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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Best of Show announced for Fairfield Community Artists Showcase, opening Sept. 19
Fairfield Community Artist Showcase, Sept. 19-Nov. 7, Fairfield Community Arts Center, 411 Wessel Dr., Fairfield. Free. (513) 867-5348.
Even though Carol Schmidt didn’t even start her career as an artist until she was a senior citizen, she can now claim the Best of Show prize for the Fairfield Community Arts Center’s fourth annual Community Artist Showcase.
The Hamilton resident said she did take some art classes in high school, but the program was underfunded and not much appreciated by the administration, so she never got a chance to find out if she had any talent or not.
But on a whim one day, she walked into a painting class at the Hamilton Senior Center, borrowed some paint and paper, and never stopped painting.
“It was just boredom,” she said. “I was looking for something different.”
She also started taking lessons from noted regional watercolorist Sandy Maudlin in Lawrenceburg, Ind., and has since had work exhibited at the Fitton Center for Creative Arts and at Winton Woods Park.
When she got bored with painting landscapes and flowers, she started painting from the 300-plus photos she and her husband took at the Cincinnati Zoo, submitting three of them to the Community Artist Showcase where all three were accepted and “King of the Jungal,” a portrait of a male lion, was named best of show by Fairfield’s Cultural Arts Advisory Commission, who served as jurors for the exhibition.
Since painting the zoo series, Schmidt said, she’s started painting from photographs she took on a recent trip to Italy.
The call for artists to the exhibition drew a record 50 submissions by 22 local artists, said Arts Center manager Heidi Schiller, with 36 paintings, photographs and sculptures accepted into the exhibition, which was open to all artists 18 years and older living within 50 miles of Fairfield.
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