Please join the Lancaster Public Library for an exciting First Friday event featuring artists Bill Hutson and Bardie Keith.
Friday, February 4 · 5:30pm – 8:00pm
2nd Floor Gallery, Lancaster Public Library
Prominent artist Bill Hutson will be featured in February at Lancaster Public Library. Bill states that in his abstract paintings “nature, sky, and indirect memory are the points of departure.”
Bill has traveled extensively abroad and in the United States for work, research, and exhibitions. He has taught in numerous institutions incl…uding The University of Paris-Sorbonne, Nouvelle École Nationale d’Art et Manufacture (Gabon), Hunter College, the Johns Hopkins University, The Ohio State University, and the National Museum of Art (Lagos, Nigeria).
During the past 30 years solo exhibitions of Hutson’s art have been presented in more than 20 museums and galleries and in over 50 juried shows. Abstract paintings and painted objects by Bill Hutson are in many private and public collections including The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/The New York Public Library, the Brandywine Graphic Art Workshop the Arco Collection in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Boysmans-Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, Holland. Bill Hutson lives and works in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where he is the Cook Distinguished Artist-in-Residence, Emeritus(Art and History), at Franklin and Marshall College.
Bardie Keith is an African-American artist, Lancaster native, and McCaskey graduate who after taking an art course at Millersville in 1978 found her calling and has not stopped creating since. She is a mixed media artist. She uses her art as a bridge to build community and raise consciousness of the oneness of our being.
The opening for the exhibit will be Friday, February 4th from 5:30-8 pm. There will be refreshments, activities for children, music with the F&M African-American Drumming Club, and and art activities with members of the Black Student Union of F&M College
