Join Hudson FIne Art and Framing and The Red Twig in the Annual “In the Pink” art show to benefit The Gathering Place in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month. Both locations will be raffling art on canvas by local artists with 100% of raffle proceeds donated to The Gathering Place.

Hudson Fine Art and Framing will feature the artwork of local artists Karen Koch and Amber McElreath.
The Red Twig will be featuring local artists Linda Hutchinson and Sarah Greer.

Information on Karen Koch
Karen Koch relies on her love of nature and memories of days gone by for inspiration for her art. Believing that being grounded in our past helps us grow toward our future, her recent work explores the universal questions of where have we been and where are
we going. She majored in Studio Art and English Literature at Denison University. After graduating, she worked at art galleries and continued painting for several years. When she eventually took a job in another field, she stopped painting for more than a decade.
In 2005, she began painting again, first in acrylics then adding elements of collage. Recent work incorporate stitching as a way to add line detail. Thread, yarn, and stitching are also a nod to both her evenings spent embroidering with her mother and days as a seamstress in college. Found objects, grandmother’s buttons, plastic wrappers, maps, and old book pages all find their way into her work. Maps especially are loaded with associations of childhood road trips and the promise of grand adventures. The results are colorful artworks rich in surface texture and personal associations.

Karen Koch
178 ½ N. Main Street
Hudson, OH 44236
www.LifeNeedsArt.com
lifeneedsart@gmail.com

Artist bio Amber McElreath
Found object assemblage artist
ambermcelreath@gmail.com | www.midnightsonoak.com | 330-612- 4206
Amber graduated with her BFA from Kent State University School of Fine and Professional Arts with a concentration in painting. Earning an internship, led to work as an artist assistant. She worked by commission before obtaining her MAs in Art Therapy
and Counseling from Ursuline College. Amber has mostly shown in galleries within northeast Ohio such as Summit Art Space, the Pop Shop, the We Gallery, the Florence O’Donnell Wasmer Gallery, and the Dr. George Streeter Gallery. She has expanded her
reach and has shown her artwork in Austin, Texas as well as London, England. Amber’s artwork was published in the 2012 edition of Inscape. She has donated works to multiple charities. She was a featured chalk artist for Akron Children’s Hospital Celebration, PAC Chalk the Walk. She was a featured artist for the 2015 Akron Symphony Orchestra’s Fanfair (sic). She was one of 78 hand-selected artists from around the world to be featured in a Tarot card deck created by Studio 2091. Locally, she has been chosen to participate in several juried shows such as the Fresh Art Show at Summit Art Space. She was featured in the Akron Beacon Journal in a positive review written by Anderson Turner called “Juried exhibition full of ‘Fresh’ ideas” in which Turner said Amber’s work “offers surprises around every corner.” Amber was selected to be the Buckeye Art Therapy Association Art Therapist/Artist of the Month for July 2016 which coincided with her last solo exhibition, “Memories, Dreams, and Ruminations”. Amber is an Art Therapist at the Art Therapy Studio in Cleveland, OH. She has been working with the Geauga County and Cuyahoga County Boards of Developmental Disabilities as well as other agencies in the Cleveland/Akron area. She specializes in working with clients who have intellectual and developmental disabilities. She also holds art classes for the Art Therapy Studio at their Ursuline College location.

Artist bio for Sarah Greer
Sarah Greer is an Ohio representational artist whose approach to painting is not unlike the 19th century impressionists. She paints her favorite landscapes and occasional still life or portrait commissions with a vibrant and brilliant color sense. Sarah has a BFA from Kent State University in studio art, and with continuing studies and master classes, she constantly refines her skills as a painter. Her work has been exhibited in Northeastern Ohio and sold to clients nationally.

Sarah and her husband own “South Farm”, a large horse farm in scenic Amish country in Middlefield Ohio where she lives with her three children, and two dogs and numerous horses. For more information about Sarah’s work, she can be contacted at the farm at
440-632- 5501 or by email at: swgreer@southfarm.net

Artist Bio for Linda Hutchinson
www.hutchinsonart.blogspot.com
Linda Hutchinson has been making art for the better part of her life, originally in the greeting card and print markets, and currently
through her fine art drawings and paintings. Awards include: Ohio Watercolor Society Gold Medal in 2001; First Night Akron button artist in 2008; and twice the recipient of The Kaleidoscope Award. She teaches drawing and painting at The Cuyahoga Valley Art
Center and through continuing education programs at Kent City Schools. Her affiliations include: Akron Society of Artists; Charlotte
Fine Art Gallery; Hudson Fine Art and Framing; Ohio Arts Council; Ohio Watercolor Society; Oil Painters of America and The Sharon
Weiss Gallery in Columbus. Most recently her work was featured in The Art of Watercolour Magazine, issue 26, which is published in Paris. One of her works was included in the 150th Anniversary International Exhibition 2017 sponsored by The American Watercolor Society and another has been accepted into Watercolor Ohio 2017 which will be held at the Columbus Museum of Art. She holds a B.A. in French from Miami (OH) University. For an extended exhibition history, or to view more work, please visit her
website.