Month: August 2022

Nancy Bunnell

Nancy Cooke Bunnell, an award-winning pastel and acrylic painter. Her work ranges from realism to energetic abstractions. Her time is split between creating paintings and teaching others. She is an experienced artist and certified art teacher for over 18 years teaching to all ages with art trained at SCSU, UConn, and ECSU. She is presently teaching abstraction at the Glastonbury Art Guild and a skill and creative based program for homeschool children at Willington Library. She has also taught art at the Community School of Arts, the Art Center East, West Hartford Art League, and MCC. Her pastels have won first in the state at the CT Pastel Society and has won numerous high -ranking awards at Art Center East, the Munson Art Center. d throughout the state. Nancy has also shown work on Canyon Rd. in New Mexico.

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Upcoming Events September-November

September

*AAC Annual Member appreciation meeting is at Knowlton Memorial Hall September 21st at 7:00 in place of our usual second Wednesday meeting. Please mark your calendar! The Babcock Band will perform and Pulitzer Prize winner (Political Cartoonist for Insider), Josh Adams will be our keynote speaker. There will be a short business meeting to talk about new positions for 2023.

October

*If you became a member before June of 2022, it will  be time to renew your membership in October. As it becomes closer we will be sending out registration forms.

*Our workshop program is returning beginning in October. We’ll keep you posted.

 *New event: AAC Members Show at the Vanilla Bean Gallery. We already have a list of 13 members who have responded. We will be hanging the show at the end of September. Date and time to follow. Let me know if you want your art to be included on the walls there.

November:

*Deb will reach out to former vendors of the annual Holiday Artists Market early in August before opening spaces to others. It will be held two days (Nov. 19 and 20 from 10 – 4:00 at Knowlton Memorial Hall) which is designed for social separation with half the vendors each day as we did last year. Like last year, each artist will enjoy extra space for their displays. You might need to renew your membership in October. The spaces will be $30