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Fredericktown Arts Show

Linked Past, Present, Future

By Mark S. Jordan document.writer'', News Staff Reporter

FREDERICKTOWN's Fine and Decorative Arts Show in Fredericktown tied in the past, present and future in honor of the town's 200th birthday. From elaborate quilts evoking Civil War-era designs, to photography of current rural sights, to a group of works by a painting class just beginning to grasp techniques, the displays offered a wide range of media, style, subject, time frame and technique.

Particularly notable was the display of quilts arrayed as a double-sided wall along the back edge of the exhibit. The stylistic range of these pieces went from playfully tweaked traditional designs, such as Ellen Divelbis' William Morris Goes Shop Hopping's or Pat McGlothen's Civil War Sampler (Women's Voices), to the bright kaleidoscope of Lynn Bloomquist's Butterflies "Go round and round."Beckey Gray's  "Giant Dahlias" served as centerpiece to the display, with its hypnotic purple design.

One special section of the exhibition featured themed paintings by students of the Rev. Carolyn Greene of the Fredericktown Church of the Nazarene, who offers oil painting classes at the church. The paintings showed how the class would all work on the same subject; for instance, painting the same landscape with a mountain in the distance, but each student would achieve an individual expression of the scene....