A husband and wife will team up this friday as the featured artists at the First Friday Artwalk of 2010.
Marilyn and Jerry Westgerdes are art professors at the Zanesville branch of Ohio University and a part of the Zanesville Appalachain Arts Project.
"I come from a family of artists," said Marilyn Westgerdes. "I grew with it. It's like a lifestyle, more or less. I went to art school in Las Angeles, met my husband. We're both artists. That's why we're showing...
The last First Friday Artwalk of 2009 will be this week.
And the ZAAP Gallery is featuring another artist from the Zanesville area.
Kay Isreal says she realized as a child she wanted to make art.
"I used to sit as a child on the side of the road," said Israel. "I would make designs out of sparkly stones and clovers and wildflowers. I got such joy out of that. I think that was the beginning."
Israel says her work is a compilation of two to...
Get your walking shoes ready... this Friday is the second to last ZAAP Art Walk of the year.
The featured artist this month is John Taylor-Lehman. His main focus is sculpture and likes to use scrap to make his works of art. His series on display is titled "Old to New".
"I have taken old barn siding and found objects and transformed them into pieces of art," says Taylor-Lehman.
He says his favorite pieces are the shrines to the automobile which...
If you are downtown tomorrow, keep an eye out for the yellow and purple balloons.
The balloons mark a location for the ZAAP First Friday Art Walk. The featured artist this month is Karen Bogard. She specializes in glass art.
"It is something that pulls all my artistic abilities into one form and that's glass and I don't do just the big windows, I do glass artwork and I take a lot of pride with that," tells Bogard.
She recently...
