Field Trip Time! Working with Helen Beatty, art educator of the Columbia County Schools, 36 elementary students from Niblack had a field trip to the downtown Art League of North Florida/Gateway Gallery in Lake City. Curator Shelia Carr with area artists Carol Cieslik, Laura Hunter-Null, Cindy Sleezer, Sandy Glover, Fran Thompson, and Susan Larson co-ordinated the event, […]
Ann Opgenorth
March 27, 1942 ~ February 16, 2022 Ann L. Opgenorth was beloved by her fellow artists and Gallery members. She passed away on Wednesday, February 16, 2022, at Shands Hospital in Gainesville, FL, as the result of an accident. She was born in Madison, Wisconsin on March 27, 1942, to the late Virginia Annie Bonesho and Alexander […]
Exhibit: Veterans and Benefactors Collection
The Gateway Art Gallery in historic downtown Lake City, an extension of the 40-year-old Art League of North Florida, will recognize and honor recent benefactors in a special exhibit during the months of March and April. The idea of this special exhibit began when the Lt. Col. Aloysius (Al) Harter Trust made a generous donation […]
Gallery Board Member Featured at Public Library
Long-time (and award-winning) artist Laura Hunter-Null has a one-artist show up at the Columbia County Library West Branch through March. The show is comprised of twenty nature paintings and mixed media abstractions in the library’s main entrance way. Hunter-Null creates artworks in unique styled series using a wide variety of media such as watercolors, acrylic, […]
Featured Artist: Stephen Speck
From Steve’s wife, Barbara: “I met Steve in high school and married him shortly thereafter. He was a remarkable man, talented in so many areas, but his passion was for photography. The earliest photo I saw of him was when he was 2 1/2 years old with a Kodak camera in his hands taking pictures. […]
