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July Newsletter

Chalk Fest invited the community together for a day of music and art on June 24

Dear Friends of the Arts,



July is the month when we send out our annual appeal for memberships to the Center. There's a good chance you might soon find our request in your snail mailbox, and if you don't, please go to our website and sign up there. Our members not only encourage and support the Center, but show grantors and the world at large, that our region values the arts and wants art to be a part of their lives.

Please go the extra step, and encourage your neighbors and friends to visit the Center, and to become members. We have exciting plans for the future, and want you to be a part of it all.

The arts are important for our community for so many reasons, from education for all of us, to local economic impact, to the simple and great joy of experiencing a work of art.

We look forward to seeing you at the Center!

Onward!

Carole

Progress Report

Great news! Finally we have a functional elevator!

Come to our art opening on July 28, and we'll be offering elevator rides!

Technicians from TK Elevator Corporation give thumbs-up on the elevator!

Gallery Hours

We are open from 11am to 4pm every

Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday

throughout the summer.

Click here for the Center's Calendar

Current Exhibits

Regional Art Exhibit

​Our regional artists inadvertently created their own theme with much of their art in the current exhibit focusing on the flora and fauna of the summer season with sunflowers, irises, lily pads, frogs, fish, and other animals adorning the space. Come to the Center and immerse yourself in the beauty. The current exhibits will be up through July 23.

Artist Julie Ferring observing her painting: Lily Pad Boogie

Current Tactile Exhibit

Please Touch the Art!

​Visitors can experience art in a new way by closing their eyes and utilizing their other senses to physically experience the art and listen to the provided Audio Descriptions. Visitors use their personal devices to scan the QR codes, which link to the Audible Visions website and attached audio file with the description. GCA staff are available to provide 1-1 guiding for anyone who requests that service. You do not want to miss this opportunity to “Please, touch the art!” It is up until July 23.

Please touch the art!

For more information about audio description and other accessibility services in the Galena area, please visit www.audible-visions.com. If you need transportation to visit GCA, please contact Jo Daviess County Transit at 815-777-8088.

Upcoming Exhibits

Call for Art

Opposing Forces

Opening Reception Friday, July 28, 5-7pm

Goodness/Evil; Exuberance/Sadness; Life/Death; Love/Hate; Ignorance/Wisdom…opposing forces surround us and live within us. How will you depict this theme? Is there a message you want to convey? The special exhibit space will house the Opposing Forces art, while the Regional Art Gallery will remain open for whatever artists choose to submit.

​Bring your artwork to the Center on July 23 and 24.

Please call (815) 402-3111 for details.

July Events

Galena Center for the Arts

Junior Advisory Board

Monday, July 10, 5pm

We had our first Junior Advisory Board Meeting on June 5^th. Ideas are flowing in the creation of this new program for the Center. However, we welcome additional members.

Please join us on Monday July 10^th at 5:00 p.m. at the Galena Center for the Arts, 971 Gear Street, Galena if you are interested in learning more about it!

Requirements:

• At least 17 years old.
• Become either an individual or student member of the Galena Center for the Arts at $40 or $15 a year, respectively. Sponsorships could be available.
• One meeting per month – must attend at least 8.
• Commit to at least one-year on the Board.

For more information, please contact Stephanie Beck at officemanager@galenacenterforthearts.com

Paint the Pedestals

Monday, July 10, 2–4pm

We're planning a painting ‘party’ to spruce up our art exhibit pedestals Monday, July 10^th from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. So, don your painting garb and join us for an afternoon of work and fun.

Gender in the Art World

Discussion - Monday, July 17, 5pm

Facilitated by K. Kriesel in the

Alfie Mueller Room at the Center

The much-anticipated publication of The Story of Art Without Men by Katy Hessel, demonstrates gender in the art world is a hot topic right now. These dynamics affect how we perceive and value art, as well as how we pass art on to the next generation. How would you have preferred to learn about art during your school years with regard to gender? How do art exhibits demonstrate their gender demographics, if at all? Have you avoided or pursued certain art media because of its perceived masculinity or femininity?

The Galena Center for the Arts is well-suited for a community discussion on gender in the art world due to its staff & board, annual Broad Ideas show, and library - join us for a stimulating conversation!

 Songwriters Showcase

Feast of Mutton and Calvin Coohey

Thursday, July 20, 7:00pm

July's Showcase features two great local talents! Eric Balayti and Shawn Healy of Dubuque based band Feast of Mutton (pictured left) feature a distinct Eastern-European sound with haunting songs of heartache and despair. Calvin Coohey (pictured right), a Dubuque native who has been playing guitar since age 11, has written more than 200 original classical guitar, rock and metal songs.

