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December 9, 2004
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For a week, Yellow Springs art will fill gallery
Several things have divided Yellow Springs in the past few months, including a passionate presidential campaign and the controversy over developing the Fogg farm. Art gallery owners Karen Shirley and Michael Jones have a plan to bring villagers back together. On Tuesday, Dec. 21, they will host the “Yellow Springs Winter Solstice Exhibition/Celebration 2004” at the Shirley/Jones Gallery. The event, which takes place from 6 to 9 p.m., is the official “closing” of a weeklong exhibit, which will feature the work of about 75 local artists. The evening will also feature performances by a variety of local musicians. The art show opens Wednesday, Dec. 15. “It’s a seasonal celebration for Yellow Springs,” Shirley said. “It will be a lot of fun to see the walls full of Yellow Springs work.” Shirley and Jones have been planning the exhibit for months, Shirley said, and sent out 140 invitations to Yellow Springs artists of every variety, from a t-shirt designer to painters and sculptors. In the interest of inclusiveness, they decided not to submit artists to a juried process but rather to invite every artist they knew to participate. Also in the interest of celebrating community, Shirley and Jones decided to make the event a benefit for a valuable resource, Miami Township Fire-Rescue. Half the proceeds from artwork sold in the exhibit will go to the artist, Shirley said, and the other half will benefit the fire department. The gallery owners chose to help the fire squad because of the critical role the department plays in the community, Shirley said. “No matter who you are or how you voted, if you need them the squad is there for you in three minutes,” Shirley said. “They don’t ask questions, they just save your life.” The exhibit will feature paintings by Anna Arbor, Pierre Nagley, Nevin Mercede, Sue Brezine, Migiwa Orimo, Shayna McConville, Katherine Kadish, Pat Robinow, Kathleen McMillan, Eddie Eckenrode, Buck Truitt, Lee Funderburg, Ken Simon, Patricia High, Eve Jacobs and Elizabeth Hertz, among others. Also featured are drawings by Julie Kay Karlson, Jennifer Berman, Penelope Adamson and David Battle; pottery by David and Keiko Hergesheimer and Eliza Bush; ceramic art by Lisa Wolters and Kathi Seidl; prints by Sherraid Scott; sculpture by Jon Hudson and Richard Lapedes; photographs by Dennie Eagleson, Helen Richardson, Amy Harper and Irwin Inman; fabric art by Debbie Henderson; bead work by Bette Kelley; and t-shirts by Robert Paschell. Artists Margrit Petrie, Ondwewe Chymes, Nancy Koehler and Celise McKee will also participate. Any local artist who has not been contacted by Jones or Shirley and who would like to participate is encouraged to do so, said Shirley, adding that she may have overlooked some artists unintentionally. Interested persons may contact her at the gallery Wednesday through Saturday from 2 to 7 p.m. or by calling 767-1711. Since she and Jones opened their gallery at the end of June, the response has been “modest but interesting,” said Shirley, who is retired from Antioch College’s art department. The two seek to exhibit a mixture of regional and national artists. They opened the gallery with an exhibit by Michael Fajan of Seattle, followed by drawings and paintings by the survivors of the atomic bomb attacks of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They next showed the work of the late New York City photographer John Copelands and currently are showing the paintings of West Coast artist Mayumi Oda. In January Shirley/Jones will exhibit the drawings and paintings of Murray Jones, Michael Jones’s late father. Above all Shirley and Jones seek high-quality art that interests them, and they hope to provide a destination for those who might not have the time or money to check out the art scene in the Chelsea area of New York City. “We think we should have things here that people might go to New York to see,” Shirley said. “We’re very interested in what’s current. We’re watching.”
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