Dani Kaulakis in the Sieg Gallery

Artist Statement: Dani Kaulakis is a freelance Illustrator based locally out of Bellefonte, Pa. She specializes in digital and vector design and creates art for use in a variety of different media, Dani Kaulakis is a freelance Illustrator and Pennsylvanian native. She is a Penn State 2007 BFA graduate with a background in painting and graphic design and has been working in the industry for nearly a decade. Subsequently, her personal art is mostly digitally painted, with smooth vector line art and colorful gradients. As a hobbyist costumer, she borrows from the historical eras and styles that inspire her; preferring to depict strong women garbed in rich textiles and historically inspired garments. She likes bunny rabbits, roller derby and sword fighting and has been living in Bellefonte since 2008 with her husband and a mess of animals.

To view more of her work visit DaniKaulakisArt.com

Janise Crow in the Jewelry Gallery for July

Bio:

Janise is a juried multimedia jewelry artist whose passion is to make connections and evoke personal sentiment in wearable art form. Her jewelry connects the wearer to a cherished memory, time, event or place. She brings personal stories to life by incorporating treasured trinkets with a delicate balance of the past and present. Each component is specifically selected to convey the unique story or memory of the wearer. Janise blends a multitude of materials, colors, textures and movement to express and celebrate memories through her one-of-a-kind artistic jewelry in both custom and ready to wear jewelry.

Janise is exhibits and sells at art galleries, local businesses, the catalogs on www.SentimentalJewelryDesigns.com, www.CrowsNestArtsandCrafts.com and in her own studio gallery located in State College by appointment.

web: www.SentimentalJewelryDesigns.com

Barb Pennypacker and Denise Wagner in the Tea Room Gallery

Denise Wagner: Denise paints and photographs the disappearing beauty of the natural world around her.

She has been a fine artist and photographer for over thirty years. She worked as a digital scientific illustrator and photographer for Penn State University.

Because she strongly believes in contributing to organizations that are caretakers of our environment and the animals that are part of it, she has donated a series of paintings and photographs to The Shaver's Creek Environmental Center; Centre County's Pennsylvania Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) for their annual Fur Ball; Centre Wildlife Care for their annual “Wild About Animals' event;” and Art in the Marsh for Millbrook Marsh.

She has exhibited paintings and photographs in the following galleries:
Art Alliance of Central Pa; Foxdale Village Art Gallery; The State College Framing Company & Gallery; The Bellefonte Art Museum; The Centre County Historical Society; Hershey Medical Centre; Gray's Woods Geissinger; Schlow Library; The Field Restaurant at Toftrees; and the Hub-Robeson Center at the Penn State Campus.

She is also a member of the Farmland Preservation Artists, painting vanishing pastoral, woodland, and farmland scenes.

Her favorite medias are acrylics and pastels. She use acrylics to paint raptors, wetland birds, songbirds, landscapes, and animals. She prefers pastels for landscapes because of the rich colors and quickness of the medium.

Tea Room Gallery - 1st Floor