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Local artist’s talents are recognized
Wed Feb 06, 2008, 03:35 PM EST
Colleen M. Vandeventer of 65 Arbor Way in North Attleborough has taken two prestigious art awards in recent regional competitions.
The first award was from the Providence Art Club, located on Thomas Street in Providence and founded in 1880. At this club, artist membership itself is highly competitive, as an applicant must be sponsored by two members and "juried in."
Vandeventer was accepted for artist membership last fall. During this her first Member Show in 2008, which closes Feb. 1 at the club, she entered an oil painting, "Camel's Hump, Vermont." For those familiar with the green mountains it is a well known peak. What is particularly exceptional about this painting is that it was painted entirely using a palatte knife, not a brush.
The judges for the show awarded Vandeventer's painting the Bannister Award, the third place honor.
Vandeventer also took honorable mention in oils at the Duxbury 2008 Winter Juried Show for her still life painting in oils, "Petunias." The Benefit Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony was held Feb. 2 at the Art Complex Museum on Alden Street in Duxbury.
Vandeventer teaches art from Studio 5 on Robinson Avenue in North Attleborough and is one of a team of artists from the Attleboro area who are going to Peru this June as part of a first time Artist Exchange Program.
Vandeventer paints in both oils and pastels, and just stepped down from being an officer for the last five years of the Pastel Painters Society of Cape Cod. For several summers Colleen has exhibited and sold her work in the juried harbor walk studios on Ocean Avenue in Hyannis.
A member of the Foxborough and Franklin Art Associations and the Cape Cod Museum of Art, she was selected to exhibit last summer at the Cape Cod Museum in Dennis in the 2007 "Emerging Artists" exhibit.
