2022 Artist Applications are CLOSED!

The July 8th deadline for Artist Applications has passed. Please email jnixon@cbhinc.org to request being put on the waiting list for consideration.

 

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Plein Air Brandywine Valley Schedule of Events

Opening Reception

November 11, 2022

Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library

Lissa Abrams

After working 30 years in mental health policy and management, Lissa Abrams retired in July 2011. Retirement has afforded Lissa the opportunity and time to paint by capturing the landscape on canvas. There are few opportunities more captivating to me then painting outdoors, en plein air. Plein air painting puts the artist in the environment to recreate the moment through color, light, and composition. Every day brings new challenges especially dealing with the erratic weather including gusts of fall winds that topple one's easel. Lissa is a graduate of Tufts University. She has taken art courses and workshops at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, (MICA), Mitchell School of Art, with Camille Przewodek, and Michael Chesley Johnson and currently studies with Paul Moscatt a retired MICA painting professor. Her work has been exhibited in local galleries and coffee houses in the Baltimore area. Lissa was a selected participant in Cylburn's 2011, 2012, and 2014 Celebration of Art, a juried participant artist in Solomons' Plein Air Festival, Solomons, Maryland, 2012, 2013 2014, Plein Air Brandywine, Delaware 2012, 2013, Art Outside, Baltimore 2013, 2014 and Paint It Ellicott City 2013, 2014. She has participated in Paint the Towns in St Michaels, MD, 2012, Chestertown, MD, 2013, 2014, Snow Hill, MD, 2013, 2014 Chesapeake City, MD 2011, 2012, New Castle, DE, 2013, and Ocean City , MD 2013. She received an honorable mention in Paint Ocean City 2013 and was a Third Place winner in Solomons' Plein Air Festival's Quick Draw 2013.

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