Artwork by Mimi Betz
Website updated October 31, 2024
Affiliations:
Compass Atelier, Rockville, MD
Medford Arts Center, Medford, NJ
Perkins Center for the Arts, Moorestown, NJ
Mimi Betz is now residing in New Jersey, thus she is no longer a DC area artist. She first developed an interest in painting while attending high school in Paris, France. Upon returning to the DC area, she began a 39 year career with the Federal Government. In 2004, as she was about to retire, her family gave her art classes at the Yellow Barn Studio in Bethesda, MD, as a gift so that she might revive the painting talents of her youth.
Since then Mimi continued to take art classes: at the Compass Atelier (Rockville, MD) and the Yellow Barn Studio. She has taken workshops from plein air artists Bethanne Kinsella Cople, Sara Linda Poly, Gavin Brooks and Nancy Tankersley through the South Street Art Gallery in Easton, Md. She studied at Montgomery College taking both studio and plein air classes with Ed Ahlstrom. She studied for several years with Glen Kessler at the Compass Atelier, and he still remains one of her favorite teachers. She is now studying with Cathy Scannell at the Medford Arts Center in Medford, NJ.
Mimi’s paintings reflect the diversity of life experiences and include local scenes, flowers, still lifes, and pets. She has had exhibits of her paintings at the Popcorn Gallery in Glen Echo Park, the Yellow Barn Gallery, Brookside Gardens, the Rockville Mayor’s Office, and the Garrett County Art Sale and Wine Festival. Mimi for many years displayed work at the yearly Glen Echo Park Labor Day Art Show, the Woman’s Club of Chevy Chase Art Show, and Montgomery County Plein Air Artists Shows.
Since moving to New Jersey, she has had paintings exhibited at shows with the Willingboro Art Alliance, the Burlington County Senior Art Show (her paintings have advanced to the NJ State Senior Art Show in 2023 and 2024). She also donated 2 small 6x6 paintings to a Perkins Art Scholarship Fundraiser.
Artist's Statement
A painting captures a moment, a thing, a place, or a season, which can then be revisited and enjoyed once again. Painting each of these moments is joy and a challenge.
UPCOMING SHOWS:
Featured Artist Nov 1 - Dec 5, 2024
Medford Arts Center, 8 N Main Street
Medford, NJ 08055 (Open Fri, Sat, Sun)
RECENT Shows:
Glen Echo Park Labor Day Art Show
September 4-6, 2021, sold both paintings which I had on display
Artists of the Atelier at Brookside Gardens
April 26-May 24, 2021
Brookside Gardens 1800 Glenallan Avenue, Silver Spring, MD
Maplewood Park Place
November 22, 2019 - February 14, 2020
9707 Old Georgetown Road, Bethesda, MD