12/10/2009 10:00:00 PM Art Listings: Week of Dec. 11
Artisans Four exhibit their Yuletide show and sale for the month of December at 'TIS Gallery, 105 S. Cortez St., in Prescott. The artists and their works are Patricia Tyser Carberry, jewelry; Maria Lynam, goldleaf collages; Jo Manginelli, woven scarves and wall hangings; and Mary Schulte, mosaic and jewelry.
The artists will be at the gallery during the Acker Musical Showcase, Friday, Dec. 11, and invite the public to the their reception from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 12.
Master oil painter Paul Ebling and jewelry designer Amari Magdalena are co-featured artists at Grayleaf Galleria for the month of December. The gallery will play host to a special artist reception from 5 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 11, during the annual Acker Musical Showcase. The artists will be on hand to meet the public and share in their artistry. Holiday sweets will be available along with Baily's Irish Creme to top off visitors' coffee purchases from the adjoining Wild Iris Coffee House. For more information, call the gallery at 443-1503 or visit www.artgrayleafgalleria.com.
The gallery is located in Terra Cotta Court, 124 S. Granite St.
The Yavapai College Art Gallery at the Prescott campus will play host to Unexpected Encounters, a three-artist show of photographic images, through Dec. 11. The art gallery is located inside the Yavapai College Performance Hall. All shows are free to view and open to the public.
Unexpected Encounters showcases the photography of Hank Keneally, Keith Stanton, and Don Younger.
Keneally has explored the world as a musician, photographer, painter and as a mixed media artist. Stanton bases his photographs on his curiosity with the post-modern idea that material wealth is a sign of achieving the "American Dream."
Younger's current collection of photographs is called "Travel Places." His photographs have been described as "equally disturbing and charming."
Yavapai College Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays.
For more information about this exhibition and the gallery, contact the Yavapai College Art Gallery at 928-776-2031 or visit www.yc.edu/artgallery.
The Frame & I Gallery is featuring a Retrospective Art Show of Kathleen Golter Roeth's "whimsical, down-home, colorful, tiny and textural" artwork, which will be on display through Dec. 12. The gallery is located at 229 W. Gurley St. in Prescott. For information, call 445-5073 or visit the gallery's website, www.frameandi.com.
Arts Prescott Cooperative Gallery's annual holiday fundraiser show "Art to Celebrate the Kids in Our Lives" runs through Dec. 15. All proceeds from the show benefit Child Haven Crisis Nursery. For information, call 776-7717. The gallery is located at 134 S. Montezuma St.
The Prescott Valley Art Guild's exhibit at the Samaritan Center in Prescott Valley features artists Elizabeth (Betty) Bartlee-Sabolik and Leona Anderson. Both artists work in oils and watercolor. The show runs through mid-January 2010. Refreshments will be available at the reception, and the public is welcome. The Samaritan Center is located at 3380 N. Windsong Road. For information, call Kay Demski at 775-4989.
Arizona artist Judith Durr's "Enduring Legacy" continues its run until Feb. 14 in Sharlot Hall Museum's John and Helen Lawler Exhibit Center Gallery. Durr is the second of four prominent artists who are showing their works in a series of one-person exhibitions titled "PAINT! Breaking the Buckskin Ceiling." The exhibition is intended to challenge and expand the meaning of the term "Indian art" while increasing knowledge, understanding and appreciation of contemporary Native American art.
The exhibition is included with admission, which is free for museum members and children under 18 and $5 for adult non-members. For information, call 445-3122 or visit www.sharlot.org.