Routes to Art Reception
Saturday, April 18 2009 6-8 PM
By Gerlind Dubey

Meet the artist and share their excitement at a world class reception at the Regina A. Quick Center next Saturday April 18 from 6-8 PM. The exhibition which runs through May 11, gives visitors the opportunity to preview the art works of the 42 artists involved in the 2009 Routes to Art Weekend.
Open to the public, this year’s reception/ exhibit promises to hold a stirring combination of mixed mediums. From the latest digital photo renditions, traditional photography, pottery, sculpture, gem stone jewelry and contemporary, innovative oils watercolor and acrylic canvases to cultural related art works that express the Native American heritage of the Seneca Nation. The reception will also feature a performance by the Allegany River Dancers.

Several local area artists will be on display, including professional artist’s water color artist Barbara Fox, and impressionistic oil painter and teacher Todd Plough, Stained Glass designer Karen Fitzpatrick, oil and watercolor artist Marcie Hazard, and oils and acrylic canvases by Gerlind Dubey.
The Quick Center for the Arts is home to the F. Donald Kenney Museum. The museum will stay open the night of the reception to afford visitors a viewing of the fabulous permanent collection.
Free and open to the pubic, the permanent collection in this world class museum consists of approximately 1800 works of art from across a wide span of history. The collection includes paintings from Venetian Renaissance artists Giovanni Bellini and Bernardino Licinio to our selection of 17th century Dutch art featuring a portrait from the workshop of Rembrandt, and paintings by Ferdinand Bol, Jan Victoors, and Jan Wynants. Important works by Thomas Lawrence, Peter Frederick Rothermel, Theodore Robinson, William Bliss Baker, Edward Burne-Jones, Ernest Lawson, and Ludwig von Langenmantel, to name just a few, are also displayed. In addition, the Center exhibits the University’s impressive collection of non-Western art. These objects include six Japanese wooden Nio guardian figures, a bronze Thai Buddha, several Chinese export porcelain vases, along with dozens of smaller wood, ivory, and jade carvings from China and Japan.
Current exhibitions include Land and Spirit Re-visited- through June 14, 2009

A reprise of the 2003-04 Quick Center exhibition, this provides a fresh look at the Edward S. Curtis photographs of native Americans with the addition of photographs taken one hundred years later:  Art of Sky, Art of Earth- Maya Cosmic Imagery through June 14, 2009 …Featuring the Quick Center’s collection of ancient Maya pottery, this exhibition will explore the world of the Maya, their art, culture and civilization.; African Odyssey- through June 14, 2009 - bringing together the art and material culture of Africa, . The exhibition is organized by The Quick Center in cooperation with the Museum of Anthropology at Wake Forest University.

Opening on April 25 through August 17, 2009, is the third part of 150 Years of St. Bonaventure University… Celebrating the University’s sesquicentennial anniversary, the Quick Center along with the University Archives will present three different exhibitions over the course of the year. All three exhibitions will feature a variety of photographs, writings and artifacts from St. Bonaventure University’s first 150 years