GALLERY & artist statement
ARTIST STATEMENT
‘What is the risk in painting birds, vegetables, and flowers with watercolor?
Risk is doing that thing that you're afraid to do.
Rationalization, procrastination, self-blame, overcommitment and distraction are some of the guises of fear. Paralyzing panic lives at the fulcrum point
between acclaim and ridicule.
The challenge is to step over that mess and say it
out loud.
I like weeds. I like crows. I like garlic. I like bugs.
I like watercolor.
JM
Jeanne Manzelli's Art is a contemporary approach to traditional themes.
- The medium is primarily watercolor
- The bird drawings are done with charcoal pencil, carbon pencil and glass pen
- The large figural work is mixed-media.
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Images in the gallery are available, as"Giclee'Art"
through ManzelliPublishing.com
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WATERCOLOR EXAMPLES
Watercolor has a reputation for being difficult. It really is not. The color floats on the water; blends, moves carefully alone, but will resist autocracy. It is best to work as a collaborator.
This raven began as an example for students. I only planed to show the head, shoulder. Taking the left over color, I blocked in the rest. (I love this one)
These chilis are from my garden, were dried and used in spicy foods. I left the shadows as shapes for contrast. It is important to stay with the painting, not an idea of the outcome.
Queen Anne's Lace is also known as wild carrot. I don't suggest painting it unless you have a lot of time.
This image is soft, but each flower is painted fully. It takes forever but there is something about Queen Anne's Lace that's magic.
WATERCOLOR BOTANICAL ART
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ordinary things
CHICKENS *** Charcoal * carbon pencil * Conte' or wash
Reds *** Because i love the color
INSTALlATION art
1894, the Hayden Station Social Club ** Windsor CT,
Thirty-two children came to Hayden Station for a school photo dressed in their best school-photo outfits. Their clothes tell a story; too big, too small, out of style. They will see two world wars, economic collapse, mass immigration from Europe, but this day they they are all together for a school photo-op.
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RESUME
JEANNE MANZELLI Email: jeannemanzelli@comcast.net
jeannemanzelli@jeannemanzelli.com
Key skills
· Strong organizational and interpersonal skills
· Experienced classroom educator, post secondary
· Resourceful problem solving skills
Education
BFA sculpture / ceramics Massachusetts College of Art, Boston
MED special area Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
GIA Diamond appraisal certificate, NYC
I-TEACH training certified in on-line education
Haystack Mountain School of Craft. Sliver-smithing and jewelry design
Experience
Teaching
Adjunct professor in fine art at CT State, Tunxis (25 yrs)
Interior design
Vendor and resource to Interior Designers providing color consultation
large scale residential murals, and smaller specialty jobs (15 yrs)
Manzelli Jewelry
Design, Manufacture, Marketing a small business (10 yrs)
JM Designs
Design for former wholesale clients and private venders on 47 th street, (diamond district)
Appraisers
Appraisal of privately owned jewelry for insurance, probate, or sale (8 yrs)
Art and Design
Original art sold through agent into specialty markets (2 yrs)
Additional recognitions:
Third prize CRT show in the professional category 2019
Best in show, Windsor Art Gallery members show 2019 Second prize 2020
Member of the American Association of Botanical Artists
Submissions to DeBeers international Diamond competition (3 years)
Designs accepted by Tiffany NY for their silver department
Brokerage of six figure necklace to Van Cleef and Apel for private customer
Board member supporting Hope City CDC, working with communities within
Hopewell Baptist Church
Current interests
Botanical art
Historic social commentary
CIRRICULUM VITA
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College
BFA in sculpture. Massachusetts Collage of Art, Boston,
Student body secretary, Mass Art, Boston. (senior year)
Summer teaching for the Massachusetts Audubon Society (5 summers)
Making jewelry for small stores around Boston
(Started jewelry business at 15 years old)
Haystack Mountain School of Craft, Deer Isle ME
(worked with legendary professionals) Two scholarship sessions
Post College free-lance artist (two year)
Continued building my jewelry business
Traveled to England and Scotland
staying with ornithologist John Berry HL family (3 weeks)
Interned at John Lewis Jewelry, Newberry St, Boston MA
(hand-made production jewelry)
Managed Christmas and Easter picture events at mid-size department store.
