December gallery

If the weather outside is frightful, or not, drop in, warm up and enjoy the colorful visions of Brookston, Indiana artist, Kathryn Clark's INTUITIVE INTERPRETATIONS OF NATURE in watercolor and oil, elegantly gracing the Library Art Gallery all during delicious December. Born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana, Kathryn Clark received a BFA from Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio and an MFA from Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. In 1971, she and her husband founded Twinrocker Handmade Paper Company in order to revive the craft of handmade paper in America on a professional level. Twinrocker has become the leader in its field and is respected for making the highest quality handmade paper world wide. In the seventies and eighties, Kathryn developed many innovative artistic imagery techniques to use with the colored paper pulps. She exhibited that art work in galleries and invitational exhibitions throughout the United States, Great Britain and Japan, the Smithsonian, Exhibits USA, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the Leopold-Hoesch Museum in West Germany, the American Craft Museum, an invitational traveling exhibition of the State Department, U.S. Government, etc. In addition, her art work has been discussed and represented in sixty-four different books, magazines, and periodicals. In 1985, when Twinrocker began making watercolor paper, Kathryn began to paint in order to test the papers and unexpectedly fell in love with the medium, but continued exhibiting her handmade paper art. After this awakening, Kathryn changed her artistic focus to include watercolor painting on Twinrocker handmade paper and now exhibits primarily in this medium. Kathryn has received research grants to develop archival handmade papers from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lilly Endowment. In 2006, she was nominated to the Indianapolis Public School System Hall of Fame. In 1980, she was given an Outstanding Alumni Award from her graduate school, and in 1990, a documentary movie of her and her husband’s life, titled The Mark of the Maker, was nominated for an Academy Award. She has given hundreds of lectures and workshops throughout the world and has served on several Indiana Arts Commission Advisory Boards; and also serves as Workshop Chairman of the Wabash Valley Watercolor Society and is on the Board of the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette. She also was a winner at Crawfordsville's Downtown Art Exhibit in September/October 2008.

Have I enticed you to come into the Gallery to see what's going on? Great! You wouldn't want to miss anything that twinkles during this season of celebration.