Artist with head of VT Perspective Gallery Robin Boucher. She has worked on numerous independent art studies with Professor Emeritus Robert Graham revolving around international gender issues.
Shepard is the president and founder of the Light Up a Life service organization at Virginia Tech which pursues the phrase “Kids, Creativity, & Community.” Through this organization Shepard was able to organize and develop the show “Once Upon a Time,” shown in the Perspective Gallery in the spring of 2012, which featured the future self-portraits of students kindergarten through 12th grade.
In Stafford County Shepard has taught private art lessons for numerous years. Students have gone on to win numerous awards at Dorothy Hart Children’s Art Show, CRRL Teen Art Show, and the State Fair of Virginia.
Awards: Show and Exhibition History
- Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts (FCCA) Members' Gallery Show--Katy Shepard and Dave Bellard January 2015
- 2015 Summer Residential Governor's School Visual Arts regional level juror November 2014
- FCCA November 2014 National Juried Show: Primary Colors (juried by Vaughn Whitney Garland) one piece
- The Artists' Cradle Young Artists' Exhibition Curator November 14th-16th 2014
- Where We LIV Stafford, VA Featured Artist November 9th 2014
- FCCA October 2014 Regional Exhibition (juried by David R. White) two pieces, one Honorable Mention
- Fredericksburg Via Colori participating artist September 2014
- Where We LIV Stafford, VA Featured Artist September 20th 2014
- FCCA September 2014 National Juried Show: The Human Factor (juried by Joey Manlapaz)
- XYZ Gallery Solo Show Blacksburg, VA May 2014
- Moss Center Group Show Blacksburg, VA May 2014
- Professional Artists & Artisans of Stafford County Group Show September 2013
- Simply Beautiful Spaces Group Show September 2013
- Perspective Gallery Blacksburg, VA "Once Upon a Time"
- Children's Show Curator May 2012
- Perspective Gallery Group Show December 2010
- Central Rappahannock Regional Library (CRRL) Solo Show December 2010
- CRRL Teen Art Show Spring 2010 Best of Show
- CRRL Solo Show December 2008
- CRRL Teen Art Show Spring 2008 Best of Show
- VA State Fair Fall 2008-2010 over 30 awards and scholarships.
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Rob Cori
Rob Cori is a Graphic Artist, Designer & Illustrator from the DC/Metro Area. He continues to develop his own personal portfolio with aspirations to be a creator in all types of Art Interests, and eventually, in the Entertainment Business.
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Emmanuel Ceballos
Emmanuel Ceballos
"Creativity is all about exploring. If you don’t fail, that means you’re not trying hard enough. Some however seem to think a process shouldn’t involve any risk?" – Von Glitschka
Emmanuel Ceballos is a self taught artist living in California. He isn't married to any artistic direction and that's the way he likes it!
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Dee Glazer
Dee Glazer
I am not striving for an ideal in my work, nor am I advocating a return to the past. My work is a neutral expression of how things currently are. I paint the new organic of regulated flows and organized chaos, where what is "human" or "natural" is increasingly systematized and mechanized. -Dee Glazer 2012
Her collection of artwork is masterful. Very creative, colorful and rhythmatic. New age surrealism? Anywho, these piece are must see, and, oh yeah... for sale! Got to see these.
"My favorite place to draw is in front of the television. For me, drawing is an obsession similar to the act of binge watching. When I make images, I feel like I am connecting and disconnecting myself from the world around me. My compulsion to make things is an outlet, and unlike my compulsion to watch TV, a seemingly more productive one...
Working with wood, gesso, ink, and latex paint, I create drawings and paintings that depict my relationship to contemporary technology. I also explore a more universal, or 'everyman,' response to the means of communication and distraction that overwhelm and intertwine with our everyday lives.
The work is celebratory and simultaneously records the dissent into the information age of ever-growing technological dependency. I find the work to be comedic and horrible at the same time, a sort of modest monument to the average consumer.
These concepts, as well as my drive to make art, are linked to my background in philosophy. Making art allows me to play with these notions in a more abstract manner, allowing for the free play of associations and the transformations of subtle details. Drawing allows me to express ideas that I do not yet have the words for."