The artworks I have selected to exhibit with the Pittsburgh Group Sewickley, PA at the Sweetwater Art Center from Feb 5 – March 27, 2026, are autobiographical re: the landscape of my childhood. The season is winter, and Pittsburgh will transition from winter to springtime during the show.
The opening for the art show was Thursday February 5, 2026 from 6-8PM.
Sweetwater Art Center 200 Broad St. Sewickley, PA15243
Regular Hours: Open weekdays 9-5. Closed weekends. 412-741-4405 call ahead to check for weather closings
My pieces to be exhibited are part of an exhibition by The Pittsburgh Group, a group of 17 women artists and will be on the Mezzanine level of Sweetwater Center for the Arts. We each submitted 3 or 4 pieces.
Here is a list of Exhibiting members in this show.
The artworks I am exhibiting were painted in shades of blue during and after a 2024 ski trip with my husband to Mt. Mansfield in Stowe, Vermont. On one of our ski days, I joined my sister Erica who was a member of the US Alpine Ski Team 1968 and 1969 to ski together on what I now call the big, beautiful backyard of my childhood. It had been a VERY LONG TIME since we skied there together. We loved our runs on Mt. Mansfield! It’s great to be able to share this landscape more with my husband now that he is retired. Growing up, my family lived close enough to the bottom of Mt. Mansfield that we could ski home after a day of skiing. My sisters and I spent so much time on the mountain in all seasons. Spring, summer and fall was for hiking. It left an indelible memory, and I feel lucky and happy to be able to revisit it now a couple times a year. When I was in the early grades of elementary school in Stowe our house was also a ski lodge which I’ve written about here.
Frontal View of Mt. Mansfield #1 was completed in 2025.The original painting found a home in Wyoming, but I have prints available for sale. Printed on Hahnemühle Bamboo paper Original media: Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Permanent Ink. 19 1/2” w. x 8 1/2” h. (+-) including white border. Read more and see price
Title of artwork: Frontal View of Mt. Mansfield, Stowe, VT #2
Medium: Watercolor Dimensions (H × W × D): 21” h. x 29” w. x 2” d.
Year created: 2024
Is the artwork for sale? NO (but I will have it scanned for prints after the show ends)
Painted in the rental unit after a day of skiing; just painted on two pages of my watercolor notebook at night from memory. The traveling watercolor set is by Derwent Intense watercolors, permanent when dry – doesn’t washout like watercolor. Layer up intense vibrant colors. The red dot is the Octagon, a restaurant at top of chairlift, now painted red. Here’s a picture of me in the bathroom as I painted this picture:
Title of artwork: Watercolor Study for View East from Mt. Mansfield
Medium: watercolor
Dimensions (H × W × D): 14”h. x 11” w. x 2” d.
Year created: 2024
Is the artwork for sale? (Yes/No): YES
Sale price (if applicable): $250. SOLD
Note: People responded a lot to this when I posted it on social media when done.
Title of artwork: View East from Mt. Mansfield
Medium: Acrylic paint
Dimensions (H × W × D): 24 ½” h. x 21 ½” x 2”d
Year created: 2024
Is the artwork for sale? (Yes/No): NO
Sale price (if applicable): NFS
View East from Mt. Mansfield (Acrylic)
Medium: Acrylic
Dimensions (H × W × D): 48” h. x 36” w. x 2”d.
Year created: 2024
Is the artwork for sale? (Yes/No): Yes
Sale price (if applicable): $1500.
For scale I am standing with the painting:
I am a member of the Pittsburgh Society of Artists and the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. I was pleased to be invited to join the Pittsburgh Group in 2024. Education: California College of Arts and Crafts (BFA) now called California College of the Arts; additional studies at Instituto Allende, Mexico, Boston Architectural Center, Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill.
The Art Award I’m proudest of was from Juror Freyda Spira, Associate Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I received one of her Best of Show awards at Intr[au]spective exhibition, in Pittsburgh’s Three Rivers Arts Festival.
Sweetwater Center for the Arts celebrated its 50th anniversary recently by planning for a spectacular renovation described in this Pittsburgh Magazine article . I learned that Alice Snyder, Trudy Hetherington and Smokey Jack were the founding mothers. While Sweetwater Center for the Arts currently has exhibition space on two floors, it exciting to see the future in the architectural rendering below. Fundraising is ongoing.
