Combined Reception

Free admission / donation requested; complimentary snacks & drinks

Meet the exhibiting artists and view their artwork in three galleries and the 3rd floor classroom.

Rowen Schussheim-Anderson: Tapestries of Innovation – Preston Jackson Gallery

While this Rock Island artist and educator employs centuries’ old techniques, her innovative use of fresh materials, organic structures and maps as design sources delights fans of weaving. Her influences include fiber work of Latin America and Africa and color field painters like Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman to inspire blending subtle transitions, despite surfaces built row by row on a 56” four-harness floor loom.

Capturing Light: Bennett Johnson and Jim Scheller – Gallery 3R

Inspired by the designs of celebrated architects and painters, Peoria photographer Bennett Johnson is paired with Staunton glass artist Jim Scheller. They share a proclivity to focus on dynamic details of reflection and shadow that most might overlook. A former architect, Johnson captures a glimpse of structures we may pass by every day, in a mysterious interplay of color and pattern. Inspired by modern masters, Scheller emulates the designs of 20 th Century painters so well they could have been created by the masters themselves.