Exhibitions and Presentations
The ART of Storytelling
July, 2024 The ART of Storytelling at The ARTS Garage of Stockton University, Atlantic city, NJ
Storytelling is the interactive art of using words and actions to reveal the elements and images of a story while encouraging the listener's imagination. Storytelling forges connections among people, and between people and ideas. Stories convey the culture, history, and values that unite people.
Artists have been using art to tell stories since the first caveman drew a hunter killing a mammoth on a cave wall. When religion became a core experience in more modern humans, we used art to bring to life stories in religious scripts. Stories can be told visually and artists use color, line, gesture, composition, and symbolism to tell a story. A picture does tell a thousand words.
Garfield is a printmaker and collage artist whose series “Paper Art Quilts” honors traditional quilt settings. Leonard is an art quilter whose quilts reveal personal stories and win prizes. Johnson challenges stereotypes encouraging individual empowerment. Levie is an art quilter, working with recycled fabrics she has printed, squeegeed, stamped, and stenciled. As a painter working on canvas with a variety of organic, mark-making techniques. Lovitz is showing works from her “Tapestry” series. Valetta uses images and words to create wall tapestries. Philkill offers insight into the people who she creates using interesting materials. Wachs, a painter, explores an ever-expanding palette of mixed media, combining digital art and other new technologies with traditional materials. Ziskind creates complex textiles involving wet felting, layering, sculpting, and embroidery.
As these women connect with the past, they also connect with each other, through threads of conversation, encouragement, and inspiration, sharing their stories with each other as well as those who see their work.
Our House Is On Fire
January 17- May, 2023, Noyes Museum of Stockton University, Hammonton, NJ
Four artists who are concerned about the ecological future of our country and planet are planning an art exhibit focusing on current issues for exhibit in 2023- 24. Judy Brodsky, Linda Dubin Garfield (www.lindadubingarfield), Pamela Tudor (www.pamelatudor.com) and Elsa Wachs (www.elsawachs.com) create works that inspire discussion and concern about preserving the health and safety of our planet.
Artists are often inspired by nature and create art out of the outstanding natural beauty all around us. We are now at a critical juncture where we need to advocate for harnessing our imagination, wealth, and technology to make our communities and our country greener and healthier places to live for everyone. Recently the Supreme Court curtailed the powers of the EPA to protect the environment, no longer requiring the reductions in emissions that are urgently needed to limit global warming. What are we to do? We need clean air, clean water, clean energy, open spaces and a livable climate for ourselves and future generations. Artists are interpreting these catastrophic times using our visual language. Through our art, we strive to create an appreciation for natural beauty and a concern for its preservation.
Holding hands with the past while pointing toward the future, nine artists pay homage to age-old textiles as they develop new approaches to their art. Linda Dubin Garfield, Christina E Johnson, Susan Leonard, Eleanor Levie, Sandi Neiman Lovitz, Cynthia Philkill, Valetta, Elsa Wachs, and Marcie Ziskind each have their own long-developed practice of working on canvas or with paper, wool roving, cloth, and other materials. Techniques include painting, printing, felting, piecing, stitching, quilting or weaving. These artists take their place in a time-honored sisterhood of skilled makers from centuries past whose creations were often disparaged as “women’s work.” Each of the artists have daringly and confidently spun new ways to combine strands and shapes, sweep color and pattern across a surface, and express both softness and strength, and both joy and resolve as they reveal their stories
ART for Israel
November 24 and 25, 2023 at Kaiserman JCC, Wynnewood, PA
Purchase art and support Israel. We will have paintings in both oil and acrylic, original prints, mixed media works on paper, textiles, all created and donated by local artists who want their art to benefit Israel and this critical time. Prices are drastically discounted.
Our House Is On Fire
May 4- 21, 2023, Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Four artists who are concerned about the ecological future of our country and planet are planning an art exhibit focusing on current issues for exhibit in 2023- 24. Judy Brodsky, Linda Dubin Garfield (www.lindadubingarfield), Pamela Tudor (www.pamelatudor.com) and Elsa Wachs (www.elsawachs.com) create works that inspire discussion and concern about preserving the health and safety of our planet.
Artists are often inspired by nature and create art out of the outstanding natural beauty all around us. We are now at a critical juncture where we need to advocate for harnessing our imagination, wealth, and technology to make our communities and our country greener and healthier places to live for everyone. Recently the Supreme Court curtailed the powers of the EPA to protect the environment, no longer requiring the reductions in emissions that are urgently needed to limit global warming. What are we to do? We need clean air, clean water, clean energy, open spaces and a livable climate for ourselves and future generations. Artists are interpreting these catastrophic times using our visual language. Through our art, we strive to create an appreciation for natural beauty and a concern for its preservation.
