Who’s Who and contact info:
President:
Diana Hunter
[email protected]
Vice President:
Marianne Ballenger
[email protected]
Secretary:
Martha Wagoner
[email protected]
A publication of:
Indiana Wildlife Artists, Inc.
Spring-Summer 2017
Winter didn’t make much of an appearance this year, but I, for one, am
still grateful for the coming of Spring. The awakening of the earth
gives one a feeling of hope and inspiration for new beginnings.
Assistant Secretary:
Shari Jardina
[email protected]
Treasurer:
Larry Hemdal
[email protected]
Executive Assistant:
Marian Betts
[email protected]
VP - Northern Chapter:
Bev Garner
[email protected]
VP - Central Chapter:
Marian Betts
[email protected]
VP - Southern Chapter:
Linda Spencer
[email protected]
Winter's Ending
© Jrlinson
The final throes of winter fade,
And life is again renewed.
The chilling bite of winter's blade is
Broken by spring's light dew.
Now light touches once again.
All things beautiful and green
While blossoms bloom with brilliant reds
And fragrant flowers make the scene.
Quiet brooks flow ever on
With melted snow as fuel
To quench the thirst of newborn fawn
And haste life's great renewal!
Source: http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/poem/winters-ending
Membership Chair
Kris Bontrager
[email protected]
Newsletter/Facebook: Shari Jardina
Webmaster: Marian Betts
Instagram: Jenny Smith
[email protected]
Mailing Address:
Indiana Wildlife Artists
P.O. Box 361
Kouts, IN 46347-0361
Email:
[email protected]
www.indianawildlifeartists.org
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Our Member Spotlight in this issue features photographer Marvin Groves.
Marvin became a member of IWA in 2008 after a friend in Minnesota sent him an email. After seeing some
of Marvin’s images his friend asked if he was a IWA member... and said if not... he should be.
Marvin’s media is photography He is retired and spent his photographic career mostly with Lifetouch
Senior Portraits where he was the Production Manager for 28 years. He continues to provide some photo
workshops and several times a year provides a "Composition Class" for Jack's Camera Shop in Muncie,
Indiana. He loves to create images in Photoshop and does all of his own printing at home.
He attempts to "pay back" his good fortune by helping others in photography as much as possible. While
he enjoys all photography (He has done weddings, portraits, auto racing, sports, etc.), but he always comes
back to his love for wildlife.
Marvin says his recent trip to Africa has truly been a "wow" photographic opportunity. “Spending 12
hours a day with the camera "plastered" to my face photographing wildlife has been the most incredible
photo-adventure of my life.... I intend to return to Africa.” While in Africa, Marvin visited the Ngorongoro
Crater as well as the Serengeti and had an opportunity to photograph lions, cheetahs, leopards, elephants,
giraffes and many more.
Marvin certainly has been on some very amazing trips. Last July he had the opportunity to board a
Russian Ice Breaker and travel North of Norway, well North of the Arctic Circle, within a few hundred
miles of the North Pole. While there he photographed seals and polar bears.
Thank you, Marvin for sharing your amazing adventures and your photos. Here are a few from his trips.
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Member news
Jenny Smith has been doing quite a lot of traveling and photo-documenting her
trips. Jenny will be participating in a “Three Indiana Artists" show at Blackford
County Arts Center. The exhibit is titled "Blending Interpretations of the
American Southwest.” The exhibit dates are June 5-July 14, 2017. Public
Reception June 11, 2:00-4:00PM. In this exhibition, Jenny will show mostly
landscape photographs.
Jenny recently joined the Muncie Community Enhancement Projects Board, and
is serving on the Muncie Mayor's Arts Awards Steering Committee.
“Brown Trout”
by Jeff Klinefelter
Cedric Hustuce just concluded a most successful solo exhibit at the Rumjahn
Gallery and Framery, in Evansville, featuring over 60 original acrylics on canvas
paintings of scenes from all around the world.
He also will have 14 original acrylic paintings in a solo exhibit at the John James
Audubon Museum in Henderson, Kentucky, which will run through the middle of
August.
Marian Betts is working on a mural restoration project for Dr. David Eddelman
of the South Anderson Veterinarian Clinic. She says he will also be purchasing
several of her images for the walls of the front office.
Bob Meyers’ painting entitled “Natural American Spirit” won a merit award in
the Watercolor Society of Indiana's annual juried show and also won a merit
award at the Will Vawter juried show in Greenfield. His painting entitled
“Crescendo Rock” also won an honorable mention at the Will Vawter show.
Snow Geese and
Sandhills in flight
by Jenny Smith
Linda Spencer, our Southern Chapter, VP has been hard at work on her latest
sculpture inspired by Macaroni Penguins from Antarctica.
The 2017 Delaware Troup Stamp winner is our own Jeff Klinefelter, for his
painting of a brown trout. Jeff also received an honorable mention in the
2017/2018 Waterfowl stamp contest for his painting of a rainbow trout.
Robin Myers won second place in the 2017/2018 Waterfowl stamp contest.
You can find artist Roseanne Crowell at the Nickel Plate Arts in Noblesville,
Indiana at the First Friday Open House every month from 6–9 pm, and at the
ArtSplash Gallery in Carmel at the Second Saturday Art Walk every month from
6-9 pm
Includes photography
by Shari Jardina
Sixty of Shari Jardina’s wolf photographs were published in the 2017 Desk Box
Calendar entitled “Spirit of the Wolf”, by publisher Willow Creek Press. Another
photograph was published in one of their 2017 wall calendars featuring
Adirondack Chairs.
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IWA 33rd Annual Exhibit
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Exhibit
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Exhibit
was sponsored by the Central Chapter and held at the Second Presbyterian
Church, 7700 N. Meridian in Indianapolis. Exhibit dates were August 26 – September 29, 2016.
