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ART NOTES from Alice Lynn Greenwood in The Carthage Press

5/28/2016

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Look who's visiting Grandmère!

 

THE SATISFACTIONS OF ANTICIPATION 
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​Ah, the satisfactions of anticipation.
 
I raised my two children with the anticipatory hope they’d grow wings to be independent, self-sufficient and follow their dreams.  Each has flown far beyond my best anticipations and their Arkansas beginnings.  Inclined to cross oceans, they’re making our family into bicoastal mini-United Nations rooted on the two edges of our beautiful continent.
​Outdoorsman Simon is well settled in the great northwest. From his work in the heart of Seattle’s cyber industry, back-dropped by majestic mountains and surrounded by waters, he and Liko constantly weekend bike and island hop on adventures often accompanied by Liko’s ninety-seven year old father.

Family, three-year-old and career centric, artistic Audrey, at home with Lex and Sophie and their very big Dobie, is bungalow-based in a charming old New Jersey village just over the George Washington Bridge from her weekday, warp-paced world of Manhattan’s financial and foreign banking metropolis.
 
Anticipating family visits is a joyful yearning for precious shared hours, like the recent forty-eight, when Audrey and Sophie came to Carthage. If living two weeks in two days is possible, we did, as this blissed grandmère filled my delighted heart cherishing a magical wee girl-child.
 
When the rains came, we stayed home watching and singing to Frozen, piecing together princess puzzles and making sofa cushions into moated forts before heading south to swim at the Y.

While the sun shone we chased the ice cream truck down the street; explored the galleries and rode around artCentral on a trike borrowed from Colbie and Dax; refreshed with ice-ees on Grand; visited Mia, her chickies and the curtained stage in her living room; and slid down the Grace Church slides then chose books from the Little Free Library and read them in the shade on the colorful bird-decorated bench. We Crazy Dazy shopped for Sophie’s birthday presents; lunched one day at Mother Road Coffee, the next at the Deli; and walked the retaining wall as tough a balance beam around the Courthouse before ascending the oh, so high steps to see the gold decorated ceilings and ride the caged elevator up and down.
When the time came for Audrey and Sophie to load and leave, I had only a few moments to sense the empty silence of the cottage, as our eagerly anticipated “Remembering History” Art Walk began to unfold. Set up at the Palms, artCentral (established 1985) ​was kid friendly with the help of Lonnie Heckmaster handing out artCamp literature and treats prepared at Hometown Bank by volunteers Becky, Ann and Roberta, who filled gift bags with Dubble Bubble (accidentally discovered in 1928) and bubbles to blow.
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​artCentral anticipation brings such sweet satisfaction. Next up: Membership Exhibit and Picnic, June 10th!
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ART NOTES from Alice Lynn Greenwood in The Carthage Press

5/22/2016

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THE GIFTS OF WORKING WEEKENDS

Working weekends goes with being artCentral’s DirectorCurator. One recent weekend was particularly lively for May’s “Emerging Artists” exhibition. Our vibrant green door was set swinging by coming and going visitors—each and every one a gift.
 
With their CHS graduates, far flung families gathered and arrived to climb the stairs to the Sandy Higgins Members Gallery where they admired the Award Winners in the Helen S. Boylan Foundation CHS Art and Writing Contest.
 Coming to see Katie Watson’s and Maddie Capps’s “Emerging Artists”, a lovely couple RV traveling back to New Jersey (not far from Sophie’s home), selected “Lion” by Katie to carry and add to their art collection. A Dallasite purchased Maddie’s atmospheric photograph of a majestic bald eagle serenely perching amidst winter treetops.
 
I set out the water bowl for our first warm weather canine visitor when Dave Matthews, a newly returning artCentral artist member, companioned by Chiquita, dropped in to donate cones for the kiln. After touring the exhibits and house, Dave tested the swing and we had an art-full chat on the porch, while a perfect spring breeze whispered.
 
With Dave and Chi departing for lunch in Joplin, I found myself holding the gift of a butter cookie tin, carefully lined with paper towels and filled with eggs from Dave’s hens. A farm fresh omelet went instantly to the top of my dinner menu!
 
Refocusing on waiting office work, I was back at the computer putting the finishing touches to our second quarter Newsletter, when Maddie appeared with her friend Erin.
 