Opened a small seasonal jewelry store on Nantucket Island (one summer)
Organized, staffed and ran, a jewelry division resident camp, Denmark ME
Taught after-school,program at the DeCordova museum in Lincoln MA
I was still making jewelry selling the same way... very informally... but I began doing more ambitious projects; lost wax casting customed rings.
Graduate School Masters of Education UMASS Amherst MA focus, Art
MED (The school of education was a very important school at the time. Their goal was the placement of PhDs, trained in humanist education, into the National School systems.Graduates have gone on to make significant changes in diversity, racial equity, hearing impaired and academically challenged, programs.)
POST GRAD SCHOOL CAREER
(Needing a flexible income stream, I made jewelry, doing trade shows)
Eastern States Exposition (5 seasons)
Midtown Manhattan trade show (4 years) currently held at Javitz Center
Moved to San Francisco for one year
Sold jewelry in Ghirardelli square
Sold to Macy’s San Francisco
Sold to I Magnin San Francisco
Sold simple sterling jewelry to India Imports
I could not compete with the Asian market, so I looked at designing.
Returning from San Francisco, I designed for specialty boutiques in NYC.
I designsd prototypes for small-medium jewelry manufactures,
precious stone importers; designing single pieces to sell the jewels.
NEW YORK 47th street diamond district
"The safest street in Manhattan.” quote Hollis,of Hollis Reh & Sharif
I was given the opportunity to show lovely jewels and jewelry to Cartier and Van Cleef (for Hollis Reh and Sharif)
I designed a necklace for a 40ct Emerald surrounded with diamonds.
I submitted diamond designs to DeBeers for three competitions.
A representative from DeBeers, interested in a design I submitted, offered
a dream job. The job didn’t materialize. (A level achieved none-the-less.)
I created sterling silver 3D floral napkin rings and met with buyers
at Tiffany. The work was well received.
PAINTING and DRAWING
INTERIOR DESIGN WORK. 1992-2008
Abstract decorative oil paintings; still life of objects on columns sold through an agent
School of Visual Arts summer study in Urbino Italy drawing medieval art.
Sold paintings to interior designers for resale and staging
Painted large murals for interior decorators in high end homes
Painted vignettes to add detail to decor
Restoration work, when needed, to present a seamless transformation
Color consultation for clients and designers
Started 'VISION 1’ a part-time summer opportunity for students to work on murals with me.
We painted several murals for a large Latin dance club in New Haven.
We painted figural murals in an elaborate pool house owned by
Starter Sports Clothes
We painted sets for trade show stages, entertainment venues and
magnificent homes.
October-Fest, (six stages, family area, major talent, on 300 acres of
Boston Commons) managing the children's area with Boston
Children"s Museum .
Boston Music Awards, backstage supporting the talent 3 years
Transitioning Years (1993-2024)
Ran a school wide mural program for Hartford Summer Youth Employment
Painted an electrical box on Franklin Ave, Hartford of a box of crayons.
Painted two large canvases (10’x6’ / 15’x6’) for Peppercorn’s restaurant
in Hartford
Painted a 360* mural of Bushnell Park, Hartford, in 1910 in an historic home
Started Manzelli Publishing to capitalize on sales of Giclee’ Art from the Bushnell Park piece
Gov. Jody Rell decorated her offices with Giclee’ Art from that series
Forty 4’x4’ ceiling panels of Christian iconography for nave of Saint Mary’s church in Milford CT.
$20,000 installation of tromp‘oil painted antique road equipment for UOE, New Haven CT
TEACHING 25 years as adjunct faculty (’99-24) while dovetailing my work with interior design and building an inventory of fine and commercial art.
MISC. ITEMS:
Worked with recognized African American artist building a competitive presentation for
San Francisco public art project at Hunter’s Point Shipyard.
Working currently with New Britain Museum of American Art, through the education dept.
Created a 12’ long 4’x 4’ pop-up book of the history of Pope’s Columbia Bicycle in Hartford
Worked with Bushnell Park foundation raising funds selling my Giclee’ images of the park
Created “Art Camp for Grown-ups” a concept driven, 4-day emersion experience, with lunch