Imagination
and Play!
2024 Summer Juried Show
2024 Summer Juried Show Juror
Summer Yates
Summer Yates is a mixed media artist living and working in Bucks County, PA. Her current body of work consists of soft sculpture and wall hangings made from donated and repurposed textiles, plastics, and foam.
Yates received her BFA from Moore College of Art and Design and her MFA from The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Play and wonder are vital to her creative process, and is something she highly values within her own work and the work of others.
Exhibiting Artists
Lindsey Benitz
Law Blank
Nicole Brewer
Katie Brown
Cara Croke
Nick D’Angelo
Kathy Davis
Erin Elman
Pragya Gupta
Lisa Haskell
Troy Heffelfinger
Aaron Kalinay
Marie Luciani
K Bates Mandel
Baylin Manusov
Avani Patel
Elspeth Putnam
Janelle Rae Glynis Raish
Lauren Silver
Holly Smith
The Color Org
Layla Wah
Lisa Haskell
Arm Full of Jelly Bracelets, 2024
Mixed Media on paper
$600
“Playful movements with marks and colors are a build up to feelings of accomplishment, satisfaction, and joy. When one immerses themselves, art can take them to another place.”
Holly Smith
Monkey Mind, 2015
Painted wood, mixed media
$1,300
“Playfulness in the studio is an important part of the process which means allowing my brain to follow its bent towards the whimsical, as well as trying to evoke a sense of fun and curiosity within the viewer.“
Cara Croke
Path, 2022
Embroidered cyanotype
NFS
“My daughters are the source of my joy and their playfulness inspires my work.”
“My family and painting are of positivity for me, and daughter Althea is painting For her, painting is the for me, when I can feel work,
Pragya Gupta
Althea, 2023
Oil on linen
NFS are two key sources in this painting my painting in her playroom. the same as play and feel that in my own I get closer to joy.“
Erin Elman
Acrylic on canvas
$1,200
“...painting brings both great joy and deep consternation. I am most fully myself when I am in the studio...“
Cassone, 2024
Avani Patel
Conversation With Nature, 2007
Acrylic and paint marker
$7,000
“My idea of painting is a rhythmic performance with music that creates a whole new language of abstract harmony, as a means of expressing music in a visual form.”
Glynis Raisch
Whistle While You Work, 2024
Papier maché, acrylic paint
“I invite viewers to immerse themselves in the stories woven within each creation. These sculptures transcend the boundaries of reality and myth, breathing life into a fantastical world where trees possess guardians and suns whistle bird songs.”
“Having kids reignited the prevalence of play in my life by reintroducing to the simple pleasures of imagination and uninhibited fun. Their energy and curiosity encouraged to let go of adult constraints embrace the magic of play once fostering deeper connections and cherished memories
Elspeth Cal’s Castle, Cyanotype
Elspeth Putnam Castle, 2024
Cyanotype on paper
$300 prevalence reintroducing me imagination boundless encouraged me constraints and once again, and creating memories together.”
Kathy Davis
Dance of Joy, 2021
Acrylic on canvas
$1,200
“Art making evokes joy by allowing complete freedom of expression for the maker (yippee!), and by inviting the viewer to be transformed, uplifted and transported to a mysterious place of wonder!“
Troy Heffelfinger you can’t fly yet, 2023
Acrylic on canvas
$1,000
“Playfulness means never letting go of your childhood energy...Keeping in touch with what made you happy as kid [and]channeling that innocence and repurposing it into a canvas.“
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