Galleries welcome exhibits to start the month, make a jump to spring

Spring will only arrive on March 20, but several art galleries in the region will get into the spirit of the new creation with exhibition openings.

The Art Association of David Strawn Art Gallery from Jacksonville will welcome “Exploration of Color and Light”, an exhibition handmade artificial glass by Randy and Joy Turner from Paris, with an opening reception from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday in the gallery.

A gallery interview by the artists takes place at 6:30 p.m.

Randy Turner began to blow glass while he and Joy Turner were students from Oklahoma State University, according to the gallery.

“As part of the chemistry curriculum, they could take glass bubbles,” he said. “It is scientific glass bubbles where they work on vacuum lines and produce scientific equipment, so I took a class of it and simply fell in love with the material.”

Years later, Randy Turner took the skills he had learned in “Scientific Glassblowing” and translated her into art, where the couple opened the Larkfield Glass Studio on her farm from Edgar County in 2007.

Joy Turner attributes her success to the fact that her objects are made by hand in a age of mass production.

According to the gallery, Randy Turner has made the freedom of creating in his own studio to produce “an explosion of color and shape with completely unique creations”.

The exhibition will be issued until March 30th. The gallery lessons are Sunday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and from Tuesday to Saturday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is free.

Next, the Trutter Museum of Lincoln Land Community College and the Murray gallery on the Springfield Campus of the school will open the 2025 LLCC art exhibition on Monday.

A reception will take place on Thursday from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.

The exhibit, which will run through April 3, will feature works in a back of media created during the 2024-25 Academic Year by LLCC's Art and Design Faculty and Dean, Including Laura Anderson, Mitchell Brenghause, Ashley Dickey, Adam DupuS, Jazzy Quick Kennedy, Jeff Miller, Megan Rigoni-McCormic, Kerri Risch, Matthew Shaver, al according to the Shull, Leslie Stalter, Adam Watkins and Thom Whalen school.

The gallery is located on the upper level of the Menard Hall on the Springfield Campus of LLCC in the 5250 Shepherd Road. Admission is free.

The Hub – Art and Cultural Center in Rushville will open its latest exhibition “Inspiration near and wide” on Friday.

According to the center, it will present works by the artist Linda Peters, including landscapes from West Central Illinois to New Zealand.

Peters' midwest art shows aging barns and the rolling landscape that leans into the calm nostalgia of the region, while her New Zealand works offer a contrast between the confidante and exotic by leaning into the lush flora and the complicated architecture of a country that is far away in the middle.

An opening reception will take place on Friday from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. in the Hub with an artist talk from Peters at 6 p.m. The exhibition will be issued until April 25th.

The gallery lessons are from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday. Admission is free.