Erin missed Maddie’s opening, being pre-committed for the evening with a CHS band activity, so Maddie treated her to an artist-guided tour while I continued at the keyboard. Their tour completed, as we said our good-byes I found yet another sweet gift in my hands.
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​Last year Maddie and I had bonded over weeding, when we were out tidying the Great Wall garden with interns Emma Pound and Katie Watson. Maddie spoke of learning gardening under the tutelage of her grandmother. We talked about favorite flowers and herbs. Maddie mentioned and offered a start from her family’s prolific stand of lamb’s ears, which are a longtime love of mine with their charming, fuzzy silver-green leaves and long stemmed lavender blossoms.
 
That promised lamb’s ear start was the second Sunday afternoon gift I held, which at this writing is already nestled into my cottage garden and ​​settling
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 in delightfully beneath a gentle rain.
 
There are always gifts received and given at artCentral. Weekends and week days, too. I’m happy to offer to you the extended gift of “Emerging Artists, remaining on Hyde House walls through June 5th. Your viewing gift is by appointment at (417) 358-4404.
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ART NOTES from Alice Lynn Greenwood in The Carthage Press

5/16/2016

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SCENTS, SATELLITES AND ART STARS ​

Coming through the morning’s open windows the delicate flowery scents of the privet hedge are sweet. I pause. I breathe. Deeply. Remembering the scents are the same—the same as last spring’s, which left rather quickly to make room for summer. Again I breathe deeply, wanting to savor these simple passing pleasures, while knowing there are other 
​delightful pleasures waiting for us—like those of satellites and art stars.
 
Now through summer, just visit any of artCentral’s three satellite galleries and you’ll find visual pleasures in abundance, created by two artCentral creative stars.
​At the Carthage Library you’ll see “Perceptions” by Paul Cameron. Paul devotes his time to drawing and painting while being an active member in artCentral and taking part in regional exhibitions and competitions.
 
A graduate of Carthage High School, Paul holds a BS in Art Education and a Masters in Guidance and Counseling. He taught art in public schools, before being called to serve in Vietnam. Paul recently retired after twenty-seven years in public school counseling.

​Over the years Paul has rendered illustrations and written articles for state and national historical publications. Today he participates in many Civil War 
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reenactments portraying battlefield artists. Whether sketching a scene or a person, Paul conveys his keen wit and astute skills of observation with natural skill and sensitivity.

While Paul Cameron’s art is at the Library, Kimberley Guthrie’s “Whimsically Themed” is exhibited in both The Atrium Gallery of Sirloin Stockade and on the gallery walls at Mother Road Coffee.
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KIMBERLEY GUTHRIE
Kim likes to say, “In art I strive for less hoity toity and for more fun! I think life should be this way as well.” When you spend time with her art, you’ll agree. Recently transplanted to southeast Kansas,  an artist member-volunteer at artCentral, Kim hopes the characters she creates will give you a laugh or at least a smile.
 
Classically trained, Kimberley attended the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston, Texas, the University of Colorado in Boulder and the Institute of Art, Lacoste, France. She currently focuses her creativity on whimsical oil paintings and new techniques for portraiture, while exploring her particular love for creating three dimensional works using papier mache.
​Kim avidly exhibits her art throughout southwest Missouri while offering her creations and taking commissions via her web site: www.kimguthrieart.com. Creating intuitively when inspiration strikes, versatility of genre and style is Kimberley Guthrie’s nature.
 
More star-studded art in abundance is soon be seen at artCentral’s Membership Exhibition—unveiled to the satisfying scents of  artCentral’s Annual Picnic on Friday, June 10th. The public is invited to share these visual and culinary pleasures.
 
Heads up artCentral art stars: Your deadline for entry is May 22nd via artCentral’s website!
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ART NOTES from Alice Lynn Greenwood in The Carthage Press

5/5/2016

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​THEY'RE HERE and SOPHIE'S COMING 


Oh, happy, happy day. They’re here! They’re here! The goldfinches have arrived in their finest courtship plumage at the front yard feeder. They look like brilliantly feathered lemon drops sporting black caps, their midnight wings and tails distinctively striped in white.  
I’m so grateful for all these tiny, fluttering, chirping gifts. Together they make for artfully grand abundance—abundance mirrored by the cottage gardens growing daily more colorful beneath spring showers, love and sunshine.

Margie Tucker’s columbine, a gift four years ago before her passing, has matured to magnificence at almost three feet tall with a crown of bluest, clustered blossoms. Father Steve’s Easter lilies have established an extended, star-studded family fully filling all available space beside the miniature pink spirea. The row of stella d’oro ("star of gold" in Italian) is gleefully raising bud laden stems.
 
The parsleys, said to be the world’s healthiest food, replenish almost as fast as I harvest their goodness to use like lettuce for my lunchtime sandwich. Basil, transplanted from the winter sharings of Sarah Serio’s mother, adds just the right pungent highlight to a giant Provençal cassoulet in the oven.
 
