Princeton Theological Seminary’s Erdman Art Gallery to Open New Academic Year with Exhibit of Wildlife Paintings
Princeton, NJ, August 24, 2005– On September 12, Princeton Theological Seminary’s Erdman Art Gallery will open “Birds,” an exhibit by artist Dallas Piotrowski featuring a series of wildlife paintings. The exhibit will run through October 21.
Piotrowski is a painter whose main focus and passion is endangered, threatened, and extinct wildlife. Her reverence for the natural world and its beauty has resulted in 25 years of painting wildlife both in its natural environments and in unexpected settings to emphasize and dramatize the loss of environment for wildlife. Although the artist still takes an unexpected approach and will always be an activist, she is now focusing on painting the natural world for its incredible beauty. She says, “Whatever I paint, I try to capture the true character and spirit of the wildlife; but, my main objective will always be to nurture a love of nature.”
Piotrowski received an associate’s degree from Mercer County Community College in West Windsor, New Jersey, and then attended The College of New Jersey, where she studied printmaking with Hiroshi Murata, a former professor of art and now a self-employed artist living in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has also studied painting with artists Mel Leipzig, Elizabeth Ruggles, and Nelson Shanks, and attended the Children’s Book Institute of Publishing and Writing at Vassar College. She lives in Hamilton, New Jersey, and has exhibited extensively in the Northeast. She is active in area art associations.
The Seminary’s Erdman Art Gallery will host an artist’s talk and reception with Piotrowski on Tuesday, September 20 from 4:30 until 5:45 p.m.
The Erdman Art Gallery is located in Erdman Hall, 20 Library Place, at the Center of Continuing Education at Princeton Theological Seminary. The gallery is open Monday through Saturday from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. and Sunday from 2:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. The exhibit is free and open to the public.
For more information, please call 609-497-7990.
