Camp Creativity – Design Your World!
Mark Your Calendar for Summer Art and Fun for kids!
Get a global perspective on art and the world we live in! Explore far away places as
well as spaces and places very close to home. Map your journey and express your
individual perspective and style.
This year’s camp instructors include: Jessie Siefert, Katie Ferguson,
Virginia Killian, MJ Ayson, Marcia Ritchie, Mika Martin, and
Brittany Knicely!
Register and Pay for Camp Creativity before May and receive a $5 discount.
Mini Camp for Children 4 and 5 years of age
Price: $75 Members and $ 85 Nonmembers
June 4-8 and August 6-10
Camp Creativity for Children entering 1 – 3rd grades.
Price: $85 for Members and $95 for Non Members
June 11-15 AND June 25-29 AND July 16-20 AND July 30 – August 3
June 18 -22 AND July 23 – 27 for kids entering grades 4 – 6
Teen Art Intensive- middle through high school. (Sleep in) Daily from 1:00- 4:00! This year Virginia Killian and Katie Ferguson will be expanding your creative horizons!
July 23 – August 3
NOW: Download the camp registration form (mail to PAC) and pay with PayPal at
www.parkersburgartcenter.org
Camp Creativity is made possible by generous support from:
The Henry Logan Childrens Home Foundation
The WV Division of Culture & History
Williamstown Bank
Jorge Tecunolmos: ATMOSPHERIC BALANCE
Exhibit opens February through March!
Jorge E. Tecunolmos is an abstract artist and engaged resident of Wood County, WV. Born in Guatemala City, Guatemala, Jorge travelled and worked internationally and overcame many challenges on his journey to find both his new home in Parkersburg and his unique gift as an agent of change. It was while volunteering in Parkersburg that he stumbled upon his talent to transform environments through abstract painting. Through acrylics and mixed media, Jorge interprets traditional subjects into new realities for communities. His commitment to his local community has opened doors for him to share his works in public displays and gallery settings, as well as offering him membership in the ON TRAC committee that seeks to revitalize Parkersburg’s Downtown area.
See his work at http://jorgetecunolmos.com
Lauri Reidmiller: JAPANESE PERSPECTIVES
Concord University Assistant Professor of Art Lauri Lydy Reidmiller, Ph.D. is exhibiting her silk paintings at the Art Center during February through March. Opening date to be determined.
Reidmiller has extensively exhibited her artwork in Ohio and since relocating to West Virginia, her work was selected for the West Virginia Art & Craft Guild 7th Juried Competition in Parkersburg. Her paintings have also been exhibited at the Ellen Von Ellmes Gallery in Richlands, Va., the Artisan Center in Wheeling and the Alexander Fine Arts Gallery at Concord University.
Recently, her paintings Serenity I and II were selected from 395 entries for the 67th Allied Artists of West Virginia Juried Exhibition at the Clay Center in Charleston. She was also the recipient of The Helena Thacker Award at the 2010 West Virginia Women in the Arts Exhibit at the Randolph County Community Arts Center earlier this summer.
“My paintings often demonstrate asymmetrical balance and uniform fields of color. Surface design is emphasized rather than the illusion of depth which also reinforces the aesthetics of traditional Japanese screen painting,” Reidmiller said.
Sister Act – January 6, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Works by Pam Tanner Boll & Cindy Tanner Lewis
Our first show of 2012 features splendid examples of both painting and photography. And while we were unpacking it the other day, we discovered another benefit: This show will definitely be a tonic to help us get over the gray days of January and February! Both artists Pam Tanner Boll (painter) and Cindy Tanner Lewis (photographer) are drawn to subjects with rich, lambent colors.
Roses by Pam Tanner Boll
Burano Houses by Cindy Tanner Lewis
Cindy is a professional photographer in Worthington, Ohio, and much of the work she has brought to display commemorates a trip she took recently to northern Italy; the vineyards, foliage and warm, mellow stones.
Pam’s approach to similar subject matter ( still-lifes; landscapes) uses a similar color palette. Her work is impressionistic, and brings to mind the style of Edouard Manet.
As you have no doubt realized, our artists are sisters, raised in Parkersburg. Their mother, the late Pat Summer Tanner Pappas, was one of the founding mothers of the Art Center! Despite the distance (Pam lives in Winchester, Massachusetts ) both women keep tabs on the Art Center, and stop for visits whenever they are in town. We’ve been after them for years to let us have a showing of their work, and have finally succeeded in finding a time when they are available. They’ll be at the opening, so we hope everyone will come and welcome them back. – Abby
