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The Giffuni Gallery of American Pastels is located at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio |
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Pastels from PSA 2010 Show Exhibited at the Butler
Selections from the Pastel Society of America's 38th Annual Exhibition – 2010
Curated by Dr. Louis A. Zona, Director of The Butler Institute of American Art
Several outstanding pastels from PSA's Annual Open Juried Exhibition in September, 2010 were selected by Dr. Louis A. Zona for an exhibition at The Butler Institute of American Art in December, 2010 - February, 2011 in the Flora B. Giffuni Gallery for Pastels. The artists chosen for this show were the following: Deborah Bays, Carol Volz Begley, Sandra Burshell, Robert Carsten, Linda Dellandre, Frances Dodd, Lisa Fricker, Cathy Locke, Ilene Gienger-Stanfield, Susan Karnatz, Joe L. MacKechnie, Abel Marquez, William A. Schneider, Stacie Seuberling, Rae Smith, Frederick D. Somers, Lisa Stauffer, Sally Strand, and Claude Texier.
To view artwork selected from the 2010 38th Annual Exhibition for the PSA Show at the Butler Institute of American Art please click here
To view artwork selected from the 2009 annual please click here To view artwork selected from the 2007 annual please click here |
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About Flora B. Giffuni (1919-2009) At the 2004 opening of the Giffuni Gallery of American Pastels at the Butler Institute of American Art, Dr. Louis A. Zona, Executive Director said, “If the world of art had such designations Flora Giffuni would be deemed the ‘Patron Saint of Pastels.’ I say that, not just because of her founding of the Pastel Society of America and other good works on behalf of the medium and practitioners of the medium, but also because of her other mission which is to give the art of pastel the kind of recognition and honor that it deserves. She has been tireless in her efforts to promote and to educate, demonstrating a missionary-like zeal as she works to raise the art of the American pastel to greater levels of recognition." |
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The Flora B. Giffuni Gallery of American Pastel Art, located at the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio, bears the name of the founder of the Pastel Society of America. Created in 2004, thanks to the generosity of Mrs. Giffuni, it is the only museum gallery in the U.S. devoted exclusively to works in the pastel medium, and its creation was a lifelong "dream come true" of the late Mrs. Giffuni. The gallery offers exhibitions of accomplished pastel artists, group shows from the Pastel Society of America, as well as the display of works from the Butler's prestigious collection |
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