Tag: art

Art Club Happenings

Susan Skolnik On Feb. 11, a group from the PC Art Club spent a pleasant day at the Scottsdale Waterfront Fine Art & Wine Festival. The group enjoyed walking along the waterfront while taking in the artwork and sampling some of the delicious wines available. They concluded the day with lunch. On Feb. 3, several…

Artist of the Month: Shoray Wolfe

Shoray Wolfe The PebbleCreek Art Club is pleased to name Shoray Wolfe as our Artist of the Month for April. In the formal setting of my upbringing, school and education played a significant role in children’s lives. So, when I doodled birds, bees, and flowers, if it looked like my biology homework, it was encouraged.…

Art from the Heart Helps Children in Need

Susan Skolnik The PebbleCreek Art Club is pleased to have created a community outreach project called Art from the Heart, which collects art materials and supplies to help inspire and encourage young artists. The group is headed by Karen Ludwig, Diana Ho, and Cheryl Wagner, and they collected $300 in checks and gift certificates, as…

Artist of the Month: Susan Gleason

The Art Club is delighted to award Artist of the Month for March to Susan Gleason. Susan was born in New York and raised in Arlington, Va., where she met Brian Gleason, her husband of more than 50 years. She studied fashion design at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology and spent several years coordinating…

Artists Wander through the Hills

Camille Grabb On Nov. 21, 20 PebbleCreek Art Club members made their annual car caravan journey up to Cave Creek to meander through the many private studios that generous artists open to offer everyone a sneak peek into their work world. This year was the 25th anniversary for the Sonoran Arts League, and they titled…

Artist of the Month: Thula Edwards

The PebbleCreek Art Club is delighted to announce the selection of Thula Edwards as Artist of the Month for January 2022. Thula’s autobiography follows: Born and raised in Oregon, my childhood was somewhat unusual, in that my father was a psychiatrist and worked for the state mental hospital. We lived in the doctors’ quarters on…

Beginning Pottery, Building Confidence

Jeff Wilson The most common comment from someone on the first day of a beginning pottery class is, “I hope you have patience because I have no artistic ability.” On leaving the class, most people say they can’t believe they made the beautiful things they did. Watching people discover talent they never knew they had…