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2008 |
Gallery Talk
Thursday, March 20, 2008, 1:30 p.m.
Taft Museum of Art
316 Pike St., Downtown Cincinnati
Experience the exhibition ”From Winslow Homer to Edward Hopper: American Watercolor Masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum” with commentary by Marlene Steele, a currently featured artist in Watercolor Artist magazine, Feb 2008. This program is free with Taft Museum of Art admission ($8 adults, $6 seniors and students, free youth 18 and under). Reservations are strongly advised. Call (513) 684-4515 for information or reservations
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Recent Workshops & Lectures |
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Taft Museum of Art; introduction to oil painting for docents 2007
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TAFT MUSEUM
OF ART, Cincinnati Ohio
Artists Reaching Classrooms
Project :
a unique educational initiative putting high school students and
their teachers in touch with regional professional artists. The
students, teachers, museum docents and artists exchange ideas about
art as well as significant dialogue about the lifestyle issues
and choices of the professional artist into today’s society.
OHIO RIVER VALLEY ARTISTS GUILD
ART SMART LECTURE SERIES:
“The Art and Design of Calligraphy” Discussion with demo.
“My Work in Watercolor” Feb.
12, 2006 My approach to figure, landscape and still-life in
this exciting medium.
QUEEN CITY ART CLUB
Dinner Lecture Series:
“My Artistic
Process in Oil and Watercolor” May 5, 2006
Insights
into my approach to the mediums with images for discussion
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| 2007 |
Spring Grove Heritage Foundation
1st BiAnnual Art exhibit May 1 through September 30, 2007
4521 Spring Grove Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio
45232
“The Strader Mausoleum”
Oil on canvas on prepared masonite panel 20x26” Beautiful gothic mausoleum, its dusty rose stone a resting place for generations of the Strader Family, stately still in the first breath of spring.
WOMAN’S ART CLUB LECTURE DEMO
Saturday MAY 12 2007 12:30 PM
Pendleton Art Center, Studio 501
1310 Pendleton Street, Cincinnati, Ohio
WACC phone contact: 513-651-9220
Contact the Art center website for directions and maps.@www.pendletonartcenter.com
Desc: Marlene Steele presented her insights on drawing the figure from life. She discussed principles of anatomy, her approach to the timed gesture drawing and the extended drawing experience.
She also discussed her mediums of choice: charcoal, pastel and watercolor.
Marlene is the chair for the club’s LIFE DRAWING SESSIONS, held currently twice a month. She enjoys this volunteer work with the Woman’s art club and has held this position for the past 3 years.
Several finished examples of Marlene’s work were displayed for viewing during the meeting.
CINCINNATI ART CLUB LECTURE DEMO
Friday January 19, 2007
1021 Parkside Place, Cincinnati, Ohio
“…Marlene Steele stepped forward with a vibrant and fascinating demonstration of figure drawing.
Marlene states, “the beauty of the human form is a time-honored challenge and presents an especially unique opportunity in working with the live model. I practice the timed croqui technique to facilitate the natural gesture in my figure drawings. I often work through the roster of poses fully realizing that there is no loss in the repetition of the exercise. As each sheet repeats the motif there is a new search for the dominate mass or a directional line more informed. …I aspire toward combining skills of observation with personal terms of expression. There are no shortcuts to the plateau of achievement and there is much insight to be gained in the process of seeing for oneself.” Quoted from the club newsletter. “Dragonfly” March 2007
COLLEGE OF MOUNT ST. JOSEPH, CINCINNATI OHIO
ART DEPARTMENT LECTURE/DEMO SERIES
CALLIGRAPHY CLASS.
Marlene Steele demonstrating pressure/release technique for the lettering class of Dr. Sharon Kesterson Bollen. Discussions included practical approaches to professional commercial work. Multiple examples of card industry work and commercial design were exhibited.
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2006
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Art Academy of Cincinnati: Community
Education Faculty Exhibit June 2006 Ruthe G. Pearlman Gallery Cincinnati
Ohio
California Watercolor Association: 38 th National Exhibition
October
2006
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| 2005
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“SPORTS IN ART” November
2005 Jasper Arts Center, Krempp Gallery Jasper, Indiana BEST OF SHOW
AWARD “The Strategist”
“FORM & FIGURE” November 2005-January 2006
YWCA Women’s Art Gallery , Figurative Invitational Cincinnati
Ohio
“INTERNATIONAL NUDE” Regional Exhibit Lexington Art League, January
2005 Lexington, Kentucky
112th Annual Women's Art Club Exhibit through June 5th
AWARD: Florence Drugan Award: "Black Rose" Watercolor
“SHADES OF PASTEL” April 2005 Maryland Pastel Society, National Juried
Exhibition at BlackRock Center for the Arts.
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2004 |
111th Annual Women's Art Club Exhibit April 25th - June 1st
AWARD: Georgiabelle & Larry Clark Gold Medal Award |
2003 |
110th Annual Women's Art Club Exhibit April 6 - 13, 2003
AWARD: Jeanette Baldwin Memorial Award
"The Other Nude Show" Miller Fine Art Gallery, Lexington, KY
Feb. 19 - March 31, 2003
"Face to Face: A Look at Contemporary Portraits" Invitational curated
by Steven Vincent Clark, Sponsored by the Greater Cincinnati Foundation Gallery,
200 W. Fourth St. Cincinnati, OH July 17 - September 2003
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2002 |
"HOUSES" Invitational KZF
Gallery Baldwin Bldg., Cincinnati, OH November 2002 - March 2003
109th Annual Women's Art Club Exhibit April, 2002
AWARD: The Judson Wilson Award of Distinction $2,000
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2000 |
"Drawn to Art" Fitton Center,
Hamilton, Ohio, Invitational Group Drawing Show. Also featuring Alex
McKibbin, Perin Mahler, Edie Harper, Gary Gaffney January 23 - February
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"Drawing From Perception III" Wright State University Galleries. Curator:
Rosemarie Beck, New York Studio School. January 4 - 30th
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1999 |
UC DAAP Faculty Exhibit, Tangeman Fine Arts Gallery
Tangeman University, October 1999
"WOMEN IN MID-CAREER" University Club, Cincinnati, Ohio
April 23 - May 23. Curator Daniel Brown and Andrew Emery
Also included: Connie McClure, Kay Muir, Carin Hebenstreit
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1998 |
One Woman Show, BASE ART, Cincinnati, Ohio May - June
featuring oil landscapes and figure drawings
Marlene Steele's work is collected in numerous corporate and private collections.
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