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TTHE TGF ART CHALLENGE TO CELEBRATE VISIONVISIONS FORVISION2023

The Glaucoma Foundaon (TGF) is one of the leading not-for-prots in the world dedicated to the study of glaucoma and the search for its cure. Since our founding in 1984, we have awarded millions of dollars in seed money for cung-edge research projects. The Foundaon’s Opc Nerve Rescue and Restoraon Think Tank brings experts from around the world together to set the course for the discovery of new treatments and cures.We are dedicated to improving the lives of people with glaucoma. www.glaucomafoundaon.org

The TGF Art Challenge was established in 2020 to bring arsts and art lovers together to celebrate vision and support sight-saving glaucoma research. We thank all of the arsts and generous donors whose gis through this project will support new science in 2024.on the coverPortal To Another Dimensionartist: Kristel ScheerlinckVISIONS FOR VISION 2023

Dr. Jeanette A. BevilacquaJeanee Bevilacqua has increased her arsc exploraons over the last 7 years since the death of her husband.“Fueled by the grief process, It helped! The most recent medium I discovered is pastels, with the surprise depth of color and expression, beer than expected! “Mr. Tiger” feels like a wise old man, and I hope teaches us respect, acceptance and protecon of our animal kingdom family. I feel his grief - he knows and forgives, a lesson for us all.”Mr. Tiger, a Wise Old Man

Randy L. BrozenRandy is an Arst and Educator; she uses plants, moss, handmade paper, her own photographs and other ‘interesng stu.’randybrozen.comTHE WORLD IS ALWAYS CHANGINGhandmade lokta paper, photography, paper owers, fake vines, moss

Margaret BurtonSun R’EYES

Bella CalabaBella is a freshman in high school and enjoys painng as a hobby. She is subming her artwork to the Art Challenge as she has family members with glaucoma and wants to help nd a cure for this disease.Circe

DR. DENISE CARVALHOMy painngs are oil and mixed media. They are abstract works that are inspired by ancient connecons between pictograps and script. They address ideas that link art and music, but are aldo inspired by nature.Liquid Worlddenisecarvalho.squarespace.com

CELESTE CASTILLOI am a rered hair stylist and make-up arst with a lile too much me on my hands. Rather than an arst, I prefer to call myself a hobbyist if that word even exists. I love anything that requires creavity and exercising my brain, such as craing, painng, woodwork, plasc arts, cross-stching, embroidery, you name it, I will do it all, only for personal pleasure and enjoyment.DrapesI made this 3D piece using a combinaon of media like canvas, fabric, plaster, glue, and acrylic paint.

PAT CAULFIELD A visually impaired abstract arst, Patricia works primarily in mixed media on cradleboard including acrylic paint, vine charcoal, conté crayon, pencil, collage, sanding and distressing. Clouds have always been a source of inspiraon for Patricia. By constantly studying form, movement and light, Patricia creates atmospheric painngs – land and seascapes - without using photographic reference. Drawing from the movaonal power of nature, her vision of depth and space is brought to the forefront. Moving from realisc painng to abstract due to vision loss from glaucoma, Patricia sees her role as an arst in a new way. Her work is a product of her own thinking, her soul, her heart. It is an authenc expression of a created world that you can see and experience. It is intangible. It is abstract. As a paent advocate, Patricia instuted an art show and silent aucon beneng research programs for glaucoma in San Francisco, CA, 2022, 2023 and 2024. She curates art from visually impaired arsts around the world including their bios and journey with vision loss. In 2022 she was the keynote speaker at the Paent Summit in Oak Brook IL. Patricia was recently a guest on the podcast The Arst Next Level with Sergio Gomez.Patricia lectures to students at the Boston University in the biomedical neuroscience graduate studies program on glaucoma, vision loss and the connecon to the arst, 2022, 2023. Locally she is a member of Creave York and the York Art Associaon. She is a contribung arst at the Garth Gallery in Columbia, PA. Patricia also has four cloudscapes in the permanent collecon at the Wellspan York Cancer Center, York PA. In March 2024 she will be a part of a show featuring women in art at the Red Raven Art Company in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. www.patricialcauleld.com | www.Instagram.com/patricialcauleld.art/

SONG FROM HALF MOUNTAIN

Dr. Gunjan ChadhaI am Ophthalmologist by profession with love for art and nature. I usually like to sketch mainly using charcoal as the medium.

