KHAC Guild Members are Telling Stories

NANCY GAMON

Nancy Gamon is an experimental, mixed-media artist. She employs a variety of techniques in her artwork, including sewing, weaving, wrapping, painting, printing, collage, plaster molding, and embroidery.

Folklore

Her artwork, fashion accessories and home décor items have been featured in a variety of national publications. She is the 2013 President of Contemporary Quilt and Fiber Artists (CQAFA), a local group with over 60 members.

D.S. (DOUG) MEYERS

D.S. Meyers is both an avid artist and voracious writer. His creativity in both disciplines helps him to push conceptual boundaries.

His artwork has been seen in a solo debut D.S. Meyers at the Car Barn, Final Fridays, a fundraiser for the CAC when it was under construction, Sidewinder Coffee, The Hyde Park Art Show and Malton Gallery. He is very honored to have found a home among the Kennedy Heights Arts Center Guild.

In his painting, Manic Raven: Space Vessel, Meyers uses different finishing gels to create depth. He combines different finishes to create dimension. The sky in the painting is highly glossy. But the moons are a very flat matte- creating a sense that they are coming out of the canvas. The mountains are painted in a medium gel, and the characters in the foreground are once again matte.

As a writer, he has written five novels. He received an Honorable Mention in the 75^th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition- placing within the top 25 out of 19,000 entries.

With the Manic Raven series, D.S. Meyers has found a way to convey the mysteries of our solar system. He uses his skills to merge stunning visual imagery with written narrative.

Copies of his book Adventures of the Manic Raven are available in the gift shop. The next book Race to VIP is due out in 2014.
Manic Raven: Space Vessel

Manic Raven

ROBIN HARTMANN

Robin began her career after graduating from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, N.Y. in 1987. After working in the theater industry creating and building costumes for many of the Broadway shows of the 1980s (A Chorus Line, The Wiz, Pippin), she found herself working among frogs, bears and pigs and Jim Henson’s Muppets.

For five years, she helped pin, stitch, design and create the puppets, costumes and sometimes props that delighted children and adults alike. Some projects included Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, various Muppet movies and TV specials.

It's Always Time for Tea

Upon leaving The Muppets, Robin worked as a wardrobe assistant for a season on Saturday Night Live (1985). She then became interested in toy design and came to Cincinnati to work as a designer for Kenner Toys.

Robin has worked on many successful projects while in Cincinnati, including toy development for Kenner, Hasbro, Gibson Greetings, Empire Toys and Idea development. She has also worked on feature films in Cincinnati including “A Rage in Harlem” and “The Shawshank Redemption.”

She has designed costumes and puppets for The Cincinnati Museum Center, the Dallas Children’s Museum, Artworks and The Smithsonian Institution. The creations she is most proud of are her children. Robin is currently frelancing and teaching art at The New School in North Avondale.

Robin is a charter member of the Kennedy Guild of the Kennedy Heights Arts Center.