Bill Allen kicks off Talk About Art

From staff reports

The popular “Talk About Art” series featuring local artists returns for the winter and spring of 2010. The first talk will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 21 at the Glen Arbor Art Association. Sculptor Bill Allen will discuss his work and background as an artist. Please read this feature about Allen’s transformative art in our online archives: www.glenarborsun.com/transformative-portal-the-paintings-of-william-allen/

Bill Allen will give a brief discussion and PowerPoint presentation about the evolution of his art from the welded steel animal sculptures to current abstract mixed media constructions, and he will describe his unusual path to becoming an artist. He will also bring examples of recent work, which will be in a collaborative exhibition with poet, Fleda Brown, opening in April 2010 at the Dennos Museum in Traverse City.

The Glen Arbor Art Association offers “Talk About Art” to give the community an opportunity to meet some of our many accomplished local artists and gain an appreciation and understanding of art and how it is created. The talks are free and open to the public. Others in the series will include: Lynn Perkins, Illustration (Feb. 4), Dewey Blocksma, Sculpture (Feb. 18), Sada Omoto, Regionalism Revisited (March 18), Pam Yee Gianola, Altered Books (April 29), and Edie Joppich, Color (May 6).

The Glen Arbor Art Association is located across the street from Cherry Republic and behind Lake Street Studios in Glen Arbor. For more information call (231) 334-6112 or e-mail info@glenarborart.org.