The Feeling!

CHARLES CHAMOTTARGETCrayon drawing on American Standard Etching Paper. Part of a body of 200 drawings done in the late 70’s and 80’s. 32”X48” unframed. copyright 1985 Chamotchamot-gallery.com

MICHAEL COUGHLANMichael Coughlan is a Los Angeles based visual arst whose work has been exhibited naonally and internaonally since the 1990’s. Recent exhibions include a solo exhibion at RDFA Gallery in Los Angeles and group exhibit at the Stalke Collecon in Kirke Saaby, Denmark. www.michaelcoughlan.comStudy for Ars Vampirica Oil on canvas7 x 5”2022

Jahkori Kenrick Dopwell HallMy name is Jahkori Dopwell Hall and I am an African American Arst, Elementary Art Teacher, and self-made Entrepreneur with a Bachelor’s Degree of Fine Arts in the eld of Illustraon. I am currently a student studying at the University of Florida working on my Master’s Degree in Art Educaon. As a paent born and diagnosed with Primary Congenital Glaucoma, I never let the condion stop me from achieving my dreams. I use my artwork as a way to inspire and educate others while also telling beauful stories.www.jahkoridopwellhall.org

MELANIN DRIPMelanin Drip is a chalk pastel drawing of an African American face at a side prole angle and in close proximity. This illustraon was featured as the art piece for Melanin March in my 2022 Black History Year Calendar, revealing the beauful hues within the skin and dripping from above.

Cly FowkesFAMILYa collage of 11 photographscreated in Photoshop, 2023clyfowkes.com

Maryann GimartinMy bio has not changed much since I entered the rst TGF Art Challenge in 2020. I began painng with pastels in 2005. It has been a journey ever since. There have been many adventures on the journey with new things to learn, and old and used things to drop along the way. My arsc journey connues. I used to only paint landscapes of places where I traveled with my husband. But I took another step on my journey and began to paint sll life. These contain owers from my garden. Here I have tried to capture the fuzzy, uy Helianthus annuus ‘Teddy Bear.’ They grow from 2 to 10 feet tall and look very showy in a large vase. They are depicted here standing in a large copper bucket used for the serving of maple syrup. This ower is also special because my blind husband carefully planted the seeds that produced this spectacular sunower.BE MY TEDDY BEARPastels in sanded paper

MARGARET BOVEY GLASSMANI have been painng in oils for about 15 years. I’ve learned through group classes and private lessons. My favorite subjects are sll life’s and landscapesStill Lifeoil paints

SONIA GRiNEVASonia Grineva was born in Moscow, Russia, and received her B.A. and M.F.A. degrees from the Stroganov Art Instute. (Stroganov Instute was founded in 1825 and is widely considered to be Moscow’s leading art school, famous for its professors Vassily Kandinsky, Kasimir Malevich, Alexander Rodchenko, among others.)Aer coming to the United States at the age of 20, she studied at the Naonal Academy of Design in Manhaan, where she was awarded a coveted traveling scholarship to Italy and completed a course of study at the Brish Instute in Florence.Irises16” x 16”soniagrineva@gmail.com

SONIA GRiNEVASonia has traveled extensively and works on locaon in the tradion of many “plein air” arsts. She has painted some of Europe’s most impressive ports, waterways, and rivers, including those surrounding Venice, La Rochelle, Monte Carlo, Dieppe, and Prague. She has gained an internaonal reputaon for her oil and watercolor landscapes and is well-known locally for her Manhaan cityscapes. In addion, she is adept at a variety of mediums, including printmaking and sculpture. Her work can be seen in galleries in New York, New England, Santa Fe, Georgia, Washington, and Europe and in numerous private, public, and museum collecons. She maintains an art studio on Union Square in New York City.Prickly Pear16” x 16”soniagrineva@gmail.com

