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Reserve Property Owners Exhibit
July 1 - 29, 2010
Monday - Friday 9am - 5pm

Thanks to the excellent participation from last year, July’s Hill House exhibit  features our very talented Reserve Property Owners. Work exhibited includes photography, watercolor, mixed media, and needlework. On July 19th, a Members Exhibit reception will be held from 5-6:30 PM at the Hill House, to celebrate this unique exhibit.

Mornings with Monet
Hill House, Mondays, 10am - 1pm

Are you interested in painting? Join the Reserve artists each Monday morning at the Hill House from 10AM until 1PM. Each participant is encouraged to bring their own paint and equipment and enjoy the morning creating and socializing with fellow artists. The "Mornings with Monet" began in July and will continue at the Hill House on the back deck whenever the weather permits. In case of inclement weather, artists may choose to work inside at the Hill House.

Bette Coningsby
Coming in August 2010!

Bette Coningsby is an impressionist artist and teacher, capturing and recreating the beauty of nature with its brilliance of light. Bette's work in both her oils and pastels demonstrate the power of her mastery of both mediums, using serene subjects and subtle distinctions of color to reflect the atmosphere and quality of light in her impressionist style. 

Her landscapes and portraits are alive with color reglecting the influence of her mentor, Henry Hensche, of the world renowned Charles Hawthorne Cape School of Art. Taught as a child by her artist grandmother, Bette began her forman training at teh New York Art Students League, followed by an Associate of ARts degree from Centenary College and a Bachelor of Fine Arts and teaching certificate from Florida Atlantic Univesity. She has painted plein-air and studio setting with outstanding teachers and received many awards.  Bette currently shares her time living in Boynton Beach, Florida and Lake Toxaway, N.C. You may view her work at www.BetteConingsby.com

The SC Humanities Council & The Reserve Community Foundation present:
Lucy Beam Hoffman as Irene Nemirovsky
Wednesday, August 11th, 7pm
Founders Hall


Actress Lucy Beam Hoffman takes us back to the 1900s as she celebrates the life and trials of Irene Nemirovsky, a writer in the interway period — between WWI and WWII. She was born in Kiev in 1903. Her family was Jewish but not in religion. It was more of a cultural connection — they lived on the wealthy side of the tracks. 
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