Photo courtesy Linda Champanier
Camilia by Jada Rowland
Foster Caddell
Lady Agnew by Sargent
Anderson, Beigneux, and Sanden get down to business.
Mari Hulick
Faces of Winter 2004 ~ Portrait Festival
                  "Honor someone you love with a commissioned portrait!"
CSOPA, a nonprofit  ASOPA Affiliate
Exhibition: February 6 thru 27, 2004
Bendheim Gallery, Greenwich Arts Council
299 Greenwich Avenue, Greenwich, Connecticut
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PUBLIC PROGRAMS:
Saturday February 7

Thank you for visiting Faces of Winter 2004!
by Diane Aeschliman
by Grace DeVito
The Greenwich Arts Council Building
Faces of Winter 2003
First and Second Place Winners
Distinguished judges for Faces of Winter 2004: Laurel Stern Boeck and Wendy Caporale.
The Executive Director and CEO  of the Bruce Museum presents Dutch Portrait Masters. Slide presentation. Learn what makes them timeless in appeal and value.
        John Howard Sanden          Internationally acclaimed master Feb 7 at the GAC: Portrait Demo
EXHIBITING ARTISTS:
Aeschliman, Badion, Baragwanath, Champanier, Decesare, Delafontaine, DeVito, Fisher, Frenck, Gregorich, Grimsely, Hargrave, Harris, Jackson, James, Lawless, Martin, Jorg- Masi, Mattelson, Monstroski, Picard, Radvan, Reilly, Robinson, Rodericks, Rorick, Seutter, Slapo, Stember, Taubner, Thomas, VanMetter, Wagner, Xu, Zeller
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The Greenwich Arts Council and Bendheim Gallery
DeVito
Aeschliman
Panel Discussion lead by Bob Anderson, with CSOPA Advisors Ariane Beigneux, Foster Caddell, and Michael Del Priore plus special guests John Howard Sanden and  Wendy Caporale.
9:30-10am
Jeanine
Jackson
CSOPA Founder welcomes guests and presents the posthumous CSOPA Lifetime Achievement Award to George Passantino. Video.
12noon-1:30pm
Robert Anderson,
et al

1:30-2:30pm
Slide
Critiques
Slide Critiques. Our distinguished  panel will comment on how to improve your masterpiece. (Request Artist Prospectus to submit your slide for inclusion in this critique. First 15 to apply get in.)
3:00-5:30pm
John Howard Sanden
Portrait Demonstration. International super-star and Founder of the Portrait Institute, Mr. Sanden wil paint Foster Caddell.
6pm
Dinner
PUBLIC PROGRAMS:Sunday February 8
Dine with famous artists, local press, and patrons at a local restaurant tba. (Additional fee. See below.)
Mari Hulik of Parsons School of Design copying Raphael at the Louvre, Paris. Feb 8 at the GAC: Materials, Historically
10-11am
Mari
Hulik
Robert Anderson, Ariane Beigneux, and John Sanden at the GEC, 2003. See them Feb 7, 2004 at the GAC!
1:30-2:30pm
Peter Sutton
Marvin Mattelson of the School for Visual Arts, NYC. Feb 8 at the GAC:When Only the Best Will Do...
9:30-10am
CSOPA
Membership Meeting. For CSOPA members and those interested in learning more about our portrait family.
Join Parsons School of Design Communications Director, art historian and artist, Mari Hulik, on a slide ride back in time: Portrait Materials: Historically Speaking
11-12pm
Marvin Mattelson
When Only the Best Will Do
Choosing the optimal tools for contemporary portraits. Modern Master, and SVA instructor, Marvin Mattelson shares volumes of wisdom. Bring your notebook!
12:30-1:30pm
Foster
Caddell
2:30-5pm
Jada
Rowland

Jada Rowland in her NYC Studio with self-portrait and Camilia (right). Feb 8 at the GAC:
Portrait Demonstration: The Grand Finale
The legend in our own time, and beloved CSOPA Advisor, Foster Caddell, distills decades of success. Portait Demonstration: Start to Finish in Oil and in Pastel. Slides.
The much-requested demonstration of how to finish a portrait is here! Celebrated actress, artist, and illustrator, Jada Rowland presents Portrait Demonstration: The Grand Finale
Feb 7 and 8: $100
Two-day pass to all events.

Feb 7: $60
One-day pass to all Saturday events.

Feb 8: $60
One-day pass to all Sunday events.

Participant Dinner Feb 7: $40pp (excludes cash bar)
Participant Dinner Feb 8: $40pp (excludes cash bar)

Program seating is limited to the first fifty to sign up. Please check this website for "Sold Out" sign before proceeding to registration. If there is "Space Available" on the days you wish to attend, please follow instructions below.
6pm
Dinner
Dine with famous artists, local press, and patrons at a local restaurant tba. (Additional fee. See below.)
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Portrait by Robert Anderson, CSOPA Advisor and winner of the George W. Bush commission from the Yale Club in NYC. Feb 7 at the GAC: Panel Discussion
Experience has taught us that inclement weather may lead to rescheduling. If in doubt, please check this webpage for updates.
CSOPA Founder and President, Jeanine Jackson (left) and CSOPA Director and GAC Board Member, Sophia James announce the judges choices at the opening eception, Feb 6.
Event Co-Chairs: Michel Delafontaine, Grace DeVito
Sophia James. and Candice McCallum

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10:15-11:30am
Michael
Del Priore
Tour of Sargent's Studio. Join celebrated portraitist and CSOPA Advisor, Michael Del Priore for a slide show of historic proportions. Recently returned from Europe, Mr. Del Priore resonates stories from master's inner sanctum.
Jack Richeson & Co., Inc.
Silver Brush Company
Faculty of Presentors
THANK YOU, FACES SPONSORS!
Greenwich Arts Council
THE STANTON HOUSE INN
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Foster Caddell at his Voluntown, CT studio. Feb 8 at the GAC:  Pastel and Oil Portraits: Start-to-Finish slide demo.
Feb 8 meet Dr. Peter Sutton, Exec. Dir. and CEO of the Bruce Museum; former Dir. Wadsworth Atheneum, Sen. Dir. of Old Master Paintings, Christies, and much more...
Dutch Portrait Masters slide presentation.
Michael Del Priore
The most prolific portrait artist of our time comes to the GAC on Feb 7
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THE STANTON HOUSE INN is a beautiful bed & breakfast mansion on Maple Street in Greenwich. They offer a 10% discount to Faces of Winter 2004 participants. Call inkeeper Doreen Pearson for off-season rates and tell her CSOPA sent you!
203-869-2110
AWARDS:
FIRST: Karen Martin's Jenny & Lindsay (above)
SECOND: Dean Fisher's Susana
THIRD: Marvin Mattelson's Steven Fishbach
GOLD PASTEL: Dean Slapo
PEOPLE'S CHOICE: Sophia James
CERTIFICATES of MERIT:
Grace DeVito's Marisa
Candace Taubner's Paley
Ping Xu's Old Man
HONORABLE MENTION:
Janice Baragwanath's Ashley's Blue Hat
Dan Badion's Whippets
Diane Aeschliman's M.A.

First Prize: Karen Martin's Jenny and Lindsay
Photo of Mattelson Courtesy Champanier
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