Diana Carnes is a Renaissance woman whose passions and travels have taken her in many directions. She modestly refers to herself as a “dabbler,” having studied and created in so many diverse art forms from painting to sculpture to metalwork, leather, woodwork, music, writing and dance. A native of Pittsburgh, Carnes spent her teen years overseas due to her dad’s work as an engineer. On the Pampas of Argentina and in the north of Spain on the Bay of Vizcaya, she rode horses, p

The draw that Cuba has for photographers is currently on display in the show Cuatro Caballeros at the Anderson Arts Center. Anderson Artists Guild member Craig Johnson is one of the four photographers whose pictures from Cuba make up the exhibit. Johnson visited Cuba last May and posted many of his pictures on Facebook and on some photo platforms. Word got around, and he was eventually invited to be part of a show featuring photographs of Cuba taken by Anderson photographer T

Donna Persinger brought her passion for encaustics to fellow members at the Anderson Artists Guild meeting on Jan. 14. After sharing some of the history—including the discovery of encaustic portraits on ancient Egyptian tombs, a story about Leonardo da Vinci’s ill-fated attempt to apply wax to a painting, and a revival of the art form with Jasper Johns in 1954—she talked about her own discovery of the possibilities of creating art with beeswax and damar resin and encaustic pa

Anderson Artists Guild member Donna Persinger will share tips about creating encaustic artwork at the next meeting on Monday, Jan. 14, at 6:30 p.m. at the Anderson Arts Center. After giving a little history of the process, she will demonstrate some of the techniques, including accretion, shellac burn, and the basics of fusing and embedding objects such as leaves, paper, and fibers. “I like the versatility, the ability to layer, to create texture,” she said. “It’s such a great

Marion Fanning is constantly reinventing herself. From business to art, she has always been open to new possibilities. After graduating from high school in New Jersey, she moved to New York to become a model but soon became disenchanted. “I made a living but didn’t like it,” she said. “I would go on a ‘go-see’ with all these other girls, and in the interview they’d say I was not what they were looking for. That experience has been so helpful in the art world—rejection doesn’t