Springfield Art Guild
Springfield, Virginia

KAREN FLANN

Spiritual Color Veiling, taught by Barbara Thelin Preston, was the beginning
of Karen Flann’s art journey.    After exploring watercolor and abstract
acrylic painting with a series of nationally-recognized teachers, including Carolyn
Gawarecki and Marsha Staiger, she became fascinated with abstract collage.  She
was able to study with both Gerald Brommer and Mary Todd Beam.  As a result,
she has become something of a bag lady, constantly looking for stray bits of material
to be incorporated into her next piece of work.

Her work has been accepted into juried shows at River Farm, Green Spring Gardens Park, the Vienna Art Society, Gallery West, Aldie Mill, and the Sewall Belmont House and Museum in Washington, D.C.    For the past two years, she has been juried into the bin gallery at the Torpedo Factory in Alexandria, Virginia.   She was a guest artist at the  ValeArts Fall 2010 art show and sale in Oakton.    In September of  2012,  she will be in a group show with other collage artists at the Ratner Museum in Bethesda.  

She created the cover design for the novella, Mad Dog and for Smoky Ordinary, a collection of short fiction.

Currently,  she is a member of the Springfield Art Guild, the Art League at the Torpedo Factory, the Fairfax Council for the Arts, and the National Collage Society.

Proceeds from the sale of her work go to the Robert Packard Center for ALS