Featured Artist

It started with a class. That’s what many artists recall, years into their art careers, and Chaffee’s August Artist of the Month Evelyn (Evie) Towsley is among them. “A couple years ago I took a colored pencil class with Myrna Austin at Fletcher Farms School …

Karen Seward says something that instantly stands out during a conversation for her Chaffee artist of the month profile. She described being a member of the Chaffee as being part of an “art family.” “The Chaffee has been a great inspiration to me,” she said …

When a painting is working out it is because the colors and values and composition are telling a story about our existence as humans. That thought comes from Mendon artist Christine Holzschuh, “Painter of Fun and Figures, and Colorful Contemporary Oil Paintings,” at her own …

There’s an old quote that the function of art (is) to renew our perception, and Chaffee artist of the month Colleen Wilcox has a body of work that epitomizes that idea, with a unique spin on quotes themselves. It might be the fun shapes that …