Springfield Art Guild
Springfield, Virginia

KAREN FLANN

		Karen Flann Mixed watermedia/ collage kflann4@verizon.net 8203 Mockingbird Drive Annandale, Virginia 22003 703-764-8061

        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.

        Currently she is a member of the Springfield Art Guild, the Art League, the Fairfax Council for the Arts, and the National Collage Society.     Her work has been accepted into juried shows at River Farm, Green Spring Gardens Park, the Vienna Art Society, Gallery West, Aldie Mill, the Sewall Belmont House and Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Art League at the Torpedo Factory.  

        She is scheduled to be a guest artist in Fall 2010 at the Vale Schoolhouse in Oakton.   A solo show is scheduled for May 2011 at a gallery in Baltimore.  In 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.

        Proceeds from her art go to the Robert Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins in memory of her father and her brother.