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Art on Access – Coeur d’Alene artists from various disciplines are taping a series of half-hour segments that will begin airing on public access TV

Area artists will soon offer a series of instructional programs designed to enhance the visibility of their work while demonstrating the methods of producing their artistic specialties.

By RICK THOMAS
Staff writer

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Using the Adelphia cable studio, artists from various disciplines are taping a series of half-hour segments that will begin airing on public access channel 13 at 7 p.m. May 13.

"For artists to achieve their potential, they must be seen by as many people as possible," said Tamara Robb, a sculptor and owner of Bronze by Tamara and River City Framing & Gallery in Post Falls.

Robb is producing the series, in which each participating artist tapes two half-hour installments.

Each of the participants needed to learn a new art form to create the series.

Adelphia provides the location and equipment, and a training session showing them the techniques of making TV shows. The artists then work as directors, camera operators and in other components of the process.

Public access is required by the Federal Communications Commission and Adelphia’s franchise agreement, said Charlotte Robertson-Limesand, Adelphia’s public access coordinator.

Though content is restricted to nonprofit and nonpolitical shows and cannot be used to create or broadcast obscene or defamatory programs, the only cost to users is for sets and incidentals, such as a CD blank the programming can be saved to for future use.

It’s a high-tech digital system, with the programs stored not on tapes or film, but in Adelphia’s computer.

Robb, who plans to move her business to her home in the near future and concentrate on her sculpting, said the experiment has given each artist additional insight into the others’ art and increases their appreciation of it. She now wants to try oil painting.

Sandy Wirth, an oil painter specializing in landscapes, said the programs will show how artists develop their work and the processes used to achieve their goals.

Other artists set to share their techniques include Ed DeDecker with Chinese brush paining, Joanne Sandifur with watercolors, Louise Telford with glass forming, Terry Lee with oil painting and Marilyn Bowles with portraiture.

Each segment of the Artist Workshops of the Northwest program will air multiple times in the Thursday 7 p.m. time slot, with daytime schedules to be announced later.

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