Elkhart Return

I’ve just returned from my show in Elkhart, IN.  My friends Laurel Forsythe and Rod Liechty, who arranged everything with their love of art, drove me by the beauty and football power of Notre Dame and took me to dinner at a Thai restaurant, followed by a preview of my art exhibit.  It was a “win-win” situation.  Laurel’s family and the Unitarian family all had fun and are as uplifted and grateful as I am.

A touch of luck brought two special visitors to the exhibit:  Martha Suggs Spencer and her husband, Willis Spencer, who have built their own museum in Vandalia, Michigan.  Both from slave backgrounds, the Suggs’ Underground Railroad Museum honors Martha’s father, James Suggs.

Excitement in Indiana!

My “Creation” Series is being featured in an exhibit in a Unitarian Church in Elkhart, Indiana, by my good friend for many years, Laurel Forsythe.

Here is a copy of the press release:

MOTHER LOVE AND ARTIST VERSATILITY

A group of Jeanine Semon’s paintings, in multiple techniques will open January 1, 2012, at the Unitarian Fellowship in Elkhart, Indiana. The exhibit, organized around themes of nature and mother’s feelings, goes beyond traditional ideas, appealing to universal human needs and joy. Six paintings plus a single grouped framing of sixteen phases of Creation will be shown. There will be oil painting, colored drawings, photographic prints, and acrylic paintings on canvas.