A Huge THANK YOU to  everyone who donated items, services, food and your labor, as well as those who performed, came out and joined in the event and especially Parrot Beach for hosting the event and Deb Moser for planning and allowing the rest of us to help out!  You all are awesome!!

It was great to see everyone pull together and raise money to help a fellow artist in need.  Thanks to All of YOU the total raised to help Charlotte including, door, silent auction, drawings and cash donations came to Four thousand six hundred dollars!!   But more than the money you showed Charlotte how much she is loved and that is priceless!!  Thanks again!!

For those who missed the event visit rockthemetro.com to hear a sample of Charlotte's talent.

Gallery 26 was started by Renee Williams and Steve Ross in February of 1995. Renee graduated from Hendrix College in 1987 with an art degree, and learned picture framing from Mary Lambright at Make A Frame. When Mary closed her store, Renee and Steve were able to purchase her equipment and open their own place, adding an art gallery to it.

Renee had participated for years in small house art shows with a group of local artists. Those artists included Kevin Kresse, Kathy Strause, and James Hayes. It was an easy transition from house shows to an actual permanent gallery space.

Gallery 26 continues to show only Arkansas artists, but has grown to include over 70 of them. They include well known and up and coming artists in a variety of styles and mediums. The gallery shows jewelry artists, sculptors, painters, photographers, and glass blowers, and sells work in a variety of price ranges. We also continue to offer affordable picture framing, with a do-it-yourself option.

In 2001 Steve Ross moved to Memphis to pursue his sound design career and Daniel Broening came on board. Daniel is also an artist and graduate of the Art Institute of Houston. He developed and maintains the Gallery 26 website, frets over 90 degree angles and is solely to blame for any bizarre emails sent out to the mailing list.

Come celebrate (and have a piece of cake) with us on March 20, from 7 to 10pm. There will be a drawing for a door prize, food, beverages and live music.

Betty Johnson's painting, Mardi Growl was selected for display in the International "Exhibition on Animals"  to be held in the School of Veterinary Medicine Library at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA.

Now in its' 23rd year there were 477 entries submitted for the show,  Mardi Growl was one of the 75 selected for the exhibit.   This is Betty's second year to have work  selected.

The show will open with a reception on Saturday, March 27th  at 6:00 p.m. in the Veterinary Medicine Library.  The exhibit closes April 25th.

Mardi Growl was previously exhibited at the Arti-Gras, a tastefully risque art show, held in Eureka Springs in February.

This mixed media piece   "Soup Line I"  created by Rhonda Reeves  was chosen as the cover art for The Empty Bowls Fundraiser .

Each year the Arkansas Foodbank Network sends out a call to artist for donations for Empty Bowls Fundraiser and one piece is chosen as the cover art. The selected piece is then used for all the Empty Bowls promotional materials for that year.

This is one of the cards, with Rhonda's artwork, that will be sent out to remind everyone to Save the Date for this very worthy cause.

Tickets are $50 per person.  For more info contact Peggy Vickers at 501-565-8121 or visit www.arkansasfoodbank.org