MECAC's Featured Artist for May is Pine Valley's own Nancy Enright-Reib. On the evening of May 20th, Nancy brought a generous exhibit of her work to share with the monthly MECAC gathering, including a remarkable papier-mache puppet she made as a Girl Scout, tissue paper collages, a wonderful watercolor (see below), string collages, crocheted framings, collages including real butterflies, and many other examples of creative uses of paper and crochet.
A resident of Pine Valley since 1977, Nancy has also been writing for over thirty years by taking part in an autobiography group in La Mesa. Writing vignettes, especially about living in Europe in 1963-1964, Nancy showed us notebooks filled with stories of various events of her life. Adopted at eighteen months of age by a single woman, Nancy also writes about the finding of her birthmother and other family members, including an aunt just in the last few years.
Nancy also explained her philosophy of art that stems from her years of living abroad and attending many art workshops both in Europe and here in the States. She also developed spatial relationships in her works through classes in perspective. The watercolor below was created during an art seminar at the Pine Valley Clubhouse in the late 1980's.
The MECAC gathering very much enjoyed Nancy's sharing of her artistic vision as well as her writing and collage work. Thank you, Nancy, for being willing to share your life and your work with us!
We encourage all back country residents who are artists or are interested in the arts to join the monthly MECAC gatherings. Unless otherwise advertised, you'll find us in the Pine Valley Library Community Room from 7:00 to 8:30 PM on the third Thursday of each month. Our next Featured Artist is painter Sandra Hayen on June 17, so don't miss out on this remarkable artist!
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