The wintered-over snapdragons of mauve and burgundy are nothing less than regal beside the steps. Creeping Jenny, variegated vinca and Carolyn Wyatt’s chocolate mint, appearing now as tamed and docile, will require watchful tending lest they take over by July, if not sooner.
 
And now, oh look! Joining the goldfinches there’s a cardinal adding a scarlet grace note to their breakfast tableau. Beautiful abundance keeps multiplying. 

I can see all this through my new, fully-glassed front door purchased with the windfall prize money made possible by my yogi friend Valerie Butler. So much joy. So much abundance. So much beauty.  I am grateful.
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​Grateful I continue to be, personally and on behalf of artCentral, to each of you contributing toward artCentral’s Capacity Fund. During last week’s Ozarks Giving Day, with the capable guidance of Heather Collier and the support of the Carthage Community Foundation and the Community Foundation of the Ozarks, 
​artCentral raised over $15,000.00 toward our goal of $20,000.00 for our Capacity Fund which strengthens, sustains and expands artCentral’s diverse programs including Exhibitions and Opening Receptions (always free); classes and workshops; satellite galleries; quarterly newsletters; summer artCamp for kids; and much more benefiting all Carthaginians and out-of-towners, too.

Add your name to artCentral's growing list of Capacity Fund Donors. Make your online contribution: 
http://www.artcentralcarthage.org/capacity-fund-donate.html
Thank you for believing in the value of art, artists and artCentral. Thank you for your generous giving. Thank you for creating abundance for our shared today and tomorrows.
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Evermore abundance is on the way for my own tomorrows. Sophie is coming! Sophie is coming! 
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​For forty-eight hours at the end of May this grandmother will be abundantly blissed. Oh, happy, happy days ahead!
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ART NOTES from Alice Lynn Greenwood in The Carthage Press

5/2/2016

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THE GOLDEN GLOW OF CARTHAGE

In response to my art recently selected to celebrate our 50th Maple Leaf Festival, my friend Liz facebook posted, “Oh, the golden glow behind the courthouse…”
 
Yes! Golden is the glow of our life in Carthage.

I feel so blessed to be here, woven with you into the shimmering fabric of this beautiful community. I love my sweet street where children play and neighborhood cats carouse. Where families, friends and dogs walk together in the mornings and evenings. Where weekends are filled with the scents of grilling and the purr of mowers tidying lawns.
​I love artCentral and the tremendous privilege of directing and curating our non-profit arts center for the benefit of many—youth and elders, Carthaginians and out-of-towners, too.
 
I’m grateful to each of you who contributed on Give Ozarks Day to artCentral’s Capacity Fund that keeps our programs strong and growing. Thank you for your donations! Thank you to the Carthage Community Foundation and the Community Foundation of the Ozarks for sponsoring this event to benefit non-profits in Carthage and southwest Missouri.  

​As I put the final touches on the curriculum for this summer’s artCamp and grow excited for the bevy of aspiring artists who’ll grace artCentral’s July campus, I think often of our “Emerging Artists” currently on exhibition. What joy to have their creations filling our Hyde House Galleries!
 
What delight to have so many join the festivities for Friday night’s Opening Reception. Judith Goff, artCentral’s creative gourmet, spread a lovely table with savories and her famous sugar and chocolate chip cookies. artCentral Members of the Board greeted guests. Betsy Flanigan facilitated the brisk selections of art for purchase.
 
Katie Watson and Maddie Capps are our talented, golden-glowing “Emerging Artists” exhibition stars. They created their exhibited art and put their artCentral Intern skills in action, installing their creations in the Main Galleries. Their parents helped, too, with delivering, staging and prepping Hyde House. To these artCentral’s appreciation abounds.
 
For the Helen S. Boylan Foundation’s generous underwriting for the Exhibition and Opening, artCentral sends out a grateful “Thank You”.
 
Our appreciation goes to Carthage High School art teachers Cheryl Church and Tom Jones who, with daily dedication, inspire and nurture creativity in their students.
 
Amy Grimes, Director of the Carthage R-9 School Foundation, organized the CHS contest and enlisted jurors. To collaborate with Amy is a true gift. She gathered, prepared for presentation and delivered the award winning written art, making the installation a grand first time success.
 
“Emerging Artists” beautifully expresses the “Golden Glow of Carthage”. The exhibition is open, free to the public, during posted weekend hours until May 15th and afterwards may be viewed through June 5th by appointment at (417) 358-4404. Donations are welcome.

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