EXHIBITS
June 27, 2010, 12:05:25 by president in Press Releases.
PAINTINGS, PRINTS AND CAROUSEL SCULPTURES
Buchanan Art Center’s Roti Roti and Show Place Galleries are the venue for the 2010 All-Member Annual Show of Northern Indiana Artists Inc. (NIA) from Friday, July 2 to August 1, 2010. Concurrently, artist Lynda Price’s Life is a Merry-Go-Round, a display of her hand carved wood sculptures, will be held in the Library Gallery. Also, Da Vinci Revisited, Price's international collection of horses, will be exhibited.
The reception for both exhibits and the NIA awards ceremony will be held from 5:30 to 7:30pm on Thursday, July 8. Artists will be present and the public is invited to attend. Refreshments will be served. Gallery hours are Monday-Thursday 10:00am - 6:00pm, Friday 10:00am - 5:00pm, Saturday 10:00am - 4:00pm, and Sunday 1:00pm - 4:00pm.
Northern Indiana Artists’ drawings, paintings, sculpture and other artwork will be exhibited. This is a non-juried show, and all artwork that is entered will be shown. Awards will be selected by David Baker, art faculty member at Southwestern Michigan College, Dowagiac, MI. Several awards that are given only at the annual show will be presented.
Northern Indiana Artists has more than 125 members and celebrated its 65th year of operation in 2007. Meetings are held at the Studio Arts Center, Mishawaka, or South Bend Regional Museum of Art at 1:00pm the second Sundays of September, November, January and March. For membership information: P.O. Box 8283 South Bend, IN 46660. The NIA gives scholarships for classes at area museums and art centers to students in elementary grades through high school. For information, see NIA-art.org.
In the Center’s Library Gallery, Lynda Price of Niles, MI, will exhibit her hand-carved horse sculptures based on original carousel motifs. This exhibition is a tribute to the craftsmanship of the past that is long forgotten. In addition, Price will show her international collection of horses which includes one of the limited number of castings of the famous Da Vinci horse.
The Buchanan Art Center, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, was formed in 2004 and is located at 117 West Front Street in Buchanan, Michigan. The Center features three galleries with rotating exhibits of regional artists' work, a program of educational art classes to all ages, and a gift shop featuring the work of local artists. More information including a schedule of upcoming classes can be found on their web site at www.buchananartcenter.org.
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GALLERY EXHIBITS
April 28, 2010, 02:25:37 by president in Press Releases.
ROTI ROTI FAMILY: FOUR GENERATIONS OF ART
Shirley Louise Roti Roti and Joseph L. Roti Roti are exhibiting in the Roti Roti Gallery at the Buchanan Art Center from April 16 through May 31, 2010. Shirley's work consists of paintings in various media; Joe is a photographer of nature and landscapes. In the Show Place Gallery from April 20 until May 15, 2010, is the artwork of four generations of the Roti Roti family, including many fiber art pieces by Elizabeth Roti Roti Pilley and Mary Roti Roti. The Library Gallery currently houses paintings also by Shirley Roti Roti, featuring scenes from the Buchanan area.
The Buchanan Art Center is located at 117 W. Front Street, Buchanan, MI 49107. Hours are Tuesday through Thursday from 10:00am until 6:00pm; Friday 10:00am until 5:00pm; and Saturday 10:00am until 4:00pm. Beginning June 1, until Labor Day, the Center will also be open on Sunday from 1:00pm until 4:00pm. Phone 269-697-4005 for further information.
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GALLERY SHOWS
June 14, 2009, 09:43:03 by president in Press Releases.
Two New Gallery Exhibits at BAC in July
From July 1 through July 30, Russel T. Dailey will exhibit Surf and Turf: Seascapes and Landscapes in Watercolor, in the Show Place Gallery at the Buchanan Art Center. Concurrently, Pastels: Color and Light, artwork by Donna Chambers will be on display in the Library Gallery. The Opening Reception for these two exhibits will be held on Sunday, July 5, from 2:00pm to 4:00pm.
Russel T. Dailey, a Canadian, moved to the U.S. at an early age and lived in various cities. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at the University of Notre Dame. Since then, he has worked as a technical illustrator for the Bendix Missile Plant in Mishawaka, as a cartographic draftsman for Clyde Williams Associates, and a technician designer for Cole Associates. He retired from M/E Design Services in South Bend in 2005. Dailey was introduced to watercolors by Zygmund Jankowski and Ed Herrmann in the early 1960s. He states, "Many of the things that we see on a daily basis provide us with the potential for a painting but we don't always recognize them as such." He hopes his paintings will provide a "meaningful experience for the viewer."
