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Friday, March 16, 2012

Lindsay Wailes is the Off Track Art guest artist. Stop by to see awesome stuff.


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Lindsay Wailes, Creator of Upcycled Bags and Other Unique Accessories, opens at Off Track Art March 16, 2012

Lindsay Wailes, Creator of Upcycled Bags and Other Unique Accessories, opens at Off Track Art March 16, 2012

Lindsay Wailes

Creator of Upcycled Bags and Other Unique Accessories

Off Track Art Gallery
11 Liberty Street
Westminster, MD 21157

Friday, March 16, 2012
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM

Please Join Us!

Lindsay Wailes DiFabbio lives in Westminster with her husband and cats. She works fulltime in Baltimore as a barista at The Four Seasons, and has been in the coffee business for several years. She makes bags and accessories out of recycled  burlap coffee bags from many different countries. Her love of pop culture has also led her to make wares out of recycled VHS boxes. She likes to describe her crafts simply as "making things out of stuff"

Off Track Art
A Cooperative of Local Artists
Enjoy our work at:
11 Liberty Street - Side entrance
Westminster, MD 21157

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Off Track Art, an artists' cooperative venture of local artists, announces the following Opening Receptions for our Guest Artists in 2012:

Phil Grout - Renowned international photographer of the human form and work:

May 4, 2012
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Off Track Art Gallery
11 Liberty Street - side entrance
Westminster, Maryland

Refreshments served; convenient parking

Paula Waterman - Prolific artist in scratchboard, oil, and bronze sculpture, deeply focused on animal life:

July 27, 2012
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Off Track Art Gallery
11 Liberty Street - side entrance
Westminster, Maryland

Refreshments served; convenient parking

Jerry Dewitt - 

September 7, 2012
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Off Track Art Gallery
11 Liberty Street - side entrance
Westminster, Maryland

Refreshments served; convenient parking

Stan Gilmore -

November 2, 2012
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Off Track Art Gallery
11 Liberty Street - side entrance
Westminster, Maryland

Refreshments served; convenient parking
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“Off Track Art” is an artists’ co-op and gallery located in the historic Liberty Building at 11 Liberty Street – next to the railroad tracks, off of the Sentinel parking lot at the corner of West Main St and MD 27-Liberty St - in historic downtown Westminster, Carroll County Maryland. 

Open: Wed-Fri. Noon to 6 PM , Sat. 10 AM - 5 PM. http://offtrackart.blogspot.com/ 
 For news and information on Off Track Art previous to December 15, 2011, you can go to http://kevindayhoffart.blogspot.com/search/label/Art%20Off%20Track%20Art
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Saturday, January 7, 2012

Westminster Patch Artist Profile: Carolyn Seabolt Keeps the Art of Tinsel Painting Alive



Carolyn Seabolt, artist, teacher and illustrator aims to revive the dying art of tinsel painting.

By Kerri Gaither January 3, 2012


Carolyn Seabolt is working to keep the art of tinsel painting alive. 




Seabolt, who was the art department chair at Westminster High School, said that when she was in her 20s she saw a woman exhibiting the now-rare tinsel painting at a fair in Pennsylvania. She was so impressed that she learned as much as she could about the craft; gaining knowledge and skills that she now passes on to her own students in an effort to keep this “dying art” alive. 

Tinsel painting was highly popular in England and France in the 1800s. It started as an artistic way for women to re-purpose foil, or tinsel, as the English called it, from teas that their husbands brought home. Tinsel painting involves painting in reverse on glass with stains and acrylic paint. Once painted, foil, or tinsel, is placed behind the transparency, giving it a glitter.

“Tinsel painting is a beautiful type of art that is not around anymore. I teach it in hopes that the craft will not die out completely” Seabolt said.

Seabolt spends her summers teaching silk scarf painting and tinsel painting at Common Ground held at McDaniel College. She also teaches watercolor classes at Carroll Community College and at her very own Cat Tracks Studiohttp://westminster.patch.com/articles/artist-profile-carolyn-seabolt-keeping-the-art-of-tinsel-painting-alive

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Seabolt’s works can be viewed at the Shop at Cockey’s, Mat About You in Ellicott City, and by appointment in her own Cat Tracks Studio.












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Friday, November 4, 2011

Gail Elwell opens art display at Birdies and Peter Plant opens art display at Off Track Art Westminster MD Friday Nov. 4, 2011

Friday, November 4th in the evening, enjoy two art receptions open to the public:
5:30 to 7:30 pm, Off Track Art welcomes PETER PLANT as guest artist.  


