Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/06/2024
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location
Art in Bloom Gallery at Mayfaire Town Center
Categories
Creating Art with Melissa Wilgis & Rebecca Yeomans
Join us on Sunday, October 6th from 2-4pm, for an enlightening Artist Talk with our two featured artists – photographer, Melissa Wilgis, and fiber artist, Rebecca Yeomans! These talented women will discuss the works in their featured shows and give insight into the unique artistic processes behind them. Learn how Melissa captures an objects’ light through her photograms, and how Rebecca dyes textiles with plants dyes through chemistry!
About the Featured Shows
The new exhibit “The Light Within” celebrates the newest photogram work of photographer, Melissa Wilgis. This is a series of silver gelatin photograms with gold leaf highlights. With a few exceptions, the subjects she is using are handmade, antique textiles, including collars, gowns, doilies and remnants. When she is working in the darkroom, the ideas in Melissa’s head and heart are always so clear. She embraces the challenge of translating those ideas into images with her photograms. The tricky part comes when she tries to articulate those thoughts as words. While working on this series, Melissa stumbled upon a quote by Maya Angelou that says precisely what’s been in her head while creating this body of work. She said, “Let nothing dim the light that shines from within”.
This new exhibit “Leaf Love Stories” celebrates the newest work of fiber artist, Rebecca Yeomans. In this show, each creation has a story – from finding inspiration in the Barbie movie, to picking tobacco, to using ink derived from guns. The pieces in this show represent over a year of gathering leaves and materials and making art on almost a daily basis. Rebecca has used this show to explore new things while learning a great deal, and delighting in all the swirling ideas this process stirs up.
Gallery events are always free and open to the public. On view along with these exhibits, Art in Bloom Gallery showcases a plethora of fine art by over 30 local artists. The gallery is open Monday–Saturday 10am–7pm and Sunday 12-6pm and is now located in Mayfaire Town Center at 6866 Main Street in Wilmington, NC.