Verge, Showcasing Residents, Closes at Hunt Gallery

Gerald Mead is one of 8 national artists in ReUse/ReOrder at the Indianapolis Art Center until Apr. 19. He also showed in Dec. in “Spirituality” at El Museo Gallery, Buffalo, and in Jan. in “Visual AIDS: Postcards from the Edge” at Metro Pictures Gallery, NYC. In Nov. he was a panelist for a Visual Art Career Panel Discussion at UB and judged the Niagara Art & Cultural Center Annual Exhibition in Niagara Falls. Gerald also was one of 7 regional invited artists in “PRISM: One Community, Many Perspectives” at CEPA Gallery last month. He was a reviewer for the New York Foundation for the Arts’ Special Opportunity Stipend grants in March and served on the Cedar Arts Center’s Exhibitions Submissions Review Panel in Corning NY…

The East Aurora Arts Society announced First Place winners of the 2011 Outdoor Summer Show titled “The Colors of Summer”, held June 25 and 26. BSA winners are Kathleen Dworak, Best of Show; Sharon Bartell, Mixed Media; Michael McMahon, Watercolor and Nancy Cerny, Oil

Stephen Houseknecht has two of his Bomber Diptychs now included in the permanent collection of the Kennedy Museum of Art at Ohio University and will be on view in the exhibition Recent Acquisitions thru April 8, 2012 http://www.ohio.edu/museum/exhibitions.html