Amie Potsic

June 12, 2025

Art Watch Radio Podcast with Linda Dubin Garfield on May 14, 2025

Amie Potsic

June 12, 2025

May 14, 2025

Amie Potsic speaks with Linda Dubin Garfield, a celebrated printmaker, philanthropist, and founder of ARTsisters, whose 20 year retrospective is now on view at the Old City Jewish Art Center.

After a fulfilling career as a counselor and educator in the Philadelphia public school system, Linda Dubin Garfield embraced a new path as a visual artist. Drawing from her lifelong passions—memory, nature, and cultural identity—Garfield creates richly layered works that blend traditional printmaking, photography, collage, and digital techniques. Her art explores the fluidity of memory, the resilience of the natural world, and the enduring power of cultural heritage.

Garfield’s practice is deeply rooted in activism and healing. Through her visual storytelling, she addresses critical issues such as environmental conservation, women’s empowerment, and social justice. Her Jewish identity is central to both her artistic expression and her community engagement, shaping her work and philanthropy alike.

A dedicated volunteer and philanthropist, Garfield has supported numerous causes over the decades. Her annual birthday celebration doubles as a fundraiser—this year’s event on May 8 benefits the Old City Jewish Art Center, continuing her tradition of giving back through art.

In 2023, Garfield's contributions were honored with the publication of Linda Dubin Garfield: An Artist’s Life, a retrospective monograph now included in the permanent collection of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

Beyond her own creative work, Garfield empowers others through leadership and mentorship. She is the founder of ARTsisters, a collective of professional women artists, and smARTbusinessconsulting, an initiative supporting emerging creatives in building sustainable art practices.

Her work has been exhibited nationally at institutions including The Delaware Contemporary, Da Vinci Art Alliance, The Banana Factory, and The Noyes Museum of Art. She is also a recipient of a Leeway Foundation grant in recognition of her socially engaged artistic practice.

Through her art and advocacy, Linda Dubin Garfield invites audiences to reflect on the places, people, and memories we carry—and to take compassionate, creative action in the world around us.

Linda Dubin Garfield with her work at *Twenty Years of Living My Dream*, her solo retrospective exhibition located at the Old City Jewish Art Center in Philadelphia, 2025

Linda Dubin Garfield, *Tropics 2,* 2022, Mixed Media, 12” x 12”

Featured works at *Twenty Years Living My Dream*, Linda Dubin Garfield’s solo retrospective exhibition located at the Old Jewish Art Center in Philadelphia, 2025

Linda Dubin Garfield, *Remembering Chile 2, 2021*, Mixed Media, 12” x 12”

Linda Dubin Garfield, *Remembered Landscape 3,* Mixed Media, 18” x 18”, 2021

To learn more about the exhibition visit, https://www.ocjac.org/current-exhibition

To learn more about Linda Dubin Garfield visit, https://www.amiepotsicartadvisory.com/art-history/linda-dubin-garfield

Banner Image: Linda Dubin Garfield, Florentine Memories, Mixed Media, 20” x 20”, 2016

Amie Potsic

May 2, 2025

Art Watch Radio Podcast with Teresa Shields on April 9, 2025

Amie Potsic

May 2, 2025

Installation view, Teresa Shields: *I Feel Seen*, March 14–May 4, 2025, Hunterdon Art Museum

April 9, 2025

Amie Potsic interviews fiber artist Teresa Shield about her solo show I Feel Seen at the Hunterdon Art Museum.

I Feel Seen by Teresa Shields presents the artist’s unique perspective and craftsmanship as she draws attention to the female gaze. Through sculpted wool felt and intricate embroidery, Shields utilizes the traditional handiwork of women to create highly conceptual and unexpected objects that simultaneously evoke amusement and discomfort.

Residing near Philadelphia, Teresa’s creative journey started with interpreting abstract shapes from sliced fruits and vegetables through embroidery. Transitioning to wet felting in 2016, she explores transforming wool fibers into solid, yielding hollow forms. Teresa has exhibited across the United States, including at the Woodmere Art Museum, the Santa Paula Art Museum, and the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. She holds a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University and an MFA from Mass College of Art.

Acknowledging that women are watched and judged their whole lives often without really being seen, this body of work encourages a reckoning with women’s existence in the world and their determination to create art that speaks to their own experience – unfiltered through a male gaze. Shields’ sculptural eyeballs follow and see the audience in a way that allows them to be observed while actively returning attention. The artist’s sculpted necklaces connect her process to the earliest adornment of human bodies and how women use external objects of beauty to create meaning.

Inspired by the artist Hilma af Klint, Shields utilizes circles, sacred geometry, abstract shapes, and a symbolic color palette for a higher purpose. Like Klint’s paintings, which were disregarded in her time for their feminine, spiritual, and abstract qualities, Shields’ installations harness the colors blue (feminine), yellow (masculine), and pink (love) to speak of ethereal and human connection.

Shields’ work is also highly influenced by her martial arts practice, which depends on balance, circular motion, and discipline. Similarly, the artist’s studio practice is meditative, self-directed, and dedicated. Through daily practice and creation, Shields combines female energy, color, and form to create work that celebrates women and elevates the act of making art itself.