We’ll be outdoors if it’s nice weather, or we can go into the performance space if weather is bad. Bring a picnic if you like! Beverages will be available.

Free, donations appreciated.

Classes

Student Acting Camps

Teen Theatre Intensive!

July 17-21

Ages 13-17

Each day will focus on a different skill with a variety of instructors.

Some of the areas to be covered: Audition Intensive with Cindy Tegtmeyer, Stage Combat with Joe Klinebriel of the University of Dubuque, Improvisation with Jay Dickerson, Scene study with Cindy Tegtmeyer, Tech Tips with Jan Lavacek, and How to Sell a Song with Carole Sullivan.

Ages 13-17. Class size maximum of 12.

$125 for the week

scholarships available

Check our website. Click on this link for registration and details.

Youth Scene Study!

July 31-August 4

Ages 10-13

Use your voice, body, and imagination to create believable situations and characters. Learn how putting your attention on your partner builds a compelling relationship onstage. Friends and family are invited to attend a Friday afternoon showcase to watch students perform improvisational or scripted scenes. Instructor, Cindy Tegtmeyer

Ages 10-13. Class size maximum of 12

$125 for the week

scholarships available

Check our website. Click on this link for registration and details.

Figure Drawing Sessions

Figure drawing classes continues every Thursday

from 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. for $10 per session.

Future Events

Golf Outing!

Please plan to join us for our second annual golf outing, with a shotgun start at noon on August 3, on the South Course at Eagle Ridge Inn. Click here for details and registration.

Photo of the enthusiastic group at the 2022 Golf Outing.

Shades of Blue

An introduction to indigo,

the world’s oldest natural dye,

by Patricia Lehnhardt

Friday-Saturday, September 8-9, 9am-4pm

The world of plants is amazing. From green leaves to blue fabric, it is almost magical.

In this two-day class, September 8 - 9, Patricia Lehnhardt will guide you through how to grow the plants in your own garden, process the leaves into a dry pigment to use later, and do fresh leaf dyeing on wool yarn and silk fabric. The students will use powdered indigo from India to make a ferrous vat to dye cotton and linen fabrics, paper, and learn more ways to use the pigment, such as ink and watercolor paint. You will go home with many small samples you create in class and the knowledge that the shades of blue are just one of nature’s miracles of color.

Patricia started using natural dyes on her hand-spun wool yarn more than forty years ago. In retirement, she delves into surface design of fabrics using only natural dyes that she grows in her garden, forages in nearby ditches, or purchases from supply houses. She has learned the dye processes through her own library, on-line classes, and lots of experimenting.

To register for this class, Click Here

Summit Street Singers

Start warming up those vocal cords! Summit Street Singers, our community chorus, will start again in September.

We are in process of interviewing for our choral director, so if you have someone that you think would be a good fit, tell them to contact Carole at info@galenacenterforthearts.com.

Details to come in next month's newsletter!

Click here for the Center's Calendar

Recent Activities

at the Center

Capturing Galena in Pen and Ink and Watercolor

A compilation of student’s artwork

produced in Ann Thomas’s sketching class.

Songwriters Showcase

We celebrated Fete de La Musique with an open mic night!

Volunteer Recruitment Meeting

The Volunteer Recruitment evening yielded several new volunteers, for which we are most grateful. If you were unable to attend the meeting but are interested in volunteering, please contact Sandra Evans at gallerymanager@galenacenterforthearts.com

​Tactile ​​Tour

​The Center and Audible Visions collaborated to present the “Tactile Tour” event last month on June 15.

We had over 50 visitors from the community and other agencies like The Workshop, Kreider Services, and Eagle Pointe Place in Dubuque.

THANK YOU!

WISH LIST

• Volunteers needed to paint gallery pedestals.
• Postage stamps.

Volunteer!

Time to get involved! We still need greeters for the gallery and volunteers to help with serving at openings, ushering at music and theatre events, garden maintenance, painting, and more!

If you would like to help out as a greeter, please go to

Signupgenius.com and scroll down to choose the dates you would like to help. It’s not hard, and it’s so much fun to meet other art lovers and show off our wonderful new space. For other volunteer opportunities, email Carole.

Thanks so much!

Please Donate

Please help us to advance our mission to

elevate and celebrate regional arts and artists.



To donate online click on This Link, or send your check to:

The Galena Center for the Arts

971 Gear Street, Galena, Illinois 61036

(815) 402-3111

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Newsletter produced by Dennis Waltman