Adele Moros To Be Featured Artist At Regional Hospice Charity Event

RIDGEFIELD — Adele Moros will be in the spotlight as the featured artist at the 2008 Regional Hospice Arts Festival & Cosmopolitan Buffet on Friday, June 6, hosted by Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation at its company headquarters, 900 Ridgebury Road in Ridgefield. The event begins at 7 pm. Ms Moros is a member of The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) where she has presented art demonstrations. As featured artist, Ms Moros is expected to offer a variety of the landscapes, florals, still life and miniature paintings for which she is well known.

Ms Moros has participated in the annual Arts Festival benefiting Regional Hospice for many years. In 2005 she was awarded Best In Show for one of her magnificently detailed miniature paintings. Ms Moros’s work is always much sought after at the event, which includes more than 100 local, regional and internationally recognized artists.

“There isn’t a local artist that hasn’t learned something from Adele. She is so versatile, both a great artist and an astute critic. We all benefit from her knowledge, creativity and practicality,” said Laura McCormick, chair of the art selection subcommittee, in explaining why the group selected Ms Moros for this year’s honor.

Ms Moros has been an artist all her life. Having been raised in a household of creative people, Ms Moros assumed she would become an artist. Her mother was an art director at Vogue Patterns and everyone in her family painted.

“Growing up, the dining room table was our art studio, My studio is still on the dining room table today,” she said.

Ms Moros shares her creative ability with anyone who wants to learn from her. She has been teaching for 25 years. “You are validated when you teach someone else, and remind yourself of what you may have forgotten,” Ms Moros explains. “I love the fact that I can teach a course in rag quilting and 20 minutes later be teaching watercolors.”

One of Ms Moros’s many notable achievements includes creating the New York Cow Parade entry that fetched the highest auction price.

“Back in 2000, Bethel Arts Junction found out about Cow Parade New York with just 24 hours to submit a design,” she explains. Out of 2,800 entries, two entries from Bethel Arts Junction artists were selected. Ms Moros went on to create a life-sized stained-glass Tiffany Cow which was later was auctioned for $60,000.

Today, Ms Moros has taken her work in a different direction, downsizing to art created for miniature dollhouse scale. She is frequently commissioned to create masterpieces for doll house collectors and has earned a Fellowship with the International Guild of Miniature Artisans.

“It’s the PhD of Tiny,” she explains.

Tickets for the 2008 Regional Hospice Arts Festival & Cosmopolitan Buffet are $100 per person and include the art show and sale along with plenty of food and drinks from local restaurants, live music, and other fundraising opportunities. Last year $100,000 was raised to help Regional Hospice provide care, comfort and compassion for those touched by life-limiting illness and loss.

For reservations or more information contact Regional Hospice at 797-1685 or 739-8312.