As we count down to Paint Annapolis 2015, MFA will be featuring one – or two – artists of the day to let you learn more about the artists who are competing and exhibiting in Paint Annapolis.
Paint Annapolis 2015
Competition: June 8 – 12
Exhibition: June 13 – 21
Kathleen Kotarba
Kathleen Gilbert Kotarba is an award winning plein air painter residing in Baltimore, Maryland. She holds a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She is an Artist Member of the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters Association (MAPAPA), and a member of Oil Painters of America and the Baltimore Watercolor Society. She has been a juried exhibitor in “Paint Annapolis”, “Plein Air Easton”, and “Mid-Atlantic Regional Exhibition” of the Baltimore Watercolor Society, the “Wayne Art Center Plein Air Festival”, “Paint It-Ellicott City”, “Hampton Art Initiative”, “Cylburn Celebration of Art” and “Mountain Maryland” in Cumberland. Her work has also been exhibited at McBride Gallery in Annapolis Maryland, Crystal Moll Gallery in Baltimore Maryland, the Carroll Mansion, with MAPAPA at Strathmore Center for the Arts, Chadds Ford Historical Society, Quiet Waters Park Gallery, the Towson Art Collective, Annapolis City Hall, St. Paul’s School and Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts.
Kathleen Kotarba is one of the artists featured in the publication “100 Plein Air Painters of the Mid-Atlantic.” Kathleen’s artist statement: I have a deep interest in the effects of time. The long timelines of nature are revealed in trees, rocks and rivers. There are the timelines of humanity revealed in architecture. There are the fleeting timelines of light that pass through a single and specific day. All inspire me. I delight in the colors and shapes of the natural world. I paint them to engage in, and bear witness to, the passage of time.
Learn more about the 30 international artists participating in Paint Annapolis