The exhibit will be once again held at the Second Presbyterian Church in Indianapolis. In the normal
Congratulations
to the following
winners.
rotation, the Northern
Chapter award
would be
hosting this year. Since, for various reasons they are unable to
do so, a committee was appointed to coordinate and organize this year’s exhibit. It will be chaired by
Category 1. PAINTING:
Category 3. PHOTOGRAPHY:
Marian Betts. Other committee members are Shari Jardina, Robyn Meyers, Diana Hunter, Sara Wilson,
1st Place
1st Place
Jenny Smith, and Linda Spencer.
Anna Roberts
Shari Jardina
“Surfing”
"Double Trouble"
This year’s exhibit will be held on August 27–September 28, 2017. A link to the Prospectus can be
found
here.
2nd
Place
2nd Place
Jeff Klinefelter
Jennifer Smith
“Small
Island”
"Let's Dance"
Hartford City Exhibit 2017
3rd Place
3rd Place
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Honorable Mention
Honorable Mention
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Bob Marlin
Click here for more information.
"The Lion"
"Moving On"
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2nd
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Allen Salhoff
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1st Place
Short-eared Owl
Deb Anderson
"Song Birds"
Honorable Mention
Roseanne Crowell
2nd Place
"American Kestrel"
Monty Jones
"Hawkeye"
The entire exhibit catalog, including photographs of the winning artwork, can be seen on the IWA website.
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Social Media Exposure
A reminder that IWA now has an Instagram account. For those of you not familiar with Instagram it
works much like Facebook. And if you’re not familiar with Facebook, well you might want to get caught
up.
Instagram is a free app you can download to your phone or access online. The purpose of the Instagram
for our members is basically just to upload photos of your artwork and promote yourself. There is no
charge to do so. Just do a search for “indianawildlifeartists” to locate the account and view the photos
from our Annual Exhibit that are already there. If you wish to promote your artwork on Instagram, just
contact Jenny Smith at [email protected].
For the Love of Wildlife – Barn Owls & Falcons
I’m sure most of you have heard about, or have been watching with anticipation, April the giraffe and the
birth of her baby. Well it appears as if Indiana has somewhat of an Internet star of its own… barn owls.
The State DNR offers streaming video of this rare bird, offspring in nesting box. You can read more about,
and see the live streaming of barn owls in this article in the Indianapolis Star.
~Thanks to Diana Hunter for sharing this article.
If you’re a falcon fan (and I don’t mean the Atlanta Falcons football team) you might be interested in the
DNR’s falcon nest cam that keeps an eye on a pair of nesting falcons in downtown Indianapolis. Yes, right
in downtown, overlooking Monument Circle, on top of a 30-story building. Unfortunately, it isn’t
streaming video, but there are 2 cameras focused on the inside and outside of the nest box that refresh at
30/60 second intervals. You can view the Falcon Cam here.
The female falcon, named KathyQ, ruled the skies over downtown Indy and this nest box for an amazing
16 years. I work on the 25th floor of the building and have watched KathyQ and her mates for 16 years.
Each March I wait in anticipation for her new hatchlings to take turns learning how to fly. I have watched
her and her families land on the ledges outside my windows eating their lunch and posing for
photographs. I have even watched the young ones being banded by the DNR.
However, on March 23 a new female flew into town. KathyQ heroically tried to defend her territory but
was defeated by the new lady. Kathy Q lived a wonderful and prolific life during her reign in Indy. But
her legacy will live on. This new lady falcon has mated with her son and there are 4 eggs in the nest. I
will again watch in anticipation as the new generation soars past my windows. I hope Miss KathyQ is at
peace with the legacy she left behind. Read more about her story and the Indy Falcons in this article.
Falcon article and photos by Shari Jardina
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A Word from Our President . . .
“Art enables us to
find ourselves and
lose ourselves at the
same time.”
~Thomas Merton
Do you enjoy God’s wildlife even in the winter? Fortunately, I was able to go to Audubon’s
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary. You can read more about this sanctuary
at http://corkscrew.audubon.org/ Located about 45 minutes east of Naples, FL, it features
a 2.5-mile boardwalk with naturalists and volunteers. Although I visited it in January,
there were more birds to be seen when the water level dropped in March. Then all of the
birds and alligators seemed to congregate in 2 remaining (shrinking, as in drying up)
ponds. Often, I would see Ibis or egrets, but this time I saw a spoonbill, a wood stork, and
an anhinga, as well as alligators. Going there often gives me some good photographs for the
annual IWA exhibit.
I hope all of you are looking forward to the annual exhibit on Saturday, August 26,
2017. Also, do not forget to visit the Flora and Fauna Exhibit at Hartford City,
Indiana, from May 1 to June 2, 2017.
“Adopt the
pace of nature:
her secret is
patience.”
~ Diana Hunter
~Ralph Waldo
Emerson
Indiana Wildlife
Artists, Inc. is a notfor-profit
organization which
promotes the
advancement of
wildlife art as a fine
art, providing wildlife
artists an
opportunity to meet,
to learn and to
exhibit. With our
artwork we
encourage the
appreciation and
understanding of
wildlife among the
general public, and
assist conservation
groups with
education for the
benefit of wildlife.
SEEKING NEWSLETTER CONTRIBUTORS: Do you have a talent for
writing? Would you like to contribute an article to the next issue? It
can be about anything related to the nature and the wildlife art world.
Contact me for more information. [email protected]
FUNDRAISING IDEAS: We are always looking for ideas to raise funds
for IWA. If you have any ideas on fundraising or experience in this
area, please contact one of the board members.
Put some Spring in your step!