7:00 to 10:00 pm, Birdie’s Cafe features GAIL ELWELL's collage work. 


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Peter Plant is the gallery guest at Off Track Art for November and December.  Peter is a studio and plein air artist who has worked in a traditional style of painting in acrylics.  Over the past two years however, he has branched out and experimented with a variety of mixed media techniques which have broadened his experience in both studio and plein air work.  His studio work has included wet-in-wet acrylics on watercolor paper, images drawn with markers, as well as poured and splattered paint backgrounds.  Plant’s goal is to explore media and techniques that enhance the creative experience while presenting realistic images to the viewer.  Pearlescent inks, Sharpie markers, watercolor pencils, and colored pencils have all found their way into his art. 


Off Track Art
11 Liberty Street (Side Entrance)
Westminster, MD

Gail Elwell, a partner of Off Track Art, shows her collage series, “52 Weeks.”  This exhibit at Birdie’s Cafe on Main Street in Westminster, runs November through December.  Gail worked steadily for an entire year creating a collage every week, hence the exhibit’s title.  

Birdie’s Cafe
233 East Main Street
Westminster, MD








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Gail Elwell opens art display at Birdies and Peter Plant opens art display at Off Track Art Westminster MD Friday Nov. 4, 2011

Corn maze has encore at Carroll County Ag Center http://dlvr.it/tZwkr

Gail Elwell opens art display at Birdies and Peter Plant opens art display at Birdies Westminster MD Friday...
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Friday, September 9, 2011

The work of Off Track Art guest artist for Sept. and Oct. 2011 Josh Ries, continues through October 2011…



September 9th, 2011 Off Track Art Reception: Guest Artist Josh Ries 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.



Off Track Art E-Newsletter for Summer 2011

August 31, 2011
tracks...an E-newsletter of Off Track Art
An artists’ cooperative gallery
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11 Liberty Street (Side Entrance)
Westminster, MD
Open: Wed-Fri noon - 6 PM
Sat 10 AM - 5 PM

The work of Off Track Art guest artist for Sept. and Oct. 2011 Josh Ries

September 9th, 2011 Reception: Guest Artist Josh Ries

Josh Ries is our guest artist for September-October. Josh’s passion for glass was ignited the first time he encountered glassmaking on a college trip to the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning NY.

He began classes and an apprenticeship at the Art of Fire Contemporary Glass Studio in Gaithersburg, MD. Josh has studied with such Masters as Gianni Toso, Ellio Quarisa, Josh Simpson, and Dante Marioni.

He loves studying new techniques such as traditional Venetian, English, and contemporary styles of working with glass. He also loves to share his knowledge of glass with others by helping teach classes at the Art of Fire and the Corning Museum of Glass Studio.

Josh’s work can be found in many galleries and exhibits around the country. He has also exhibited at the Renwick in Washington D.C., The American Craft Council show in Baltimore, and local venues such as the Carroll County Arts Council. He has received such recognition as the Mayors artist choice award, Ocean City MD, and the Rochester NY artist excellence award.

His addiction to glass continues as he creates art with his wife, Amanda, in his studio in Littlestown, PA. Each piece he creates employs age-old Venetian and English techniques to create unique modern art glass.

Mark the date:  Friday, September 9th, 5:30-7:30 PM.


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Thursday, May 5, 2011

Photographs of Kelly Heck on display in Westminster

Local Westminster Maryland artist Kelly Heck to feature her photographic series “Beautiful Silence,” at an exhibition at Off Track Art in Westminster

Kevin Dayhoff

May 5, 2011





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“Beautiful Silence,” a photo-essay by local Westminster award-winning artist, photographer, and web designer Kelly Heck, is the subject of an exhibition at Off Track Art in historic downtown Westminster during the months of May and June.

According to Heck, the photographic series “is about experiencing true peace, illustrated through landscapes taken in and around the Carroll County, Maryland area.”

Heck’s carefully structured photographs in the exhibition belie a strong classical foundation in the artistic fundamentals of the marriage of art and photography

Featuring stark contrasts found in winter the snow-covered landscape scenes and natural still-lifes are certainly wordless, but anything but silent.  The images of snow and winter paradoxically and softly tell a warm story in their own voices, without words, using their quiet, soft – inside voices – if you will...

In one photograph, a snow-covered field is bisected by a fence line that features the winter-lined silhouette of a tree.  The tree almost appears animated as it speaks, on behalf of the fence, to the audience of the crop field in the foreground.

