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Artists Reception Friday, July 11, 2008, 6 - 9 pm...
Whiskers & Tails
Regional Art Exhibit
Exhibit dates: June 13 - July 30, 2008
Two Artist's Receptions:
Friday, July 11, 6 - 9 pm
Friday, Aug. 8. 6 - 9 pm
Open Free to the Public
Gallery Location: 1527 Otto Blvd, Chicago Heights, IL 60411
Phone 708.754.2601
Right: "You looking at me?" by Fletcher Hayes
Acrylic painting on canvas, 16" x 24"
Featured artists:
Marcia Babler
John Castor
Claudia Craemer
Sarah Cundari
Pam Eberlin
Nancy Frazier & Eve Jensen Collaboration
Dorita Fuller
Marlene Gallagher
Doris Gibson
Margi Hafer
Pat Huss
Nikkole Huss
Fletcher Hayes
Linda Lane Haynes
Shelly Hokanson
Cecily Hunt
Tiffany Insalaco
Eve Jensen
Kim Laurel
Elaine Martin
Claudia McCarthy
Claudia McFarlane
Joe McIlhaney
Chuck Michaels
Patricia Moore
Renee Klyczek Nordstrom
Ginny Raftery
Jean Schuster
Dick Schmidt
Shannon Silva
Kimberly Watts-Rayon
Marikay Peter Witlock
Faye Alice Zalecki
Artists Reception Sunday, July 20, 2008...
Irish Cottage and Castle
Birdhouses
Exhibit dates: July 11 - 31, 2008
Visit during Irish Fest, July 11-12-13 ($ -- admission charge)
Artist's Reception: Friday, July 20 -- Open Free to the Public
Gallery Location: 4626 North Knox Avenue, Chicago, IL 60630
Phone 773.282.7035
Below: Irish Cottage by Fletcher Hayes
Wood, broom straw, acrylic paint and coarse pumice gel
Featured artists:
Frank Crowley
Deirdre Fox
Fletcher Hayes
Pauline Kochanski
Kim Laurel
Charlie B. Thorne
Marya Veeck
and others
New slide show of Fletcher's fine art added
Chicago, April 1, 2008
As this newly-designed website unfolds, I am striving to present the content in the best way. I came across a tool that makes creating a slide show easy as pie. Here's how it came about.
I was kicking around in LinkedIn, catching up on what people in my professional network are up to now.
Erik Rachie, who kept all the Macintoshes purring at Career Education Corporation while I was there, now has his own company, Keart Multimedia, billed as "your source for fast, friendly and comprehensive support of Apple products in and around the Chicago area."
I just had to click on his link to photos of the Psychedelic Furs at Naperville's Ribfest 2007. I was impressed with the presentation of the gallery of photos which, I discovered, was created with the help of software from JetPhoto Studio. JetPhoto offers a free version of their software, which works on both Windows and Mac platforms, and they hope you will pay $25 for the pro version.
The first thing I did after downloading the free app was to create a Flash slide show of some of my paintings, sculpture and photographs and I popped it onto my gallery page.
Then I used it again to make another slide show of the artworks of Beyond Boundaries: 35 Chicago Artists Connect exhibition in the art for sale section. This is a group show organized by artist Deborah Maris Lader, who owns and operates the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative on Western Avenue at the Ravenswood Brown Line station. The exhibition was first shown at the Collaborative in autumn of 2006, and now it's traveling around the nation.
If you'd like to book it in your local gallery, it has tremendous potential for participation by local artists. Contact Deborah Maris Lader for more information.