Stop by Village Arts on DP Road and check out their newest exhibit, ‘Bucket List’, which runs through the end of February. Courtesy photo
While visiting Village Arts for the art exhibit, take those pieces of artwork with you that you’ve been meaning to have framed. Courtesy photo
Different styles of paintings of hot air balloons are featured in the ‘Bucket List’ art exhibit currently showing at Village Arts. Courtesy photo
BY KEN NEBEL
Owner
Village Arts
Village Arts is hosting a brand new exhibit for a brand new year entitled “Bucket List”, which asks artists to look forward and to examine hopes, experiences. Tying artwork to artists’ wishes and dreams allowed for some extremely interesting and varied takes of the theme, and has
been a great way for viewers to connect more deeply with the artists in the community. Artwork will remain on display through the end of February, and artists are invited to continue entering the show as they work on their own bucket lists this year!
What’s been on your bucket list this past year? If you’re anything like the artists showing their work currently, there’s a mixture of wishes for the world at large and experiences to expand horizons. Amazingly, Bonnie Binkert, Sue Ellen Hains, and Fran Stovall all looked to the skies, specifically the experience of hot air ballooning over various landscaped from Turkey’s Cappadocia to just down the hill at Black Mesa. Photographer, Ted Greer, looks toward the horizon in his Northern New Mexican landscape titled “Solstice”
Themes of journey and exploration shone through in several artist’s works. Darla Graff Thompson is looking forward to exploring close to home in her “Dory Trip Down the Colorado River” and “Again to Tuscon” encaustic pieces while pastel painter Phyllisha Hamrick captures a
portrait of a tiger in her piece “I Dream of Seeing the Wild Tiger”. Photographer, John Sarracino, took to the corners of the planet and back on his journey and even reaches for the moon!
Other artists turned to broader concepts, like Peggy Durbin’s stippled portrait of a child seeing herself reflected in an image of a cowgirl. Jeannie Hope Gibson’s “Eternal Longing” shows a bright figure breaking out of darkness with words signifying “Peace” in different languages and mixed media artist Asia Ginn’s “Going Forward” and “Glitter Girl” both turn inward and toward self expression as ways to advance.
Stop by Village Arts to get to know area artists on a whole new level, be inspired, and show your appreciation by voting for your favorite work! Village Arts is open Monday through Friday from 9 AM-4 PM and Saturdays from 10 AM-4 PM, and you can find out more about what Village Arts has to offer including current and upcoming exhibits at
www.villageartsframing.com!