Heck, according to her website, http://www.kellyheckphotography.com/, “is most passionate about creative portraiture and shooting on location.  Her goal is to create scenes that are unnatural by intensifying vibrant colors and textures from the environment and her subjects…”

Heck has received a number of awards for her art and photography.  In 2007, Heck’s “Bird Series” won second place in the PDNedu Competition and was published in PDNedu Magazine.  It also won third place in the 62nd CPOY, College Photographer Of The Year, and was published on the cover of SCAD's annual Silver & Ink publication.

In an explanation of “Beautiful Silence,” Heck explains on her website, “If you haven’t tried it yet, venture outside during the next snowfall.  Wait until a few inches have settled on the ground.  You will have to remove yourself from noise.  Escape from civilization; voices, home, business, traffic, machinery, phones, music any human sound.

“Surround yourself with nature.  Find a spot with the snow falling around you. A wooded area is especially perfect, removing you from harsh, cool winds that whistle by your ears.  Stand motionless and breathe deeply.  Quietly.  Allow the tranquility to fill you up.  Close your eyes, if you wish, and enjoy being removed from it all.

“Slowly and surely, you will find that even though you have escaped the sound of humanity, it is not silent.  Everyone is at home, safe and warm from the dangers of icy roads.  

“Even the wildlife has somewhat settled.  All you hear is the gentle clicking of snow falling to the ground. It is an elegant, comforting noise, a retreat from days filled with commotion.  Breathe softly. This beautiful silence can so easily soothe your mind into a meditative state of utter relaxation.  

“In this moment, you can forget your worries and focus only on your center of gravity.  This is true peace, and the most genuine I have ever found.”

Heck earned her BFA in photography as a result of her studies at the Savannah College of Art & Design, in Savannah, Georgia.  Her interest in fine art grew into a concentration of photography at an early age, and she has practiced it as a career ever since. 

She currently applies her artistic training and has put her education to work at InfoPathways.com, in the former Maryland Unemployment Insurance Office at the corner of Green and Liberty Street, in Westminster. 

This is certainly convenient for Heck for showing at Off Track Art, a local artist cooperative which is located in the same block, at the side entrance of 11 Liberty Street, right beside the railroad tracks off the Sentinel parking lot.

An opening night reception for Heck and her work will be held this Friday May 6th, 2011, from 5:30-7:30 p.m at 11 Liberty Street, in Westminster.  Click here for directions.

The show will remain on exhibition through June 25th.  Off Track Art is open Wednesday through Friday 12:00-6:00 p.m. and Saturday 10:00-5:00 p.m.  For more information call 443 340 6317.

Other exhibiting artists at Off Track Art include Mary Decker, Kevin Dayhoff, Gail Elwell, Linda Van Hart, Judy Goodyear, Charlotte Laslo, Cathy Sawdey, Gordon Wickes, Robert Waddell, Pamela Zappardino, Phil Grout, and Carolyn Seabolt.  Off Track Art may be found online at http://www.offtrackart.org/.

The writer, Kevin Dayhoff, along with photojournalist Phil Grout, also exhibit their work at Off Track Art and work for the Carroll Eagle www.explorecarroll.com and Patuxent Publishing Company.

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Photographs of Kelly Heck on display in Westminster 


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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Kelly Heck’s “Beautiful Silence” opens at Off Track Art Friday May 6 2011



You are invited to Off Track Art to enjoy an exhibition with guest artist, Kelly Heck.


A selection of photography from the series “Beautiful Silence” will be on display from May 6, 2011 to June 25, 2011 (See more: http://www.kellyheckphotography.com/beautiful-silence.asp)

According to Kelly Heck, who studied photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design, the series is about experiencing true peace, illustrated through landscapes taken in and around the Carroll County, Maryland area.

Visit Kelly’s website at http://www.kellyheckphotography.com/!

Opening Night: *** May 6th, 2011 5:30-7:30 ***

Exhibition on View: May 6th - June 25th HOP: W-F 12:00-6:00pm & Saturday 10:00-5:00pm Location: Off Track Art - Artists’ Co-Op Address: 11 Liberty Street, Westminster MD 21157

Questions? Call 443 340 6317

Other exhibiting artists include Mary Decker, Kevin Dayhoff, Gail Elwell, Linda Van Hart, Judy Goodyear, Charlotte Laslo, Cathy Sawdwy, Gordon Wickes, Robert Waddell, Pamela Zappardino, Phil Grout, and Carolyn Seabolt.

Visit Off Track Art Online at http://www.offtrackart.org/.



