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dressed up & can't go anywhere, Delores Stith-Rutlin |
St. Louis Photographers’ Showcase: “Portraits”
June 25 through August 7, 2010
Closing reception Friday,
August 7, 2010 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm
Featuring the work of Roscoe Crenshaw, Maurice
Meredith, Wiley Price, Marilyn Robinson, Anita Santiago
& Delores Stith-Rutlin.
These six St. Louis photographers express kindred feelings in their
art and offer a wonderful opportunity to view original images of
St. Louis, everyday people, jazz musicians, and even the President
of the United States, Barack Obama.
Fundraiser for
the victims of the Haiti earthquake
Friday, June 25, 4:30 to 8:30 pm (minimum donation of $20)
Saturday, June 26, 10:00 am to 4:30 pm (minimum donation of $10)
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| Marylin Robinson, color photograph |
Local African-American
photographers including;
Carl Bruce, Roscoe Crenshaw, Maurice Meredith, Wiley Price,
Marilyn Robinson, Anita Santiago &
Deloris Stith-Rutlin
Friday Opening Reception features Haitian music & Caribbean
refreshments.
All donations collected and a portion of all sales will be donated
to the St. Louis Salvation Army Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund.
The
Light in the Other Room
March 20
through
April 30, 2010
Opening reception Saturday, March 20, 2010 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm
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Ben Mercer's Notable
Black
Woman |
A group show
by
the
Kansas City
Artist Collaborative
Lonnie Powell
November 6, 2009 through Januray 8, 2010
Opening reception for the artist, Friday, November 6 from 5:00 to
8:00 pm
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| Queen Mother ,
watercolor by Lonnie Powell |
Lonnie Powell is a graduate of Lincoln University, Jefferson City,
Missouri where he was privileged to study under the guidance of the
late James Dallas Parks whose influence spread well beyond the sphere
of art.
Lonnie's occupations have ranged from dishwasher
at the Villa Capri Restaurant to Xerox Sales Representative, but
the vast majority of his career has been as an art teacher in the
Kansas City Missouri School District.
Though he is not presently a member, he is a charter board member
and past president of The Black Archives of Mid-America and a cofounder
of Euphrates Gallery.
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| Persistence, pastel on canvas, by Lonnie Powell |
He is a current member and past president of the Friends of Bruce
R. Watkins Culture Heritage Center.
Also Lonnie is president and founder of, The Light In The Other
Room, a collaborate of twenty-two, African American Kansas City based
artists.
As an African American artist (raised in Kansas City Missouri),
it did not take long to see that he did not have the luxury of being
just an artist. On the contrary, he had to be all things related
to art and African American art. He had to be an art educator, an
art critic, an art agent, a gallery operator, an art booster, a pickup
and delivery man and anything else that might pop up. He humbly refers
to himself as an art activist.
Lonnie has always sought to keep his art separate from his occupation
so that his art was free of financial influences. This separation
of art and money allowed him to steer clear of the trends, traps
and compromises begrudgingly faced by many of his contemporaries.
Although, this course proved to be less lucrative, the art remains
true to his heart and shall remain so.
He never refers to his art as his work. His art is not work, his
art is his very self and therefore, cannot be separated from the
rest of his life.
He has shown in and around his beloved city of Kansas City, Missouri
in many venues including solo and group exhibits at: The Ethnic Art
Gallery, The Central Exchange, The Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage
Center and Museum, and The American Jazz Museum's Changing Gallery
to name a few.
He has exhibited at a number of area universities including: Park
University, Parkville, Missouri, Western Missouri University, St.
Joseph, Missouri, Lincoln University, Jefferson City, Missouri and
Rockhurst University, Kansas City, Missouri where he spent a year
(1969-1970), as an artist in residence.
He has had art accepted in competitions at: The Portfolio Gallery,
St. Louis, Missouri, The Atlanta Life Insurance Company's African
American National Art Competition and Exhibition, Atlanta, Georgia,
The Black Arts Festival, Dayton, Ohio, The Plaza Art Fair, Kansas
City, Missouri, and The St. Louis Art Fair, Clayton, Missouri. He
is an award winning, Signature Member of The National Watercolor
Society. His art is in numerous private collections as well as the
corporate collections of Sprint Corporation, The Negro Leagues Baseball
Museum and The American Jazz Museum.
He has art in The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum's traveling exhibition,
Shades Of Greatness, which is currently touring galleries and museums
across the country. In 2005 his watercolor painting, South Sun, received
the coveted, Donor's Award C, from the 85th National Watercolor Society.
In the December, 2006, Watercolor Magic Magazine, named him as
one of the "Ones To Watch." In June, 2008 he received the "First
Place, Patrons Choice award in the First Annual Lakewood Oaks Exhibit
in Lee's Summit, MO.
The Art of Charles A. Bibbs
July 24 through September 30, 2009
Opening reception for the artist, Friday, July 24 from 7:00 to
9:00 pm
Gallery talk Saurday, July 25 from 3:00 to 5:00 pm
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"Sweet
Harvest" |
Charles Bibbs is an accomplished fine artist, entrepreneur and
philanthropist who has always believed we are the keepers of our
culture. As such, Bibbs spends much of his time working to develop
a cohesive, energized African American community. Charles Bibbs’ artwork
fuses African American and Native American cultural themes to make
powerful cross-cultural statements. His work is thought provoking
and capable of arousing strong emotions that cross ethnic, gender
and generational barriers. His artistic renderings convey a deep
sense of spirituality, majesty, dignity, strength and grace. However
his works are viewed or whatever individual emotions they may evoke,
they remain characteristically and recognizably Bibbs. “My
most important goal is to make profound aesthetic statements that
are ethnically rooted, and at the same time arouse spiritual emotions
within us.”
 Bibbs has also founded a number of organizations and businesses
to help in the growth of African American artistic expression such
as: Art 2000, Art on Tour, Images Magazine and the Inland Empire
Music and Arts Foundation. Charles Bibbs’ own corporation,
B Graphics and Fine Arts, Inc., is recognized as one of the leading
publishers and distributors of beautiful African American images. “For
many years, we have introduced nothing but the best quality and
technically advanced prints to our customers.”
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