• Exhibits

    Jo Rice Art Quilts

    Jo Rice Art Quilts opening  Sun. July 14, 2-4pm runs through Aug. 11 In the sense that this exhibit is a survey of Jo Rice’s art quilts reaching back to 1980, we can call it a retrospective. Considering that two months after we started planning the exhibit in Jan. 2013, J. Rice sent an email with the subject line “I can still cut trees,” (indicating she was creating an extended series of small tree quilts)… this exhibit is not exclusively a retrospective look backward but rather, a look at a continued and growing body of her work. For a woman who declined to make a square in 1976 for a…

  • Exhibits

    Save the Date

    Artist Friends Present Local Artists  ENTER YOUR ART NOW! or encourage someone you know to enter theirs IMPORTANT  DATES Registration Deadline August 9  Gallery Show August 18 – September 20, 2013 Opening Reception August 18, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.    Entry fee of $10 per artist    Local artists who are age 15 or older are invited to submit original works of art for the Artist Friends Present Local Artists Gallery Show.  Votes for People’s Choice Award will be accepted throughout the show and tallied at the end of the show, with first, second, and third prizes of $150, $75 and $25 respectively, awarded to the winners. Two original…

  • Children,  Learning

    SUMMER ART CAMP – Out of Your Head

    BY POPULAR DEMAND WE’VE ADDED ANOTHER WEEK! July 8-12th, 9am-noon @ the Pomerene Center for the Arts Limit–12 young artists ages k-8  Friends of the Pomerene $60, Guests $65 supplies included (ask us about our scholarships) Fantasy Painter Jessica Rohr and Pen & Ink Artist Matthew Bustillo will settle in at the Pomerene Center for the Arts, July 8-12, to paint and draw images and ideas that come “out of their heads.” Going back and forth from observation to exploration–from watching the artists at work to exploring their own worlds–Young Artists will observe and experiment with paint and pens, canvases and paper…immerse themselves in the creative process of painting and drawing “out of their…