This exhibition showcases the works of William “Skip” Epperson, Felicia Rice, Terri Garland and Daniella Woolf, recipients of the 2008 and 2009 Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship Program at The Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County.
The Rydell Visual Arts Fund was created by Roy and Frances Rydell to promote Santa Cruz County artists and arts organizations. Their lifestyle and Roy’s vision of art as “beauty in the home, in the garden, and in the community” suggest that art be inclusive of many forms, genres, and media and available to a broad audience. In 1985, Roy and Frances established the Foundation’s first donor advised fund to foster the visual arts. From this work the Artist Fellowship Program and Organizational Grants for visual arts organizations were developed.
“the sketches, the drafting, the painter’s renderings, and the models that I create as a designer, are a means to an end. They are utilized as an attempt to represent the ideas that are instilled in my heart and mind as the perfect environment for the ‘world’of the play.””
William (Skip) Epperson
Felica Rice
Rice collaborates “with visual artists, performing artists and writers to create book structures in which typography and the visual arts meet and merge.”
Rydell Artist (2009)
Felica Rice
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Terri Garland
Garland has pulled her images “from their final resting places of mud-caked pews and condemned church floors, from both the Central City and Lower Ninth Ward areas of New Orleans.
Rydell Artist (2008)
Terri Garland
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Woolf's work brings a “textile sensibility” to the ancient medium of encaustic*. “In merging these two disciplines along with my limited choice of materials, I create a newly formed language.”