SONIA GRiNEVASonia Grineva’s work is the permanent collecons of numerous instuons, corporaons, and museums, including The White House, Washington, DC; Forbes Foundaon, New York, NY; and Smithsonian Instuon, Branch New York, NY.Capri, The Faraglioni RocksOil on linen.30 x 46 inches.Framed 32 x 48 inches.soniagrineva@gmail.com

jackie heerNew student at SiNaCa Glass Studio. Inspiraon for glass blowing art came from experiencing the Texas Bluebonnet owers in the spring me.My career involves educang doctors, sta and paents on the importance of earlier surgical intervenons to ensure paents can maintain their vision in their lifeme.Seeing through the BluebonnetsManipulated glass in its molten state (2100 degree F). Gathered glass on the end of a 4.5’ steel rod and then using tools and air to shape and form the material. The piece cools overnight.

ANNIE HESSEI am grateful to have started taking photographs before embarking on any formal training. This has allowed me to pursue photography with a more open mind and fewer convenonal constraints.My focus of interests has evolved over the years as my vision has diminished. Photographing the cultural milieu around me in Black & White was my inial inspiraon; the darkroom was magical. Eventually, my desire to show the viewer my percepon of the world and also to iniate another way of ‘seeing’ became vital.Color, shape, texture and contrast are the key elements in my photographs, not to menon the physical distance between the camera and the subject especially while travelling.My photographs have appeared in numerous group shows in the United States including the travelling exhibion, “Sight Unseen – Internaonal Photography by Blind Arsts” currently showing at the Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA.This is a very colorful photograph taken during the Carnival fesval in Cadiz, Spain. Motorized oats were circulang around the city each one containing a dierent group of celebrants. It is a closeup of a group of brightly costumed women and men festooned with sparkles and plumes singing and playing guitars. The woman on the right is nearly in focus. She has her head uplied and is obviously enjoying her song. The others are not quite as clear due to the movement of the oat and the lack of daylight. The predominant colors are red and warm tones of beige and ochre.anniehesse.com

Cadiz Carnival

ELLEN KATCHERMy art is oen described as moody and atmospheric. Although this is never deliberate, I do feel that art that communicates a mood or idea is most interesng. It invites the viewer into another reality.I work in graphite, charcoal, watercolor and oil. I have studied with Max Ginsberg, Diana DeSans, and Mary Anne Heinzenn, among others. I have won many awards, and my painngs have been displayed in presgious galleries such as The Naonal Art League in Douglaston and The Salmagundi Club in Chelsea, NYC. I have been painng for almost 20 years. Before that I taught high school biology. I have had glaucoma since the age of 63, for ten years, so I know what a rough ride it can be. Let’s fund a cure, more treatments, and earlier detecon. Glaucoma has had a profound negave aect on my life since I developed it at age 63. I cannot imagine how dierent my life would have been if I had developed it at age 30.Blue Woman.oil painng from a live model. 12” by 16”, on linen canvas board.

kristel scheerlinckPortal to another dimensionComposite digital photograph

GEORGE SPAETHMAINE SUMMER’S HALCYON DAYPainng and frame

Mary Ellen Stoyanov I’m one who enjoys painng. It is something I do for enjoyment. Although I’m losing my vision, I sll enjoy it. My life path has led me in many direcons, from teacher to lab worker. But painng is always there.Buttery enjoying FlowersThis is a painng of a ger swallowtail buery in my cone ower patch. It is a 9 by 11 inch watercolor.E

NANCY R. TISLON-MALLETT, MDI am a rered academic physician, board cered in Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliave Care and a visual arst. My passions for the love of nature, color and paerns, biology and medicine are expressed in my artwork. Most of my works are silk painngs or complex cloth with embellishments of embroidery, felng and beading, of microscop-ic or biological images.Vision Quest is my journey of glaucoma, diagnosed when I was 45. The technical images of my rena and opc nerve were fascinang to me. The artwork is my interpretaon of these diagnosc studies.The piece that I have submied is a silk painng of my rena, inspired by the Renal Nerve FiberLayer (RNFL) image at an annual glaucoma check up. www.nancylson-malle.orgVision Quest: Journey Into Seeing22” x 22” hemmed silk scarf, designed and painted, using texle paint

