May Front-Range Meeting

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    DATE: Saturday, May 10th, 2025

    TIME: 10:00-10:30 am, socializing with coffee and snacks

    10:30-11:00 am, meeting

    11:00am-12:30 pm demo, with room available till 1:00 as needed

    Location: Wheat Ridge Center for Music & Arts (currently also Wheat Ridge United Methodist Church)
    7530 W. 38th Ave.

    Demo Artist: Carole Katchen

    “How to Turn A Boring Painting into One That’s Exciting”

    PSC welcomes Carole Katchen as our demo artist for the May 10 Front Range member meeting.
    Carole Katchen has been a professional artist for 60 years. Her first solo exhibit was at the Denver Art Gallery (Saks Gallery) in 1972. Since then her work has been featured in galleries and museums throughout the United States, in South America, Taiwan and China.

    Some of her pastel awards include:

    • Avelyn Goldsmith Award, PSA, NY
    • Holbein Award, Pastel USA, Sacramento, CA
    • Grumbacher Gold Medallion, PSNM National Exhibit
    • Merit Award, PSSW National Exhibit, Irving, TX
    • Master Pastelist, Braids Award, PSA, NY
    • Golden Mentor Award, International Association of Pastel Societies

    Fourteen of Katchen’s art instruction books have been released by national publishers. She wrote and illustrated 3 children’s books for Scholastic Books. Total sales of all her books have exceeded 1 million copies.

    Carole Katchen in her studio