Donna Chambers has been an art lover since childhood. She has used many art mediums, including stained glass and creative writing. Currently, she is painting in pastels using such diverse subjects as landscapes, animals and portraits. Her work has been hung in juried shows at The South Bend Civic, the Box Factory for the Arts, Studio Arts, the New Galleries. Chambers' art education includes classes at Monterey Peninsula College, The Box Factory, Studio Arts, Buchanan Art Center, South Bend Museum of Art, as well as workshops with renown artists in pastels; Richard McDaniel and Allan Flattman. She is currently a student with Harry Ahn, an internationally known and honored artist in oils. Chambers is a practicing psychologist and hypnotherapist in St. Joseph Michigan. She feels that art is the "window" to the inner life of people. She has utilized art to help children and teens "verbalize" their emotions. She says, "It (art) is a non-complex way to access the emotional life, and a creative expression of deep, inner emotions. It brings satisfaction and healing to those who utilize the creativity within themselves. Whether one is an artist or an art lover, art quietly enhances our daily lives with color, perspective and joy." She will be teaching an introduction to pastels class at Buchanan Art Center this summer.
The Buchanan Art Center is a non-profit organization located at 117 West Front Street in Buchanan, MI. It houses three galleries and a gift shop, and offers classes and workshops to people of all ages. Hours are Monday through Friday 9:00am-6:00pm, and Saturday and Sunday1:00-4:00pm. For more information, contact the Center at 269-697-4005 or visit the web site at www.buchananartcenter.org.
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NEW EXHIBITS IN JUNE
May 21, 2009, 11:52:11 by president in Press Releases.
"WATER" BEAUTIFIES BUCHANAN ART CENTER EXHIBITS
"Oil and Water," paintings and First Day Covers by Mary Fisher, and "Lake Michigan Splendor," photography by Kristine (Wright) Sims will be featured at a reception open to the public on Sunday, June 7, from 2:00p.m. to 4:00p.m. at the Buchanan Art Center. Both exhibits run from June 2-30, and there is no charge.
Mary Fisher loves to paint in both oil and watercolor. While her subject matter often determines which medium she will use, she is comfortable with either. For the past 20 years, she has painted First Day Covers, also called Cachets. Cachets are an envelope designed around and affixed with a new issue stamp. The United States Post Office then cancels these envelopes with the official city, state and date of that new stamp. These cachets are highly collectable by stamp enthusiasts to whom she sells throughout the United States and worldwide. Fisher is president of the Cachetmakers Association, a chapter of the American First Day Cover Society. She has consistently won top awards in the Cachetmakers' Contest sponsored annually by the AFDCS. Additionally, her covers are regularly chosen and displayed in the AFDCS publication First Days. Her May 28, 2006 cachet of the 400th anniversary of the Exploration of Samuel de Champlain was featured on the cover of nationally known reference catalog Scott's First Day Cover Catalogue & Checklist. Fisher has been a resident of the Michiana area most of her life. She graduated from Riley High School in South Bend, Indiana, and subsequently received bachelor and master degrees from Indiana University, Bloomington. She has exhibited her artwork in various juried shows including the Leeper Park Art Fair. Presently her available First Day Covers are for sale on the internet at: stampwants.com/stores/fishercachets.
Kristine (Wright) Sims brings "Lake Michigan Splendor" to the Library Gallery. She graduated from Buchanan High School where she took three years of art under Marie Remington, and obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Graphic Design at Grand Valley State University. She is currently employed at a local graphics printing company. Her love for Southwest Michigan and Lake Michigan drew her to attempt to capture its beauty and ever changing views. She enjoys sharing her pictures with people who are not so fortunate to experience the Lake. All of her pictures have been taken in southwestern Michigan, including Saint Joseph, Grand Haven, South Haven and Holland. "It wasn't a very hard decision to decide on a subject matter or title for this show. Lake Michigan Splendor" truly fits what I have captured and what I am sharing in my photographs. No two sunsets are ever the same, no two storms ever create the same cloud formations or color reflections onto the water, and every year the sand dunes and surrounding terrain change shape."
The Buchanan Art Center is a non-profit organization located at 117 West Front Street in Buchanan, MI. It houses three galleries and a gift shop, and offers classes and workshops to people of all ages. Hours are Monday through Friday 9:00am-6:00pm, and Saturday and Sunday 1:00-4:00pm. For more information, contact the Center at 269-697-4005 or visit the web site at www.buchananartcenter.org.
