The current exhibit at the Rosewood Art Gallery in Kettering is Art Ed: An Art Educator’s Exhibition and features art from 14 Sinclair instructors.
Founded in 1986, the Rosewood Gallery is one department of Rosewood Arts Centre, a division of the City of Kettering’s Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts.
“The gallery specializes in the exhibition of contemporary art by local, regional and national artists and is dedicated to promoting the visual arts to audiences in the Kettering and Dayton, Ohio region.” Tracy Flagg, the coordinator of the Rosewood gallery said. The Rosewood Gallery offers four group exhibitions and eight solo exhibitions in a year, most of which are juried [judged].
The Rosewood Gallery and Rosewood Arts Centre are highly recognized, receiving funds from local and regional art associations. “We are supported by Kettering Arts Council, the Ohio Art Council, and United Art and Education,” Flagg noted. “A member of Kettering Arts Council, in fact, serves on the threeperson jury panel to select each calendar-year’s solo exhibitions.”
Art Ed: An Art Educator’s Exhibition is in its fourth year and will run from November 10 to December 12. It features work from numerous local art instructors from a variety of schools.
“Art Ed: An Art Educator’s Exhibition was the brainchild of my predecessor, Amy Kollar Anderson, who served as Gallery Coordinator here for nine or so years until this last June,” Flagg said. Art Ed: An Art Educator’s Exhibition is one of the few exhibits not juried at the gallery.
Flagg noted that, “The purpose of the show is to highlight the work of area art educators and, of course, our own Rosewood instructors. The exhibition is open to all media. ‘Art educator’ is defined loosely as anyone teaching formally in the visual arts at any level, so they may work for public schools, universities, studios, or arts centers like our own.”
The reception for the current exhibit is December 6, 11a.m. to 3p.m. at the Rosewood Gallery. The reception will take place alongside the Rosewood Arts Centre’s A Rosewood Holiday Open House event. Flagg is expecting more visitors due to the two events coinciding on the same Sunday.
“Art Ed gets a wonderful response from our viewers,” Flagg says. “Visitors have described it in our guest book as ‘captivating, charming, inspiring, and informative.’”
Patrons who visit during the open house and reception can place three votes on their favorite pieces in the exhibition. At the end, three $100 awards will be given out to the bestinshow, sponsored by the City of Kettering.
The Gallery acts as much more than a museum. The Rosewood Gallery is all about educating and doing so by educating through art demonstrations available to the public, “We try to make the show itself about art education by using labels describing the various media and techniques, and with the artist demos scheduled to take place during the open house.”
The next exhibit to be displayed at the Gallery is Works on Paper, which is the 25th annual exhibit of its kind. The exhibition will be juried by Dayton photographer and instructor Sean Wilkinson. The exhibit will run from January 26 to February 27 with a reception on January 25 from 2-4p.m.
Sinclair instructors who have worked in the Art Ed: An Art Educator’s Exhibition include Cynthia BornhorstWinslow, Bob Coates, Mark Echtner, Shirley Harbaugh, Kevin Harris, Rosie Huart, Kelly Joslin, Richard Jurus, Colleen Kelsey, Tess Little, C. Pat McClelland, Kathy A. Moore, Barb Stork, Sally A. Struthers, and Leigh Waltz.
Jamez Novotny
Reporter