50 years of art- Village Artists Jubilee

Members and Patrons:

The Village Artists will be celebrating 50 years of creativity in the arts:

Please save the date:  Friday, September 12, 2014.   SAVE THE DATE!!

More info to follow and please pass information to family and friends.

Thank You!

Our Sign, Finally Installed-Hand Painted and Full of Memories

Gallery Opening

Village Artists Members (L to R)

 

 

 Anne Goldsmith, Sharon Lorsch, Richard Brennan,  Sallie Pasquinelli, Joyce Riley

We thought you might like to see a photo of some of our members in front of our new store front, 1957 Ridge Road location.  Our hand painted sign which has become our unofficial Village Artist's logo and appears on our website and pamphlets has finally been hung atop our building!
  This sign was displayed for years and hung outside of our house in Flossmoor on Berry Lane.  It became a little worse for wear, weather beaten and chippy.   The ladies refurbished it with a little sweat equity (sanding, scraping, and painting). Thanks ladies- it looks GREAT.

Come and join the fun, our membership is open.
Please call or visit our website for more info. 
We always look forward to meeting new artists!

Members working on new art

Wednesdays are busy days at the studio, painters and potters use this day to work on art and share their latest information.  The Village Artists are a group of artists and a non-profit working art studio/ gallery.  We share the space and have comradeship with fellow artists.

Carol Downs, a potter, was working on an interesting piece today.   A custom order incense burner, one cannot wait to see the final product!

Here Carol displays one of her beautiful bowls.  This glaze has flecks of green and gold. Lovely.

Joyce Riley is always working on a new project.  Look for Joyce at local Farmers Markets this summer.
Here is one of her lovely platters.

Wednesdays are good days to work on new art as well as sharing lunch with friends!
Come and join the fun.  We are accepting new members.  Please contact us by calling the gallery and visiting our website at


http://www.villageartists.org

Our gallery is open to the public the first Saturday of every month.

New Art Work by Barb Heine

We would like to take this moment to highlight the new art work of one of our members. Barb Heine is a potter and a painter of watercolors.  She has a new project she has been working on for the up coming Open House.  Barb is painting original watercolors and placing them inside vintage jewelry, trinket and music boxes.  She finds these boxes at local antique shops and estate sales, she refurbishes them and creates a new work of art.

 This one is titled "Red Hot Chili Peppers"

"Crocus First Light"

The inside contains a velvet lined space for jewelry or trinkets and some have mirrors.

"Ski Slope in the Pines."

Some of the them contain Music Boxes.

Barb states, " I love painting watercolors and I love vintage things.  I am a great collector of antiques and when I see these boxes they speak to me!  Each one deserves a special little painting all its' own, no two boxes are alike.  I hope our patrons come to our Grand Opening and appreciate all the hard work we've done in our new space."

                                                              Artist: Barb Heine

The Grand Opening/Open House that Barb mentioned is On April 29-30th.  Friday night from 5-8 pm and Saturday from 10 am to 3 pm, the public is welcome.  Location: 1957 Ridge Road, Homewood IL