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Please read this article by Lynn Mora about me and volunteer work and the Art Center painting the town.
About Me
- Annelies Dykgraaf
- Jacksonville, Florida, United States
- Annelies M. Dykgraaf was born in Nigeria, West Africa and spent her first eighteen years in rural areas where her parents lived and worked as missionaries and teachers for 40 years. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a minor in French, from Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. Annelies studied during her Junior year on scholarship with the Cleveland Institute of Art in Lacoste, France. She is a board member of the Beaches Fine Art Series and functions in the role of Visual Arts Coordinator. She is also a founding member for both JCAAA (Jacksonville Consortium of African American Artists) and The Art Center Cooperative, Inc.(TAC), a Not-for-profit Co-op of artists. She is the Current President of the Art Center.
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Monday, March 01, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Working at Head Start mural since Jan. 23
Flowers galore!
Working on the alphabet blocks
Art Center artists Elaine Bedell and Pablo Rivera
With Art Center artists Marsha Hatcher and Mary Atwood.
Day one, drawing the mural sketch. Yes it was frigid cold in Florida on Jan. 23. The Art Center teamed up with HandsOn Jax and volunteers to work on a mural covering the entire module in the center of a low income housing area off Golfair on the northside of Jacksonville. TAC artists have been giving their Saturdays up to accomplish this mural and work in the community. Stay tuned for updates and the final mural revealed.Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Riverside Fine Arts show
The "Akala" story series being viewed in the lobby area at the Good Shephard Church in Riverside on Stockton St.
By piece titled "Inquisitive Eyes" . The carved block is next to it so people could see a woodblock and the process.
With artist Marsha Hatcher
With artist Philip Cozma
With artists Jay Wright and John Bunker.I have 26 woodcuts in this show which opened Jan. 15 and will go until the 29th.
Through Our Eyes - Each One Teach One
Artist Marsha Hatcher and myself did similar images of Cayenne Pepper Pickers from our trip to Nigeria.
Marsha's image is in acrylic painting with white paint only. Mine is a linoleum print.
My mentor was artist Cookie Davis. I put my "Uwacu" print into 3-D in clay putting the patterns of the skirt "carved" in the clay.
Cookie's sculpture is on the left and mine is on the right. This show is at the Ritz Theatre and LaVilla Museum. It opened Nov. 19, 2009 and goes to July 30, 2010.Tuesday, September 01, 2009
Cayenne Pepper Pickers
This is done on linoleum. Artist Marsha Hatcher and I will be doing similar images with different interpretations of the same image from our travels to see my parents in Africa in Jan. 2009
Monday, August 31, 2009
Working in Clay with Mentor Cookie Davis
Literally carving into clay to get the look of when I carve into a block of wood to do my relief prints. The designs are the same from my recent woodcut
Artist Cookie Davis showing me some clay techniques and allowing me the space of her studio and her time.
Another woodcut
Uwacu's Vessel (uwacu means "ours" in Rwandan)
Part of the Joseph's Tunic Series. The patterns in this wrapper/skirt are being put in 3d in clay form
PAL Mural
Police Athletic League off Monument Drive at Ed Austin Park
The Art Center Cooperative busy again on another community service project
Back to work
My panel I did for a total of six that the Art Center collective installed at Gregory Drive Elementary as part of our community outreach
Friday, August 28, 2009
Solo show at Unitarian Universalist Church
June 2009
The churh is located at 7405 Arlington Expressway and shows different artists on a regular basis in their community/social room
Featured Artist for April at the Art Center
My featured artist wall. All new acrylic paintings having to do with dance. The tryptich is titled "Feel the Rhythm"
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Images of Dignity
I did four images of women titled Joseph's Tunic I, II, III and IV, getting inspiration from the "coat of many colors", but implementing multiple designs found on fabric. For this show all the images were framed together, but they can stand alone. I plan to carry these images further and print them on colorful backgrounds incorporating the "many colors". This show was at the Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum sponsored by JCAAA (Jacksonville Consortium of African American Artists) for the month of April.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Figure Show, March "09, at the Art Center Cooperative Inc.
First pass at "Pablo's Hands" drawing one of our figure models. This is an acrylic painting 16X20
Final submission for the Figure show. Note more depth and tone in the hands and the color of background changed.
Detail of one of the hands.
The Art Center Cooperative Inc. offers Figure Drawing every Tuesday night from 7-9p on 111 E. Bay St., downtown Jax. Cost is $10.
Final submission for the Figure show. Note more depth and tone in the hands and the color of background changed.
Detail of one of the hands.
The Art Center Cooperative Inc. offers Figure Drawing every Tuesday night from 7-9p on 111 E. Bay St., downtown Jax. Cost is $10.FCCJ North Campus, JCAAA Exhibit Jan. 14 -Feb.16, 2009
By my piece titled "Ashiti" which is the name of the Tiv lady who adopted my mother as her daughter at their first mission station in Asikunia, Nigeria, West Africa
My piece titled "Kiwo Boys", cow and goat herders
Group of Five Artists from JCAAA (Jacksonville Consortium of African American Artists) pulled together an exhibit titled "Cultural Fusion"
Rhonda Bristol, Annelies Dykgraaf, Pam Barnett, Pablo Rivera and Marsha Hatcher
Latitude Cafe art show, Dec. 08-Jan. 09
Latitude Cafe is located on Park St. in Five Points area, Jacksonville, FL
I showed bright colorful acrylic paintings and the "Akala Tree" story woodcut series. This is a great cafe offering Latin dishes and homemade deserts, and of course, encourage the arts by offering a rotation schedule of artists every two months.
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