‘Tiffany Cow’ Creator Up First—

Three Programs Planned By SCAN

The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown has details available for its next three public programs, which are open to the public free of charge.

Programs are presented at Newtown Meeting House, 31 Main Street (at the flagpole).

On Wednesday, February 27, at 1:30 pm, guest artist Adele Moros will offer a watercolor presentation.

Ms Moros is a multimedia artist with a background in advertising. She is a former fashion illustrator who studied at the Phoenix School, Parsons School of Design, and Silvermine Guild Arts Center, as well as with several local artists.

She is a fellow of The International Guild of Miniature Art and was a director and founding member of Bethel Arts Junction. Her work ranges from miniatures to murals, landscapes and florals to prints. She has been teaching for 20 years; her work is included in numerous private and public collections, and in 2005 four of her miniatures were chosen for the permanent collection of the Toy and Miniature Department of The Kentucky Museum.

In 2000 Ms Moros designed “Tiffany Cow,” a life-size cow created to look like a classic Tiffany window design, for CowParade New York City. In what has become a signature style for the artist, she created hundreds of raised lines of liquid lead to separate the colored “glass,” which is then created with acrylic paint and finished with several layers of high-gloss acrylic varnish to give the appearance of real glass.

The sculpture sold at auction for $60,000 (the highest hammer price at the September 2000 sale), and The Metropolitan Museum of Art has slides of the sculpture in its permanent collection and uses them for lectures on Tiffany.

Ms Moros has also created at least five more CowParade works. She did “Tiffany Globe,” another cow, which again used her “Tiffany” style, for CowParade Boston in 2006, and a pair of works for CowParade West Hartford, which ran from late 2007 until just last month. “Beau Vine Trellis” and “Koi” were the works for that Connecticut presentation.

In 2006 she participated in “HEARTbeat of Our Community,” which featured larger-than-life heart sculptures that were designed and produced by the same company responsible for the life-size CowParade cows. Like the CowParade events, the hearts were decorated by a number of local artists, displayed publicly, and then auctioned. For that project Ms Moros created two works, “Garden Heart” and “Glass Heart,” both of which used her signature “Tiffany” style.

In 2002 Ms Moros created “Jungle Gym,” an eight-foot-tall giraffe, for Stamford Safari, and a faux stained glass Port-A-Potty for Imodium’s Urban Relief Project in New York City. The Newark Star Ledger described the piece as “a showstopper.”

 Ms Moros is currently working on several painting commissions and real estate renderings. She is also preparing a body of tiny paintings that will be shown for the International Guild of Miniature Artisans.

March Programs

Next month SCAN will host two of its free presentations (the group does not host evening sessions in February).

On Wednesday, March 12, the guest artist will be Bruce Degen, the illustrator of the Magic School Bus series and many other books, who will talk about children’s art. His program will begin at 7:30 pm.

Then on Wednesday, March 26, Frank Federico will paint a landscape in watercolor.

For additional information about these programs or other upcoming events (including a sketch session on February 27, classes, a bus trip to New York City and even the annual spring juried show) or membership opportunities, call 426-6654.