Well Conceived Folk Art: WHIMSY AT LINDSAY

DOLLS & DRAWINGS! Lindsay Gallery is at 682 North High Street in Columbus, Ohio, Planet Earth. 614-291-1973 An adorable and thought provoking show was on view at Lindsay during February and into March.
AMBER GROOME truly makes art.--Tiny adorable dolls! And she doesn't buy dollies from a Five and Dime, she makes them!--One at a time, and they're porcelain! These "dollettes" (my term)reside in tiny-cubby-cupboards. Each doll is unique from its syblings! --They are businessmen and princesses,-- And they stand up in their cubicles and look at you. They'e cute but weird! Amber Groome, Dollmaker,is a petite person with chic, and a slightly Liverpool look.
MORRIS JACKSon,sees--as in visions--magical books inside his head! "Original" doesn't fully describe Jackson's illustrations. His skillful yet quirky line drawings become tiny plots and scenarios; they are absolutely one of a kind. (Perhaps he's a modern day Edward Lear!) Jackson's spindly ink drawings make me want to giggle. The artist has kept his own Inner Child very much alive.--In fact his Inner Child is now his Outer Child!-- Aren't we lucky!
THE NEW SHOW!--AND A VERY GOOD ARTIST TOO!--JEB LOY NICHOLS AT LINDSAY
(GIVE THREE CHEERS AND THREE CHEERS MORE!) This is bound to be a terrific show, and I intend to see it very, very soon .. Predictions are that this visual artist will blow LINDSAY visitors away. Nichols hails from the nation of WALEs which is,as the old National Anthem proclaims, "the land in which poets and minstrels rejoice." I should know. After all, my great, great uncle. Melzer Thomas, was "prized by Queen Victoria and in America had sung like a skylark in saloons and Methodist Churches and was known to boast of how HE had taught the famous John Charles Thomas how to sing."

ART SPARKS FLY

This will be short, but then the best things in life are often short! (and free)
Thursday, yesterday, Susan Josephson,--an instructor at Columbus College of Art and Design for twenty years--lectured at First Unitarian Universalist Church at 7 pm. --She had a full house in the Community Room, and she was marvelous. There will be seven more 7 pm Thursday talks by Josephson.--What a bright spot on a sometimes bland cultural horizon. Josephson talked about evolutions in art and art history.
There wasn't a question or comment she couldn't respond to.--And the questions were sometimes a little off-topic! One of her explications was of the concept of how religous images were thought to heal. I reminded everyone of how Our Lady of Consolation, a statue and shrine less than a hunded miles away in Carey, Ohio, is
yet visited by thousands and . . . some come running, and are healed.
I have hopes for the ArtScene, and I'm working on being able to write on it out of my home.--As my friend Jack Kerouac. would have said,the beat goes on.
Oh, yes, I have a marvelous and instructive time making paper-and-paint-art at The Whetstone Recreation Center. JoAnn Holtrey a veteran instructor for the City
of Columbus, is just great at teaching and making art.--She can do anything! (And she has the patience, well, of one of Picasso's wives, which is saying a lot.