Juliet Bacchas Wins Best Of Show

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Monson Arts Council Spring Art Exhibition 2008

 

Juliet Bacchas of Juliet Rose Gallery has won Best of Show at the Monson Arts Council spring art exhibition, The Dance of Texture, Light & Color!  Naturally, Juliet and Linda are very happy about this award which was given for her ceramic porcelain sculpture called Banana Walk. 

You are invited to attend this exciting show --- details below --- which will be running for two more weekends in Monson. Juliet and Linda will be at the show on Friday evening from 6 - 8 p.m. If you can't come then, there are plenty of other opportunities to see this beautiful show.

 

Pictured above, Nancy Bryant, coordinator of the Monson Arts Council art show gives Juliet Bacchas a check for $1200 -- her award for winning Best of Show with her ceramic sculpture entitled Banana Walk.

 

"The Dance of Texture, Light & Color."  is at the House of Art, 200 Main Street, Monson. For directions and more info: www.monsonartscouncil.com.

You might like to attend the show and enjoy a jazz concert on the lawn at the House of Art on Saturday, April 26.

 

The show is open Fridays, April 18 & 25 from 4 -8, Saturdays, April 19 & 26, 10a.m - 4p.m and Sundays, April 13, 20, 27, from noon - 4 p.m.

Come and see, and bring a friend.

 

 

Monson Ceramic Artists Give College Workshop, Exhibit in Kingston, Jamaica

Linda Spelko and Juliet Bacchas, owners of the Juliet Rose Gallery & Studio in Monson, recently visited The Edna Manley College of the Visual Arts in Kingston, Jamaica, where they met with David Dunn, head of the Ceramics Department, and 2nd and 3rd year students for a workshop. Linda demonstrated creating a bowl on the pottery wheel, utilizing a slurry technique for decorating the work. Juliet demonstrated her modified technique for African coiling.

 

 

 

 

 

Photo : Linda Spelko demonstrates wheel throwing to students in a workshop at The Edna Manley College of the Visual Arts in Kingston, Jamaica. The Monson ceramic artist is co-owner of Juliet Rose Gallery and Studio on Reimers Road.

 

 

 

 

Photo: Juliet Bacchas demonstrates her modified version of the African Coil technique for building bowls for students at her alma mater, The Edna Manley College of the Visual Arts, in Kingston, Jamaica.

Mr. David Dunn, a lecturer and world acclaimed master potter demonstrated his wheel throwing techniques, which Linda Spelko video taped for use in the Juliet Rose Gallery pottery classes. Juliet and Linda also had the honor of placing pieces on a mural, designed by Mr. Dunn, on the walls of the department of ceramics at the school of art. The mural is still a work in progress.

Photo: Mr. Dunn demonstrating his throwing technique.

Photo: Juliet and Linda placing small pieces of tile on a mural designed by Mr. Dunn.

The Monson artists also worked one on one with Phillip Supersad, a lecturer and artist at The Edna Manley College, which is Ms. Bacchas' alma mater.

The forms created in the workshop are on exhibition at the Revolution Gallery in Kingston. The title of the exhibit is "Bowled Over." 

David Dunn and Phillip Supersad will be conducting a workshop at the Juliet Rose Gallery & Studio in 2008.

Juliet Rose Gallery & Studio offers pottery classes in Monson on an ongoing basis. Students are welcome to attend classes by arrangement.