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Christine Drewyer, Annapolis, MD
JoAnn Bast, Littlestown, PA
Jerry Spressart, Annapolis, MD 
Ronald Powell, Annapolis, MD
Gina Somerlock, Glenwood, MD
Anne Upton, Greenville, NC
Joseph Becker, Annapolis, MD
Mary Ellen Neff, Annapolis, MD
Dr. & Mrs. George Guess, Charlottesville, VA
Hana Yusem, Margate, NJ 
Sharon Camera, Annapolis, MD
Eva Jenson, Annapolis, MD
Carole Vitale, Annapolis, MD
Kathleen Jauschnegg, Millersville, MD 
Pamela Grant and Craig Penner, Santa Barbara, CA
John Montiel, Washington, D.C.
Sheila Miller, Millersville, MD
Joe Thomposn, Annapolis, MD
Stanley Newton, Kingsville, MD
Steve and Linda Showalter, Grasonville, MD
Leah and Gamliel Lodge, Charlottesville, VA
Lee Showalter, Charlottesville, VA
Judith Paris-Wear, Arnold, MD
Don Cramer, Severna Pk, MD
Bryce Poole, Ventura, CA

 

                 Publications

1996        Juried Calendar Art, Shady Side Rural Heritage Society
                Shady Side, MD 
1995        Juried Calendar Art, Shady Side Rural Heritage Society
                Shady Side, MD 
1994        Amaranth, Anne Arundel County Community College, Arnold, MD 
1992        Illustration for Poster and Program Cover, The Elephant Man,
                Colonial Players of Annapolis, Annapolis, MD 
1990        Illustration for Poster and Program Cover, The Boys Next Door, 
                Colonial Players of Annapolis, Annapolis, MD  
1988        Book Illustrations, Stories about Computers, 4th Grade Reading  
                Series,  Anne Arundel County Public Schools,  Annapolis, MD 
1986        Series of Illustrations, Early Childhood Education, My Book of
                Personal Safety Coloring Book, Posters and Learning Cards,
                Illustrated Lesson Plans, Anne Arundel Co. Public Schools,
                Annapolis, MD 
1980        Illustration for Poster and Program Cover; Equus,
                Colonial Players of Annapolis, Annapolis, MD   
                Learning for Life, cover illustration and logo, Continuing
                Program, Anne Arundel Co. Public Schools, Annapolis, MD
1977       Illustration for Poster and Program cover, Same Time Next Year,  
               Colonial Players of Annapolis, Annapolis, MD 

"Although I may begin a painting with a specific idea in mind, frequently my work changes mid-stream; I find this movement to another direction mysterious and wonderfully energizing.  I try to allow the canvas it's own voice, it's own meaning, it's reason for being.

When to take back the control and when to let go in painting is certainly symbolic of how we move through life; and this dance for two in painting becomes, for me, an opportunity to grow and develop into more of an honest self-expressive artist-woman-human-being."

1998     Spring Exhibit, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
             Annual Regional Spring Show, Art Gallery of Fells Point, Balto, MD
             Open Juried Show, River Gallery, Galesville, MD
             Still Life, Moveable Feast, John Cade Center, Anne Arundel
             Community College, Arnold, MD 

1997     National Juried Show, National Society of Painters in Casein & Acrylic,
             Salmagundi Club, NYC
             Spring Exhibit, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
                         Jurior's Award of Merit
             Annual Regional Spring Show, Art Gallery of Fells Point, Balto, MD
             Open Juried Show, River Gallery, Galesville, MD
             Winter Exhibit, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD

1996     Fall Exhibit, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
             Spring Exhibit, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
             Annual Regional Spring Show, Art Gallery of Fells Point, Balto, MD
            Open Juried Show, River Gallery, Galesville, MD
                         Honorable Mention

