2024 Yellow Springs Giving & Gifting Catalogue
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Visual Arts Section :: Page 4

  • Winds exhibit honors all-important pollinators

    By Carol SimmonsJuly 13, 2017

    Photographer Dennie Eagleson, a volunteer with Tecumseh Land Trust (left), and TLT Executive Director Krista Magaw recently posed by two of Eagleson’s lumen prints on display in “The Pollinator Show” at The Winds Café through August. A public reception will be Sunday, July 16, 5–7 p.m. (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    A new art exhibit features works by local and regional artists whose images are inspired by pollinators and the plants that best feed them.

  • Marianne Britton’s fabric art now on exhibit

    By Carol SimmonsJune 22, 2017

    The multi-layered wall hanging Black Veil is one of about 50 works by the late fabric artist Marianne Britton on display in a new exhibition at Springfield Museum of Art. (Submitted photo)

    A memorial exhibition representing a wide selection of works by Marianne Britton, including quilts, wall hangings and fabric pictures, is currently on display through late September at the Springfield Museum of Art.

  • Silent auction to benefit potter Bruce Grimes

    By Audrey HackettJune 8, 2017

    Local potter Lisa Goldberg is organizing a silent auction and fundraiser for her close friend and colleague, Bruce Grimes. It will take place at the Yellow Springs Brewery on Tuesday, June 13, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. (Submitted photo)

    Villagers can help local potter Bruce Grimes rebuild after a devastating studio fire. There will be a silent auction and fundraiser at the YS Brewery this Tuesday, June 13, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m.

  • YSHS students explore stereotypes in new art book

    By YS News StaffMay 17, 2017

    A sample page from "Flipping Stereotypes."

    YSHS art students recently collaborated to create “Flipping Stereotypes,” a book of drawings that seeks to ask: “What is the ‘average American?’”

  • Jennifer Rosengarten at Springfield Art Museum— Artist’s ‘exuberance’ in nature

    By Carol SimmonsApril 27, 2017

    A solo show by local artist Jennifer Rosengarten is opening at the Springfield Museum of Art this Saturday, April 22, with a reception from 5:30 to 7 p.m. “Jennifer Rosengarten: Gardens & Ponds” will run through Jan. 7, 2018. Pictured here in her Dayton Street studio, the artist is increasingly well-known for her evocative paintings of the natural world. (Submitted photo by Bill Franz)

    Artist Jennifer Rosengarten’s biggest show thus far, “Gardens & Ponds” set to open this weekend at Springfield Museum of Art. It will run April 22 through Jan. 7, 2018, in the museum’s special exhibition gallery.

  • Rosengarten at Springfield Museum of Art

    By Diane ChiddisterApril 20, 2017

    Local painter Jennifer Rosengarten will display her work at the Springfield Museum of Art this Saturday through January 2018.

  • Herndon Gallery: Identity unmasked in ‘Schizomaica’

    By Audrey Hackett

    Antioch College’s Herndon Gallery is hosting “Schizomaica,” a show by Jamaican-born artist Kamar Thomas, currently visiting assistant professor of visual arts at Antioch. Up for a few more weeks, the show features 19 works in oil and charcoal, including “Selfie 3,” pictured here at right. A reception and painting demonstration will be held on Thursday, April 20, from 7 to 9 p.m. (Photo by Audrey Hackett)

    27-year-old Kamar Thomas is currently a visiting assistant professor of visual arts at Antioch College. His Herndon Gallery show, titled “Schizomaica”, which features 19 works in oil and charcoal, combines elements of performance, photography and painting.

  • Friends use art to confront illness

    By Carol SimmonsApril 13, 2017

    A new Yellow Springs Arts Council show, “Bosom Buddies,” opens on Friday, April 21, with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. The show was inspired by the art created by Corrine Bayraktaroglu and friends during her bout with cancer. Other community members are invited to submit to the show art that’s linked to breast cancer. Shown above are Bayraktaroglu and her good friend, Nancy Mellon, who together are known as the JafaGirls. (Photo by Carol Simmons)

    “Corrine deals with everything through art,” said Nancy Mellon, speaking recently of her dear friend and frequent art-making collaborator Corrine Bayraktaroglu. The “everything” in this case is breast cancer.

  • Local artists ‘try another way’

    By Diane ChiddisterMarch 23, 2017

    “Dichotomy — Chains and Wings,” a pastel drawing by local artist Theresa Mayer, will be featured in a new exhibit, “Try Another Way: Redefining Dis-abilities.” Showcasing works in various media by local artists living with disabilities, the exhibit will open with a reception at the YSAC Community Gallery on Friday, March 17, from 6 to 9 p.m., and will stay up through April 15. (Submitted photo)

    The Yellow Springs Arts Council will host the exhibit “Try Another Way: Redefining Dis-abilities,” featuring the work of persons with disabilities or living with those with disabilities.

  • Busting out

    By Web AdminFebruary 2, 2017

    Sculptor Brian Maughan watched as Gallery Coordinator Nancy Mellon unveiled his new work, a bust of Gaunt. The sculpture was added to the YS Arts Council’s permanent collection. (Submitted photo)

    The YS Arts Council and the YS Historical Society presented “Beyond Flour and Sugar: The Wheeling Gaunt Legacy and Yellow Springs In the Civil War Era” on Friday, Jan. 20, at Antioch University Midwest.

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