Newest CFAC Community Exhibit featuring pets

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Watercolorist Amanda Romero’s horse, John Andersons “Lady with a Feline, and a combination of a photo with an old master’s painting by Marni Christensen are just a few of the colorful and fun approaches our local artists took to create a pet portrait. This exhibit will be on display through November 10th at the Community Fine Arts Center

Wyo4News Staff, [email protected] [PRESS RELEASE]

October 21, 2022 – The sixteenth community exhibit at the Community Fine Arts Center focuses on “Pet Portraits” with a large variety of styles in 25 works of art.  

“Each year we select a theme for this exhibit based on recent interests or something currently going on, such as when we celebrated the CFAC’s 50th anniversary, each piece of artwork had to have the color gold,” said Debora Soulé, CFAC director. “Through the years a variety of themes have included portraits, postcard-sized art, landscapes, trains, and squares. We leave it up to the artists’ interpretation of the theme and it has given artists inspiration to create work specifically for the community exhibit.

“This year we asked for everyone to have fun inserting their pet into an old master’s painting.  We did clarify all pet portraits would be accepted by hoped that the work would be  in public domain which means that there is no longer copyright protection on the older work.

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Artists participating this year include painters Peggy Applequist, John E. Anderson II, Angelina Q. Bennett, Brenda Faler, Kaylee Moore, Gwendolyn Quitberg, Amanda Romero, Debora Soulé, and Joel Tankersley. Traditional mediums such as oils and watercolor, also acrylic and colored inks were used.

Photography was a popular medium for this exhibit as well. Chad Banks, Leslie Davis Caudle, Marni Christensen, David Gutierrez, and David Metz started with traditional photographs then editing on a computer using software such as Photoshop to combine images, apply filters and bring the images together to be one.

One relief carving is also in the exhibit, “Golden Retriever” by Joel Tankersley. He has painted the landscape and then covered the dog in gold leaf.

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“We have already selected next year’s theme – Wyoming’s state flower, the Indian Paintbrush,” said Soulé.  “All mediums are accepted and we are excited to see how our local artists capture this colorful subject.”

The CFAC also displays the majority of the art collection which was started by the Rock Springs High School students in the fall of 1939. It hung in the school until the CFAC was opened in 1966 for the public to enjoy the hundreds of pieces of art collected over the years.

“Sweetwater County School District #1 along with the city of Rock Springs and Sweetwater County Library System have a wonderful, longstanding collaboration,” said Soulé, “By working together the community has an impressive treasure of art for its citizens and visitors alike.”

The public is invited to see this exhibit through November 10th as well as the permanent collection on display. Located at 400 C Street in Rock Springs, the CFAC is a department of the Sweetwater County Library System. Hours at the center are Monday through Thursday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Friday and Saturday noon to 5 p.m.

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