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Peter Hagerty

Visual Arts: Painting; Assemblage

Peter Hagerty is a Chicago born artist who has lived in this area his entire life. He is one of those people who was simply born with a passion to be creative. In an attempt to better understand his surroundings and himself, for the past 5 or more years Hagerty has presented Chicago-themed exhibits. These exhibits have involved portraits of individuals – both celebrity and common folk alike – who represent the Chicago Spirit. The exhibits turned into a type of art therapy session for the viewer’s who were often flooded with childhood memories of their Chicago past. Recently, Hagerty has begun moving away from a strict Chicago focus. His newest work is more spontaneous and can best be described as “Interesting Faces.” His medium is oil on board or plywood. But not to leave Chicago completely behind, his upcoming exhibit in March 2018 at the Westmont Public Library is entitled: “Life, Death & Meaning: Chicago’s Irish Heritage.” Thank You

Marge Hall

Artist for Hire; Visual Arts: Instructor, Painting

Over the past 30 years, Marge Hall has emphasized the importance of following “your own direction” to her students … Advice she has used in creating a festival of color and texture with her own paintings … Her portraits represent a kaleidoscopic mixture of colors, shapes, and textures that cause her flowers to leap off the canvas, allowing the viewer to experience her art on both emotional and intellectual levels. Marge Hall has created a body of work that is bold and dramatic yet sensitive and intimate … Her vibrant colors and luscious textures capture the spiritual elements of nature … Her attention to detail is displayed in the subtle tonal qualities of each petal she paints. This nationally recognized artist has discovered her own color vocabulary based on a pallet that combines elements of strong but almost mystical light with drama and photo-like realism … When she paints white flowers, she is able to exaggerate the color subtleties as they shift in the shadows and areas of reflected light … When Marge captures the transparency of Petunias, or the velvet-like softness of Gladiolas, or the feel and texture of the veins and wrinkles of Hollyhocks, she has invited the viewer into her special world.

Carol Hamilton

Visual Arts: Painting

Carol Hamilton, an award-winning artist, decided she wanted to be an “artist” at nine years of age and has been following that path the rest of her life. Her aesthetic roots are in the western landscape, science and zen. Although she has worked in many media, her formal training is in oil painting with a secondary concentration in papermaking and printmaking. After receiving her MFA in painting from the University of Wyoming, Hamilton travelled and taught art in the western states at university and secondary levels. While living in the austere beauty of the Sonoran desert she began working in encaustic and experienced a transformation her work from figurative to abstraction. Encaustic’s luminosity allowed her to capture the “feeling” of the colors of the desert. Her work centers on the contemplative and is informed by her meditation practice. Hamilton is a member of the artist collective INTERSECT and is a resident artist at the Starline Factory Gallery in Harvard, Illinois. Carol’s work is in public collections and private collections.

Pam Hart

Visual Arts: Painting

Pamela was born in Leavenworth, Kansas, and as a child of an army officer grew up all over the world. She began drawing and painting at four. Her formal instruction took place at multiple schools, including the Art Institute of Kansas City; she received her Bachelor’s of Science, with a specialization in Painting, and her Masters of Art Education from Ball State University. She has focused professionally for many years showing at numerous museums, galleries, and art centers around the country. Partnering with galleries across the land her work has been collected by members of the past two administrations, rock musicians, and major corporations. She has received many awards and recognitions. She now markets her work primarly direct with her clients. She lives in the western suburbs of Chicago with her husband.

Anni Holm

Multi-Arts; Visual Arts: Earthworks, Instructor, Mixed Media, Murals, Photography, Sculpture, Textiles

Anni Holm is a conceptual artist working with photography, installation, performance, and collaborative art. Born in Randers, Denmark, Holm attended Krabbesholm Højskole in Skive before she immigrated to the US in 1999. She graduated with a BFA in photography from Columbia College Chicago 2004. Holm has participated in artist residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida (2005), GyB ByG in Mexico City, Mexico (2015) and Sigrids Stue in Aarhus, Denmark (2015), been a Featured Artist during the Chicago Artists Month (2006) and a Break Out Artist in Newcity (2007). She has performed and exhibited her work at various locations nationally including Ohio University Gallery, Ohio; Waterloo Center for the Arts, Iowa; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota; Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, New York; Space 301, Alabama; Bridge Art Fair, Miami; Danish Immigrant Museum, IA; along with the Glass Curtain Gallery, Hyde Park Art Center, National Museum of Mexican Arts, Chicago Cultural Center, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, all in Chicago. International exhibitions include the group exhibitions at the Museum of National History at Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark, Hafnarborg Institute of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland, Amos Andersons Konstmuseum, Finland, Ljungbergmuseet, Sweden and Norsk Folkemuseum, Norway. Currently Holm is freelance curator, an adjunct faculty at Waubonsee Community College and a teaching artist at: George Washington High School in Chicago through CAPE, in District 33’s DREAM After School program through the West Chicago City Museum, at Batavia Apartments through Water Street Studios and in various private schools through Poetry Pals. In her spare time she is the Director and Curator of People Made Visible, which organize a variety of art and cultural events and an International Artist in Residency in the City of West Chicago, IL where she resides.

Christopher Hughes

Visual Arts: Graphic Arts, Painting

Median – Painting Acrylic, Oil, Pastels Fine Arts major at Utah State University before changing to a business major at Boston University. My experience living abroad and traveling has brought both ideas and inspiration to my works. My paintings have also traveled on special exhibits to both China and Russia as part of a fine arts cultural program. Chris has earned recognition and awards in competitions in Texas and Illinois. He is a member of the Naperville Art Leagure and the DuPage Art League and has earned many awards including Best of the Best nominations. He is part of an weekly art critique group as the co-leader in organizing and sending out newsletters and maintaing the group’s website palettetalk.net.

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