Pop-Up Studio Art Sale Attracts Art Afficionados
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Above, left: Meredith McCartan welcomed visitors to the Studio Art Sale May 1. Middle: Sue Primeau discussed artworks with customers in the classroom. At right: Donna Josephson, in blue and white shirt, answered questions in the gallery.
Over 30 customers purchased items at the Rainbow Springs Art in Dunnellon Studio Art Sale May 1, both inside and outside of the gallery.
Gallery members set up art in the classroom the day before the sale and spruced up the gallery. Others volunteered to work the day of the one-day, pop-up sale, designed to help artists do some spring cleaning of their studios and offer the public both their art and extra art supplies.
“They were busy inside the gallery this morning,” board member Meredith McCartan said shortly after noon, the day of the sale.
Gallery members set up art in the classroom the day before the sale and spruced up the gallery. Others volunteered to work the day of the one-day, pop-up sale, designed to help artists do some spring cleaning of their studios and offer the public both their art and extra art supplies.
“They were busy inside the gallery this morning,” board member Meredith McCartan said shortly after noon, the day of the sale.
2021 Art Festival One of Our Most Successful Ever!!
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The 2021 Rainbow Springs Art Festival on March 20 produced daylong sales and plenty of exposure for the nearly 40 artists who exhibited outside the Rainbow Springs Art Gallery, not to mention the 35 members with work on display inside, as well as the art students from Dunnellon High School, who showed 75 pieces.
"It was one of our best and most attended events," said Bridget Hanley, president of Rainbow Springs Art in Dunnellon and festival director. "All of our artists had fabulous sales," she said.
In the photo Above Left, visitors check out the scene outside the gallery. Above Right, visitors appreciate the work inside the gallery.
Below, Left, Dunnellon High School art teacher Katherine Bobeck (left), with her student Valerie Barrazza discussed students' work with visitors. Below, Center, Dunnellon High School art students Valerie Barrazza (left) and Jayla Schwirtz helped visitors understand the projects that art students exhibited. Below, Right, visitors check out Dunnellon High School students' work.
"It was one of our best and most attended events," said Bridget Hanley, president of Rainbow Springs Art in Dunnellon and festival director. "All of our artists had fabulous sales," she said.
In the photo Above Left, visitors check out the scene outside the gallery. Above Right, visitors appreciate the work inside the gallery.
Below, Left, Dunnellon High School art teacher Katherine Bobeck (left), with her student Valerie Barrazza discussed students' work with visitors. Below, Center, Dunnellon High School art students Valerie Barrazza (left) and Jayla Schwirtz helped visitors understand the projects that art students exhibited. Below, Right, visitors check out Dunnellon High School students' work.
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Members Win Chance to Shine Under TV Spotlight
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Three Rainbow Springs Art in Dunnellon gallery members have been selected from a competition to participate in WUFT-TV (PBS) of Gainesville’s Artistry in Motion program, in which audio and video of the artists are recorded and aired on WUFT’s television and radio stations. They are: Bonnie Eads and Linda Retiz of Ocala, and Bridgette Hanley of Dunellon. Reitz specializes in acrylic “flow art”; Eads is a realistic watercolorist and has twice painted a winning horse for Marion Cultural Alliance’s Horse Fever competition. Hanley is president of the gallery and paints acrylic landscapes and wildlife and also is a calligrapher.
A WUFT crew filmed and recorded the threesome April 26, and the segments will air soon and be posted on the WUFT website: www.wuft.org. |
Photos from Top Left: Rainbow Springs Art in Dunnellon Gallery Director discusses her flow-art horse. Top Right: Linda Reitz gets ready for her interview. Bottom Left: Bonnie Eads discusses her realistic art.
Member Bonnie Eads Rides Into Winner's Circle
Rainbow Springs Art in Dunnellon member Bonnie Eads’ fiberglass steed, “Critters,” has gone to rest up for a couple months until June 5, when he's raffled for charity.
He just wrapped up a month exhibition at the Circle Square Cultural Center’s lobby at On Top of the World. Eads is one of 15 artists who was accepted by Marion Cultural Alliance to paint a horse for one of the Alliance’s major fundraisers, Horse Fever 20/20. Eads learned on Dec. 15 that her proposal for a painted horse was selected by a jury of regional art professionals. Then she furiously dove into painting her pony, who had to be finished by Feb. 1. Her white-based horse is covered with the fauna and flora of the Sunshine State. “I was trying to honor the animals of Florida,” Eads said. “I think I used every reference photo I had ever taken.” There’s an alligator and apple snake, a black bear and cubs. There’s a Florida mouse, a fox, a ghost crab, and a gopher tortoise. Don’t forget the raccoon, the Southern leopard frog, and the Florida panther. There are other animals and 50-plus plants, birds, and butterflies. Once Bonnie finished her horse, she varnished it. It then was picked up by a company with a 16-horse tractor trailer and taken to Liles Collision in Ocala, where it and the other finalists received clear-coat spray finishes, similar to those of cars. Other horses in the herd have sponsors. Eads, who also had a successful entry in MCA’s last horse fundraising effort in 2011, said she has a “melancholy kind of feeling” upon completing Critters. But she recommended other artists compete the next time MCA has a herd to paint. “It’s great fun and satisfying,” she said. |
Critters' eye is a loggerhead sea turtle hatchling.
Critters' hoof has a gopher on it.
Critters, at right, is joined by, from left, Sunny Daze and Home, Sweet Home at the Marion Cultural Alliance, where they were on display during February.
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