FRESH GROUND Coffee House with Clear Approach JAZZ!

FRESH GROUND Coffee House is your monthly FREE place to meet your friends, chill, listen to great LIVE music and have some great coffee, tea and home-baked goodies.  [We have a gluten-free option, too!] 

For our LIVE music this month, we have the return of [click on the name for more info] Clear Approach Jazz - they are a favorite of our fans!  Tim Burns, local piano player/singer/DJ from the area will join them and do a set of your favorite pop/rock numbers.

Our featured artist is local and east coast favorite: Barbara Rosenzweig!  Barbara was a science teacher at Upper Moreland High School before retiring and turning her talent into full time expression.  Barbara Rosenzweig Art will be in full gallery mode at FRESH GROUND Coffee House on Nov. 18.  Barbara invites her former students to bring their high school pictures to share.  From her web site, Watercolors by Barbara: "It’s funny how things turn out. After a rewarding career of 36 years teaching biology to middle school students, I finally picked up the brush again. As a youngster, I had studied at Philadelphia’s School Art League and Tyler School of Fine Arts. Then adulthood got in the way.
After attending Temple University (BA ’67, M. Ed ’69) and while teaching and raising a family, I found spiritual respite in designing and making gardens around my home. Using plants to generate wonderful palettes of color, gardening provided the additional creative outlet I thrive on. I photographed my flowers’ unique structures, patterns, and colors, while marveling at the wonders of nature.

As a teacher, I always encouraged my students to learn from observation and draw each studied specimen, noting its uniquely intricate design. Regardless of their artistic ability, my goal was to enable children to appreciate the vibrancy in all living things.

This educational philosophy of instilling a deep joy for learning, along with gaining an understanding and appreciation of the natural world, continues during retirement.

Since 2007, when I was elected Ecology/Horticulture Chair of the Hatboro Garden Club, I have been sharing my gardening knowledge and experience of 40 years through my “Gardeners of the Crooked Billet” electronic newsletters.  In them, I use photographs of my garden as a resource to illustrate various themes for my readers, now located all over the country.  Recently, I found another avenue to express my love of nature - watercolors.

This medium enables me to create paintings that embody the richness of nature’s beauty with vibrant color enhanced by the unique quality of light and transparency. I am inspired by the brilliance of flowers, fruit in the market, seemingly insignificant objects, and the tiniest blossoms falling from the trees. For me, my watercolors express joy in all of nature’s creations.

Some of my recent shows were at Art in the Park, Saratoga Springs, NY; Chocolate and Art Gallery, Lenox, MA in the Berkshires; Gratz College Photography Show, Melrose Park, PA; Tamanend Art Exhibition, Churchville, PA; the Upstairs Gallery in Peddler’s Village, PA; the Anna Maria Island Art League, Holmes Beach, FL; the Barn Studio Gallery, Doylestown, PA; and The Theater Barn, New Lebanon, NY, Art in the Atrium, Abington, PA.       

Education: Philadelphia School Art League, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Tyler School of Fine Arts, Temple University (BA '67, M Ed '69)

"Star gazer lilies with their delicate pink hues, roses and peonies with their alluring vibrancy, apple blossoms with their future fruit cradled by soft white petals. It sounds like a springtime stroll through a lush, bountiful garden. But this floral paradise exists inside, adorning the walls of the Olitsky Art Gallery...." Please visit  for the rest of the story!"