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2008 Event Sponsors
Children's Art Stage Sponsor Poster Sponsored By Electricity Work donated by Organizational and Financial Support donated by the Ponchatoula Chamber of Commerce Publicity is made possible by a grant from the Tangipahoa Parish Tourism Commission
Restrooms Provided By Pot-O-Gold Printed Materials Provided By Premier Printing & Norman Falk The Northshore Regional Endowment For The Arts Board would like to thank Deborah Anderson and Anderson Small Business Solutions for chairing this year's event! |
Printmaker and Teacher
Patty attended Louisiana State University where she studied painting and lithography. Her concentration of study was focused on drawing and printmaking. She continued her education earning a Bachelor of Science in Education at Southeastern Louisiana University in 1990 and is certified by the State of Louisiana to teach Biology, Chemistry, General Science, Art, and Family and Consumer Sciences. . After gaining certification, she taught Science in public schools. In 1999, she began teaching workshops in a variety of Art techniques. For four years, she created and directed a multi–faceted children’s day camp named Camp Tangipawawa. Funded by the Citizens for a Clean Tangipahoa (CFACT), this camp focused on teaching children about pollution in the Tangipahoa River by integrating Art into lessons about Science. She also taught Art Camps at Hammond Regional Arts Center, River Region Art Association, and Hammond Cultural Foundation. Currently she teaches Visual Art I and II at East St. John High School in Reserve Louisiana. Patty has a printmaking studio at her home in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. She is a member of the Community Artist Roster for the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge and is the Vice President of Hammond Art Guild. Currently, her work is focused on making hand colored limited edition intaglio prints, serigraphs, and monotypes. Recently her work has been focused on a series of prints of local musicians who have appeared weekly at Suga Cane’s Blues Jam in Hammond Louisiana. Her previous shows have been “Of Clay and Print” at Hammond Regional Arts Center, A print retrospective at Chicago’s in Baton Rouge, Guaranty Gallery in Hammond, The Community Artist Roster shows at the Arts Council of Baton Rouge, LPB of Baton Rouge Louisiana, Louisiana Pottery Gallery and River Region Art Gallery in Sorrento, Louisiana. Her work has also been shown at KAKO Gallery in the New Orleans French Quarter. Recently, Patty wrote this about her method of making prints:
Artist Statement of Patty McGehee:
Nature has many patterns than repeat again and again. For instance, each leaf on a Maple tree is alike, but again, each leaf has qualities of individuality. Much like nature, my work is involved in repetition of images. Printmaking affords the artist with the ability to explore patterns and the minute subtleties that arise with each print. As a print rolls off the press, the untrained eye sees each image alike, but to the trained printmaker, each print has unique details. The wiping of a plate may be different thus the tonality of the ink may differ. The paper may have inconsistencies. When I create an image I am engulfed with the desire to pull prints that look consistently alike. However, I have learned to accept that each individual print has a life of its’ own with individual nuance. Hand coloring these prints extends the unique layer that the printing process begins. It is the journey of the process of working out the images and the execution of the details that interest me. Standing over a table of a print run of 30 prints, each alike, yet different, evokes a feeling of connection to nature. I can compare the emotion to what I feel when viewing leaves on a tree, shells of the Rangia clam on a beach of Lake Pontchatrain, or flowers on an Azalea bush. All are alike, but each has its’ own space in the world. My wish is to the audience that the final products are like eating a decorated cake: all of the mixing, baking, and heat of the oven is forgotten and what is left is sweet pleasure. |
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Patricia F. “Patty”