The Gateway Art Gallery, operated by the Art League of North Florida, announces that Sheila Carr is the new Curator of the Gallery. Newly elected President Joey Knapp added, ““Who wouldn’t appreciate a Curator who is an artist herself in addition to being skilled at customer service, is proficient across many software platforms, and displays […]
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Niblack Elementary Gateway Gallery Field Trip
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, […]
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, […]
Exhibit: Tobacco Barns by Cindy Mantini
A collection of oil paintings of historic area tobacco barns is on exhibit at the Gateway Art Gallery in downtown Lake City. Completed by local award-winning artist Cynthia Mantini, these barns represent an industry and way of life of days gone by. Mantini says, ” Many of these barns have succumbed to the elements and […]






