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Featured Artist: Amy Rowland

Featured Author: Kamah Alicia Scott

Featured Artist: Marjorie Kaye

Featured Artist/Author: Carla Golembe

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Amy Rowland

www.Amyrow.com

Amy Rowland was Born in 1981 and currently resides in New Jersey. She is a watercolor and pencil artist who began drawing at a young age. She began scribbling as soon as she learned what a pencil was. All through her younger years and high school, Amy sketched, painted,colored, and doodled on everything. That would include her bedroom wall, which was a masterpiece that lasted only one day.

Amy is mostly self taught but has had alot of help along the way from angel/fairie artist, Sue Miller. At the age of 12, Amy began studying with Sue. She has continued to study with Sue to this day. She has helped Amy build the confidence and knowledge she needs to pursue her art career.

Amy now works for a promotional advertising company, Ad Magic Inc, where she has used her art to create logos, design brochures, and customize playing card decks. Shari Spiro, the president of Ad Magic, has taught Amy for the past 5 years in the graphic design field.

Amy still designs and paints on her personal time for fun. She does alot of freelance work as well. Amy hopes to one day publish a book or hang in a museum. Some of her inspirations include: Salvador Dali, Brian Froud, Andy Warhol, Amy Brown, Jessica Galbreth, Shari Spiro, and of course Sue Miller. However, Amy's greatest inspirations are every sorrow and every joy she has felt throughout her life. A picture is worth a thousand words and the emotion put into making it is priceless.

© Copyright 2007 Amy Rowland

Featured Author

Kamah Alicia Scott

Author Kamah Alicia Scott is from West Philadelphia. She is a freelance writer for Centerstagemag.com and CTGmagazine.com. Kamah is an urban writer familiar with the workings behind the scenes of radio shows and conveys that familiarity in her writing. Kamah says that her books appeal to readers who like novelists E. Lynn Harris, Daaimah S. Poole and Teri Woods. Kamah’s fiction is an integration of contemporary, romance and street styles of writing. Her first novel is entitled Ask Somebody. It is a story about a young, impressionable girl named Zoë who goes through an identity crisis juggling her culture and her assumed identity, Simone. The book teaches the lesson that the quest to become someone you’re not can be dangerous; that sometimes just being yourself isn’t so bad. There are many good reviews of Ask Somebody on Amazon.com. Kamah’s second novel, Rules of Love, takes readers on another journey. Rules of Love is an urban novel with contemporary flare. The book is about the separation of work and personal life. The novel entails the drama of the two worlds colliding. The book encompasses urban readers’ life experiences.

© Copyright 2007 Kamah Alicia Scott

Featured Artist

Marjorie Kaye

Social Surrealism: Human Oblivious

Marjorie Kaye is an artist residing in Salem, Massachusetts who graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting cum laude. She is best known for her exquisitely detailed mandala-based drawings. The pieces, stemming from the symmetrical perfection of the traditional mandala, alter considerably from the form, injected with a subtle shift of content and direction that throws them off-center into their own revolution. She is also known for her “Social Surrealism” and has exhibited these, as well as her mandalas in many galleries and shows nationally and internationally.

The content of the images in the mandala drawings concerns itself with the spiritual world present in natural phenomena, which encompasses many disciplines. These include the natural world, musical harmony, astronomy, mathematics, and physics. Much of the content is focused on motion and balance. The forms are created with the refined and deliberate realization of order and its direction. The motion is unified through color, light and pattern.

The artist integrates her interest in spirituality and meditation into her work, which becomes a vehicle for spiritual expression. She feels that the opportunity for spiritual manifestation through art is limitless. “Art is life celebrated in matter.” Her Surrealistic representations reflect the irony present in the act of living. They are often humorous depictions of both the common and serendipitous.

Read About & See More of Marjorie Kaye's Art

Ms. Kaye is the Director of Gallery 181, a lively gallery space in an old mill building in Lawrence, MA. She is also the owner and operator of the on-line Caladan Gallery, which exhibits artists from around the world. She has been working on bringing art to other renovated mill buildings in Lawrence, creating and implementing the “ArtSEEN” project at Washington Mill Lofts, bringing “Contemporary Art to Living Spaces”. She is also a Board Member of the Lawrence Cultural Alliance.

© Copyright 2006 Marjorie Kaye

Featured Artist/Author

Carla Golembe

Painting: Moonflowers

Carla Golembe is an award winning artist, illustrator, author and teacher. She works in a variety of mediums including acrylic on paper and canvas, gouache and monotype. Her work is shown at galleries throughout the United States including Cove Gallery in Wellfleet, MA and the Steven Scott Gallery in Baltimore, MD. She has received numerous awards from the New York Times, Parent's Choice, The American Folklore Society and PMA, the Independent Book Publisher's Association, as well as others. She presently teaches at the Art School of the Boca Raton Museum of Art.

Carla's children's books include A Story of Surfing, The Story of Hula, M is for Maryland, Washington DC ABC’s, Annabelle's Big Move and Dog Magic, all of which she wrote and illustrated. She has also illustrated Why the Sky is Far Away, The Creation, People of Corn, How Night Came from the Sea and The Woman in the Moon, Sun and Honeybees. Carla wrote and illustrated the Zippy and Zoe series, published in Taiwan.

Review of "A Story of Surfing" from Honolulu Advertiser: Author and illustrator Carla Golembe's latest picture book, which explores a young girl's interest in surfing, is a standout. The story is layered with meaning yet simple without being simplistic. Golembe mixes in bits of surfing history, beginning with ancient customs and taking us through modern times. A well-executed dream sequence offers the child an opportunity to time travel. On the first stop in Keana's dream, she meets a young ali'i who explains: "Before he makes a board, the shaper turns and faces toward the sea and gives thanks for the wood he'll use by burying a fish beneath a tree." The father of modern surfing, Duke Kahanamoku, the Hau Tree Boys of Waikiki Beach and other surf greats make appearances. (My favorite addition is champion surfer Rell Sunn, organizer of the Women's Professional Surfing Association.) On an accompanying CD, the book is read by Noelani Mahoe, with her nurturing voice and nostalgic music. The book includes a glossary of Hawaiian words, surf lingo and historic facts explaining who's who. Golembe's "The Story of Hula" won the 2004 Publishers Marketing Association Benjamin Franklin Award.
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© Copyright 2006 Carla Golembe

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