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Cheshire Art League - Artist Meg Barone, Eggshell Mosaics Demo

Cheshire Art League - Artist Meg Barone, Eggshell Mosaics Demo

Using shards of eggs and arranging them on mat board and on whole eggs to create the eggshell mosaics that she calls Megshells, Artist Meg Barone will demonstrate her unique form of art.

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Hamden artist Meg Barone has always created works of art from fragments of different things, whether she is using words and arranging them on a page to create her award-winning journalistic stories or using shards of eggs and arranging them on mat board and on whole eggs to create the eggshell mosaics that she calls Megshells.

It was an act of “defiance” in a college art class that led Meg to create the unusual art form that has taken her to the White House on three occasions. Three of Meg’s eggshell mosaics are in the Smithsonian Institution (undoubtedly in a closet collecting dust but at least she can say they are there in the nation’s “attic.”), and one of her decorated eggs is the property of the George W. Bush Library in Texas.

Three times Meg has participated in Easter at the White House by special invitation. On the first occasion she was the only amateur artist who received an invitation, and on the South Lawn of the White House she was able to view two of her eggshell mosaics on “Eggs-ibit” alongside wooden eggs depicting artwork from famed illustrators, artists and cartoonists including Charles Schulz (creator of the Peanuts comic strip), Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey comic artist), Hamden’s own George Wildman (originator of the Popeye comic book, but not the character), pop artist Peter Max, and many others.

Meg’s last invitation to the White House came in 2004, the year before the egg art program came to an end (although the Easter at the White House celebration continues each year). That year Meg was one of only 50 artists invited, one from each state, each of whom had to decorate a real chicken egg that specifically represented their state. At that exhibit Meg met and was photographed with First Lady Laura Bush

Meg has exhibited her “Pieces of a Life” eggshell mosaic art work at many libraries, art supply stores, galleries, nature centers, and museums. For the Kellogg Environmental Center at Osbornedale State Park in Derby, Meg was asked to create a display of eggs in art and nature. What was meant to be a one-month exhibit was extended for five months. One of the eggs Meg decorated for Easter at the White House was one of 75 decorated eggs selected for a traveling exhibit that was displayed at numerous museums and galleries throughout the United States. That traveling display included a stop at the Museum of Art, Science, and Industry in Bridgeport, which has since been renamed the Discovery Museum.

Megshells have also been displayed at the historic Pequot Library in Southport, the Greenwich Workshop, Milford Fine Arts Council, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center, the Stratford Bird Festival, the Firehouse Gallery, the Garbage Museum, Connecticut Hospice in Branford, the Hospital of St. Raphael, the Connecticut Poultry Association annual meeting, ING’s annual Earth Day celebration, and the Celebrating Agriculture Day at the Woodstock Fairgrounds.

Meg and her Megshells have been featured in many newspapers, including the Connecticut Post and New Haven Register, and she was also featured on WTNH-TV, Channel 8.

Her work includes flat, matted and framed eggshell mosaics and three-dimensional eggshells on top of real, whole eggs – from small cockatiel and quail eggs to large ostrich eggs. At the annual North Haven and Durham fairs Meg has won many blue ribbons for her egg art, including a Best of Class rosette at the North Haven Fair in 2019.

 

Please join us!

*The Cheshire Art League will conduct a quick meeting at 6:30pm before the demo begins at 7pm.

Date:
Wednesday, June 2, 2021
Time:
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Location:
Zoom Virtual Meeting (Outside Groups)
Categories:
Special Interest Groups
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