2008 Woodie Awards
Arts in Edwardsville - Main Street Gallery
Katie Gregowicz
Issue date: 9/4/07 Section: A&E
The warm yellows and blues of the interior of the Main Street Art Gallery invite passersby to step inside a room of local artistic talent.
The Main Street Art Gallery has been open for three years and showcases all types of art, including painting, drawing, fiber, metals and glass blowing. The gallery is located in a building constructed in 1872, and the white pressed tin ceiling is the original ceiling and has never been replaced.
Manager Kathryn Hopkins smiled as she walked around the small room from one painting to another.
"We're the only little art gallery in Edwardsville and we feature local and regional artists," Hopkins said.
The Main Street Art Gallery is a retail sales gallery, Hopkins said, which means the pieces in the gallery are available for sale.
"One month I might sell everything, and the next month may not go as well," she said. "I have faithful regulars who come in each month to see what's new."
Ten times a year, the gallery has exhibits from local artists, and right now the exhibitors are Ned Giberson, a sculpture artist, Joseph McFarlane, who does prints and mixed media, and Brenda Schilling, who does pastels.
Hopkins said the most popular piece right now is titled "Expansive Energy." It is a pastel painting with different shades of orange and red. She said she thinks most people are attracted to it because of its colors and round shapes. She says people like that it seems inviting.
The art hanging on the walls and sitting on the pedestals in the middle of the room is all the artists being featured. There are also sections of shelves where other local artists' works, such as ceramics and glass blowing are displayed.
The jewelry behind a glass counter at the gallery was made by SIUE metalsmithing major Leia Zumbro. She first exhibited at the gallery last spring, and now her jewelry is available for purchase there.
Zumbro first became interested in metalsmithing during her sophomore year of high school when she tried it out during craft class. She hopes to go to graduate school after graduating from SIUE and would like to teach metalsmithing to others someday.
Giberson, one of the three exhibitors at the gallery, has been an artist for 37 years. He is mostly a sculpture artist and said he likes doing abstracts because it is a very personal experience for him.
"My work is not designed to convey a specific meaning. It is just designed to make you think," Giberson said. "With a sculpture, people have to look at all angles of a piece, unlike with a painting."
Doing 3-D work like sculptures is fun, Giberson said, because he likes the challenge of making people "follow into the piece."
Artists who would like to have their work exhibited at the gallery should call Hopkins at 655-9999 and have an artist's statement, resume and digital images of their work prepared to send to the gallery.
The Main Street Art Gallery has been open for three years and showcases all types of art, including painting, drawing, fiber, metals and glass blowing. The gallery is located in a building constructed in 1872, and the white pressed tin ceiling is the original ceiling and has never been replaced.
Manager Kathryn Hopkins smiled as she walked around the small room from one painting to another.
"We're the only little art gallery in Edwardsville and we feature local and regional artists," Hopkins said.
The Main Street Art Gallery is a retail sales gallery, Hopkins said, which means the pieces in the gallery are available for sale.
"One month I might sell everything, and the next month may not go as well," she said. "I have faithful regulars who come in each month to see what's new."
Ten times a year, the gallery has exhibits from local artists, and right now the exhibitors are Ned Giberson, a sculpture artist, Joseph McFarlane, who does prints and mixed media, and Brenda Schilling, who does pastels.
Hopkins said the most popular piece right now is titled "Expansive Energy." It is a pastel painting with different shades of orange and red. She said she thinks most people are attracted to it because of its colors and round shapes. She says people like that it seems inviting.
The art hanging on the walls and sitting on the pedestals in the middle of the room is all the artists being featured. There are also sections of shelves where other local artists' works, such as ceramics and glass blowing are displayed.
The jewelry behind a glass counter at the gallery was made by SIUE metalsmithing major Leia Zumbro. She first exhibited at the gallery last spring, and now her jewelry is available for purchase there.
Zumbro first became interested in metalsmithing during her sophomore year of high school when she tried it out during craft class. She hopes to go to graduate school after graduating from SIUE and would like to teach metalsmithing to others someday.
Giberson, one of the three exhibitors at the gallery, has been an artist for 37 years. He is mostly a sculpture artist and said he likes doing abstracts because it is a very personal experience for him.
"My work is not designed to convey a specific meaning. It is just designed to make you think," Giberson said. "With a sculpture, people have to look at all angles of a piece, unlike with a painting."
Doing 3-D work like sculptures is fun, Giberson said, because he likes the challenge of making people "follow into the piece."
Artists who would like to have their work exhibited at the gallery should call Hopkins at 655-9999 and have an artist's statement, resume and digital images of their work prepared to send to the gallery.
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