| Gardeners get advice at Gary Parks Department classes
Caruthers was among a handful of people taking advantage of a recent gardening workshop sponsored by the Gary Parks Department. Armed with copies of gardening tips and a pen, she listened to advice delivered by Mario Campos, a horticulturist for the Gary Parks Department. Campos has worked for the department for 19 years and, until three years ago, he tended to the city's greenhouse at 25th Avenue and Grant Street. The greenhouse was demolished to make room for the now- empty building that once housed the County Market supermarket. "You can say I am pretty much homeless as far as a greenhouse is concerned," Campos said, laughing. He added that he is more than happy to participate in the workshop. "Colleges have classes on gardening that run about $300 for a semester," he said.
Chinese artist to present landscape painting demonstrations during ...
CHARLESTON — Visiting Chinese artist Liu Jungang, of Beijing, will present a traditional Chinese watercolor landscape painting lecture and demonstration Sunday at the Tarble Arts Center on Eastern Illinois University’s campus. The presentation will be from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.A reception for the artist will immediately follow the program, and an exhibition of Jungang’s paintings will be on view from 3:30 t0 5 p.m. in the Podesta Gallery of the EIU Art Department’s Burl Ives Studio Hall.Later in the week, during EIU’s Celebration: a Festival of the Arts, Jungang will present two demonstrations on Chinese Brush Painting. These demonstrations will be held from 12:30 to 2:30 on April 27 and 28 at the Tarble.All events are free, and the public is invited to attend. The Ives Studio Hall is located at Ninth Street and Johnson Avenue in Charleston.
Garden club marks 75 years
To celebrate their club's 75th anniversary, members of the Hernando Civic Garden Club held a flower show Friday titled "Continuing the Legacy." More than 200 observers from all over the northern part of the state viewed the show, which was classified a "standard" flower show by the Mississippi Federation of Garden Clubs. It was judged by a panel of six judges accredited by the National Federation of Garden Clubs. .
Scarlett Hooft Graafland
We are delighted to announce the first UK solo exhibition of work by Dutch artist Scarlett Hooft Graafland. Inhabiting the border between straight photography, performance and sculpture, Hooft Graafland's photographs are records of her highly choreographed live performances in the salt deserts of Bolivia. Fascinated by the surreal beauty of the harsh natural landscape she utilises this as her canvas. Anthropologically curious, her ideas emerge directly from the local mythology that originates in this otherworldly environment. Using naïve and childlike colour palettes her photographs draw on the language of the surreal showing familiar objects out of context (a llama wearing balloons, top hats flying through the desert and a pair of naked legs entwined around a cactus). Her humorous and unsettling juxtaposition of these everyday objects with the sparse, unforgiving landscape echo the aesthetic of surrealists such as Rene Magritte.
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