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Located on the lower level of the St. Cecilia Music Center building, the Terryberry Gallery showcases area artists throughout the year, making it a unique and beautiful space for hosting small receptions or as an overflow space when renting the Mika Music Library.
For room rental availability for your special event, please contact Event & Facility Director Carla Messing at 616.459.2224 (ext 204) or carla@scmcgr.org.
NANCY ARMITAGE, Finding My Way
The pieces on display here are a small representation of my travels through art making. Like my life, the road through my art is varied and each piece can tell you something about me. Although painted in my early Michgan days, the watercolors were inspired by a year I had spent living in Colorado's high desert. I called it my "Escape Series" and painted them while under Covid lockdown.
Finding My Way, acrylic
Living on a lake is a completely new experience for me. I spend hours looking into the water at the lake's edge, marveling at the designs created by sand, rocks, sticks and stones. "Shifting Sands I, II and III" are from a series of monoprints called "At the Water's Edge". I love the process of layering paint on my plate, and then pulling up the paper to reveal that world below the surface. They are the colors of a hot summer's day under a brilliant blue sky.
The collage pieces and the acrylic mixed media paintings are about process, finding the right paper, mixing tones, making marks and shifting things around. Like my life, my art is ever evolving. I hope you enjoy the show.
The Wheels Came Off, mixed media
ARTIST RECEPTION
Friday, June 6 from 5-7pm | Terryberry Gallery
Throughout the artist's residency, select pieces are available for purchase through St. Cecilia Music Center. Contact Event + Facility Director Carla Messing at carla@scmcgr.org for more information.