The ART of Storytelling
January 19- March 18, 2023, The ART of Storytelling at Henry Gallery, Penn State Great Valley
Storytelling is the interactive art of using words and actions to reveal the elements and images of a story while encouraging the listener's imagination. Storytelling forges connections among people, and between people and ideas. Stories convey the culture, history, and values that unite people.
Artists have been using art to tell stories since the first caveman drew a hunter killing a mammoth on a cave wall. When religion became a core experience in more modern humans, we used art to bring to life stories in religious scripts. Stories can be told visually and artists use color, line, gesture, composition, and symbolism to tell a story. A picture does tell a thousand words.
Holding hands with the past while pointing toward the future, nine artists pay homage to age-old textiles as they develop new approaches to their art. Linda Dubin Garfield, Christina E Johnson, Susan Leonard, Eleanor Levie, Sandi Neiman Lovitz, Cynthia Philkill, Valetta, Elsa Wachs, and Marcie Ziskind each have their own long-developed practice of working on canvas or with paper, wool roving, cloth, and other materials. Techniques include painting, printing, felting, piecing, stitching, quilting or weaving. These artists take their place in a time-honored sisterhood of skilled makers from centuries past whose creations were often disparaged as “women’s work.” Each of the artists have daringly and confidently spun new ways to combine strands and shapes, sweep color and pattern across a surface, and express both softness and strength, and both joy and resolve as they reveal their stories
Garfield is a printmaker and collage artist whose series “Paper Art Quilts” honors traditional quilt settings. Leonard is an art quilter whose quilts reveal personal stories and win prizes. Johnson challenges stereotypes encouraging individual empowerment. Levie is an art quilter, working with recycled fabrics she has printed, squeegeed, stamped, and stenciled. As a painter working on canvas with a variety of organic, mark-making techniques. Lovitz is showing works from her “Tapestry” series. Valetta uses images and words to create wall tapestries. Philkill offers insight into the people who she creates using interesting materials. Wachs, a painter, explores an ever-expanding palette of mixed media, combining digital art and other new technologies with traditional materials. Ziskind creates complex textiles involving wet felting, layering, sculpting, and embroidery.
As these women connect with the past, they also connect with each other, through threads of conversation, encouragement, and inspiration, sharing their stories with each other as well as those who see their work.
Writing Your Artist Bio & Statement- ARTsisters, Gladwyne, PA, November, 2022
Business Side of Art- Delaware Valley Art League, Philadelphia, PA, May 19, 2021
Business Side of Art- Banana Factory, Bethlehem, PA 2021
Celebration of Trees
September 7- December 7, 2021 at Henry Gallery, Penn State- Great Valley
Celebration of Trees is an exhibition organized by smARTbusinessconsulting.org, featuring artists Nancy Agati, Linda Dubin Garfield, Jenn Hallgren, Amie Potsic, Susan Stefanski, and Christine Stoughton. The presentation hosts photographs, prints, paintings, and mixed media works. All of the artists are inspired by the architecture of trees themselves, formative memories, the experience of being in nature, and environmentalism. To support improved environmental policies and draw attention to climate change, they manifest a connection to the earth and an understanding of the importance of forests.
The Inquisitives: At The Intersection Between Art and Science
October 11- 25, 2020 at Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Featuring the artwork of Barbara Bix MD, Bennett Lorber MD, Pia DeGiralamo MD, Linda Dubin Garfield EdD, Joellyn Ross PhD and Christine Stoughton PhD. Organized by smARTbusinessconsulting.org
Then and Here
May 1– 12, 2019 at Da Vinci Art Alliance
Artists’ Reception and Birthday Party- May 1, 6- 8 pm
Gallery 1 Linda Dubin Garfield and Susan DiPronio
Trees of Life
January 4- 27, 2019 at Old City Jewish Art Center
Installations, paintings, photographs, sculptures and works on paper by Cynthia Back, Susan Benaricik, Frank DiPetro, Linda Dubin Garfield and Amie Potsic
Where I Dwell; Memory, Place and Home
May 16- 30, 2018 at Da Vinci Art Alliance
This invitational exhibition showcases artists who are creating new work that explores memories of place and home, both those they left behind and or those they inhabit now. Home could be interpreted as country and geographic location as well as the physical and emotional memories they attached to places which have played a significant role in their lives and in how they remember them. This included people, places and things. Implicit in this is the journey we undertake to establish those places we come to call home. .
Crossing Boundaries
May 3- 24, 2017 at Da Vinci Art Alliance
An exhibit featuring the work of 3 artists born in another country, as well as an international public art postcard project at Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
The Soul of A Young Girl
November 1- 27, 2016 at Old City Jewish Art Center
An Art Exhibit to benefit victims of Human Trafficking organized by Regional Center for Women in the Arts and smART business consulting
Home and Away
May 4- 22, 2016 at Da Vinci Art Alliance
featuring works on paper and paintings inspired by Travel, Immigration and Memory