Grove City Arts in the Alley Music Entertainment 2018
There seems to be a pattern developing with the Grove City Easel Award.
Grove City resident Katherine Wexler won the award for a 3rd time Sept. 16 at the 39th almanac Arts in the Alley festival. The music and arts showcase ran Sept. 15 and xvi in the area along Broadway and Park Street in the Town Center.
She previously won the award in other fifty-fifty-numbered years, 2016 and 2014.
The Easel Award is the almanac fine art purchase award that adds to the city's permanent art collection.
Artists submit entries that reflect Grove Urban center's past, nowadays and/or future. Wexler'south winning painting, "Time Frame," simultaneously depicts the city'south past and present.
"It shows what Grove Urban center looks like around 1949 or '50 and what it looks like today, as all-time as I tin can testify," she said.
The piece combines two watercolor paintings Wexler created after being inspired by a photo she plant while researching at the Grove City Library.
"I think the photograph was taken from the roof of the building that at present houses the visitors bureau part," Wexler said. "The photograph shows Broadway from Plank'southward on Broadway downward to Grove City Road."
A friend who is an expert in vintage cars identified the vehicles shown in the photo as existence manufactured from the 1920s to 1949, she said.
Wexler painted one watercolor depicting the vintage scene, then painted the aforementioned view as it looks today.
"I've always been fascinated by those and so-and-now books that have a film of a location from a long time ago on one side and a photograph showing how it looks today on the other side," she said. "I wanted to give a sense of how Grove Metropolis has changed over the years."
She said she used a computer program to interlace the ii paintings into a single paradigm, then used lenticular lens applied science to give the combined painting an illusion of depth and brand it appear to change equally one views it from different angles.
"Depending on where you lot're standing and looking at the painting, yous're seeing Grove City in the late 1940s or y'all're seeing it every bit is today," Wexler said.
Her previous Easel Awards were for a mini-sculpture of Beulah Park and a photograph, "The Wanderer," she took of a couple who were backpacking across the United States and had stopped by Arts in the Alley.
The newest laurels-winner represented a kind of "bucket list" item for her, Wexler said.
She wanted to create a piece that reflected the history of Grove City, she said.
"It's such an laurels to take received the Easel Award 3 times, because it'southward a nifty feeling knowing your work will have some longevity past beingness on brandish at City Hall," Wexler said.
The 2018 Arts in the Aisle People'due south Option Laurels was presented to Plain Urban center resident Natalie Haines.
Her four-by-4-foot acrylic painting "The Panthera leo and the Lamb" was inspired by the religious paradigm of a peaceful lamb lying with a lion.
"I was raised in a Christian family and my faith is important to me," Haines said. "It's sometimes reflected in my art, but I try to advise information technology and not be too heavy-handed."
She said she created the painting in twoscore to 60 hours over one week.
Haines intended to enter the work at the Ohio Country Off-white, only it was too large for the contest, she said.
And so she submitted information technology to Arts in the Alley.
"Information technology's a great feeling knowing people capeesh and like your piece of work," Haines said. "I'm kind of proud of how the painting turned out considering information technology was created in a fourth dimension crunch."
Haines, 19, previously has won awards in the festival's youth competition and also won a first-place award this year in the fine arts competition for "The Treasure," which portrays several animals that humans commonly stuff and mountain for display.
The Columbus College Art and Blueprint educatee had previously entered "The Treasure" in the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards competition.
"I work in a lot of media, but I like drawing with markers all-time," Haines said. "I like how with markers you can't go back and erase it and get-go over. You accept to adjust and use what the marker's doing. I like the claiming. Markers kind of accept a mind of their own.
"I've been interested in art ever since I can remember," said Haines, who is studying animation at CCAD.
"My mom went to CCAD, and so I was exposed to art at a very immature historic period. It's only fun to use art to limited yourself."
Haines will receive $500 as the People'southward Option recipient. Wexler's prize includes a $2,000 award every bit the city'southward buy price.
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Source: https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/grove-city/2018/09/18/arts-in-alley-winners-honors/10261667007/
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