In Memory of Frederick Fay

Frederick Taylor Fay passed away on December 1st, after a brief illness. He was 101 years old. He was an A1A certified architect and designed many churches, schools and homes. He taught art and mechanical drawing for more than 30 years in schools in New Haven and Woodbridge. Fred taught watercolor at the Creative Workshop in New Haven and at Elim Park, Cheshire. A longtime member of the Arts and Crafts Association, his painting of a house in winter was used on ACAM’s 2008 annual holiday postcard.

OTHER MEMBER NEWS

CHRISTINE IVERS has recently been awarded the Art Spirit Foundation Award for Excellence in Pastel at the 126th Annual Members Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club, NY. She has also been notified that she has been selected to be one of the top 100 Pastelists by Pastel Journal with an honorable mention in the landscape division. Chris has also had paintings accepted into the 15th Juried International Association of Pastel Societies Exhibition at the City of Brea Art Gallery, Brea, CA and this year’s “Richeson 75” Best in Pastels Competition. She has been elected to the Board of Directors at Lyme Art Association, Old Lyme, CT and has been invited to join The Allied Artists of America, Inc. as an active artist member.

Artist NYDIA DOMINGUEZ demonstrated colored pencils techniques to students in an after school program at the Women and Families Center. Nydia taught them how to blend and layer colors to make three dimensional shapes.