“Beautiful Silence” on KellyHeckPhotography.com: http://www.kellyheckphotography.com/beautiful-silence.asp#

Kelly Heck photography “Beautiful Silence” artist statement: http://www.kellyheckphotography.com/documents/Kelly-Heck-

Kelly Heck photography brief bio: http://www.kellyheckphotography.com/bio.asp

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Downtown Westminster Maryland Weekend Happenings - May 6th to 8th 2011

Downtown Westminster Maryland Weekend Happenings - May 6th to 8th 2011


May 4, 2011 - Stan Ruchlewicz, Westminster, Maryland Economic Development Administrator: “There are a lot of things happening in Downtown Westminster this weekend, not the least being – The Westminster Flower & Jazz Festival on Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm. Plus it is Mother’s Day on Sunday! Several of our downtown restaurants, like Harry’s Main Street Grille and Paradiso Ristorante, are open special hours for Mom’s dining pleasure on her day.

“Click on the link below to see everything in Downtown this weekend. Well, almost everything… I forgot to mention that Gotham Comics at 15 East Main Street is participating in the National Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, too, from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm plus having a Dollar Comic Book Sale to boot!”


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Downtown Westminster Maryland Weekend Happenings - May 6th to 8th 2011

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Main Street Weekend Happenings February 25 2011

Stan Ruchlewicz, Westminster, Maryland, Carroll County, Main Street, economic development, restaurants, art, culture, Dayhoff

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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Tracks...an E-newsletter of Off Track Art - an artists’ cooperative gallery – for April-May 2011


Tracks...an E-newsletter of Off Track Art - an artists’ cooperative gallery – for April-May 2011



11 Liberty Street (Side Entrance) 
Westminster, MD
Open: Wed-Fri      noon - 6 PM
Sat           10 AM - 5 PM

CALENDAR:
Closing April 30 --Guest Artist, Scott Gore.
Your last chance to see these intense psychological graphic prints.  

May 6th --Opening Reception for Guest Artist, Kelly Heck.  For the months of May and June Off Track Art presents “Beautiful Silence,” a selection of serene photographic images by guest artist, KELLY HECK.

“Escape from civilization; voices, home, business, traffic, machinery, phones, music ‐ any human sound.  Surround yourself with nature...   A  wooded area is especially perfect,  removing you from harsh, cool winds that whistle by your ears.  Stand motionless and breathe deeply...” (excerpt from artist’s statement)
Please join us for a reception for the artist on Friday, May 6th, from 5:30 - 7:30 PM.

Advanced Calendar:  

July 29th Reception: July-August Guest Artist:  Katherine Scofield graphics.

September 9th Reception: September-October Guest Artist:  Josh Ries glassworks.

November 4th Reception: November-December Guest Artist:  Peter Plant paintings.

OUT and ABOUT:

“PopUp Art at 7 East - Off Track Art goes off-track.”  A sampling of our work will be refreshed for Spring in the storefront windows at 7 E. Main Street, reminding all passers-by of our location in view nearby.  See something you like?  Make arrangements for purchase at the Off Track Art gallery on Liberty Street.

Gordon Wickes and Pam Zappardino serve as two of the jurists for the Higher Learning Student Photography Exhibition on viewMay 2nd, from 6:30-9:00 pm in McDaniel Lounge.  It will feature photographs taken by the students throughout the last two summers.  Awards are given to the students for winning photos.  In addition, Judy Goodyear, Linda Van Hart, and Kevin Dayhoff join Gordon and Pam in donating their own artwork to the Art Exhibition and Silent Auction event held alongside the student show, with proceeds going to support Higher Learning students and programs.

IN the GALLERY at OTA:

Original painting, drawing, collage, mixed media, photography, cut-paper, book art, sculpture, jewelry.

NEW works by artists...

Carolyn Seabolt brings in fresh works of her newest series of mosaics made of paper tesserae (pictured).

Bob Waddell on site at OTA  April 14th and 21st will be working on several on-going assemblages, in the mid-planning stages of several large scale 2D pieces celebrating the life of Clifford Still using his crypt as the architectural form(s) in the pieces.  The media is charcoal and assemblage.  The process is another take on site print-making.

Judy Goodyear presents a sparkling new array of Roll-On/Roll-Off bracelets.
SEE THE FULL NEWSLETTER WITH PICTURES in PDF file attached!

Off Track Art on the web: www.offtrackart.org and on Facebook

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Tracks ... an E-newsletter of Off Track Art, an artists’ cooperative gallery  http://www.scribd.com/doc/45626094/Tracks-an-E-newsletter-of-Off-Track-Art-an-artists%E2%80%99-cooperative-gallery  December 1, 2010: December 2010 into January 2011

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Tracks...an E-newsletter of Off Track Art - an artists’ cooperative gallery – for April-May 2011


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