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Wende Essrow
Wende Essrow is primarily a self-taught painter, children’s book author and certified teacher residing in West Falls. She attended Alfred Universtiy, and received her degree in English Literature and is certified to teach English 7-12, Special Education. Preschool children captured her heart and she spent 30 years teaching special needs children. Currently she is working on her second children's book titled, If You Listen to the Trees, to be released in a few months. Her first book, The Paintbrush Dreamer, is available at the Albright Knox, Burchfield Penney Arts Center, The Roycroft, Barnes and Noble and most local independent bookstores.
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Ann Frank
Ann Elizabeth Frank is a visual artist and arts educator. Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, she earned a BFA in technical theater design and production from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 1988. She has worked as a theatrical scenic artist and properties artisan for regional theaters and opera companies in the US, including Studio Arena Theater in Buffalo. Ann has extensive art education training from Buffalo State College, the Arscura School for Living Art in Toronto, and the Waldorf High School Teacher Training program at the Center for Anthroposophy in New Hampshire. She is currently in the part-time MSW program in the School of Social Work at the University of Buffalo, expected graduation August 2015, after which she solemnly vows to be finally finished ‘going back to school’. This degree will pair with her interest in ways that art can enhance health and human service settings, particularly with trauma survivors and people at end of life.
Ann is an artist-in-residence at Roswell Park Cancer Institute as part of the Arts in Healthcare Initiative through the UB Center for the Arts. She also teaches studio art and art history for the Academe of Aurora, a high school home-schooling group based in East Aurora, NY. Ann has most recently shown her own work at the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Art Dialogue, 464 Gallery, the law offices of Damon Morey, and the UB Center for the Arts. At present, she is working mainly with charcoal, pastel, graphite and watercolor, but that could always change…
Ann is the proud parent of AWS alumni Leo ('07), Nora ('09) and Jesse ('13).
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Robert Finn
Buffalo born, Robert Finn attended Hartford Art School and received his M.F. A. from SUNY Buffalo in 1975. Mr. Finn has exhibited his work in the U.S. and abroad, including numerous W.N.Y Shows at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, group and one person shows, and “Beginning with Germany”, in Dortmund, Germany. He is member of the Buffalo Society of Artists and a past Roycroft Artisan. In his work, Mr. Finn focuses on landscapes and natural forms, primarily in oils and print media. He lives in Orchard Park, where he teaches art at Orchard Park High School.
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Thomas Kegler
Renowned artist, Thomas Kegler, is a self-taught painter, producer, and certified teacher residing in Western New York. He is recognized as an Associate Living Master by the prestigious Art Renewal Center, Master Roycroft Artisan, Painting Instructor for the Grand Central Academy in New York City, and Senior Fellow with the Hudson River Fellowship. Kegler's traditional oil paintings of landscapes, still life, and figures draw from the Masters' approach to the canvas. Revisiting the processes and techniques of the “Old Masters” in light of classical and contemporary subjects guides his expression of life's subtleties.
Kegler's work has been shown nationally in numerous solo and group exhibitions at many distinguished galleries. His paintings reside in several prominent collections throughout the United States. His work and processes have been featured in notable magazines and publications including American Arts Quarterly. He is committed to the consistent growth and development of his skills and to the promotion of art education with an emphasis on classical techniques.
Kegler paints traditionally - mirroring a time when academic training and processes were embraced and nurtured. This approach has given him the skills and knowledge to express himself through hand, head and heart.
Tom & his wife Kim are the parents of an AGK student and enjoy Parent/Toddler classes with their younger child.
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Julio Martin
A US citizen since 2008, Julio Martin was born in Mexico City. He received his BFA in Sculpture from SUNY Buffalo in 2010. As an emerging artist, he established his studio on Buffalo’s West Side, a strategic location that allows him to travel throughout Western New York to explore and observe the interaction of water to erosion and sedimentation, which comes to impart meaning in his working practice. Julio’s exploration has to do with unfolding natural processes, fluid motion, turbulence, harmonious flow and organic growth. He is stirred by the rhythms of chaos in nature and its implicit order. Through the process of erosion and sedimentation, he regards water as the sculptress of the earth, seeing the dialectic of water and stone as an interface of movement and stillness. He longs for the realm of intuition, all that is felt and organic, all that is spontaneous and imaginative; This constitutes his sense of being in the world. See more about this artist at www.juliomartin.net.
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Sawyer Oubre (AWS '11)
Sawyer’s first camera could only record five seconds of video at a time.
He would start recording and act out the scene until the camera stopped, then freeze, start recording again, and continue acting. Sawyer has been creating movies since he was 10 years old. He began by making short videos of himself juggling for his friends and family, but soon found a love for telling stories through film. He attended the Aurora Waldorf School for ten years, graduating with the class of 2011 and is now a senior at East Aurora High School. Currently enrolled in the Film Academy program, he hopes to pursue film making as a career.
You can see examples of Sawyer's work on his YOUTUBE channel.
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Rebecca Ruger
Rebecca Ruger, artist and owner of Beach Bum Glass Cottage at 4188 Lake Shore Road, Hamburg, NY 14075 in October 2011.
All of Rebecca’s creations feature beach glass collected from the shores of Lake Erie. Rebecca does not alter the glass she finds, instead allowing Mother Nature do all the tumbling.
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