50 Pearl Artists

Artist work Studios @50 Pearl: 
Melanie Chartier, Carole Ann Danner, Karen Billard, Sandra Ginnis and Molly Driscoll.

Melanie Chartier is primarily an oil painter. She is a south coast native who earned her Bachelor of Fine Art degree at Southeastern Massachusetts University (now U Mass Dartmouth). Following that she was awarded a teaching assistantship at Southern Illinois University where she earned her Master of Fine Art degree. Melanie married and started her family in the Chicagoland area where they remained until 2000. Now Melanie lives in East Sandwich with her husband and daughter and maintains a studio in the Shirley Blair Flynn Center for the Creative Arts in downtown Hyannis.

Her most recent work ranges from explorations with large shell paintings to her still life paintings utilizing objects as symbols to create meaning.

Her new challenge in both instances, is working toward incorporating a balance of representation and abstraction in each piece for the purpose of expanding her visual language.

You can usually find Melanie at her studio Tuesday-Saturday, 10:30AM-2:30PM and other times by chance. You can also make an appointment by calling (508) 685-2001, or e-mail theartist@melaniechartier.com




 

Carole Ann Danner has lived on Cape Cod for the past seven years. She works with oils on wood, canvas and encaustic.

She has her Masters Degree in Painting from the Mass. College of Art at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.


She is represented by the Julie Heller Gallery in Provincetown, and the Harvest Gallery Wine Bar in Dennis, MA. Her work includes figurative, imaginary landscapes and grid chess piece paintings.

Contact Carole Ann online or by phone:
508-737-4536.
email: caroleanndanner@aol.com  www.caroleanndanner.com
50 Pearl Street year round-daily, 2PM-6PM .
Other times by chance and appointment.




 

Karen Billard is a designer and artist who brings a broad range of skill and experience to her creative work. As a fine artist, she is drawn to the human figure and portraiture. She is particularly interested in exploring the transition from three dimensions to two. This informs her work as both artist and costumer.

She recently formed Kusala Design, through which she designs jewelry and tassels, costumes for theater, and websites and graphics. She is a patternmaker, trained at FIT, with experience in the New York fashion industry. As a costumer, she designs for a number of theaters on the Cape. Her work in costuming has consistently received critical notice. Karen combines her beadwork with hand weaving, kumihimo braiding, polymer and precious metal clays to create unique jewelry and tassels.

Karen’s work as a fiber artist and figurative artist has been exhibited in galleries and decorator showcases on Cape Cod and in Westchester County in New York. She is a former member and Vice President of programming for the Handweaver’s Guild of Westchester. She has taught classes in art, costuming, tassel making and beadwork.

Karen believes strongly in the central role the arts play in the quality of community and personal life. Working with Cape Cod Poets Theater she helped organize the 2009 Provincetown Poetry & Literary Arts Festival. She is a member of the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, the Falmouth Artists Guild, Cape Cod Museum of Art, PAAM, and the Falmouth Cultural Council. She was President of the Provincetown Theater Foundation From January 2010 - May 2011, and served on their Board from 2008 - until recently. She lives in Waquoit with her husband and daughter.

Contact Karen at karen@kusaladesign.com
www.kusaladesign.com

Mireille "Mimi" Poupart
La Muse Studio
mimipoupart@gmail.com

 

Mireille “Mimi” Poupart is a fine artist and an art teacher who works in mixed media and photography and will occupy one of the studio spots, which she has named “La Muse Studio”.   Mimi is interested in the affect colors have on each individual.  “Color is powerful, even a small amount of it can significantly impact a large space.  The ways we respond to colors in our natural surroundings and the moods colors create in us are the foundations of my work.”

Mimi’s work explores the relationships and responses to colors in two paths simultaneously. “Art is a synthesis of feelings.  The goal is to say a lot with a few.  The intention is to attract the attention with the composition through color contrast, intensity and or subtleness.  Serenity and simplicity are my muses.”

Her photographs use available light to capture the natural color and beauty of the subject while the mixed media abstract pieces stem from color studies taken from nature and transformed with imagination.  On the process, Mimi usually begins with a color and evolves into compositions in which color defines the subject.
 

Sandra Ginnis works primarily with oil. 

 

Molly Driscoll is a ceramic artist who makes both functional and
sculptural pottery, including traditional dinnerware, vases, planters, garden art, tile work and bust size sculptures. She is currently an art teacher at Eastham Elementary School and loves working with children and the arts.

Molly occupies the seasonal potting studio at the Center, and can be contacted at mollydriscoll.com.
508) 332-8211 or molly_driscoll@hotmail.com