CLC Spring Art Exhibit

Columbus Learning Center’s Spring Art Show continues its current emphasis of showcasing works by local, area and Columbus-related artists and designers.

Included are character-study photographs of people in Paris and New York City, a hand-dyed fabric color-wheel quilt created specially for the exhibit, "super-realism" watercolor portraits and scenes, contemporary landscape paintings and planet friendly, people friendly modern furniture.

Scott Willy, designer of the furniture and co-founder of an advertising/marketing and publishing company, and Drew Endicott, the photographer, both are graduates of the Ivy Tech Columbus School of Visual Communications, working professionally in Indianapolis. Willy also is a Columbus native and graduate of Columbus East High School.

Willy’s wife, April, is an award-winning painter, commercial illustrator and is completing her fifth children’s book. She is a graduate of Herron School of Art.

Daren Redman lives and maintains her fabric and quilting studio in Brown County. She cuts, sews and quilts her hand-dyed fabrics, using enlarged photographs from her travels as inspiration for her wall art.

Purdue University and Herron School of Art graduate Nancy Cummins has received purchase and merit awards for her dramatic watercolor creations in state and national exhibitions. Her studio is in Indianapolis.

The exhibition also will include glass sculptures created by 60 fourth- through sixth- grade Parkside Elementary School students, inspired by Dale Chihuly’s Sun Garden sculpture in the Center’s Johnson Family Atrium. Parkside art teacher Paul Walker assisted the students.

Works in the exhibition are located in gallery spaces on both floors of the Columbus Learning Center which is open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and on Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday hours are from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. The exhibition will remain on display until the end of July.