Meghan S. VitaPassionate about supporng supporng families of young children diagnosed with Glaucoma. Inspired by the power AI tools like DALL-E and Midjourney bring to people around the world - especially those with no formal training in art - to express themselves creavely. Excited by blockchain technology and it’s potenal use cases in the non-prot sector.DALL-EYEI used my free DALL-E account to prompt the algorithm to create an impressionist-style image of eye pressure.

Natalie WarrenAer a year as a student at Braille Instute, I am happy to become a part of the volunteer team, and connue to adapt, learn, and also get to help others in return who are visually impaired, and sharing my passion and interest such as art, music and braille just to name a few. As a musician, piano teacher, composer, educator, poet, and visual arst, I connue to expand my creavity and bridging joy every day. It is indeed a beauful life to enjoy and to treasure the beauty within and around each of us.‘A Whirl of Love’ is a mixed media artwork, using acrylic paints, foam hearts, ssue paper, and light pink glass globs to create a textured and tacle art piece. It is lled with colors, as sky, ocean, green land, and sand, outpouring a whirl of hearts upward for possibility, openness, beauty and joy.

A Whirl of Love

Robert Lewis WortmannRobert Wortmann is a rered physician who began painng later in life. He loves nature and color and tries to combine the two in his painngs. The result, he hopes, is a pleasant emoonal response from the viewer.Morning By The SeaPastel on paper

Dr. Hannah YoungbloodDr. Hannah Youngblood is a postdoctoral research fellow studying glaucoma at the Georgia Instute of Technology. She became inter-ested in glaucoma research because her dad has glaucoma. By study-ing the eects of genec variants on glaucoma-related proteins, she hopes to idenfy new therapeuc targets so that individuals like her dad can more fully experience the beauty of the world through sight.To learn more about her research, check out her website: hps://www.researchgate.net/prole/Hannah-Youngbloodhps://www.researchgate.net/prole/Hannah-YoungbloodYellow Branch FallsAcrylic on canvas

The TGF Art Challenge is about vision, for vision.These donors made gis in honor of the arsts featured in this book, to support glaucoma research with a goal to eradicate glaucoma—the silent thief of sight.AnonymousJoe BarbaElizabeth BraslerKim BryantBarbara CalabaMa-Hua ChengMu-Ping ChengRyan ChengBrena CiccioAngela CoughlanSheila CoughlanCarole Darden-LloydPatricia DarymanReza DibadjLorea DiLeoRich DiLeoMary Anne DolanAllyson DopwellMaria DopwellMonique DopwellSusan DysonJames EarlbeckEndaceMurray FingeretCly FowkesJesse GilmarnDouglass GilmarnKrisn Erin GrawAnnee GrollmanMartha GroverAshton HallJahrel HallMa HallSharon HallGregory K. HarmonAlon HarrisJe HeerPatricia HillRosalie Sido Iacono Michael KatzensteinWillard KaumanKeebs KebboDonna KirkseyBarb KollerLillian LaidlowJoyce, Reg, & Sebasan LeeJerey M. LiebmannBarbara LevasseurYutao LiuJoseph LoveRobert MacLeanKen MortensonVincent & Lisa MunizzaElaine, Ralph, & Levi NicerBeth PaoJai ParekhLouis R. PasqualeJessica PhillipsRobert RitchPatricia RodriguezJoe RosenBaldo SforzoliniGary SinacoreJusn SteeleRita Stenberg/pineElena SturmanEdmund TedeschiMark WarrenAnna and HK WongJohn YozzoJonathan Zaentz

Some of the art fatured in this book is for sale, with a portion of the proceeds to be donated to The Glaucoma Foundation.For information, please contact Elena Sturmanesturman@glaucomafoundation.org

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