The Cedar Key Arts Center Fall Opening Event

Amy Gernhardt

The Cedar Key Arts Center Fall Opening on October 1st was a well attended event. On exhibit were the artworks in competition for the official Cedar Key 48th Annual Old Florida Celebration of the Arts commemorative poster. Many works of different mediums were evident in the submissions. Judging will be later this month and the winner will be announced in local papers.
On display in the Member`s Gallery are works of the artists who will be teaching workshops and classes at the Cedar Key Arts Center during the 2011-12 season.
These exhibits will be on display upstairs in the Cedar Key Arts Center throughout the month of October.

Maggie McClellan will be teaching a class March 4, 5, and 6 entitled Making Delicious Paintings, Dynamic Paintings of Faces and People.

Robert Goodlet stands next to his painting submitted for the OFCA competition.

Steve Westenberg studies some of the works submitted for the Old Florida Celebration of the Arts competition.

Zanny Zettler is the newest member of the CK Arts Center Board.
She will be teaching several classes this fall, including Lifelines and
Personal Panorama for Adults beginning Nov. 3; Group Art Therapy for
Adults beginning Jan. 12; and Creatively Containing the Anxiety Monster
Beginning March 1;and beginning in October Youth Art Education: Skills
and Concepts in Two Dimensional Art Forms.

Beth Davis and her son, Heath Davis, Cedar Key Mayor, reminisce about Heath's youth taking art classes at the now CK fire house. Beth will be teaching a class in Landscape Quilting beginning January 11.

Amy and Henry Gernhardt will be hosting a Raku Party on December 10 at the Arts Center. Henry is teaching a Pottery class in conjunction with Central Florida College beginning Oct .4

Participants at the Gallery Opening, including president of the Cedar Key Arts Center, Peter Klocksien, preview the art works submitted for the OFCA competition.

Chuck McDonell has recently been published in
Mosaic Fine Arts Book of Abstracts: Contemporary Fine Art
Mosaics of the World. He stands next to his submission
for the OFCA competition which is a glass mosaic heron. He will also
be teaching a class in Glass Cutting on November 16.

The following pictures display some of the many mediums of
art that are participating in the Old Florida Celebration of the
Arts Competition

photos, acrylic painting

fabric art, metal work,

mosaic, oils, watercolors