Contributed by Holly Knott / Skaneateles Artisans

Artist Opening and Anniversary Party:

Skaneateles Artisans, 11 Fennell St., Skaneateles. First Friday, July 4th, 6:00 – 9:00pm.

Skaneateles Artisans is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibit featuring artists Carol Adamec (sculpture), Cheri Haring (pottery) and Barbara Schramm (traditional and trompe l’oeil painting). Music by Peterson and Dennihy, Alternative Folk. Refreshments will be served to also celebrate our 1st birthday. Through July 31. The gallery offers off-street parking and accepts major credit cards. Visit their website at www.skaneatelesartisans.com. For more information, call 315-685-8580.

Nourish your spirit, foster the arts, and increase your knowledge of the process of creating art.

Drive and or walk to the unique shops, restaurants and lodging facilities in Skaneateles to meet artists who create visual or performing art. View their work and enjoy entertainment and refreshments.

Look for merchants displaying a blue ribbon. Inside find an artist to speak with, while enjoying the commerce of the establishment.

Artist’s Bios:

Carol Adamec

Carol Adamec, a native of Long Island, completed her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts degree at Alfred University College of Ceramics with a major in sculpture and a minor in education. Working with Albert Paley and Wendall Castle, she received a Master’s from SUNY Brockport with her thesis in metal working. Since the early 90’s, she has completed numerous graduate study courses at Syracuse University in ceramics, photography and her love, sculpture - working with Roger Mac, Mary Giehl and Matthew Gehring.

Ms Adamec has been interested in clay working since elementary school using her recess time to do additional ceramic projects in the art room. Encouragement by her parents got her involved in her first community show in 1966. An honorable mention award and her first professional sales told her this was the career she was meant to follow. The International Special Olympic Games in Brockport, NY in 1982 had her sending works all over the world.

She lived in the Rochester, NY area until 1985 participating in many Rochester and Buffalo area shows and galleries as well as several on Long Island, Westchester County and Florida. Alfred University and SUNY Brockport both have her works in their permanent collections. She has won numerous local and state-wide awards for her bronze castings, ceramic sculptures and pottery.

Along with caring for a family and engaging in a full-time teaching career, Ms Adamec continued to create elegant sculptures and one-of-a-kind pottery pieces with husband Neville’s strong encouragement. Recently retired as an art teacher from Westhill High School in Syracuse, NY, she also has taught an adult clay class through BOCES (Board of Cooperative Educational Services). “I enjoy teaching and even kept that in mind when I purchased my home/studio so it would be easy for people to get to”.

An active member and past president of the Syracuse Ceramics Guild, Ms. Adamec often creates pieces in clay which she then makes into bronze castings, continuing the tradition of lost wax casting that her jeweler grandfather used many years ago.

Graceful, elegant and sensual are all terms that people use to describe Ms. Adamec’s works.

Sherry Chayat, a free-lance writer for the Syracuse Post-Standard, described Ms. Adamec’s work: ”Her abstract figurative forms remind me of the choreography of Martha Graham. Sleek and rhythmic, they thrust assertively outward and curl protectively inward, exemplifying the principles of contraction and release. The planes and curves of their elegant, elongated limbs seem in perpetual motion….Adamec’s expressionism emanates organically from these shapes. There’s nothing forced or labored about it. “

Cheri Haring

Cheri Haring’s work exhibits the strength and flexibility, the hardness and the softness of clay. Random alterations to traditional forms are her way of bringing movement and excitement to clay.

Two seasons of intensive Clay concentration at Penland, North Carolina and Tokoname, Japan, and 17 years of living on the Rhode Island shore greatly influence Haring’s pottery. Her stoneware is ergonomic and functional, and yet reflects ebb and flow, fluidity and strength of the ocean and our lives.

Barbara Schramm

Barbara’s artworks are original pieces. Although often influenced by museum originals or historically documented designs, they will be somewhat similar but none can be exactly the same. Often her paintings are on the fine cabinetry of her husband John. She has also created and copyrighted “Old World Father Christmas” [Santa's] beginning in 1983, creating new editions annually.

As a decorative painter and American Folk Artist, she obtained a large part of her schooling in the oral tradition. Rather than receiving a formal education through the university system, she has been involved in countless private instructions, seminars, and extensive personal research since she began her studies in the decorative arts in 1978, thereby cultivating her passion to preserve these rich traditions of European as well as American Decorative Painting. Her experience, in short, has led her to be both a historian and practitioner of the Early American decorative arts.

Barbara’s paintings are represented in numerous private collections, specialty shops, historic house tours and art exhibits throughout the country.

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