For our 15th Anniversary, EPCAMR put out a Call for Artists to several regional art leagues, art studios, and freelance artists who participated in our Anthrascapes AMD Art Show at the Arts YOUniverse Studio in August 2006. Over 50 artists participated, generating over 100 pieces of artwork from paintings to jewelry; sculptures to paper mache; chalk drawings to ceramics; with one common theme…they all used recovered, harvested, and dried, iron oxide pigment, provided by EPCAMR. The two-week show was a huge success. EPCAMR provided participating artists with a watershed tour of the Schuylkill, Lackawanna, and Wyoming Valleys to talk about the historical mining impacts of our region and the work we do.
Some of those same artists are back, along with some new ones, to assist us with our Anthrascapes AMD Art Show Silent Auction. Silent Auction sheets will be placed at each piece of artwork during the event, along with information sheets about the pieces. The Silent Auction will be a blend of art and the environment, using art to express and highlight the environmental impacts in our area, created by past mining practices. Please bring your checkbooks and/or credit cards to the event and take home a wonderful piece (or pieces) of art created and inspired by our work in the region.
For a preview of some of the previous art pieces, please visit our Photo Gallery. Click through Pages 1 and 2 of the Gallery.
This endeavor is supported locally by the local art community as a way to recycle what is commonly considered a pollutant to aquatic and insect life in our streams. Due to the hard work and creative thinking of the EPCAMR staff and the local art community, this alternative pigment is now being accepted as a valuable resource to the art world. The Earth Conservancy allows EPCAMR to tour their mine drainage sites and to remove iron deposits from their AMD treatment wetlands, along Dundee Road in the Nanticoke Creek watershed.
List of Participating Artists:
- Bonita Mattick, and her son, Matthew Malloy, Shavertown, PA – Works of Art, Portraits, Landscapes and Still Lifes
- Marianne B. Lurie, West Pittston, PA – Pysanky Eggs and Eggshell Jewelry
- Verve Vertu Art Studio, vervevertu.blogspot.com, Wilkes-Barre, PA – “Tapping into Creative Energy of People with Special Needs”
- David Hage, http://www.davidhage.com, NEPA – Sumi Ink with Iron Oxide, Recycled Plastic with Iron Oxide
- Diane Grant Czajkowski, http://www.dianeshorses.com/, Ashley, PA – Skilled artist working in watercolors, oils, pastel, graphite, pencil, drawings, various paintings of mixed mediums, sketches and other finished works of art, “Iron Horse prints; has a love for horses and loves historic subjects such as local coal breakers, landscapes, and periods of history such as Civil War scenes
- Heather Freeman Radel and her students, http://heatherfreemanradel.blogspot.com/, Back Mountain, PA – Artist and Architect, as well as teacher; several students may exhibit and not have their artwork for sale; Heather, however, is creating a piece for the Silent Auction
- Skip Sensbach, Lehman Township, PA – Pottery and Sculpture Artist; Iron Oxide Glazed Bowls
