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Touchstone Contemporary Art Gallery

901 New York Avenue NW
Washington D.C 20001
202-682-4125

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Colleen Sabo: Exploring the Wildlife

May 26, 2014 Touchstone Gallery
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If one is open to the unexpected,  life may take astonishing twists and turns. Colleen Sabo knows about this first hand.  She grew up in nearby Arlington, Virginia, and planned to attend James Madison University after finishing a post high school summer job with NATO at the Pentagon.  However, Colleen loved the job so much that she shelved her college plans and stayed at NATO for three more years.  At age 21, she headed off to Brussels and Paris with the whole NATO staff.  During her five years in Europe, travel was the name of the game--sandwiched in between writing and editing on the job, studying French and English at the University of Maryland overseas program, and absorbing art ideas everywhere she went.

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Out of Chaos: Rosemary Luckett

October 29, 2012 Touchstone Gallery
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Whether an artist's studio is neat as a pin or heaped full of brushes, tools, clay or wood, disorder characterizes the creative process. A chaotic jumble of ideas spill out of the brain and become organized in drawn or painted forms. Tubes of color sort themselves out, then are squeezed onto the palette in a jumble of mixed hues. A teapot spout, in a box of cast-offs, offers itself to the sculptor as the beginning of a bird with a long neck. A dream works its way to the conscious surface, suggesting a vision that emerges in material form from a chunk of clay.

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In Art Thoughts Tags adventure, art, art classes, art making challenges, art studio, beginnings, chaos, clay, creative thinking, dreams, harmonic sense, how to make a collage, organizing art supplies, painting, sculpture, stimulus, successful compositions
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