MARGARET SHELBY mshelby22@gmail.com
Margaret Shelby holds her B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute and is currently an M.A. candidate at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. Most recently she hosted Now Serving at the Kansas City Jewish Museum of Contemporary Art as part of the Dining Room Project in conjunction with the Charlotte Street Foundation and Urban Culture Project. Margaret has won several local awards including an ArtsKC Inspiration Grant from the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City and was also selected to participate in the Artist, Inc. program, tuition funded in part by the Charlotte Street Foundation.
(Artwork depicted is for representative purposes only and is not actual work in exhibition/auction.)
ARLENE STERN Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at a young age, Arlene Stern was first introduced to the world of art making when Art Therapist and Kansas Art Therapy Association President Sherry Jacobs MA-ATR placed a paintbrush in her mouth more than 10 years ago, and Stern has never looked back. She continues to paint and draw during Jacobs’ weekly Torah Portion art sessions at Village Shalom and most recently during the Epsten Gallery’s first annual Village Shalom resident art exhibition ARTicipation, Pop Up Studio (January 20 - February 26, 2012). ARTicipation represented the first time that Stern’s work was displayed publicly in a gallery exhibition.
Fruit (on table), 2011
watercolor on paper, 9 x 12 inches (Artwork depicted is for representative purposes only and is not actual work in exhibition/auction.)
At age 70, Arlene Stern is an enterprising entrepreneur who operates her own wake-up call service, greets Village Shalom visitors daily, and continues to create her own unique drawings, paintings, and stationary under her trademark name Made by Mouth by Arlene Stern.