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| Don Getz may be reached by phone at: (330) 657-2807 Email djgetzbgolly@hotmail.com. Mail: Don Getz, AWS, 1239 West Hines Hill Rd, Peninsula, OH 44264 |
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| Don Getz Artist's Workshops For 2009 | ||||||||||
| AUGUST 11 - 13 OLD FORGE, NY; 3 Day 'Plein Air' Watercolor Journaling Workshop at The Arts Center/Old Forge. All Levels, Contact Barbara Gett, 315-369-6411, bgetty@artscenteroldforge.org. | ||||||||||
| SEPTEMBER 28 - OCTOBER 2 ACADIA, ME; 5 Day 'Plein Air' Watercolor Journaling Workshop. All Levels, Contact Gail Ribas, 207-460-4119, www.acadiaworkshopcenter.com or awcmaine@gmail.com. | ||||||||||
| OCTOBER 5 - 8 ROCKLAND, ME; 4 Day Plein Air "Sketching & Watermedia Workshop", All Levels. Fee: $425. | ||||||||||
| NOVEMBER 1 - 6 YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK; 4 Day Studio Watermedia on Treated Paper. Contact Patricia A. Allen, 559-683-0831, workshop@patriciaaallen.com. | ||||||||||
| Don Getz Artist's Workshops For 2010 | ||||||||||
| FEBRUARY 8 - 12 GRANBURY, TX; 4 Day Watercolor Workshop, details to come. | ||||||||||
| Participants in Getz Watercolor Workshops have the option of working
in the medium of their choice: transparent wick on gesso or wc paper,
gouache or acrylics. Getz stresses the importance of design, use
of colors and self-expression. He prefers to help each participant develop
their own personal style of painting. Getz paints on location with transparent
& gouache watercolors, with acrylics his favorite studio medium.
Each workshop participant receives one of his color art posters as a
memento of the session. All of his sessions are limited to a max of
20 participants, unless a smaller number is mentioned. Supply lists
are available upon your registration deposit. Cheap Joe's Artstuff (800)
227-2788, carries all of Getz' supplies at a super low price. Most of these workshops are limited to 20 participants and fill fast. Make your reservations now. |
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| Awards and Art Collections |
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| Original paintings by Getz have garnered over forty national awards, including four gold medals and have been selected for exhibition in most every national show, including American Watercolor Society (ten), Watercolor USA, Rocky Mountain Watermedia Exh., the Butler Midyear (Ohio), Midwest Watercolor Society, Niagara Frontier National Watercolor Society and numerous regionals. Along with a lengthy list of one-person shows, Getz was honored in 1992, with a 30 year retrospective at the Butler Institute of American Art. In 2000, he completed a 48" x 96" acrylic mural of the Ohio-Erie Canal, "Spring 1877", commissioned for the Cascade Locks Park Association in Akron, Ohio. In 2003, Don completed a two year project, another canal mural "July 4th, 1844", for the Spread Eagle Tavern in Hanoverton, Ohio. Getz' works are included in most of the major rubber company collections, major midwest banks, universities and numerous corporate, as well as private collections in the United States, Canada, Europe, Hong Kong and Japan. In 2002, Getz was featured in 'Artist Sketchbook, Oct. 02, 'The Artist's Magazine' Oct. 02 and 'Watercolor' Fall, 2002. His latest challenge, creating watercolor journals, is featured in a new book on 'Plein Air Painting', published by International Artists. | ||||||||||
| Getz is listed in Edition XXIII of the Dictionary of International Biographies, Cambridge, England and in the 16th Edition of Men of Achievement. | ||||||||||
| Brief Biography |
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| Born in 1934, in the small northeast Ohio town of Salem, Don Getz took to art at the ripe age of five, drawing steel trucks and cars of customers at his father's steel fabrication business. Getz, Sr. was artistically inclined; able to create almost anything to order from metal. Don's mother also had a flare for art which influenced her son. | ||||||||||
| Getz worked in commercial art for 23 years, as an illustrator and producer of TV commercials; turning to a career in fine art in 1977, He began painting for relaxation in 1962 and quickly began to teach others. He founded the Boston Mills Artfest in 1972, directing the two weekend event for 25 years. In 1978, he was instrumental in the founding of the Ohio Watercolor Society, serving as the founding president until 1988. In 1980, Getz organized the Boston Mills Artist Workshops, offering up to 40 summer classes in the final year of 1984. | ||||||||||
| In 1985, Getz was granted signature membership in the prestigious American Watercolor Society. He has designed and supervised the production of the annual AWS Exhibition Catalog since 1985, is a life member of AWS and serves as 4th V.P. of AWS. He also served Knickerbocker Artists-USA, as a director, for several years in the early 90's. Don is also responsible for creating a series of poster paintings of the Adirondacks since 1986, for the Arts Center / Old Forge, NY. This series has become highly collectable and serves as an annual fundraiser for the art center. Getz presently serves as curator of a series of educational art exhibitions, Art @ M.D. Garage, in a restored 1940 era gas station owned by the National Park Service, in the heart of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, where he and wife, Judie, reside. Getz is also an advisor to the NPS "Artist-In-Residence" Program at CVNP. | ||||||||||
Email djgetzbgolly@hotmail.com. Mail: Don Getz, AWS, 1239 West Hines Hill Rd, Peninsula, OH 44264 |
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