Frank L. Melega Art Museum to host ‘Creative Alliance’
Valley Art Club and Uniontown Art Club will present “Creative Alliance” at Frank L. Melega Art Museum in Brownsville.
Local artists will show original pieces that include paintings, drawings, printmaking, photography and sculpture. The exhibition is appropriate for all ages.
An opening reception will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday. The museum is located in the historic Flatiron Building, 69 Market St., Brownsville. Admission and parking are free. The exhibition runs through Sept. 3.
Several Valley Art Club members meet regularly at Center in the Woods, Brownsville, to work on their art and help each other.
“The Valley Art Club is a wonderful group of people,” said Joyce Gazdick of Stockdale. “They are encouraging and enthusiastic.”
Gazdick, a native of Alabama, taught art at Charleroi Middle School for many years. Her contribution to the show is a watercolor still life of pink dishes on Wasabi paper.
Karen Zueger of Grindstone is known as “Angel” to her friends. She belongs to both art clubs and is coordinating the show. Her painting, titled “Angel Watch,” is a large watercolor of an angel watching over a cemetery, holding a cross and a Bible.
“We have 30 artists participating,” said Zueger. “Each one puts in one piece. There will be a wide variety, because no one does the same thing.”
Sally Taylor was looking for an art group when she moved to West Newton, and was happy to find Valley Art Club after seeing a newspaper article. Taylor took first place in her first show with the club for her painting, “Shark in the Water.” It was a picture of rocks in a stream with a Greg Norman logo golf ball partially hidden under leaves.
Taylor’s entry for “Creative Alliance” is an oil on canvas view of the Monongahela River from the bluff on the other side of Speers.
Harriet Peters of Stockdale will present an oil on canvas painting of her favorite steamboat that she remembers from when she was growing up along the Monongahela River.
Valley Art Club was founded in 1941. The club meets the second Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. at the SPHS in Charleroi, with the exception of the June meeting, which will be held as a “paint out” where members have lunch at a local restaurant and then meet to paint together. Anyone interested in joining the club can contact Zueger at zueger1972@gmail.com.
Persons interested in joining the Uniontown Art Club may contact Pete Pasqua, club president, at ppasqua2002@yahoo.com.