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“Forest Secrets”, oil based mixed media by Lauralynn White*
by Jane Stahl
Studio B, 39 E. Philadelphia Ave. in Boyertown, PA, announces the opening of an art exhibit entitled “LIFE” on August 29, 2025, from 5-7 p.m. featuring a show of works by in all mediums from area artists. The exhibit is free and open to the public and will run through November 30, 2025.
Artists are challenged to respond to any aspect or life and living: “It’s Your Life,” still-life, life drawing, “Life as we know it,” Life, Liberty &, “That’s Life,” This American Life, Life on Mars, A Day in the Life, The Times of our Life, Life of the Party, SaltLife, Walk of Life, Save a Life, The Simple Life. Prize awards will be announced during the reception.
Juror for the exhibit is Kristen T. Woodward. Woodward received her BFA degree in Printmaking from Syracuse University and her MFA in Studio Art from Clemson University. Woodward is currently a Professor of Art and the Art Department Chair at Albright College. Her artworks are in numerous permanent collections.
Since 2008, Studio B Art Gallery has hosted exhibits of fine art in all mediums allowing hundreds of local artists opportunities to showcase and sell their work and hundreds of visitors to the gallery to experience the artist’s skills and creative responses to the varied themes and to meet with neighbors and friends to celebrate the artistic response.
* “Forest Secrets” channels the transformation myth of the Mesoamerican goddesses: Mayan Ix Chel (Chak Chel), Aztec Toci and Olmec Jaguar Women. They are rulers of the Night Sun, possessing power, resilience, courage, leadership and strength. The transformed Shamanic werejaguar is adept at communication between spiritual realms. Jaguar women also bring about fertility and herald the coming of regeneration and new growth. As a woman of fifty-five, just now coming into my greatest life cycle, I feel a strong kinship to Jaguar goddesses as they share their knowledge. I utilized oil based paints, translucent fabrics and traditional oil mediums/adhesives on canvas to create a blooming dream forest where Ix Chel commune and draw in their powers. www.LauralynnWhite.net ~Lauralynne White
Studio B: Studio B, located in the heart of historic Boyertown, is the home of the Arts and Activities Alliance, a committee of Building a Better Boyertown, a nonprofit Main Street program dedicated to revitalizing small towns.
Studio B celebrates lifelong learning, creativity and personal involvement in the visual and literary arts, offers opportunities to enhance creativity, health, and wellness through the arts and seeks to be a dynamic part of Boyertown community, a “go to” destination for learning, fun and friendship. The studio seeks to showcase the work of fine artists in themed exhibits—some juried, some open to all—and welcomes art in diverse media. In addition to art exhibits and classes, Studio B also hosts catered dinners for service clubs and small groups, gallery talks, and “Getting to Know You” opportunities.
Visitors are always welcome to view the changing exhibits; take lessons in the visual, literary, and communication arts offered by highly-trained local artists and teachers; and schedule small events or parties.
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