Art Exhibits, 2021
Thank you to Rachel Meredith, our Art Exhibit Chair.
She is working hard to put together a 2021 Art Season to remember!!!
Art Exhibitors, 2021
June
Art Exhibitors, 2021
July
Art Exhibitors, 2021
August
Barbara Ebner: june 3
My husband and I reside in La Porte, IN. Oil painting has always been an important part of my life. My studies in art consist of a degree in Master of Arts, Art (discipline in painting) Governors State University & a degree in Master of Arts (teaching) Saint Xavier University.
Clinton Worthington: june 10 (live painting!)
Clinton Worthington 2000 La Porte High School graduate. Bachelor of Fine Arts in drawing and painting from Indiana University 2017. Current owner of Worthington Fine Art Studio downtown La Porte. Painting live has been a consistent thing for me since college...everything from being on stage with a band for 4 years, side stage with a lit up 8ft easel at music festivals to Comic cons while in cosplay.
Jay weinberg: june 17
A graduate from the prestigious American Academy of Art, J. J. Weinberg holds his degree in the discipline of illustration but claims that the tutelage of Dr. Trapp lead him to value the advancement of figure drawing as one of the most powerful skills an artist can develop.
Z's dyed goods/kevin zee: june 24
Come meet Kevin and check out his homemade tie dyed goods!
Rob Prellwitz: june 24
A lifelong resident of La Porte, Rob Prellwitz has a fondness for drawing the human form and portraiture, but manmade structures and nature present themselves as models for his art as well. Experimenting in many different mediums over the years, Prellwitz has evolved his artistic approach and technique into a mastery of his craft.
jose vela: july 1
Vela, a self-taught abstract expressionist painter whose work is made up of repurposed materials, currently lives in the Michigan City IN area. Yet, being a South Florida native, he remembers "being taught how to run from alligators and trees that rained snakes." "The wet to dry textures of the wetlands made an impression on me that I carry to this day." he says. Vela has practiced many different art forms over the years, including creative writing, poetry, music, photography, and of course painting.
Tone Cardinale: july 8
"Artistically, I believe that the process of developing creative ideas into physical pieces of art is astounding and one of the fundamentally awesome aspects of existence." --Tone Cardinale
strictly painting/nichole novak: july 15
Born and raised in La Porte County, Nichole was formally educated the Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis where she earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 2007. Now living in La Porte with her family, Nichole is happy to paint anything her clients request. In the past this has included people, planes, boats, and motorcycles. But most often she sticks to her specialty, adorable cats and dogs!
addie acres/nancy addie: july 22
Nancy J. Addie states that her passion "capture the beauty of God" while being a "positive voice to encourage people in our amazing community." Nancy's images, regularly featured in regional TV broadcasts out of Chicago & South Bend, recently earned her an Indiana Dunes Tourism/La Porte Convention and Visitors Bureau 2017 R.O.S.E. award for "Putting La Porte County on the Map." Nancy's Facebook page, Addie Acers, is a regional online staple of written and visual imagery meant to bring joy, wonder, and inspiration to a world too often filled with negativity. Nancy lives in rural La Porte County with her husband Chad on a farm featuring llamas, mini-horses, and a myriad of friendly farm critters.
bonnie zeller: july 29
Born and raised in La Porte, I was encouraged in m y drawing by my artistic parents. Dad, local artist Ken Piper, taught me the techniques of color and design and my mom Wanda, a skilled crewel artist, taught me the "fun" part of creating. I never achieved her skill in crewel but have found my own in counted cross stitch, especially on a cold winter's night before a roaring fire. While my husband, Alan, and I were raising our family of five sons, I began employment outside the home at the La Porte County Public Library. During my twenty-nine years in Children's Circulation, I enjoyed creating cut-paper creations for bulletin boards, storyboards, and many other themed projects. Now retired I am free to expand on my cut-paper illustration, letting my imagination soar to tell a story, to rekindle a memory, or inspire a thought.
The carpenter's daughter/wendy syverson: august 5
Rustic wooden signs "where wood is distressed & then blessed!"
Alexandra n designs/alexandra prast hibshman: august 12
Alexandra Hibshman is a watercolor artist based out of Elkhart IN, and originally from Michigan City IN. She specializes in watercolor dog portraits and painting rustic houses. She also loves painting watercolor florals in a loose style.
Amanda jozaitis: august 19
Amanda Jozaitis is an artist and graphic designer from La Porte IN. She graduated from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design in 2009. She draws and paints buildings, maps, landscapes found locally, through travel, and from memory. She adds geometric and natural elements to create imaginative places of beauty and decay. She transfers her drawings to screens and uses screen printing to build layers and to create a study of art, design, composition, and narrative. The repetitive process of repeated imagery through screen printing, allows her to experiment with composition and narrative, making each piece unique. When she is not creating art, she designs for Region Press, a local screen printing company, that prints La Porte-inspired t-shirts.
cabin works/steev Murray
Born in La Porte, I have been an artist all my life and used to specialize in sculpture, but have been doing linocuts for the past few years. All the works are drawn on the linoleum boards and then carefully carved out and then printed on fine paper.
Jake Whybrew
Born and raised in Michigan City, Jake moved to La Porte five years ago. He has been painting and developing his art seriously since 2018. Jake mostly paints in acrylic but enjoys using gouache, soft pastels, and charcoal as well.
Concert & Fine Art Series
