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Civic Art Center Introduces New Display
The Galesburg Civic Art Center announces an exhibition of artwork by Mary Schuytema of Monmouth, IL and Liz Berg of Castro Valley, CA. The exhibition will be on display through Saturday June 20th, 2009.

Mary Schuytema has been a working potter since 1990. She received a BFA from Illinois Wesleyan in 1985 and an MFA from Miami University in Oxford, OH in 1990. She's done work in the ceramic venues of raku, majolica, soda firing, stoneware and porcelain reduction firing as well as mid-range oxidation firing. She has taught various classes and workshops including the firing technique called raku at Sawtooth Center for the Arts in Winston Salem, and Majolica workshops at Montgomery College in Troy, NC. Mary has also taught locally at Carl Sandburg College and Buchanan Center for the Arts. Mary has shown her work locally and nationally and sells her work from her studio in rural Kirkwood, IL (www.chickenscratchpottery.com) as well as online at Etsy.com (seller id chickenscratchpots ).

Liz Berg will be showing art quilts. In 1971 Liz started making quilts, however, she began diverging from traditional quilts to explore color and composition in more abstract works. She now considers herself a fiber artist rather than a quilt maker although many pieces still fit the original definition of "quilt" i.e., a top, a middle and a backing all held together with stitching. Using a sewing machine as her pen, Liz has completed "watercolor wash" landscapes. She paints and dyes fabrics, both to sell and to use in her own work, and is exploring all the variations of working on and with fiber. Working out of a studio in her home she shares with her husband, she is producing a large body of work which is varied in its color and design ideas. Her work celebrates line, movement and color. Liz works intuitively in the format of abstract expressionism with nature as her inspiration. She has received numerous awards at local and national venues. Her work is in private collections throughout the United States and Japan, and in the permanent collections at the Honolulu Academy of Art and Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

The Galesburg Civic Art Center is open Tuesday through Friday, 10:30 am - 4:30 pm and Saturday, 10:30 am - 3:00 pm. For more information, please contact the Galesburg Civic Art Center at 114 E. Main St., Galesburg, IL 61401, (309)342-7415 or e-mail us at info@galesburgarts.org. This program is partially funded Galesburg Cottage Hospital and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

(Submitted by Galesburg Civic Art Center)
05 24 09 by Newsroom
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