Robert Glover Shoemaker Quilt Gallery

Pennsylvania Quilts

Featuring a changing exhibit of Pennsylvania Quilts, the Shoemaker Quilt Gallery (above) is part of the regular museum tour.

Pennsylvania Quilts II: Patterns and Variations
An Exhibit of Antique Quilts from Packwood House Museum

June 12 - October 13, 2012

Theresa Spitler and Irina Yastremski: "Real and Imagined"

October 29-November 5, 2011
Reception October 29, 2011, 6-9 p.m.

After a career in teaching, noted pastel artist Theresa Spitler, of Montoursville, PA, spends much of her time creating art. She teaches pastel painting workshops and demonstrates her pastel techniques for art organizations and area schools. Theresa finds inspiration in the everyday objects she includes in her still life paintings. Her travels influence her landscapes and she frequently paints on location.

“Pastel is a very pure medium with brilliant color. It can also give the artist immediate results. It is very satisfying to create the illusion of form and substance out of dust. There are infinite ways to make strokes and I experiment using different surfaces.”

Theresa has exhibited and won awards in juried exhibitions. She is a member of various art organizations including the Bald Eagle Art League, the Lewisburg Arts Council and the Central PA Pastel Society. Her work is in private and public collections and can be seen in galleries throughout the area.

A native of Russia, Irina Yastremski emigrated to the US in 1975. She had already studied applied art at Moscow Technological Institute and continued her training in the US, earning her BFA in drawing and painting at the Kansas City Art Institute. During the 1980s, she applied her skills to architectural drawings but has since moved to oil, acrylic and silkscreen prints. In her paintings Irina uses bold brushstrokes creating highly detailed, decorative compositions. Her silkscreen prints and collages reveal new relationships between objects and their color system. In her works, there is a strong presence of a feminine theme, although a woman, herself, may not be present in the picture.

Her personal shows include Wave Gallery, New Haven, CT; Parker Gallery, Washington, DC; Open Door Gallery, Lewisburg, PA; Middlebury College, Middlebury VT; the Kern Gallery at the Penn State University, State College, PA; several shows at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA; Faustina Gallery, Lewisburg, PA; the Southern Vermont Art Center, Manchester, VT; and the Gallery Blue, Harrisburg, PA. Her works are currently are displayed at Peppers Arts Gallery, Selinsgrove, PA. Her works are found in the Vologda State Art Museum as well as in many private collections in the USA and Russia.

Many of her works have become illustrations in art poetry books. They were not direct illustrations of particular poems but rather artist’s vision of emotions and thoughts expressed in the entire selection of a poet’s works. The books were sold at the museum shop of the National Museum of Women in the Art in Washington, DC.

Pictured, top: "Drive By," pastel by Theresa Spitler; bottom, "Fragmented Landscape," silkscreen collage by Irina Yastremski.

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