New Approaches at This Year’s SKB

by Bob Bahr Two new options were added this year to the Susan Kathleen Black Foundation’s workshop in Dubois–instructors were teaching relief sculpting and colored pencil on suede board. Stephen Spears was leading participants in their exploration of...

Big Jump in SKB Scholarships This Year in Dubois

  As Susan Kathleen Black Foundation instructors become further involved in art education efforts across the country, they become exposed to more teens and young adults who could benefit from participation in SKB’s Dubois workshops each September. The...

SKB Spotlight: Valerie Rogers

Many of Valerie Rogers’s paintings seem to follow an arc: Rogers experiences a memorable moment in nature, she sketches or photographs the animal on the spot or later in a similar situation, and then she paints it. Although she sometimes wishes she had her...

SKB SPOTLIGHT: Pat Jeffers

Regulars to the SKB workshop in Dubois witnessed a transformation in artist Pat Jeffers over the past few years. She was a successful textile artist, known for her baskets and wall hangings, but painting stole her heart. In 2011 she officially “retired”...