109 S. Washington Street
Delphi, Indiana
Hours:
Thursday, noon - 4:00 p.m.;
Friday, noon - 4:00 p.m.;
Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.;
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Resident artist Rena Brouwer has been adjudicated into the highly competitive Indiana Artisan program of the Indiana Office of Tourism Development, the Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs, and the Indiana Arts Commission among others. Her work now carries the Indiana Artisan logo.
"Matters of the Heart" Exhibit Reception & Open House is Friday, February 5,
5:00-9:00 p.m. at The Opera House Gallery Of Contemporary Art In Delphi


Carved Bowl
Mary Firestone

Burnished Raku Bowl
Angie Peterson

 

Raku Tile End Table
Diana May

 


Amethyst & Beaded Cord
Necklace, Dawn Cooley




Pearl in pod Sterling

Necklace, Joanne Kuhn
Titolo

 Raku and other ceramic works by artists Angie Peterson, Diana May, and Mary Firestone are featured along with jewelry artists Dawn Cooley and Joanne Kuhn Titolo in a special exhibit underway at the Opera House Gallery of Contemporary Art in Delphi through March 3, 2010.
   "Matters of the Heart" is the second in a series of special exhibits planned at the Opera House Gallery for the coming year--each focusing on a different medium or type of art. Following a jurying process, artists for the exhibits will be invited to display works alongside those of resident artists Rena Brouwer, Terry Lacy, and Alan McConnell.
   Guest artists will join the Gallery's resident artists aa reception and open house from 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. on Friday, February 5. The Opera House Gallery is located at 109 S. Washington Street on the east side of the Courthouse Square in Delphi. Opera House Gallery hours are from noon until 4:00 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays, and Sundays. Saturday hours are from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
    The Opera House Gallery of Contemporary Art celebrates the cultural and architectural heritage of the community. The room in which the gallery operates is itself a gem with a 14-foot high ornate pressed tin ceiling. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its third floor houses the famed Delphi Opera House where poet James Whitcomb Riley performed at least six times. The Delphi Preservation Society is restoring the building and the Opera House as a center for the performing arts. The gallery is owned and operated by the Delphi Preservation Society, and a portion of all sales will go to support the restoration effort.

About the Artists...
Angie Peterson has been learning the craft of ceramics for more than two decades. She now teaches at the Morton Center in West Lafayette where she took her first lesson twenty years ago and where she "fell in love with the first spin of the wheel."
Diana May started working with clay while in high school in Lafayette and then studied it at Oakland Community College near Detroit. A minor in business and accounting led to a profession while in the back of her mind she knew she "would find clay again." Twenty years later, with the support of her husband and children, she launched Muddog Pottery, creating functional and sculptural art using clay.
Mary Firestone discovered her medium in the red clay of her native state North Carolina. With a degree in Botany, Mary has both a love of plants and clay. She is an Advanced Master Gardener, spending many volunteer hours “helping others grow.”  Her love of plants and nature is evidenced in her choice of motifs and glaze colors in her pottery and her "Dirty Hands" hallmark. 
Dawn Cooley's "Bead Beautiful" is both a hallmark and fascination--threading the sparkle and weightlessness of individual beads into works of art. Combining wire wrapping, metal working, and precious metal clay techniques with her beadwork gives Dawn's work a unique style.
Joanne Kuhn Titolo works from her Terra Luna Studio in a variety of materials. Her BA from Purdue University focused on oil painting, but a love of natural and found objects developed into sculptural forms as well as mixed media metalwork. She is now forming sterling silver adornments and jewelry pieces.

 

 
Resident Artists:   Rena Brouwer   Terry Lacy   Alan McConnell

Rena Brouwer  Slideshow

 

 A free-spirited artist, Rena's involvement with the arts has been diverse over the past thirty years. She was a corporate visual merchandiser, taught watercolors at national conventions and has been involved in promoting the arts by serving on numerous state and national boards. Rena now lives in rural Indiana. Daily she paints watercolors inspired by wildlife, nature's bounty and Wildcat Creek. Her oneness with her surroundings is reflected in her images and the strokes of her brush reveal the light, texture and color of her milieu.
Terry Lacy has been working as an
artist doing plein-air landscapes
for over 40 years. His creative work
also includes hand made paper compositions of the American rural landscape and other natural subject matter. Terry is also a seasoned illustrator and designer working on editorial, exhibit and print communication projects.

Terry Lacy Slideshow

 

Alan McConnell Slideshow

Alan McConnell is a landscape and nature photographer. He has traveled and photographed extensively through the western U.S. and elsewhere. The focus of his work is the color photographic print. Being also a science educator, Alan hopes to share his visions of the beautiful and interesting features that nature provides. "What comes to mind when you hear the wind blowing through a pine tree or smell the air after a cleansing rain? A well-known speaker once stated that a good teacher is a good storyteller. My intentions are to tell a story with my photographs."
The purpose of the Opera House Gallery is to showcase resident artists while celebrating the cultural and architectural heritage of the community. A portion of all gallery sales will support the restoration of the Delphi Opera House as a performing arts center for Delphi and the surrounding area.

The Opera House Gallery
of Contemporary Art is owned
and operated by the
Delphi Preservation Society, Inc.,
a 501(c)(3) organizaiton.

www.delphipreservationsociety.org