New Harmony

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Last Saturday I visited New Harmony, Indiana. I wanted to check out the gallery space at the Women's Institute and Gallery that I'll have a show in early in 2009.

There was a nice show up at the WIG by Ann Cheeks. Some works are paint/pastel/collage combinations and there were also some figure studies. The painting/collages are interesting to see in person - because the details are lost in small reproductions. Several were fairly large - like 4'x5'.

I also went to the shows at the New Harmony Contemporary Gallery of Art and the Hoosier Salon Gallery in New Harmony. The Hoosier Salon had work of varying quality. There are some nice plein air pieces in the room to the left that you have to inquire to see.

The New Harmony Contemporary Gallery of Art has a show up by Ilona Granet thru April 27th. I overheard that the artist is a former sign painter. So not surprisingly - she make signs as art. "Safe for a Century" for instance. She also had ceramics exhibited. A take off on old Greek types of style with modern and old symbols.

I always enjoy visiting New Harmony anyway- and this day in early April was especially nice. Nice weather, Spring was ahead of what it had been in the area where I live by a week or so. Trees blooming. A lot of flowers out. The river was way out of it's banks. Fortunately the Atheneum and the roofless church as such are up a hill - but the water was right there 20 or 30 feet away where there would normally be a field. Lena at the WIG considered it a bonus that she has what appears to be a lake in her view to the north when the river is up.