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MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND
May 12, 2009, 09:17:53 by president in Press Releases.
Unsanctioned Buchanan Art and Antiques Festival Exhibits Draws Media Attention
The City of Buchanan's Summer Art and Antique Festival entitled "Unsanctioned" opens Memorial Day weekend, with special exhibits featuring fine art, antiquities and crafts scheduled from 6:00 PM to 10PM on Front Street in Buchanan, Michigan. Unsanctioned is focused upon exhibition of art , antiques, furnishings and crafts created from the nineteenth century to date, with over thirty news organizations covering the event to date.
Highlights for Saturday, May 23rd includes:
The Buchanan Museum of Fine Art ~ Opening Gallery Reception featuring a Retrospective of American Impressionist painter Francis Focer Brown (formerly of Muncie, Indiana), an exhibition of selected works from Hudson River School artists George Loring Brown, Jasper Cropsey and Sanford R. Gifford, and a modern art exhibit featuring works by Hans Hofmann, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gifford Beal and David Padworny.
Thomas Jolly Michigan ~ Opening Reception featuring English Country and 20th Century Designs.
Alan Robandt ~ Web "Catablog" Launch Party and Exhibit of Objects of Art, Furniture, Mirrors and Lighting.
FRONT ~ Fine Antiques and Gallery Reception by proprietor Joe Paolucci.
Indigo Properties Art Space ~ Gallery Reception and Art Display hosted by Fernwood Botantical Gardens. Learn to make lineoleum cut prints while the supply lasts. Display of "green" art featured.
The Buchanan Art Center ~ Gallery Reception and RAKU WALK THRU. Buy a bowl, glaze it, RAKU fire it and take it home! Three galleries exhibiting works of various local artists.
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For more Detail Contact: Mary Lister, Director
Buchanan Art Center
117 West Front Street
Buchanan, MI 49107
(269) 697-4005
http://www.buchananartcenter.org
http://www.buchananartcenter.org/contactus.htm
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JURIED EXHIBITION WINNERS
April 07, 2009, 10:50:40 by president in Press Releases.
BUCHANAN ART CENTER ANNOUNCES WINNERS
Over $1,000.00 in prizes and awards will be handed out to students and adults from the Michiana Area at a reception, open to the public, on Sunday, April 19, from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. at the Buchanan Art Center. Award winners are participants in the juried exhibit entitled, "Trash to Treasure: Art from Recycled Materials," on display at the Center through April 27, 2009.
Cash prizes in the amount of $575.00 from the Center, and art scholarships totaling $650.00 from Berrien Regional Education Service Agency (formerly the Berrien County Intermediate School District) will go to the following winners:
Grades K-5: 1st Place, Morgan Struss, Ottawa Elementary, Buchanan; 2nd Place, Cloe Mittan, Stark Elementary, Buchanan; 3rd Place, Zoe Mittan, Stark Elementary, Buchanan. Berrien RESA Scholarships: Morgan and Mia Struss, Ottawa Elementary, Buchanan; Gavin Ales, Bridgman Elementary, Bridgman; Zoe Mittan, Stark Elementary, Buchanan; Skylar Mittan, Moccasin Elementary, Buchanan; Megan Montgomery, Roosevelt Elementary, Lakeshore; Hailey Ricketts, Stewart Elementary, Lakeshore; Jonah Hannafius, Howard Elementary, Niles. Honorable Mentions: Mia Struss, Ottawa Elementary, Buchanan; Sarah Puzycki, Roosevelt Elementary, Lakeshore; Jordan Shindeldecker, Stewart Elementary, Lakeshore; Andy Hannafius, Howard Elementary, Niles; Jack Hannafius, Home-schooled, Niles; Brighton Lee, Parker Salladin, Trayton Salladin, First Presbyterian Church, Buchanan. Berrien RESA Scholarships: Morgan and Mia Struss, Ottawa Elementary, Buchanan; Gavin Ales, Bridgman Elementary, Bridgman; Zoe Mittan, Stark Elementary, Buchanan; Skylar Mittan, Moccasin Elementary, Buchanan; Megan Montgomery, Roosevelt Elementary, Lakeshore; Hailey Ricketts, Stewart Elementary, Lakeshore; Jonah Hannafius, Howard Elementary, Niles
Grades 6-8: 1st Place, Samantha Hedke, Lakeshore Middle School, Lakeshore; 2nd Place, Alejandia Pitts, Kersten Claeys, Sadye Piaskoski, Lakeshore Middle School, Lakeshore; 3rd Place, Bobby Horton, Lakeshore Middle School, Lakeshore. Berrien RESA Scholarships: Samantha Hedke, Lakeshore Middle School, Lakeshore.
