Chaffee Featured Artist, Dale Bills

Chaffee Featured Artist, Dale Bills

Dale Bills—Painter, Watercolorist by Penelope Weiss Dale Bills’ specialty is painting moody Vermont forests of richly colored birch trees, created primarily by using spontaneous splashes and splatters of watercolor paint in a free-spirited, impressionistic style. Her career as a professional artist began when she moved 

Chaffee Featured Artist, Damian Trusnovec

Chaffee Featured Artist, Damian Trusnovec

Photographer, Chaffee Art Center by Penelope Weiss Damian Trusnovec says she loves to photograph people just being themselves. “As a Long Islander, I love the ocean and the bay. My favorite photographic memory is pulling up to the beach to find 20 nuns playing Spikeball 

Chaffee Artist of the Month: Susan Wacker-Donle

Chaffee Artist of the Month: Susan Wacker-Donle

When asked what she does, Susan Wacker-Donle says: “I am a multi-dimensional, multi-medium creative:Creative Director by professionGraphic Designer by tradePhotographer and Glass Designer by passion.” Susan grew up in New Jersey, fascinated by, and finding sanctuary in, art. With a grandfather who was a watercolorist 

Chaffee Artist of the Month, Christine Townsend

Chaffee Artist of the Month, Christine Townsend

by Nanci Gordon Christine Townsend says she doesn’t remember when she didn’t make art. As a young child, she “was aways drawing something” — inspired by her father, who “was always making something from wood”. But as Christine tells us, she didn’t get serious about