The Minor Miracles Art Scholarship (MMAS) is intended to help a Prince William County senior high school student, who is passionate about Visual Arts, facilitate personal goals toward an art career; whether it be college, trade school or entrepreneurial aspirations. This is an adjudicated competition. One deserving student will receive $200. FREE to enter! Just email minormiraclesstudios@gmail.com to request an application.

The Marvelous Mundane
Max-Karl & Ellen Verdon Winkler
Exhibit Dates: June 10-July 17, 2021

Gallery Hours: Mon.-Fri. (10 am-5pm)
9419 Battle St, Manassas/703-330-2787
ARTfactory Gallery Webpage
jexum@virginiaARTfactory.org

The Marvelous Mundane features DC area artist couple Max-Karl & Ellen Verdon Winkler in their first joint exhibition. The exhibition contains prints, drawings, and paintings created by Max and Ellen over the last few years. Although the two artists have their own distinct styles, they both have a common fascination with the everyday sights of the world, and capturing the beauty that can be found even in decay and disorder. Ellen works in a painterly style, often emphasizing the shadows and tones of her subject matter. Max’s works are more linear as he tends to focus on lines and shapes, luring the viewer in for the details.

About the Artists:
Ellen Verdon Winkler is a print maker, painter, and graphic designer. She studied art during her undergraduate years at Kalamazoo College in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She came to the Washington area in 1977 to pursue a graduate degree at George Washington University, where she focused on Graphic Design. Although deeply influenced by the artist Jack Boul, Ellen has recently been exploring, drypoint, copper engraving and etching. Her work is held in the collections of The Library of Congress, Corbin and Pamela Gwaltney and Harold and Martha Quayle.

Max-Karl Winkler attended The University of Texas at Austin in 1964 where he received an MFA, with a major in drawing and printmaking. He worked for the next eight years as a college-level studio art and art history teacher, at colleges in Texas, Colorado, and California. In 1984, he moved to the Washington, DC, metropolitan area, where he continued his career in design and illustration. Winkler has been employed in the Studio Arts Programs of The Smithsonian Associates, where he has taught drawing and printmaking for 34 years.

His work in recent years has been in pen and ink, woodcut, wood engraving, watercolor, and oil painting, with increasing interest in more complicated techniques and formats: the multiblock color woodcut, the reduction woodcut, and the whiteline woodcut. His work is to be found in a number of public and private collections, including The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Georgetown University, The Smithsonian Institution, and The Library of Congress.

ARTfactory
Gallery Director, Jordan Exum: 703-330-2787
jexum@virginiaARTfactory.org
9419 Battle St, Manassas, VA 20110
VirginiaARTfactory.org / instagram: @VirginiaARTfactory

Attachments:
Ellen Verdon Winkler, Morning Shadows, Intaglio, 20”x16”

Art and Nature Camp at Windy Knoll Farm
June 21-24 (Mon-Thurs)(10 am-2 pm)
Windy Knoll Farm, 11602 Kettle Run Road

Creative nature lovers – join us for a unique experience in the beautiful studios at Windy Knoll Farm! This week-long camp is about making art from our surroundings, incorporating organic elements as creative tools and materials, and taking inspiration from nature. Let’s push the boundaries of what art is, and how we may creatively appreciate our earthly habitat. For ages 10-14.

Instructor: Lydia Bratton

Tuition: $224  Supply Fee: $20
Register by June 14 for 10% tuition discount. (Members receive a 25% early registration member discount.)

Pre-registration required.  Sign up online https://www.virginiaartfactory.org/events/art-nature-camp-at-windy-knoll-farm/ or call the ARTfactory at (703) 330-2787
Business Hours:  Monday – Friday 10am – 5pm