Grades 9-12: 1st Place, Autumn Smith, Berrien Springs High School, Berrien Springs; 2nd Place, Jerrod Hamlin, Buchanan High School, Buchanan; 3rd Place, David Bernstein, Penn High School, Granger. Honorable Mentions: CSK, Berrien Springs High School, Berrien Springs; John-Mark Cuarto, Berrien Springs High School, Berrien Springs; Bryant House, Buchanan High School, Buchanan; Lakeshore High School Art Club, Lakeshore; Taylor Henry, Buchanan High School, Buchanan; Raechel Zahrn, Berrien Springs High School, Berrien Springs. Berrien RESA Scholarships: David Bernstein, Penn High School, Granger; Taylor Henry, Buchanan High School, Buchanan; Autumn Smith, Berrien Springs High School, Berrien Springs; Kimberly Adame, Andrews Academy, Berrien Springs; Pandhra Phegley, Brandywine High School, Niles.
Adults: 1st Place, Lynda Price, Niles; 2nd Place, Robert Primrose, South Bend; 3rd Place, Marie Remington, Niles. Buchanan Art Center Staff Award, Darlene Clevenger, Buchanan. Honorable Mentions: Amanda Vigansky, South Bend; Jennifer Valentine, Decatur; Cheri Martin, Buchanan; Brother Robb Lechtanski, Buchanan; Sue Glossinger, Buchanan; Jennifer Courtright, Berrien Springs.
Berrien RESA will also provide food and refreshments for the reception on April 19. Prize monies awarded by the Buchanan Art Center were donated by AEP Indiana Michigan Power, and educational materials about recycling were supplied by the Southeast Berrien County Landfill. In addition, the Landfill loaned an "art sculpture" made of recycled pop cans which is on display on the front lawn of the Center.
The Buchanan Art Center is a nonprofit organization located at 117 West Front Street in Buchanan, MI. It houses three galleries and a gift shop, and offers classes and workshops to people of all ages. Hours are Monday through Friday 9:00am-6:00pm, and Saturday 1:00-4:00pm. In addition, from May 24 to Labor Day, they will open on Sundays from 1:00 - 4:00pm. For more information, contact the Center at 269-697-4005 or visit the web site at www.buchananartcenter.org.
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ROTI ROTI GALLERY EXHIBIT
March 30, 2009, 09:21:52 by president in Press Releases.
INTERNATIONAL ARTIST COMES TO BUCHANAN
"Manifest Rites," a collection of lens-based art including silver gelatin prints and ink jet Piezography prints, created by Bill Davis, a Midwest native, will open on Sunday, April 19 and will run through May 31, 2009. An opening reception will be held on Sunday, April 26, 2009, from 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Bill Davis is an artist who has traveled to work or live in Europe, Asia, North America, and Australia. After a 1993 B.F.A. Davis relocated from Chicago to Prague to assist Pavel Banka and teach, exhibit, and freelance in regional venues. In 1995, he exhibited in The Ljubljana PhotoFest and received a stipend to lecture at the University of Leeds, England. From Prague he helped launch Ohio University’s Study Abroad program, assisted in Venice, and translated Photo History coursework to lecture and teach for the Umeleckeprumyslove Academy of Usti Nad Labem. Upon returning to teach in the U.S., Davis received local, regional, and international grant support to work in Korea (Rotary Travel Selection), Vermont (Cone Editions Press/WMU Technology Grant), and exhibit in Australia (Federal Government Arts Funding Body of Australia), England (University of Leeds), and Ukraine (Ohio Arts Council/CKSCP) where he presented his work to the city’s mayors, U.S. Ambassador Steven Pifer and their respective attaches.
