(click to return to Home page) (click to return to Home page)PURCHASING ARTWORK SUPPORTS THE ARTISTS AND THE NSS FINE ARTS SALON. ENQUIRE HERE
The Gallery was founded in 1997 to celebrate our artists. The Gallery has grown over the years with artists creating new work and the annual Exhibition of the Fine Arts Salon is now the world showcase for the finest speleogically inspired artwork.
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Carolina Shrewsbury was already an established artist and gallery coordinator in Europe.
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Our Salon Exhibitions are held every year at the NSS Convention; the national organization for the protection and scientific research of caves in our country and abroad. The NSS is affiliated with the Union International of Speleology which hosts Congress every 4 years in different countries around the world.
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Our workshops are popular and have become more ambitious with mural artwork.
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Carolina Shrewsbury, USA/Great Britain/Switzerland(SpeleoArt, ISSA) (46182FL)(AL FE) Started caving with Plymouth Polytechnic Caving Club, 1978; Westminster Caving Club, 1980; Caving with AGH/SGH in Switzerland and France 1980-1997. Member of the National Speleological Society, NSS #48936. Moved permanently to the USA in 2000. Moved to Florida 2006-7 on sailboat Dreamweaver. Carolina works from her studio at her home in Largo, FL. Exhibited in Great Britain and throughout Europe and the United States since 1985. Many paintings in private collections. Founder Member of International Society of Speleological Art (ISSA) 1994. Initiated SpeleoArt in 1997 as an organization for international speleo-art workshops and exhibitions. Founding Member of the NSS Fine Arts Salon 2000. Awarded the Spelean Arts and Letters 2007 and Fellowship to the NSS 2008. SpeleoArt is the contact base for speleo-artists worldwide and others interested in seeing, selling and buying speleo-art. Caves have been a major part of my adult life. They inspire me, they thrill me, they smell good. I try to bring the taste of cave exploration to the surface by using the materials of the 'uberwelt' to depict color, mood and the intensity of texture.
Carolina is the Chairman and Coordinator of the NSS Fine Arts Salon and SpeleoArt Workshops, Glenwood Springs, Colorado 2011.
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Alice Rolfes-Curl (16673RL) Rane Curl (2247HM) (HM,FE) Vittoria Curl (23500RL) Stained glass and pewter on wood. 2006 Caver's Choice Ballot Box See the box every year at the NSS Convention. |
CAVER'S CHOICE AWARD 2006 . |
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(31390RE) Winner 2009 SpeleoArt Award at International Congress of Speleology
Michael has won awards in many art shows and craft shows locally and nationally, including several Best of Show awards. He has also judged several wood carving shows and has written for the American Woodturner, the journal of the American Association of Woodturners. Active in both local and national turning and carving clubs, he also demonstrates and teaches both woodcarving and woodturning in his studio. Michael has been turning and carving for 26 years and is self-taught. |
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Andy Komensky(8164RE) (FE) A caver for decades, Andy, retired Carlsbad Caverns Park Ranger, now paints his memories for all cavers to enjoy and shares with us that unmistakable enthusiasm for the ultimate trip to remember. Andy will be at Convention this year, so come meet our most popular artist!
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Lois Manno(28056RE)(FE)
Lois began caving in Texas almost 30 years ago, about the same time she began her career as an artist. She works in a variety of media, including acrylic, pastel, and scratchboard. A resident of New Mexico, Lois donates much of her caving time to Carlsbad Caverns National Park, where she does restoration, survey, and geologic inventory work. She is the director of the Cavern Arts Project, which is helping the National Park Service with the coordination and installation of an exhibit of fine art and photography, scheduled to premier when the remodeled visitor center officially reopens in 2008. www.cavernartsproject.org She was part of the original group who helped raise awareness for the Fine Arts Salon for the NSS. |
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Ian Ellis Chandler |
Stephan Bryant |
Mindy Grayson |
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Chrys Hulbert |
Carol Fritz |
Dan Grebenart |
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Cristina Alencar |
Jan Knox |
Asa Linmann |
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Bill Steele |
David Goetze |
97 Western Regional (various) |
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Myrna Attaway A Winner 08 |
Kriste Lindberg |
Michael Angelo Gagliardi |
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Emily Davis Speleobooks |
Jacqui Thomas (47718RE) |
Mindy Grayson |
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Alice Gervais |
Joe Sabatino |
Michael Kehs |
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Alice Woznack (32394FL) SpeleoArt Award 2008 (TEXTILE) |
Charles "Chuck" Acklin(27465RE)(FE) MERIT AWARD PAINT/PASTEL 2006 |
Peter and Ann Bosted (20805RE)(CM,LB,FE) (30176RE)(FE) |
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Marianne Gamble |
Teddy Marsan |
Hester Mallonee |
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Michael Kehs |
Tom Cottrell |
Kara Pivarski(54872RE) |
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Ken StoreyEditor of Illuminations or bi-annual publication for the Arts and Letters Section of the NSS. |
Lois Manno |
Michael Angelo Gagliardi |
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Stephanie Meinke |
Kriste Lindburg |
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Hester Mallonee (52908RE) Front Cover of NSS News July 2006 Issue |
Bill Greenwald(9146RL FE) Beginner Workshop classes for JSS and FAS |
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Ian (Ellis) Chandler |
Alice Rolfes-Curl(16673RL) |
Kara Pivarski |
Between 2002 and 2008, "Experiment in Speleoart" classes were run by Bill Greenwald. He says I inspired him, but he inspired me too. 2001, I took Bill and others into Great Saltpeter Cave in Kentucky for the Beginner Class. |
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Maine 2002 |
"UP" Michigan 2004 |
Alabama 2005 |
2006 Washington State |
2007 Indiana |
2008 Florida |
2009 TEXAS ICS |
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Entrance to The Underground 2009
Michael, from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, has exhibited in several US shows, including Challenge V: International Lathe Turned Objects, the National Speleological Society’s Fine Art Salon. He turned an ornament for the Clinton White House during the “Year of the Craft.”
