Gallery 202 is looking for artists of all mediums to help create a new web database of local artists and venues just for Westerville. We are rich in the arts in Westerville, so let's tell the world that we are the creative cultural community.

We have basic information on the following website: www.artswesterville.com and are looking for more ideas on how to spread the word about our own artists, venues, classes, workshops and more.

twitter account and a facebook account.

2011-2012

September – Review of Art work/ Elaine Freeman

Elaine is currently an Art Instructor for Columbus Parks and Recreation as well as for the Blendon Senior Center in Westerville. She has recently participated in many juried art shows such as the MAC Art Center, Ohio State University Faculty Club and a solo exhibition at the Sharon Weiss Gallery in Columbus, to name just a few.

Elaine Freeman was the presenter for the first Westerville Art League meeting in September. Many members brought their artwork for Elaine to critique. Elaine gave careful consideration to each piece and pointed out the aspects of each painting very thoughtfully. She took the time to walk each piece around to each of us in the group, so we could get a good look at each painting. This gave all of us an opportunity to share our work with other members, and it's always so nice to hear perspectives from someone with such a vast background in art and education as Elaine brought.

October - Suzanne Accetta

Suzanne Rusconi Accetta has been drawing and painting professionally for over twenty-five years. She presently resides in Columbus,Ohio and is involved in many art organizations. Suzanne was twice featured in AMERICAN ARTIST MAGAZINE and in THE COMPLETE COLORED PENCIL BOOK.

Her biography is included in WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN ART. She has had articles about her in NASHVILLE MAGAZINE as well as COLUMBUS MONTHLY. Her work has been seen and won awards in numerous international, national, regional and local juried exhibitions. She is in many private and corporate
collections world wide. She is a member of the Women's Palette.

Suzanne has illustrated children's books for Seedlings Publications* as well as for an independent children's book author. She teaches drawing and painting for the theatre at Otterbein College.

Through her children's interest in theatre, she found the principles in visual art easily apply to the theatre venue. She designed her first professional, and critically acclaimed set for Columbus Children's Theatre's production of The Secret Garden. She since has directed and designed numerous shows at CCT and other central Ohio theatres. * www.suzanneaccetta.com

November - Lisa Holtsberry, Altered books

Lisa Holtsberry graduated in 1994 with a BFA from Columbus College of Art & Design with a major in sculpture. She has a background professionally in designing in tile and stained glass. Working at Hamilton Parker Co., Franklin Art Glass and Glass Axis. Has taught classes on Stained Glass, Mosaics and Altered Books. Helped Co-founded and participated in the Altered 8 Group from 2005 - now. Since 2005, Lisa has been experimenting and enjoying different products and techniques in Mixed Media with Altered Books since happening upon it with good friend Kellie Gedert. Plus Mom to two happy kids!

December – no meeting

January - David Stichweh Photographer

My photography is a visual exploration of relationships between shapes, forms, textures and light as found in trees, plants, water and landscape. These ever-changing patterns of natural design are further changed by the process used in making the print.

My Photo Monoprint images combine the 19th century Monotype printmaking process with 21st century digital technology. A traditional Monotype print is an image drawn or painted on a metal or glass plate, then covered with a sheet of paper and passed through a press. In a Photo Monoprint a digital image is printed on a sheet of acetate where the ink remains wet on the surface. Placing a sheet of paper over the acetate and applying pressure transfers the ink to the paper. The resulting image possesses a combination of highly textured and smooth tonal areas, determined by the density of the ink. The Japanese Silk Tissue paper on which the images are printed creates delicate fine detail and a warm luminosity.
In the Triptych format, multiple images combine to create a broader perspective of the subject. The three photographs, like three voices, blend together their similarities and differences in a harmony of shapes, textures and tonalities. These triptych images are printed on mulberry paper hand coated with an acrylic polymer to create an inkjet printable surface.

Photography is an adventure in seeing « of perceiving the familiar with fresh eyes, and seeing new possibilities for printing and presenting the image.

February – Kelly Gedert, Glass tile mosaics

Kellie, a columbus native, is an altered, mixed media artist at heart, advertising/marketing by trade. Painting, altered books, found objects, etc. Kellie has a long time love for aerial views and studying how new builds and sprawling effect our dying farmlands and landscapes.

Kellie can be found farming with her son and daughter, working with community groups, or savoring crazy food combos with her chef husband.

March  - Jim Glover

Jim Glover∫s working career began as an intern illustrator with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, and after college (Kent State and Ohio State Universities with majors in art and zoology), he was hired full time.

Jim grew up with an artist for a father. Jack Glover, a well-known cartoonist and commercial artist, taught his son informally from the time Jim could hold a pencil. Even though art was —fun,Ê it never really connected with young Jim.

His love for the outdoors, and birds in particular, came forth and Jim made his reputation as a wildlife artist. Special projects with NOAA, EPA, Ranger Rick, environmental groups and park districts followed. Thirty-three years later, he∫s begun his —second careerÊ as a painter of landscapes, buildings, the occasional critter and anything else he finds outdoors as subject matter. Years of painting like a technician, assimilating various reference materials to make a painting look exactly like specific plants or animals, left Jim little room for personal expression.

After dabbling in outdoor, or plein air, painting for years, in 2005, Jim switched to oils and began to emulate the Impressionists. Producing a looser, more relaxed-style picture while remaining true to his accurate nature art background has been a rewarding and satisfying experience for Jim. —I feel like these new paintings are more alive, as if there is a part of me in each one!Ê

April - Janet Carr

Artist's Statement: The question, why do artists paint, will always be a mystery. Whether I am teaching or painting, I just know that for me painting is what makes life meaningful. I enjoy working in various mediums and am always eager to try something new.

Accomplishments:

Having taught art to thousands of kids in Westerville Public Schools was my greatest accomplishment. I renovated our small barn into a studio. Designed the logo for the Westerville Art in the Park. Was selected tobe the guest arts for Inniswood Gardens. Have won numerous awards in local art shows. Have had many paintings commissions. Have studied for one year at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Strausburg, France and have even sold a few pieces of my art in Dijon, France.

One of my most enjoyable experiences was doing a series of plein-aire paintings of the wine counry in Burgandy. I not only got to enjoy the painting experience but I also got to talk with some of the curious spectators. It does help to speak French!

May - Meredith Martin, Pastel/ Spring Show

"My purpose is to reveal the energy and spirit of life through my paintings. I feel passionate about being alive and being surrounded by this incredible natural world. I am inspired by the color and character I see in everything « people, animals, and landscapes.

Pastel is my favorite medium because it is pure pigment « it translates the richness of what I see and allows me to include both drawing and painting as strong elements of my work.Ê

After a career in education administration, Meredith returned to art as a full time endeavor in 1996. Focusing first on wild landscapes and animals, she traveled throughout many of the wildlife refuges of the U.S. « particularly the west « and portrayed these vibrant subjects in her work. She has participated in shows throughout the U.S., and has won numerous awards. More recently, Meredith∫s work involves commissioned portraiture, but she continues to show a wide range of subjective and figurative work in her gallery/studio in Center Village, Ohio.

Meredith is a graduate of Fine Arts from Otterbein College, and completed a portion of her education in New Mexico and Mexico, where she studied pre-Columbian art and architecture. She began her art career as a high school and middle school art teacher, later receiving her M.A. from The Ohio State University. In 2004 she opened her gallery/studio in an historic town hall which she and her partner, Fred Hostetler, restored. The gallery has the work of more than a dozen other artists, many of whom are friends and local artists.