Binghamton, NY - October 29, 2006

Anam Cara Art Gallery is pleased to announce that nationally recognized fabric artist L Annette Short will be featured in this month’s gallery exhibit entitled “Honoring Trees”. The show will open on First Friday, November 3 from 6 - 9 pm. Short will be displaying her Art Quilts and Art Dolls. Also being exhibited will be a display of dolls by Doll Artisan Guild teacher Barbara Scott from Spring Hill Doll Studio. The show will run from November 3rd through November 19, 2006.

L. Annette Short creates symbolic abstract representations of natural forms. Using rich natural fibers and a fabric collage technique, this show centers on her love of the natural world, especially trees. Short has been the manager of the Costume Shop for the Theatre Department at Binghamton University and has also designed and built costumes for the Cider Mill Playhouse.

Her work has been shown at many venues in the United States, from New York to California.

Binghamton, NY - October 3, 2006

Delaware artist Linda Chatfield will be performing a pastel demonstration at Anam Cara Art Gallery at 204 State Street, Binghamton, NY, on Friday October 6 at 6 pm.  Chatfield’s artwork is on display at the gallery in a show entitled “Friendly Spirits“, through October 28.

Chatfield is a graduate of Boston University College for the Arts, and has studied at the L’Academie di Venezia in Italy, Rhode Island School of Design and Decordova Museum School.  She served as Executive Director of the Newark Valley Historical Society, and has been CEO of two other museums in Maryland and Delaware.

Chatfield has exhibited her portrait and landscape work in Massachusetts, upstate New York, Maryland and Delaware, where she now resides.  She works in varied media including oil, pastel and watercolor, occasionally using collage in mixed media work.

The Gallery will also be featuring works by Carrie Dru Tornature, Robert Merwin, Lynn Capani-Czebeniak, and Colleen Kiley.

For more information, contact Colleen Kiley, gallery director at the Anam Cara Art Gallery at 722-2220.