| All site content © www.artscouncilofwhitelake.org |
ACWL Home
Nuveen Center
White River Gallery
Current Exhibitions
Gallery Artists
Join the Gallery
Music & Performing Arts
Events
Contact Us
Nuveen Center
White River Gallery
Current Exhibitions
Gallery Artists
Join the Gallery
Music & Performing Arts
Events
Contact Us
| Promoting the Arts in the White Lake Area Located in Downtown Montague, MI (231) 894-8659 |
| Featured Artist - April 2013 Nancy Reagh Johnson |
Fiber artist Nancy Reagh Johnson is all over “Arts Council Row” during the month
of April. As White River Gallery’s featured artist, she is showing wall-hung quilts
and a stump doll in the Gallery April 3-27. She has concocted a fabric nesting bird
for Nuveen Community Center for the Arts’ “A Place to Nest” exhibit next door.
That exhibit runs April 11-May 18. And, she has placed a fanciful peacock in the
April 1-28 “April is for the Birds” show in the Arts Council office. Johnson plans to
be in White River Gallery 10:30 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, to greet visitors
and talk about her work.
The immediate past director of the Gallery finds inspiration from happy times and
sad times. Colors of sand, stone, palms, birds and iguanas photographed in the
Cayman Islands will soon find their counterparts in fabrics, and those fabrics will be
cut and pieced into quilts or fashioned into dolls, purses or animals. Electronic
components, cords and wires culled from her late husband’s workshop are lovingly
stitched into a circuit board quilt that will be part of her April show. It’s called Marv’
s Basement. Esmeralda, a stump doll with a flashy red hair ornament strikes a sassy
pose.
Of other works—including a wall hanging that includes sliced sea shells and brown
and silver ginkgo leaves—the retired home economics teacher said, “I was inspired
by the recent fiber show at Muskegon Museum of Art.”
Johnson took first place in White River Gallery’s 2012 Change of Seasons juried
exhibit and also had two pieces exhibited in the 2013 Change of Seasons show. Her
work has been shown in several other Michigan art and fiber exhibits.
of April. As White River Gallery’s featured artist, she is showing wall-hung quilts
and a stump doll in the Gallery April 3-27. She has concocted a fabric nesting bird
for Nuveen Community Center for the Arts’ “A Place to Nest” exhibit next door.
That exhibit runs April 11-May 18. And, she has placed a fanciful peacock in the
April 1-28 “April is for the Birds” show in the Arts Council office. Johnson plans to
be in White River Gallery 10:30 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, to greet visitors
and talk about her work.
The immediate past director of the Gallery finds inspiration from happy times and
sad times. Colors of sand, stone, palms, birds and iguanas photographed in the
Cayman Islands will soon find their counterparts in fabrics, and those fabrics will be
cut and pieced into quilts or fashioned into dolls, purses or animals. Electronic
components, cords and wires culled from her late husband’s workshop are lovingly
stitched into a circuit board quilt that will be part of her April show. It’s called Marv’
s Basement. Esmeralda, a stump doll with a flashy red hair ornament strikes a sassy
pose.
Of other works—including a wall hanging that includes sliced sea shells and brown
and silver ginkgo leaves—the retired home economics teacher said, “I was inspired
by the recent fiber show at Muskegon Museum of Art.”
Johnson took first place in White River Gallery’s 2012 Change of Seasons juried
exhibit and also had two pieces exhibited in the 2013 Change of Seasons show. Her
work has been shown in several other Michigan art and fiber exhibits.
