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Rockford Art Guild Exhibit - Artist's Reception
Main Floor, January 10th, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Please join us for light refreshments and meet the artists.
n 1955, a group of 10 area artists formed the Rockford Amateur Artists, whose mission was to hone their expertise and expand community awareness of and exposure to the visual arts. Rockford Art Guild (RAG), as it is now known, is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization. Their mission is to promote, exhibit, and preserve visual art, focusing on education and creative exploration.
Artists Exhibiting: Jean Apgar, Cindy Bear, Margi Forss, Chuck Gregory, Timothy Griffith, Cora Hutchison, Maggie Isaacs, Don Hyson, Greg LaMont, Barbara Larsen, Paula Flanagan-Marsh, Jill Rae Martin-Golden, Susan Meyer, John C Naretta, Janus Rose, Deborah Sherman, David Van Delinder, Beth Wemmer, and John Wemmer.
This event was rescheduled from December 13th.
Main Floor, January 10th, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Please join us for light refreshments and meet the artists.
n 1955, a group of 10 area artists formed the Rockford Amateur Artists, whose mission was to hone their expertise and expand community awareness of and exposure to the visual arts. Rockford Art Guild (RAG), as it is now known, is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization. Their mission is to promote, exhibit, and preserve visual art, focusing on education and creative exploration.
Artists Exhibiting: Jean Apgar, Cindy Bear, Margi Forss, Chuck Gregory, Timothy Griffith, Cora Hutchison, Maggie Isaacs, Don Hyson, Greg LaMont, Barbara Larsen, Paula Flanagan-Marsh, Jill Rae Martin-Golden, Susan Meyer, John C Naretta, Janus Rose, Deborah Sherman, David Van Delinder, Beth Wemmer, and John Wemmer.
This event was rescheduled from December 13th.
America the Beautiful Art Exhibit - Awards Reception: February 13 - 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm
Judge: Stuart Roddy
Growing up in Laguna Beach California, Stuart found that his interest in art was becoming a very important part of his life and was truly influencing his development as a person in many ways. He works in several mediums including oil, acrylic, pastels, egg tempera and etching. “I believe that an artist continues to grow and develop throughout life and working in multiple mediums enhances that growth for me. I am fascinated with both the differences and the similarities between these mediums.”
He first became interested in egg tempera when he recognized its similarity to etching, particularly the importance of line. Over the years he developed a more loose approach and believes that his more recent paintings represent a merging of artist and subject matter.
Stuart is a teacher at Sterling High School and at Sauk Valley Community College. His education includes a BA and MA from the University of Illinois. He also attended the Art Institute of Chicago and the Laguna Beach College of Art Design.
Judge: Stuart Roddy
Growing up in Laguna Beach California, Stuart found that his interest in art was becoming a very important part of his life and was truly influencing his development as a person in many ways. He works in several mediums including oil, acrylic, pastels, egg tempera and etching. “I believe that an artist continues to grow and develop throughout life and working in multiple mediums enhances that growth for me. I am fascinated with both the differences and the similarities between these mediums.”
He first became interested in egg tempera when he recognized its similarity to etching, particularly the importance of line. Over the years he developed a more loose approach and believes that his more recent paintings represent a merging of artist and subject matter.
Stuart is a teacher at Sterling High School and at Sauk Valley Community College. His education includes a BA and MA from the University of Illinois. He also attended the Art Institute of Chicago and the Laguna Beach College of Art Design.
Reception Music: Jim Kanas
As a teenager Jim studied classical music and jazz improvisation and through educational and other venues found himself in the company of many jazz performers and educators including Pat Metheny, George Benson, Gary Burton and Stan Kenton to name a few. Also, at that time Jim was performing with then neighboring high school student/saxophonist Bill Evans sat-in with veteran blues man Eddy Clearwater. Jim won consecutive awards as a jazz guitarist in the Chicagoland area and concurrently pursued his love and “hobby” of playing bluegrass, folk and traditional music.
He later found himself surrounded by and jamming with influential musicians such as Steve Goodman, Corky Siegel, the Nashville Cats, Allison Krause, Vasar Clements, Jethro Burns and others. Jim broadened out his performance base to include pedal-steel guitar, fiddle, banjo, harmonica, mandolin, dobro and vocals and toured regionally as a sideman with many country oriented groups. Jim earned a unique interdisciplinary music performance degree from Northern Illinois University in contemporary guitar skills, commercial music and American folk instruments.
He is an Illinois Arts Council Artstour artist and performs and records regularly as a soloist (guitarist/singer/multi instrumentalist), and over the years Jim played extensively the Jim Kanas Trio (folk/bluegrass/western swing) and with the Jim Kanas Jazz Quartet.
As a teenager Jim studied classical music and jazz improvisation and through educational and other venues found himself in the company of many jazz performers and educators including Pat Metheny, George Benson, Gary Burton and Stan Kenton to name a few. Also, at that time Jim was performing with then neighboring high school student/saxophonist Bill Evans sat-in with veteran blues man Eddy Clearwater. Jim won consecutive awards as a jazz guitarist in the Chicagoland area and concurrently pursued his love and “hobby” of playing bluegrass, folk and traditional music.
He later found himself surrounded by and jamming with influential musicians such as Steve Goodman, Corky Siegel, the Nashville Cats, Allison Krause, Vasar Clements, Jethro Burns and others. Jim broadened out his performance base to include pedal-steel guitar, fiddle, banjo, harmonica, mandolin, dobro and vocals and toured regionally as a sideman with many country oriented groups. Jim earned a unique interdisciplinary music performance degree from Northern Illinois University in contemporary guitar skills, commercial music and American folk instruments.
He is an Illinois Arts Council Artstour artist and performs and records regularly as a soloist (guitarist/singer/multi instrumentalist), and over the years Jim played extensively the Jim Kanas Trio (folk/bluegrass/western swing) and with the Jim Kanas Jazz Quartet.
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Joining Jim for the reception on February 13th will be Bass player Roger Hintzsche.
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