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Posted on July 12, 2008 at 17:17:32:
By Nancy Selbe

Local Color

Painter and lifelong Kansas resident Kevin Lundy and truck from his painting titled "Old Farm Trucks Never Die."

"Local Color," the annual Russell Area Artists Exhibit will be at the Deines Cultural Center from June 29 through July 27, 2008. The opening reception is this Sunday, June 29th, from 2:00-4:00 pm.

Works in oil and acrylics, pastels, and colored pencil, photography, porcelain, iron, digital work and mixed media pieces will be shown from over twenty-five different Russell area artists.

Exhibiting artists from Russell include Jackie Burton, Edna Giebler, John Gruenwald, Trece Hart, Thelma Hutchinson, Ronn Raymer and Jane Uphoff.

Artists Kathy Gregory, Assaria, Kevin Lundy and Gordon Mai, Wilson and Marcy Nagel, LaCrosse have contributed work, along with Carolyn Bigham, Tess Dunkel-McKnight and Don and Lynne Wright from Luray. Jim Schiels and Eric Abraham, Lucas are exhibiting, as well as Mary Johnson Salina and Vicki Roberts from Paradise.

Artists from Great Bend that will be showing in "Local Color" include Joyce Barker and Char Brown. Hays artists include Jack Logan, Tina Nipper-Hagley and Linda Wood. Carolyn Nuzium and Larry Zvolanek from Osborne are showing their paintings.

The Deines Cultural Center is located at 820 North Main in Russell, admission is free and the Center is open Tuesday through Friday from 12:30 - 5:30 pm and Saturday and Sunday from 1:00 to 5:00 pm. The Deines Cultural Center is accessible to those with disabilities. The Center is partially funded by a grant from the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

• For more information see: Art

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