The Block Gallery
In connection with Earth Day and my solo show at The Block Gallery downtown, the Sioux City Journal published a feature on my work in their most recent Weekender edition!
Well, Earth Day 2021 was quite eventful! I’ll do a separate post on the ART 225 Painting I project we took on earlier in the day, but this post is all about how my opening reception went for my Artist for the Earth solo show at The Block Gallery in downtown Sioux City.
First of all, I want to say a big thank you to the Morningside Art Department federal work study studio art assistants Devyn Reilly and Rachel Steinkamp for helping me to install the show. While I’ve installed many a show alone, it is so much nicer to have skilled help working alongside you! I also had Rachel take some nice shots of the show after we installed it, so I might add more to the blog later, but here are a few photos I took tonight.
The last photo in the grid is thanks to some of my lovely friends, who not only came out to support me at the reception but also gifted me with a bouquet of flowers and purchased artwork and reproductions. A bunch of wonderful colleagues, students, and community members also came through and many left with various pieces of artwork as well. It was a lovely evening!
I was invited to have a solo exhibition at The Block Gallery in downtown Sioux City, and since my work is ecologically-focused, gallery director Gia Emory and I agreed that opening the show on Earth Day 2021 seemed appropriate! I also went ahead and registered it with the Earth Day Network, which coordinates Artists for the Earth and thus gave me an easy show title to boot!
This show will not only display some of my 2D work, but will also include pieces of my ceramics! I’m quite excited about that, as this will be the first time ever that I’ll be exhibiting ceramic artwork.
The exhibition poster for my Artist for the Earth show at The Block Gallery!
