RODNEY B. SQUIERS

 

EDUCATION

Syracuse University Graduate School, Syracuse, NY: Summer and off-campus classes in Art Education leading to M.A.: 1951-1953

Ohio State University, Columbus, OH: B.A in Fine Arts, 1949; B.S. in Art Education, 1950 171 Cedar Street Art Center, Corning, NY: Portraits in Oil with Tom Buechner 1989-1993 Arnot Art Museum Education Center, Elmira, NY: Workshops in Life Drawing, Photography, Printmaking, Ceramics, Painting: 1983-1993

Thousand Islands Craft School, Clayton, NY: Summer workshops in Ceramics, Sculpture, Watercolors, Textile Painting, Jewelry, Bird-carving: 1985-1988

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Co-chair, annual Art Festival, Jekyll Island, GA: 2004 & 2005

Co-proprietor, L’ ATELIER, ceramic studio and gallery, 1000 Is. Park, NY: 1990-present Art Teacher: Horseheads Central School District, Horseheads, NY: 1950-54, 1975-91

Conceived and managed publication of IMAGES, a multi-disciplined annual magazine of student art and literature

SELECTED EXIIlBITIONS AND AWARDS

2003: Exhibition Trilogy, Jekyll Is., GA: One of three featured artists

1995-2006: Jekyll Is. Arts Assoc. Festival, Jekyll Is., GA: Awards received annually 1996: Exhibition with Jane Gillett, Goodyear Cottage, Jekyll Is., GA: invitational exhibit 1990-1994: Palette Award Show, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY: juried exhibit

Best of Show: 1990; Honorable Mention: 1991

1990: Arnot Art Museum Regional Exhibition, Elmira, NY: juried exhibit 1990: New York State Art Teacher of the Year, Southern Section

LOCATION OF WORK

Private collections in NY, VT, GA, TX, CA, UT, WI, Italy and United Kingdom

 

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Art has been a major element of my existence as far back as I can remember. As a toddler, much of my time was taken up filling composition books and blank scrap paper with pencilled images.

When I was four, my ‘kid’ aunt, then a college art student, set me on a stool one day and painted my portrait in oils. That did it! I thought the outcome was magic and, though it sounds simplistic, I guess I still do.

In the creative process of developing art from a vague concept in the visual consciousness, the interaction of the medium and the artist sometimes transcends technique and becomes a spiritual experience. Call it magic!                                                        ·

That’s the ‘hook’ that does it for me. Despite the physical decrepitude that is gradually intruding on my ‘golden years’ I can still fan the embers of that magical experience and get the creative ‘high’ that I discovered in my youth.

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