To learn more about the exhibition, visit https://www.hunterdonartmuseum.org/exhibitions/member-highlight-teresa-shields/

To learn more about Teresa Shields visit, https://www.amiepotsicartadvisory.com/art-history/teresa-shields

Banner Image: Installation view, Teresa Shields: I Feel Seen, March 14–May 4, 2025, Hunterdon Art Museum

Amie Potsic

April 2, 2025

Art Watch Radio Podcast with Donald E. Camp on March 19, 2025

Amie Potsic

April 2, 2025

Installation view, Donald E. Camp: *Faces*, March 5–April 6, 2025, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Documentation photo by Joe Painter.

March 19, 2025

Amie Potsic interviews photographer Donald E. Camp about his solo show and 40-year survey exhibition featuring Dust Shaped Hearts at List Gallery at Swarthmore College.

The List Gallery at Swarthmore College presents Donald E. Camp: Faces, a solo exhibition of works by the noted artist, on view March 5–April 6, 2025. This survey brings together photographs spanning nearly four decades that highlight Camp’s experimental printing processes and career-long commitment honoring the specific character of his subjects, inspiring self-reflection, and fostering dialogue about intolerance. Curated by Associate Curator Tess Wei, Faces features a selection from Dust Shaped Hearts, Camp’s ongoing series of large- and medium-scale photographic portraits made with casein and earth pigments. New faces in this series will be on view to the public for the first time and demonstrate the artist's recent experiments with digital photographic negatives.

© Donald E. Camp 2024, Woman Who Sees Form and Color - Ms. Barbara Bullock, Casein and raw earth pigment monoprint on paper, 41 x 29 inches

Donald E. Camp at his exhibition *Faces*, March 5–April 6, 2025, List Gallery, Swarthmore College.

Watch 6abc Action News Feature: https://6abc.com/post/philadelphia-artist-veteran-creates-unique-dust-shaped-hearts/16018763/

Camp was born in 1940 in Meadville, Pennsylvania and began his career as a photojournalist in 1972. Throughout his life, Camp has been attuned to the dissemination of negative stereotypes published in the media, particularly headshots and cartoon caricatures of Black men. Inspired to combat the divisive images and other forms of bigoted discourse, Camp left his career as a photojournalist to study at Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, where he earned a BFA in 1987 and an MFA in 1989. Camp began his signature series, Dust Shaped Hearts, in the early 1990s. Camp developed his signature printing method by incorporating elements of an early 19th century process involving casein and earth pigments.

Prior to pursuing his BFA and MFA at Tyler School of Art, Camp worked as a photojournalist for the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, and was a founding member of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists (ABJ). Camp’s work has been exhibited at distinguished institutions in the Philadelphia region, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Woodmere Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Michener Art Museum, and the Philadelphia International Airport. His works have also been exhibited at the Delaware Contemporary in Wilmington, DE, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art in Ann Arbor, MI. He is Professor Emeritus at Ursinus College, where he was Artist-In-Residence for more than a decade. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards from distinguished organizations, including the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Pew Charitable Trusts. Camp currently lives and works in Philadelphia.

To learn more about Donald E. Camp visit, https://www.amiepotsicartadvisory.com/art-history/donald-e-camp

Banner Image: Installation view, Donald E. Camp: Faces, March 5–April 6, 2025, List Gallery, Swarthmore College, Documentation photo by Joe Painter.

Amie Potsic

February 27, 2025

Art Watch Radio Podcast with Tulu Bayar on February 19, 2025

Amie Potsic

February 27, 2025

© Tulu Bayar, *Immigrant Stories*, Work in Progress, Interior pages include cotton, abaca, and khadi, Citrus transfers, collages, acrylic paintings, collagraphs, found objects, jude rope, Three hole pamphlet, 5.5 " X 8 " X 1.5", 2025

February 19, 2025

Amie Potsic interviews Tulu Bayar, Turkish-born American artist and educator whose work draws from the teachings of Rumi, focusing on spiritual unity and the interconnectedness of humanity.

“I had the pleasure of leading amazing art-making workshops with recent immigrants in thanks to the support of the Puffin Foundation and Thrive International!

We explored the theme of dual identity and navigating two cultures. Participants brought in photos from their birthplaces and current lives and created stunning portrait collages. While they worked, I created citrus transfers from their collages, turning them into unique pieces of art. After the workshops, I create hand-made artist books of the material during artist residencies at Foundation House, the Vermont Studio Center, and Ucross Foundation.

This is part of a series of community workshops I am hosting and I’m beyond inspired by the dedication and detail everyone put into their projects! These pieces will be part of an exhibition and publication presented at Strata Santa Fe Gallery in Santa Fe, NM October 14 - October 31, 2025.

What I love most is that everyone in the workshops feels seen without needing to shout. Immigrant stories are American stories, and I’m so excited to keep sharing them.”