Davis’ images are held publicly and privately in international and domestic collections. Work from his museum, university, and gallery exhibits have been promoted in Art in America (New York, U.S.), "Light and Lens" (Focal Point Press-Elsevier), "Young World Photographers" (Slovenia), Photographer’s Market (F&W Publications- U.S.), Portraits of Rite (Orange Regional Gallery –– NSW, Aus.), Points, Words, Threads (Exhibition Catalog/Nayar Gall –– Michigan, U.S.), XConnect (Kelly Writer’s House UPenn –– Philadelphia, U.S.), and The Art of Photography (Exhibition Catalog, San Diego, U.S.). As his work reflects the nature of biography, identity, and digital culture, he has presented lectures on these topics and his experience at Photography, Humanities, Film/Video, and Digital/New Media conferences and workshops in the United States and Europe- from Harvard to Charles University. Davis maintains creative activity with collectors, curators, and artists via a photo studio and 19th century farmhouse in the Midwest where he teaches on a full time appointment as an Assistant Professor of Photography and Digital Imaging at Western Michigan University’s Frostic School of Art and has additionally served as The Prague Summer Program’s Coordinator of Photography.
The range of his research and activity mirrors the extensive spectrums of format and technique for contemporary photography- as analogue nostalgia and digital venture. Bill Davis has embraced each process as both have combined to emerge as the core requirement for anyone identifying their self as "image maker". His web site link can be found at http://homepages.wmich.edu/~wdavis/.
The Buchanan Art Center is a nonprofit organization located at 117 West Front Street in Buchanan, MI. It houses three galleries and a gift shop, and offers classes and workshops to people of all ages. Regular hours are Monday through Friday 9:00am-6:00pm, and Saturday 1:00-4:00pm. For more information, contact the Center at 269-697-4005 or visit the web site at www.buchananartcenter.org.
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NEW EXHIBITS IN APRIL
March 30, 2009, 09:16:19 by president in Press Releases.
TWO 'GREEN' SHOWS COMING IN APRIL
TWO "GREEN" SHOWS OPEN AT BUCHANAN ART CENTER
Mother and Me," paintings by Margaret "Lee" Green, of Niles, Michigan, and her mother, the late Blanche Horner Rowley, will open at the Buchanan Art Center's Library Gallery on April 2 and continue through April 29. In addition, from April 2 through April 27, a juried exhibit, "Trash to Treasure: Art from Recycled Materials," will be featured in the Show Place Gallery. The reception for both exhibits will be held on Sunday, April 19 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
Margaret "Lee" Green, of Niles, Michigan, is a self taught artist who has always loved art and music. Her grandparents had a home in Provincetown, MA, and her summers were spent there, surrounded by art and the artists. Lee Green says of herself, "The arts were doled out amongst the sisters in my family, and I got Music. After attending Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and studying the violin, I married a symphony musician, had children, and was myself immersed in motherhood. I began to take art courses in the Detroit area…clay with John Glick and Sandy Lentz…drawing with Kitty Green at the BBAA (Birmingham, Bloomfield Art Association)…oils with William House …it has been an on-and-off ‘thing' all of my adult life. I took up watercolor in the 1990s, and decided I enjoyed it very much. Then I took an oil class, and decided I liked it better. In other words, I am an art schizophrenic." Green's mother, Blanche Horner Rowley, was a fine oil painter, schooled in Europe and Provincetown. She is mentioned in several publications and papers in Boston where she often showed. She, unfortunately, gave up painting when she married and had children. Very late in her seventies, she took it up again.
"Trash to Treasure: Art from Recycled Materials," is open to the public, and will contain works from both youth and adults. Awards will be presented on Sunday, April 19, between 2:00 and 4:00 p.m. Entries must be brought to the Center on Tuesday, March 31, between 1 and 8 p.m. All work must remain in the show until pick up on Tuesday, April 28, between 1 and 8 p.m. Students may enter one piece with no entry fee. Prize monies, donated by AEP Indiana Michigan Power, will be given to students for 1st place ($50), 2nd place ($30) and 3rd place ($20) in each category of grades K-5, 6-8, and 9-12. Adults will be charged a $10 entry fee for up to two pieces, and Adult prize monies will be given for 1st place ($100), 2nd place ($75) and 3rd place ($50). All heavy or framed wall pieces should be ready to hang. Educational materials will be supplied by Southeast Berrien County Landfill; Berrien Regional Education Service Agency Arts in the Schools will offer a $50 scholarship to the RESA Award winner from each participating school.
The Buchanan Art Center is a nonprofit organization located at 117 West Front Street in Buchanan, MI. It houses three galleries and a gift shop, and offers classes and workshops to people of all ages. Hours are Monday through Friday 9:00am-6:00pm, and Saturday 1:00-4:00pm. For more information, contact the Center at 269-697-4005 or visit the web site at www.buchananartcenter.org.
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