OUR COMMON GROUND

The 5th Annual Art Walk.   2009

"ART INSPIRED BY NATURE"

Friday, September 25th,
on the Greenville Square, from 5 to 11 pm. 

This year's theme is "art inspired by nature." Sculptor Adam Long will show his work in the new Kaskaskia College building on 3rd Street.

It’s Not Your Granny’s Quilt Show is AMAZING this year, with Wisconsin’s famed textile artist Jennifer Angus at the Greenville College Maves Art Gallery located in the Rowland Art Center on Beaumont.  Complimenting Jennifer's wall art will be a number of crazy quilts.

Ex-Pats presenting at the historic Northcott House,

(thanks to the generosity of the Bauer Family)

Keith Buchholz,

Fluxus Artist.  FLUXUS is an art movement which first developed in the early 1960's as a result of the work of John Cage, George Macuinas, Nam June Paik, Yoko Ono and others, and which is still Quite alive today. 

Keith grew up here in Greenville  and his work is in permanent collections all over Europe. His new book about his own visual images will be available in Greenville for the first time ever in the U. S.

Mary Radcliff Harnetiaux

Mary Radcliff has painted all of her life. She lets her intuition guide her brush, working with a goal in mind, while often finding her work has many different meanings for many different people.  It is her goal to bring beauty to the art world. She likes working on wooden panels. She enjoys creating large paintings, and wants people to have a magical experience when they view her work.  Mary is a founding member of Our Common Ground.

Kelli Stewart Damron
Master of Fine Arts in Ceramics, 2001
School for American Crafts, Rochester Institute of Technology,
Rochester, NY.  Kelli hales from west of Greenville, she is the daughter of Jack and Sandy Stewart.

Pat Johnson Vivod
Pat Vivod is an award-winning artist known for using mixed media in
print-making, jewelry and collage.  Many of her pieces are inspired by her rural childhood.  Her work has been exhibited at local and regional galleries and in a national exhibition in 2006.  Pat's first solo exhibition, Sentimental Pentimento, premiered in February 2007.

Andrea Reelitz Gagen
Erin Reed Mihilec
Karen Franks Nootbaar
Kurt Schaefer
Douglas Vincent Tramp
Este Bagato
Elizabeth A. Harris
Ethan Robertson
Hannah Radcliff
Jeanne Tarpley Fox

The Bradford Community Room will play host to Mississippi Mud Pottery from Alton again this year, as well as Craig and Carolyn Hart of Vandalia who will be demonstrating the art of weaving.  Mark Myers of Greenville will be showing how to make of bobbin lace and Laura Ewald also of Greenville will be demonstrating how she makes marionettes.

Ten Talents Gallery/The Old Firehouse Emporium will be hosting a variety of visual artists, such as Eleanor Pennington, of Greenville, Lynn Reznick and Lorraine White of Vandalia, and Sculptor, Dennis Isom.

Inside the Northcott House, along w/ art, there will be an informational area about the History of the Bass-Mollett House (Hoiles Mansion).

Don’t miss this year’s event –- more artists are signing on even as you read this! It’s everything OCG brings: visual art, performance and music – all to a street near you!

MAP to venue

Sculpture by Adam Long

Mankind tends to view himself as separated from and above his environment. My work is ultimately about humanity and explores mans connection to nature, his place in it and how man seeks to explore and understand his environment. The sculptures examine what it means to be human and bring nature back to man by using natural and man-made found objects. We are not apart from nature, but a part of it.

Jennifer Angus

This work is inspired by a kind of Japanese screen-printed decorative paper based on the bright kimono textiles from an area known as Yuzen. The whimsical and colorful patterns contrast with common feelings about insects. The installation itself addresses the tension created by the beauty that is observed in the pattern and the apprehension felt towards insects. 

Keith A. Buchholz

Mary Radcliff Harnetiaux
 

Historic Northcott House

 Ex-Pat Gallery

Thanks to the generousity of the Bauer family, this historic treasure (built by Lt. Governor W.A. Northcott who also served as State's Attorney and United States District Attorney ) will be open to offer a rarely seen glimpse inside a historic home.  In addition, Northcott House will host the Ex-Pat Gallery, the Gretchen Wilson silent auction, and an informational area on Bass-Mollett House.

Northcott House front step

Kelli Damron, Ceramicist

Pat Vivod, Fiber Artist

 Dennis Isom, Sculptor