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Italian Canadian Portrait & Figurative Artist ~ Anna Chiarelli Sponer
www.annasponer.com
Email: anna@annaponer.com

YouTube video's

Pastel Paintings:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-6WHW40etE

Collection of Paintings:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOeI4NL0FEA

Soft Pastel Portrait Demo:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tErjgmIfgLc

Anna's Artworld video on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5fJJONDW7w

Founder / Member of: Artist Artworld www.ArtistArtworld.com ~ International Virtual Art Gallery

Anna Chiarelli Sponer is a self taught Italian Canadian artist, born & currently living in Ontario, Canada. Her parents immigrated to Canada from the province of Agrigento, Sicily - only daughter and the youngest in a family of six children.

Anna Sponer began her gallery in 2004, by first exploring charcoal as a medium followed by soft black and white pastel and incorporating color shortly after. The majority of her latest art work is now created in oil paint on canvas.

In Anna's gallery, a diversity of artistic subjects are displayed together with the many portrait paintings of numerous persons, including works completed for three members of the Canadian Woman's National Soccer Team.

Since 2004, Anna has held numerous exhibitions throughout the Greater Hamilton Area and has been commissioned to create original paintings for individuals and corporations in the United States, Europe and across Canada.

Her diverse collection of paintings represent the impressionistic style with a touch of expressionism. She has a unique way of visualizing and creating exceptional works of art. By utilizing her images, studying and exposing them to the public they become real, personal and in depth. Anna's treatment of lighting and shadows, emphasized in her portraits and other artistic subjects, dynamically embrace and transcend the expression of human emotions.

Anna's paintings have been presented in The Hamilton Spectator, the Hamilton Mountain News, the Stoney Creek News, and aired on CHCH-TV community events covering the 23rd International Spring Art Exhibition, organized by Hamilton Folk Arts Heritage Council; and shown during the Hamilton Literary Awards (2007) presented by Arts Hamilton.

The AGH (Art Gallery of Hamilton) has put her art on display in the spring of 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 in a juried exhibition presented by the Women's Art Association of Hamilton (WAAH).

Nominee ~ City of Hamilton Arts Award 2004

"To Dance", an oil on canvas art piece (especially created for Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation) was auctioned off ($12,000.00) with all the proceeds going to Mac Kids. The art piece was generously donated by the buyer to Mac Kids to be permanently exhibited at McMaster Children's Hospital in Hamilton Ontario (2008).

The oil painting of "Young Oprah Winfrey" has been published in "Portrait of America" - Oprah Winfrey: The Celebrity As Entrepreneur,
Vol.II 10th edition, U.S. published 2010.
Authors:
Stephen B. Oates
Charles J. Errico

**Award - 2011 Hamilton YWCA Women of Distinction ~ Arts, Entertainment and Creative Energy. View www.women1distinction.blogspot.com for more details.

(YWCA Women of Distinction awards recognizes women who have excelled, broken barriers & made a difference for women and community. Categories: Arts, Entertainment & Creative Energy; Politics & Public Affairs; Health & Wellness; Community Development & Social Activism; Mentoring & Education; Business, Industry & Entrepreneurship; Volunteerism; Young Woman of Distinction; Circle of Friends; Lifetime Achievement.)

** Next art exhibition (for 2011) will be hosted in south India - Calicut, Kerala


ACCOLADES:

"Sponer is a self-taught artist who has developed an excellent ability to use the blending qualities of the pastel medium to create... "
- Elaine Hujer - Freelance writer for The Hamilton Spectator (2005)

"A more enigmatic narrative is at the heart of Anna Sponer's "Alone"... "
-Regina Haggo - Art Columnist for The Hamilton Spectator (2008)

"Its a beautiful piece (To Dance) and will hang in a place of honour at Mac Kids..."
-Dan Mclean - Senior Anchor for CHCH News, Hamilton, Ontario (2008)

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**Freelance art work:

Available to create original paintings for individuals, groups, and corporations - using oil on canvas or soft pastel (from your selection of photo's as reference).

Signed & Numbered Prints are available from most of my collection of paintings on my Full Gallery Website. www.annasponer.com
Contact for more info.


Anna's blogs:
www.annasartworld.blogspot.com

**Join Anna's group "The Art World" on Linkedin


Artist Artworld International Virtual Art Gallery
Official website ** www.ArtistArtworld.com

Post your profile, offer your artworks for sale and be mapped on the website's World Map. "Live Help" is available for you on the website if you need assistance.

Connect with other artists, collectors, galleries, art lovers and prospective buyers from around the world - be part of our world... the Artist Artworld .
Contact: AnnaSponer@ArtistArtworld.com


**Booking Agent for Charly Chiarelli - Musician | Storyteller | Writer | Actor www.cufustory.com
DVD's of his performances available on his website online store.

View his full profile at:
www.charlychiarelli.blogspot.com

Wikipedia profile:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charly_Chiarelli