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This Art Exhibition is perfect for the main library downtown. This visual art exhibit challenged local artists to depict a piece of literature that they found meaningful or memorable. This included novels, poems, quotes, and lyrics to songs. Twenty-six artists created 52 images that convey their visual perception of specific words.
Please join The Art Center Cooperative and The Jacksonville Artists' Guild at the Jacksonville Main Library for the June Artwalk on Wednesday, June 7th, from 6pm - 8pm for a reception with food and drink plus an awards ceremony. We will also give away free libation tickets that can be presented at our gallery downtown at 320 East Adams St just blocks away and open studios at 800 West Monroe St.
Please join The Art Center Cooperative and The Jacksonville Artists' Guild at the Jacksonville Main Library for the June Artwalk on Wednesday, June 7th, from 6pm - 8pm for a reception with food and drink plus an awards ceremony. We will also give away free libation tickets that can be presented at our gallery downtown at 320 East Adams St just blocks away and open studios at 800 West Monroe St.
THEME: THE WRITTEN WORD" IS BASED ON YOUR FAVORITE BOOK, QUOTE, POEM OR SONG, WE ENCOURAGE THE USE OF VERBAGE IN YOUR IMAGE BUT DO NOT REQUIRE IT.
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Juror: Sarah Crooks
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About Sarah Crooks:
A seasoned champion of natural Florida, and the power of art to heal, multidisciplinary environ mental artist/educator Sarah Crooks has been building community through the arts since the 1980’s. Certified as a Florida Master Naturalist in 2014, her work combines scientific realism with organic metaphor, storytelling, and deep ecology to create monumental site-specific works. Her current investigation into the nature of belonging Home is Here Along RED Pearl River; One Women’s Journey Back to Source, invites communities throughout the watershed of the St. Johns River to nurture their sense of place through a series of workshops, site-specific installations, and performances. |
Sarah's Statement about the Show:
Juror’s Statement -If a picture is worth a thousand words, then is a word or even one letter worth a thousand pictures? Beauty, Truth, Dragon, Tattoo, Jazz, Ishmael, Good Evil, Secret, War, Garden, Invictus. Hope and love were words deemed worthy of deep investigation through paint and thread, color, and form by the artists in this exhibit. Judging artwork is subjective, and choosing among the broad range of work presented by the artists submitting for this exhibition was very challenging. Some stories are classics like Moby Dick, and some are songs just being born. Technical mastery, metaphoric alignment with the cited literature, and an ability to tell a story all its own were guiding factors that informed my choices. Courage is a word I like to use to describe the act of making. It takes courage to create, and the artists represented here are no exception. Congratulations on bringing your expressions to fruition and allowing them to be seen, sensed, and heard.
Juror’s Statement -If a picture is worth a thousand words, then is a word or even one letter worth a thousand pictures? Beauty, Truth, Dragon, Tattoo, Jazz, Ishmael, Good Evil, Secret, War, Garden, Invictus. Hope and love were words deemed worthy of deep investigation through paint and thread, color, and form by the artists in this exhibit. Judging artwork is subjective, and choosing among the broad range of work presented by the artists submitting for this exhibition was very challenging. Some stories are classics like Moby Dick, and some are songs just being born. Technical mastery, metaphoric alignment with the cited literature, and an ability to tell a story all its own were guiding factors that informed my choices. Courage is a word I like to use to describe the act of making. It takes courage to create, and the artists represented here are no exception. Congratulations on bringing your expressions to fruition and allowing them to be seen, sensed, and heard.
Linda Chipperfield
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Linda Chipperfield is a professional artist working in a variety of mediums including transparent watercolor, pencil and embroidery. She focused on graphic design and illustration during her early career as an art director and creative director. After 20 years in the ad agency business, she followed her passion for the environment to nonprofits in Washington DC and internationally. She has traveled extensively and honed her drawing and painting skills by attending workshops and doing commissions for several private collectors. Through years of environmental activism, Linda’s art has become part of her advocacy for preserving our environment and inspiring respect for the natural world. She currently lives in Atlantic Beach, Florida.
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Patricia Daly-Lipe
Patricia Daly-Lipe was born in San Diego, California and grew up in La Jolla graduating from The Bishop’s School. She also spent time living on the other coast in Washington, D.C., the home of several generations of her mother’s family. When Patricia was 18, her mother died of cancer. She returned to Vassar College (with a year at the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium) earning a B.A. degree in Philosophy.
Cookie Davis
a native of Jacksonville and has been involved in the art community since the early 1970s both as an exhibiting artist and as a volunteer chairperson and board member of a number of cultural organizations and events. Ms. Davis’ sculptures and paintings are stories without words. She says of her work, “Over the years I have filled many sketch books with ideas and themes for sculptures. Beginning in early 2016, I began to translate some of these ideas into paintings...Story People on Canvas.” Cookie has work in permanent collections both nationally and internationally and is proud to have been the first recipient in 2014 of the Robert Arleigh White Award for Art Advocacy presented by the Cultural Council of Jacksonville.
Annelies Dykgraaf
born in Nigeria - Jos, Plateau State, to missionary parents and attended Hillcrest School, first grade through twelfth, with the same 32 classmates in which 15 different nationalities were represented, and a handful of different religions. Graduated with a BFA from Calvin College, having also studied in Lacoste, France on scholarship through the Cleveland Institute of Art. Past president of the Jacksonville Artists Guild, Founding member and President of The Art Center Cooperative Inc. (TAC) since 2005. Fully immersed into running these organizations and working in the community, keeping the arts alive through mural work and art workshops.
