By Lindi Pierce, AITC Committee

The July/August Art in the Community show provides an eclectic showcase for the work of over 40 local artists, in 15 locations around Belleville and Trenton. The show will open with a reception at the QAC Gallery and Gift Shop, at 36 Bridge Street East in downtown Belleville, from 4 to 7 pm on July 8.  Please join us to meet the artists and enjoy refreshments, provided in part by Oak Heights Estates Winery.  The show will continue until the end of August.

To see the web pages or web sites of these artists, go to the QAC's Website Directory.
To see photograph's of their work, click here.

Once again, the artists of the Belleville Art Association bring us a wide variety of work in all media, at the Belleville Family Medical Clinic. 

Chris Jeffrey is providing maritime flavour at the Boathouse Restaurant, with photos of Prince Edward Island lighthouses, and Dennis Stembridge will show his landscapes at Dinkel’s Restaurant.

The mixed media collage and acrylic work of Marie Timbers is featured at Earl and Angelo’s Restaurant and Donna Carr’s unique scratchboard etchings and acrylics will be shown at Mayor Neil Ellis’ office. Joyce Robinson’s work will be showcased at Skin Beautiful, and Prime Time Steakhouse is displaying paintings by Iris Boyd-Cherian.  Prints by Rosanne Duke can be viewed at Quintessential Credit Union.

The Quinte Arts Council’s Art in the Community Gallery, at 36 Bridge Street, Belleville, features the artists of the Bath Artisans group. The show was coordinated by Sandra Jimmo, who has gathered nearly 20 Bath area artists for this multi-faceted show.  Our walls will feature works by Joan Salomaa, Lucie Riley, Karen Lawley, Marion Janssens, Don Ray, Peggy Lum-Brouillard, Trudy Carkner, Donna Robinson,  Marg Ray, Patricia Weir, Paulette Batchilder, Frank Dunham and Shirley Ovens.  Bath area glass artisans are represented by Shirley Ovens, Sandra Steinhause, Noemi Chuaqui, Sandra Jimmo, C.A. Cavers and Zak Sieben. Woodturnings will be displayed by Nelson Freedman.

Also in the QAC gallery will be pottery, glass and jewelry by the artists of FAD (Functional Art and Design).

In Quinte West, Frankford artist and new QAC member Jeff Steele is showing his realistic wildlife art at the offices of Mayor John Williams and MPP Lou Rinaldi.  Another new QAC member, Genevieve Launier, a versatile young artist from Montreal, is showing her work at Riverside Music.  Artists of Arts Quinte West will team up at RBC Trenton.,

Laurie Near’s intriguing abstracts in acrylic and mixed media will complement the unique home décor items at Special Effects Decorating.  Last, but not least, we honour Florence Lennox, a leader in countless visual arts activities in Quinte for many decades, who is still painting at over 90 years of age. Her beautiful work in silk painting and mixed media will be on display at Sun Life Financial.

Many thanks to my Art in the Community colleagues: Lorie Brown, Henry Mitchell and Dennis Stembridge, who arrange the hanging of all the shows in our community locations.