Second Saturdays
Schedule
Sat Apr 12 2025 at 04:00 pm to 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
121 N. Main Street, Hannibal, MO, United States, Missouri 63401 | Hannibal, MO
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Exploring Colorby Pat Kerns
St. Louis photographer Bruce Toulmin is Alliance Gallery’s guest artist for the month of April.
After years of taking only black and white film photos, his family gifted him a Nikon digital
camera when he was in his 60’s. This led to him exploring the options available to him to
manipulate his images. Six months later he applied for the Shaw Art Fair and was accepted. This
was just the beginning and he has done art fairs in Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Bloomington
along with other St. Louis art fairs.
With no training and using only free digital editing apps, his photos are what he calls digital folk
art. He creates his artistic photographs in a variety of categories including musicians, sports
(especially St. Louis teams) and portraits. He has a variety of framed as well as matted works.
Bruce reflects that “It has been a great joy to find this a bit later in life although finding it when I
was 39 would have been great too.”
April will also spotlight the collaboration of Alliance artists Peggy Burchard-Ballard, Libby
Campbell and Patricia Garey. They will be presenting new creations based on colors selected
from the watercolor paints manufactured by Peggy. Patricia’s watercolor paintings inspired the
dyed, spun and available in the yarns and weavings of Libby. Patricia’s paintings have a
concentration of florals. Libby’s weavings are an exploration of woven patterns of geometric
shapes like monk’s belt and summer and winter.
As these four artists present their work exploring color, visitors are encouraged to do their own
exploration by taking a Color Walk. They may select a printed color card and then look for that
color as they move throughout the gallery and then continue the Color Walk up and down Main
Street.
An opening reception will be held on Saturday, April 12, 2025 from 4:00 until 7:00. This event is
free and open to the public.
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Where is it happening?
121 N. Main Street, Hannibal, MO, United States, Missouri 63401Event Location & Nearby Stays:
