Visual Arts
Watercolor is my passion! It’s exciting, unpredictable, spontaneous, and intuitive. My yellow lab, Sophie, and I frequently visit Tawawa Park in Sidney for its beauty and serenity. This inspires me to paint!
Todd graduated from the University of Charleston in 1978 with a degree in Fine arts. This Columbus, Ohio artist creates soft pastel paintings of dreamy landscapes that reflect his fascination with peace and solitude. He explores the relationship between imagination and reality, using color to define shapes and create the illusion of depth. The results are colorful pastel paintings with a mystical quality.
Hal graduated from Western Kentucky University in 1980, earning his BFA in printmaking. He then moved to New York City, earning his Master of Fine Art in Printmaking from the esteemed Pratt Institute in 1982. Hal is a Professor of Fine Art and Director of the Hercum Art Gallery at Wilmington College in Wilmington, Ohio.
Hal Shunk’s artwork combines spontaneous action and control. As he creates, he allows one action to play off another, with the result often becoming a unique combination of decisive strokes and interesting mishaps, balanced to form the colorful, masterfully blended works he is known for.
Sara Bertsch brings her beautiful artwork into the gallery.
Behr is a native of Sidney and a fine artist doing business as Mirror Image Creations. He received his degree from the Dayton Art Institute with further studies at the University of Dayton and Wright State University. His teaching background includes the Dayton Art Institute, University of Dayton art activities program, Edison Community College, Upper Valley JVS, Spencerville and Lehman High schools, and Dayton City Schools gifted students program.
The Smile Lines Project is a living art exhibition created in response to combating suicide within our current U.S. service personnel and veterans. It is a platform to celebrate the resiliency of the human spirit, the healing power of a mentor, and the fierceness in a smile.
Zach Walton is an artist living in Lima, Ohio, and a member of the Gateway Arts Council board of trustees. His works are inspired and informed by the people he meets, literature, hikes, and even strolls through the impressionist and modern wings of art museums.
Zach has been exploring dry-erase markers as a medium for ephemeral art. As a meditation on our ephemeral nature as human beings, he works to create swirling landscapes, portraits, and other images on dry-erase boards, only to erase them upon their completion. He has been exploring this medium in other forms, using sharpies on glass over a white background to create smaller images.
Zach grew up in the Dayton area, attending many art gallery openings in the Oregon District throughout his teenage years. He was mentored by his mother, the working artist Lesley Walton.
Join us for a exciting exhibit featuring the art of 6 artists from generation XY and Z.
Spring Fling
March 2025
Opening Reception March 2025
Welcome to Gateway Arts Council’s twenty-fourth annual Spring Fling Fine Arts Competition and Exhibit. The Fine Arts Competition has been the area’s premier art show for over two decades. Fine artists throughout Ohio and Indiana are invited to enter their work in this competition.
Yellow
Second Annual Youth Art Exhibit
Children ages 2 to 19 create a piece of art that represents something to do with Yellow. It can be yellow things, the absence of yellow, or just contain the color yellow. The art can be a painting, sculpture, mosaic, drawing, or other genres. If the work of art is a painting, drawing, or other media, it will need to be on an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper. Frames will be provided. Up to three pieces of art will be accepted. First, second, and third-place awards will be given in each category.
Entry forms are available by calling 937-498-2787