- Tulu Bayar

© Tulu Bayar, *Chimera* installation view, 2023

Tulu Bayar is a Turkish-born American artist and educator whose work draws from the teachings of Rumi, focusing on spiritual unity and the interconnectedness of humanity. As an artist and immigrant, Bayar explores the complexities of straddling two cultures, blending her experiences from both her native Turkey and the U.S. Her work examines themes of exoticism, otherness, and cultural hybridism using multidisciplinary approaches. Bayar holds a BA from the University of Ankara and an MFA from the University of Cincinnati. Her diverse work has been featured in numerous exhibitions across the U.S. and internationally, including Germany, Denmark, the UK, France, Turkey, Italy, and China. Her art is in several prominent public collections, such as Belfast Exposed Photography, the Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, and Samek Art Museum. Her work has been supported by grants from the Puffin Foundation Grant, the Mellon Confounding Problems Project Grant, and the Fulbright Scholar Grant. Bayar’s projects have garnered critical acclaim with coverage from major media outlets including NPR, Hyperallergic, WhiteHot Magazine, The Irish Times, and Art in America.

To learn more about Tulu Bayar visit, https://www.tulubayar.com/

To see Tulu Bayar’s Art History visit, https://www.amiepotsicartadvisory.com/art-history/tulubayar

Banner Image: © Tulu Bayar, Immigrant Stories, Work in Progress, Interior pages include cotton, abaca, and khadi, Citrus transfers, collages, acrylic paintings, collagraphs, found objects, jude rope, Three hole pamphlet, 5.5 " X 8 " X 1.5", 2025

Amie Potsic

January 31, 2025

Art Watch Radio Podcast with Dan Marcolina on January 15, 2025

Amie Potsic

January 31, 2025

© Dan Marcolina, Silent Witnesses Diptych, Ai Transformed Image from Original, 16 x 16 inches, 2024 — © Dan Marcolina, *Silent Witnesses Diptych*, Ai Transformed Image from Original, 16 x 16 inches, 2024

January 15, 2025

Amie Potsic interviewed Dan Marcolina, a Philadelphia-based fine artist blending photography and Ai technology to push the boundaries of creativity.

“This series of images called Complicated Relationships explores the dynamics of various interrelationships both between individuals and their environment. By using original photographs which are stylized and juxtaposed through physical and artificial means I try to emphasize the harmonies and imbalances that can occur between both.

My Ai photo-synthesis process always starts with an original camera image that is carefully composed and sometimes processed to capture my artistic intent. That image is fed into an AI portal, sometimes with the addition of text and or additional image prompts. The AI uses that new input to build more renditions. I then curate the best option by considering the balance between composition/concept.

This process can be repeated many times until the original idea of the photo is strengthened or even completely transmuted to unexpected places. It is a curious journey, similar to street photography, searching for the right moments to intersect. The resulting file is then re-scaled with AI and color tuned with more corrections or additions in Photoshop. The end result is work that contains the original DNA of the photo, combined with a visual metamorphosis conducted by the artist.

This new work has been pushed to another level, when scanned with your phone, the prints in the show come to life and offer immersive interactive moments. By using Augmented Reality and Virtual reality the images stores are deepened.”

Dan Marcolina is a Philadelphia-based artist, designer, and photographer with over 45 years of experience blending traditional and digital image creation. He co-founded Marcolina Design, one of the city’s first all-digital design firms, renowned for its innovative use of AR, VR, and AI in crafting immersive experiences for clients like Adobe, Apple, and the Discovery Channel. An early adopter of Photoshop, Marcolina is celebrated for his inventive photo collages and design work and has lectured on digital photography and AI artistry for National Geographic and Adobe. His work has been exhibited nationwide, featured in publications, and is part of the Woodmere Museum of Art's collection. A pioneer in mobile photo manipulation, he authored iPhone Obsessed and continues to explore the intersection of technology and art to push creative boundaries.

DAN MARCOLINA

Exhibition and Lecture on February 10, 2025 at the University of Delaware, Willard Hall

Click here to learn more about the exhibition events.

© Dan Marcolina, SBee Keeping in the Future, Ai Transformed Image from Original, 16 x 16 inches, 2024 — © Dan Marcolina, *Bee Keeping in the Future*, Ai Transformed Image from Original, 16 x 16 inches, 2024

© Dan Marcolina, Extracting Feelings Into Form Diptych, Ai Transformed Image from Original, 16 x 16 inches, 2024 — © Dan Marcolina, *Extracting Feelings into Form Diptych*, Ai Transformed Image from Original, 16 x 16 inches, 2024

© Dan Marcolina, Distilling Essence, Ai Transformed Image from Original, 16 x 16 inches, 2024 — © Dan Marcolina, *Distilling Essence*, Ai Transformed Image from Original, 16 x 16 inches, 2024

© Dan Marcolina, Nesting Instincts, Ai Transformed Image from Original, 16 x 16 inches, 2024 — © Dan Marcolina, *Nesting Instincts*, Ai Transformed Image from Original, 16 x 16 inches, 2024

To learn more about Dan Marcolina visit, marcolina.com/diffused