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Artist Resume & Show Bio

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Resume and Arts Background Resume Overview I enjoy making art, and sharing it, and related arts tasks for events, restoration and marketing. A prolific worklife is a delight, but the resume can become an unruly collection, so I do a focused resume for each project. Only a part of relevant materials can appear here. I must count on interested visitors here, to contact me with lots of good talk about specific interest in my work. I am delighted to chat in email or phone or in person, as is convenient, and by written mail as need be. ~~~~elle back to top ~~~ 2008 ~~~ Donation of "Connecticut Waterfall" to Saint Bernard's Church Silent Auction to Benefit the School. "Forsythia" has won "First Place ~ Watercolor" for Elle Fagan at the Rockville (CT) General Hospital Gallery Spring Show! Click here for story and pictures! On display February thru May, 2008. Ask me for directions to visit. For sale thru this site, as well, for part benefit. February 2, 2008 ~ Elle Fagan Watercolor "Mock Orange" won $100 for the "Art With Heart" 8th Annual Black Tie Auction to Benefit United Family Services in Charlotte, North Carolina. The image is pictured in the right column halfway down at this gallery link. The event netted $140,000 and I have been invited to participate again next year. After this first participation with "Art With Heart", I learned that I could have priced the painting for much more, and won it for them, and will be able to do it next time. ~~~ 2007 ~~~ Restoration of Saint Bernard's Church 60-year-old Nativity Figures. July - December, 2007 14 Life-sized figures , with lots of challenging tech and research involved. The most purely delightful of assignments, and a happy surprize: their Provenance was fancier than anyone guessed! A blessing and generator of fine parish community feeling. 2007 Artisan for Connecticut ~ Honored to have met First Lady, Laura Bush at the opening of the White House State Easter Eggs Display Enjoy the story and images at this link.br> Learning Experience: Someone gifted me perfect Kiyonaga Prints from the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, but sale was not the best. However, the new people and things I discovered made it worth the "moment" ! As always, one way or another, Artsite's ArtWithHeart is active! Your Purchase Can Help ! Rockville General Hospital Gallery's Summer Show Includes work by Elle Fagan! In the good company of: Penny Brandt, Christine Garthwaite, Leslie A McMahon,Eileen L. O'Connor, Paul Shimer, Gisela Troisi, Randy Anagnostis, David Halmers, Rebecca Dufilie, Bill Riordan, Jane Wallor Collins, and Ginny Emerson. Gallery is located near the Hospital Gift Shop on the new lower level! 31 Union Street in Vernon, Connecticut. Questions? Show Co-ordinator Rockville Downtown Association will be delighted to help! RDA - Phone/Fax (860) 875-7439 - Email: rdaCT@hotmail.com NEW PAGE! "Available Works" ~ Images-only Shortlist for Quick Image-browsing! New computer hardware/software upgrades permit me to upgrade the site, and am offering a nice sale to show it. Some of the images have no price or availability tags for this reason, so do ask, with my apologies...elle New arts marketing this year includes opportunities to share groups of image for reproduction by businesses that sell in quantity. New Commissioned works include "Mother Teresa 2007" and "Blue Gene", a Benefit project in Memory of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Member, Gene Pitney. Restoration of the Life-sized Nativity Figures for Saint Bernard's Church in Rockville, Connecticut, is a Summer Project, and a Labor of Love... I am the lady with paint in her hair, and delighting in it! I do Restorative work, on a limited basis, and am very excited to be winding up dainty work on a centuries-old glass painting of George Washington I am interviewing for new projects and arts clients at this time. Click to contact with interest. back to top Some 2006 shows and projects have included: The work-part of being the Connecticut USA Artisan for the 2007 White House Easter Egg Display, and my submission completed in December. USA-Patriotism.com awarded a Contributor's Badge to Patriotsite First Craft Instructions Book Development - a work in progress. Watch for news of publication. New Affiliate of Aplus.net, my isp of many years, so I can support them in confidence. Participation in the Rockville Cultural Arts Exhibit - April New Affiliate of Knowth.com and its Amazon.com offerings for research and pleasure in books about all things Celtic. One of the best on earth! New Affiliate: "Jackson & Perkins 'Roses For A Cause' fits right in with Artsite icons and its "Art With Heart" offerings. "Art With Heart" has become an entity at "Ellefagan.com", and 2007 should see more serious expansion of its activities. back to top ~ 2005 & Earlier ~ Private commissions this past year have focused on Pets, including Award for "Horse in a Brown Study", in November 2005 A special private memorial pup portrait A private "Family Group" ~ of lifetime pets other works, details on request Hurricane Katrina spurred fundraising for response, from this lifelong redcross-er, and thru eBay, private fundraising and outright of gifts of art for other groups to use for their own fundraising, one thousand dollars was raised...just me an' my Mac, and the beginning of "Art With Heart" in early 2006 New active member of the noted Saatchi Gallery "Your Gallery" based in London, UK ~ Participation in their ongoing "Showdown" ~ a happy gathering of art and artists in lite competition, of fine energy! 