<div align=center><a href="http://lakelandcc.edu/newsroom/newsmore.asp?ID=1674"><font size=5 color=blue face="Calibri"><b>Skull
art exhibition at the Gallery at Lakeland coincides with Halloween and
Day of the Dead</b></font></a></div>
<p><font size=3 face="Calibri">KIRTLAND, Ohio – With skull art and
motif now in the mainstream, this popular, macabre art genre comes to Lakeland
Community College in a new exhibit, “ The Skull and Skeleton in Art III:
Folk Art to Pop Culture, curated by Mary Urbas,” and <i>runs through November
8</i> in the Gallery at Lakeland, building D, first floor.</font>
<p><font size=3 face="Calibri"><b>An artist’s reception will be held on
Thursday, October 24, from 7 – 9 p.m. A Day of the Dead celebration will
also be held that evening from 6 – 9 p.m. Skull and skeleton-themed items
such as T-shirts, jewelry, and folk art items will be on sale at the Boneyard
Market from 6 – 9 p.m. Guests are encouraged to dress in Halloween costume
as the evening event also coincides with Lakeland’s Halloween party in
the Athletics and Fitness Center.</b></font>
<p><font size=3 face="Calibri">The exhibition and artist reception are
free and open to the public.</font>
<p><font size=3 face="Calibri">What was once reserved as a quasi logo for
pirates and poison labels, skulls have taken over America’s pop culture.
This timely exhibit happens to not only coincide with the traditional use
of skulls and skeletons for Halloween, but also with Hispanic Heritage
Month (September 16 - October 15). Latin America artists were creating
Mexican skull art for the “Day of the Dead” - El dia de los Muertos traditionally
celebrated on November 2 - long before heavy metal bands used skulls on
album artwork and fashion designers emblazoned their textiles.</font>
<p><font size=3 face="Calibri">“It’s about embracing life and death and
our mortality,” said <b>Mary Urbas</b> , Lakeland Fine Art Gallery coordinator,
exhibit curator, and life-long collector of skull art and artifacts. “Being
raised Roman Catholic, the rebellious side in me was drawn to skulls for
the initial shock value.” Selections from Urbas’ personal skull folkart
and art collection will be among the exhibition pieces. Sixty-four artists
from Northeast Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Massachusetts,
Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and California,
will exhibit works featuring skulls and/or skeletons.</font>
<p><font size=3 face="Calibri">The exhibit includes 305 works in a variety
of media including: oil/acrylic/encaustic painting; textiles/fiber; printmaking;
drawing; photography; digital art; sculpture; glass; wood; ceramics and
ceramic sculpture; mixed media; assemblage art and jewelry. The mélange
of artists, artwork and folk art includes: </font>
<p>
<br><font size=3><b>Jeffrey Allen:
</b>Ceramic
masks and necklaces</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Gary Bixler:
</b> Ceramic
sculpture</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Goo Goo Bonehead:
</b>
Collage, model magic, mixed media</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Kris Barnes:
</b>Mixed
media, fiber</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Darrelle Anne Centuori:</b></font>
<br><font size=3><b>Cabinet of Curiosities:
</b>
Collection of artifacts for sale</font>
<br><font size=3><b>CHOD :
</b>
Mixed media</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Gail Crum:
</b> Collage,
assemblage, mixed media</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Sean Crum: </b>
Drawing,
etching </font>
<br><font size=3><b>Christina D’Angelo:
</b>
Mixed media sculpture</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Gary Divoky:
</b>
Ceramic
sculpture</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Forlorn Dolls,</b></font>
<br><font size=3>Samantha Meyers:
Mixed media sculpture</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Helene Frindt:
</b>
Acrylic
on canvas</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Meat- Jeffery Paul Gadbois:</b></font><font size=1>
</font><font size=3>
Pen and ink drawing</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Mary Weimer Green: </b>
Mixed
media<b> </b>art/ offrenda created </font>
<br><font size=3>
by the Urban Community School Art Club</font>
<br>
<br><font size=3><b>Rebecca Graves & Steve Smith: </b>
Sgraffito carved white stoneware </font>
<br><font size=3><b>Anne-Marie Gurko:
</b>
Acrylic with mixed media painting, mixed media </font>
<br><font size=3><b>Meredith Hahn:
</b>
Acrylic,
mixed media painting </font>
<br><font size=3><b>Jon and Patricia Hecker:</b>
Mixed media sculpture</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Tim Herron:
</b> Drawing</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Jeanette Ho:
</b>
Cast humanoid
and raccoon skulls in bronze, glass and aluminum</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Scott Holloway:</b>
Mixed media</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Mark Hughes:
</b>
Mixed
media, assemblage</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Glenn Jambor:
</b>
Oil on
canvas</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Richard Jambor:
</b>
Mixed media, duck tape</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Aunia Kahn:
</b> Digital
painting</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Sean Kelly:
</b> Mixed
media</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Terry Klausman: </b>
Assemblage</font>
<br><font size=3><b>George Kocar:
</b>
Acrylic
painting on canvas, mixed media</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Kay Larch:
</b> Vintage
ceramic doll heads</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Dan Levin:
</b>Assemblage,
mixed media</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Lynne Norwood Lofton:</b>
Ceramic sculpture/ wall tiles</font>
<br><font size=3><b>James March:</b>
Oil
on canvas</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Deborah McGroder </b></font>
<br><font size=3><b>of the Muddsisters:
</b>Ceramic ocarinas and whistles</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Jessie McNally:
</b>
Mixed media sculpture</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Susan Moloney:
</b>Assemblage</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Kimberly Monaco:</b>
S/S jewelry</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Beth Nash: </b>
Acrylic,
mixed media on wood</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Michael Nekic:
</b>
Digital
photography</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Oliver:
</b>
Watercolor, graphite</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Vince Packard:</b>
Acrylic painting</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Stephen Paternite:</b>
Assemblage sculpture</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Kristopher J. Petrenko:
</b> Acrylic
Painting, painted wine boxes </font>
<br><font size=3><b>Maryann Posch & John Gulyas:</b>
S/S,Jewelry/sculpture
</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Robby Railey:
</b>
Ceramic
sculpture</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Caitlin Reniff:
</b>
Intaglio
print, mixed media, acrylic on canvas</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Martha Rotten, </b>Francene Yorko:
Cast pewter jewelry
</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Ana Louisa Sanchez:
</b>Mixed
media sculpture</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Sandy Shelenberger:
</b> Encaustic
painting</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Lorelei Skizenta:
</b>
Assemblage, mixed media</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Betty Skufca:</b>
Oil
on plexi, mixed media jewelry</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Elaine Slea:
</b> Mixed
media</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Maggie Stark:
</b>
Ceramic
sculpture, enamel on copper jewelry</font>
<br><font size=3><b>An’Angelia Thompson: </b>
Acrylic
painting, mixed media</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Andrea Thornton:
</b>
Felt, mixed media</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Gail Trunick:
</b>
Stoneware
clay, metal found object</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Judy Vierow:
</b>
Acrylic
on paper</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Michelle Walker:
</b>
Mixed media, painting</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Sarah Wojciechowski:
</b>
Printmaking: relief and etching</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Mark Yasenchack:
</b>
Ceramic mosaic, wall skulls</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Theresa Yondo:
</b>
Ceramic
sculpture</font>
<br><font size=3><b>Gadi Zamir:</b>
Wood burning,
found objects, mixed media</font>
<p><font size=3 face="Calibri">The Lakeland Fine Arts Gallery hours are
Monday-Friday, 9 a.m. - 9 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
</font>
<p><font size=3 face="Calibri">Virtual images from the show will be available
online at </font><a href=http://www.lakelandcc.edu/gallery><font size=3 face="Calibri"><u>www.lakelandcc.edu/gallery</u></font></a><font size=3 face="Calibri">
</font>
<p><font size=3 face="Calibri">Group Gallery tours are available by appointment.
For more information, call Mary Urbas at 440-525-7029, or e-mail </font><a href=mailto:murbas@lakelandcc.edu><font size=3 face="Calibri"><u>murbas@lakelandcc.edu</u></font></a><font size=3 face="Calibri">
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