EXHIBITS CALENDAR:
Maumee Bay Exhibit Offered At OCC Gallery
Owens Community College will open the 2012 exhibition season with an array of artwork that showcases the beauty and science of Northwest Ohio’s Maumee Bay ecosystem as the Walter E. Terhune Art Gallery presents the exhibit titled Maumee Bay, through February 10. The Walter E. Terhune Art Gallery is located in Owens’ Center for Fine and Performing Arts on the Toledo-area Campus in Perrysburg Township.
In addition to the exhibit, Owens’ Center for Fine and Performing Arts will serve as host to a lecture presentation about the impact of industry, agriculture and waste disposal on the Maumee River watershed by Lake Erie Center Director Dr. Carol Stepien on Wednesday, January 25 at 3:30 p.m. in the Water E. Terhune Art Gallery. A free exhibit reception will also take place on Friday, January 20 from 6:00-8:00 p.m. in the Walter E. Terhune Art Gallery.
Four artists, who have garnered regional and national artistic acclaim, will showcase their expressions and interpretations of the Maumee Bay ecosystem through various fibers, photography, ceramics and mixed media as part of the Maumee Bay exhibition, including photographer Wendy Burton, Adrian College Art and Design professor and fiber artist Pi Benio, University of Toledo associate professor of art and ceramicist Barbara Miner and Owens Walter E. Terhune Art Gallery part-time coordinator and mixed media artist Wynn Perry. Approximately 20 featured artistic pieces, including two installations, will be on display in Owens’ Maumee Bay exhibit.
In addition, information will be presented by research scientists with the University of Toledo’s Lake Erie Center and Owens students in the College’s Introduction to Ecology class, which is taught by Owens associate professor of science Joanne Roehrs. Each semester, Owens students assist in monitoring the Maumee River watershed as part of their experiential learning. They gather samples to study water turbidity data and macro-invertebrate. As part of the Ohio Stream Quality Monitoring Project, Owens student submit their collected data to the Ohio Scenic Rivers Program.
Admission to the Walter E. Terhune Art Gallery is free and open to the public from 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays; and from 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays. For additional information about the exhibit, contact the Center for Fine and Performing Arts at (800) GO-OWENS, ext. 2721 or (567) 661-2721.
20 North Gallery Plans Tribute & Exhibit Reception
20 North Gallery will host a free opening reception on Friday, January 27 from 6:00–9:00 p.m., featuring
Black History Month 2012: Legacy – Peggy Grant’s 35th Annual Exhibit.
Begun by Peggy Grant in 1977, the exhibition is now the oldest continuing Black History Month commemoration in the City of Toledo. This milestone ex-hibition features work by fifteen prominent local, regional and national artists and has become an integral part of Toledo’s Black History Month celebrations, recognizing the contributions and accomplishments of prominent African-American artists and leaders in the community.
Enjoy light refreshments and conversation with the art-ists, as well as reminiscences with exhibition founder, Peggy Grant, as you support her groundbreaking legacy with your fine art purchase. Special tribute will be paid to Grant at 6:30 p.m., honoring her contributions to Toledo’s diverse arts culture.
20 North Gallery is located at 18 N. St. Clair St., Toledo. For more information call (419) 241-2400 or visit www.20northgallery.net.
Georgette’s Features Artwork By Real INK
Real INK, an organization that employs artists with de-velopmental disabilities, will display and sell artwork at Georgette’s through the month of January. Notecards, bookmarks and matted pictures are available. For more in-formation or to inquire about making a purchase, call Kathy Kurtz at (419) 352-5059 or realink@woodlane.us.
Georgette’s is located at 311 Conant St., Maumee. The coffee and gift shop is owned and operated by Sunshine.
Monday Morning Painters’ Works Displayed
Owens Community College’s Walter E. Terhune Art Gallery will display works by the Monday Morning Painters through Friday, February 10. Established in 1958, the Monday Morning Painters is a group of dedicated professional artists who meet every Monday morning for breakfast and then to paint together. Twenty-one works, featuring beach, lake, lighthouse, bridge and river scenes, are featured in the exhibition.
Flatlanders To Host Adrian Student Exhibition
Flatlanders Gallery, 11993 E. US 223, Blissfield, Mich., will host Sneak Peek Senior Exhibition: Samples From Adrian College’s 2012 Senior Exhibition Class through Saturday, February 11.
Parkwood Gallery Hosts Three Local Artists
The Brown, LaBay, LaValley & Yager Exhibition will be on display through Friday, February 24 in the Parkwood Gallery. Alyssa Brown, a student at the University of Toledo, pairs journalistic photographs with written statements recording personal reflections from the subjects of the photographs. Julia La Bay, a sculpture student from UT, creates casts of her body to represent the raw emotion of life-altering decisions.
Dr. Antoinette LaValley, a diagnostic neuroradiologist, reflects upon life of the individual and family through their bones. Michael Yager, an adjunct faculty member at Owens Community College, presents an interactive installation of so-called “space coconuts” that provide light and sound responses.
For additional information, call the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo at (419) 254-2787 or visit www.theartscommission.org.
Three Nature Photography Exhibits To Open
Three new exhibits are open through April 1 at the National Center for Nature Photography at Secor Metropark.
New Lands, New Discoveries is a look at lands recently acquired by Metroparks but not yet open to the public, captured by Metroparks director of nature photography Art Weber. Travelogue: North Shore Minnesota, also by Weber, captures the beauty of the North Woods landscape along Minnesota’s Lake Superior coast. Winning Photos from the 2011 Outdoor Writers Association of America is a traveling exhibit featuring this year’s winners of OWAA’s Excellence in Craft Contest.