2005 - Invision Graphics Site Award Artshow: "Celebrate the Arts Festival" in Vernon, Connecticut,sponsored by Crossroads Community Church Artshow: "Cultural Arts Event" thru RDA and ECSC at TKB Club in Rockville, Connecticut. Great and respectful honor! One of my paintings now hangs at the State of Connecticut Capitol Administrative Building in Hartford. 2004 - My first nice overseas sale - to private client in Ireland, and friends since! 2004 - permanent gallery representation - Lafayette CoffeeShop - Lafayette Square - Vernon, CT 2003 - Test-Market First Offline Auction Event was very nice but not successful. Learned a lot, and will do it again...enjoying online auctions for Benefit, for now. I like workshops and tech upgrades, research and study, and have used all of them to assure fine quality arts and understandable interactive. If you have interest in my work, a few favorites from my bio/chronology overview of studies, skills, and achievements appears at this page, Delighted to prepare a focused resume, on request. Note: The making of the site is a story that became worthy of its own page; "in progress", the notes are viewable via the link at the foot of this page. back to top ~ Spring / Summer 2004 - Local artshows, "Artist of the Month" Crystal Blueprint April / May + Lafayette Coffee Shop Patriotic Holidays Display + Private Commissions Autumn / Winter 2003-04 - First Arts Auction and Arts Marketing Ad Development Spring / Summer 2003 - private commissions and fair weather shows Winter 2002-03 - private commissions and website work for ellefagan.com Autumn 2002 - Rockville, CT Fall Festival Summer 2002 -Rockville Downtown Association Offices - one-woman display Spring 2002Hartford, CT, Tolland County Arts Association Sidewalk Artsale back to top ~~ ~Arts Memberships include:~ New Haven (CT) Paint and Clay Club, Tolland County (CT) Arts Association. ~Past Arts Memberships include: ~ Artspace (NewHaven,CT), Fairfield County (CT) Arts Association. back to top ~~~ Studies: Fairfield University (CT) University of Bridgeport (CT) East Carolina University (NC) Pitt Technical College (NC) -Like most working artists today, I participate in ongoing focused workshops and study upgrades. Skills List: Arts Skills List: Technical Special Note: My most valued training in some of the skills and arts came to me as a gift from mentors and mentor-esses in childhood and young adulthood... people aging and respected in their focus: nothing can compare to the purity and specialness of those times and lessons - the sort of foundation that is indestructable. I hope to have my interrupted work redeveloped so that I can be blessed to be the mentoress to individuals whose interest and skill are as sincere as mine. A developing page about the lifelong commitment to arts focus; you are welcome to visit it at Arts Notes. The page also contains some brief "port/left, starboard/right" basics about American Art, and miscellaneous notes. I plan to develop the page into an arts resource, probably with tutorials in some skills. back to top

~~~~ Rockville Downtown Association Offices - one-woman display Rockville, Connecticut is honored to be a part of the Main Street Program and the "Rockville Rennaissance" is just that! An exciting rebirth of the city, and the activity hub and moving force centers at the Rockville Downtown Association, and its Co-ordinator, Luise Ernest, is its angel! In co-operation with local government and Downtown Business, in a time when some places are losing business, RDA has been gaining one new commercial enterprise per quarter, and enriching the experience for existing stores with opportunities for upgrades in many ways. So I was honored to be invited to make a one-woman show displayed at the RDA office space last spring, part of which is shown in the photo. Meant to share spirit more than high art, it was fun for all, and a beginning of refreshing fine arts in the downtown area. back to top Update May 2004 ~ New show ! For five years, our Area has been enjoying a Renaissance, involving improvements on all Community levels, of top quality. Part of the work has been upgrading district Fine Arts. And, after a great deal of work, paid and volunteer, on the part of many, including myself, there exists, for several months, a gallery bay for the show and sale of fine art by area artists, in the historic district. Each month features a different artist, in a one-person show, and throughout this month it is my turn! Report and photos soon !

One-Woman Show Savings Bank of Rockville Main Branch, Park Street May 1999 While recuperating at Elm Hill Manor, I found a convenient bank a block away, and when I told them my story, they invited me to show the art, with the results as shown: Bank officer Lori Rosner was work partner on the job, and is now at their operations center, and was lots of fun to work with! -elle back to top