1995    Winter Exhibit, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD
            Annapolis Watercolor Club Spring Show, Quiet Waters Park Gallery,
            Annapolis, MD, Award of Merit
            Open Regional Show, Art Gallery of Fells Point, Balto, MD
            Open Juried Show, River Gallery, Galesville, MD
                         First Place and Honorable Mention
            Winter Exhibit, Maryland Federation of Art

1994    Pascal Center Gallery, Anne Arundel Community College,
            Arnold, MD, Honorable Mention
            Easton Academy of the Arts, Easton, Md
            Open Juried Show, Splash, Anna Politan's Gallerie, Annapolis, MD 
            Water and It's Wonders, Annual Regional Exhibit, Art Gallery of Fells   
            Point, Balto, MD 
            Art on Paper, National Juried Show, Maryland Federation of Art, 
            Annapolis, MD

               Selected Solo Exhibitions

1998        333 Art Gallery, Annapolis, MD

1995         Watermark Gallery, Baltimore, MD

1994        Watermark Gallery, Baltimore, MD

                Selected 2 Person Exhibits

1999         Main Street Gallery, Annapolis, MD

1995         Odds and Ends, Main Street Gallery, Annapolis, MD

                 Selected Group Exhibits

1998         Women in Art, Quiet Waters Park Galleries, Annapolis, MD

1996         Doors & Windows Exhibition, Columbia Art Center, Columbia, MD

1995         Anne Arundel Community College, Annapolis Bank & Trust,

                Annapolis, MD

1994         Annapolis Watercolor Club, House of Delegates, Annapolis, MD

                 George Meaney Center, Baltimore, MD

                 Recent Views of Baltimore, City Hall Courtyard Gallery, Baltimore

                 Annapolis Watercolor Club, Arundel Center, Annapolis, MD

                Invitational Group Exhibits

1998       Warriors' Rest, Calvert Marine Museum, Calvert County, MD

               35th Annual Celebration, Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis

Alberta grew up in Philadelphia, where she learned at an early age to love city streets for roller skating, libraries for overflowing collections of fairy tales, and corner candy stores for ever-beckoning aromas of chocolate and malt.  She also learned to hate long oppressive hot summer nights which city people still recall . . . and later, much later, wonder with astonishment how they were able to survive.

In those early days, Alberta and her cousins explored city streets, running from unseen gypsies who lived behind sheet-covered storefront windows; and escaping via long dark corrdiors hidden by high vine-encrusted brick walls. What their imaginations left lacking, tales heard on the radio a night kindled their desire to recreated much of what they had experienced during the day.  They acted out plays about enchantment on magical stairways, and Alberta in particular, would always put her coloring pencils and drawing tablet to good use.

As an adolescent, Alberta enjoyed Saturday morning art classes where she learned to conquer, or so she thought, endless plaster casts of heads and torsos.  Summers spent on the beach at Altantic City allowed her to sketch as many body parts as she wished.  Whenever the opportunity presented itself, Alberta responded to the inner need to draw and paint; she has in fact been doing that all her life.

Before, between, and after raising three children, Alberta attended the International School of Interior Design in Washington, D.C., the Philadelphia School of Industrial Arts, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia; and Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland.

After 24 years of employment with the Anne Arundel County Board of Education in its media production center as an illustrator, photographer and designer of educational material, she retired in 1993 to become a full-time painter.

Alberta's art was featured by The Main Gallery in Annapolis, Maryland; and she was affiliated with the National Society of Painters in Casein and Acrylic, Inc., Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, The Maryland Federation of Art, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., The Annapolis Watercolor Club; and was was a juried member of the Baltimore Watercolor Society.

Typically, she worked from memory and imagination, inviting the viewer to share in her glimpses into childhood past, adult journeying and dream symbolism.  Her paintings represent the unconscious human psychological process, having to do with relationsihps, attachments and nostalgic memories.  Blurring of the real and the imaginary are reoccuring themes, while objects and people symbolize composites of past and future reality and fantasy, both personal and universal.