Cultural Arts Center--Mozley House

Shared Visions: The Art of Judy and Ken Callaway

PRESS RELEASE:

March 25, 2008

For immediate release:
Through April 27, 2008                                         For more information:
Laura Lieberman 770/949-2787
  



An Exhibition of Drawings, Paintings & Photographs
                                                                                          

“SHARED VISIONS: JUDY AND KEN CALLAWAY” AT CAC -- An Exhibition of Drawings, Paintings& Photographs

Douglasville, Georgia – The Cultural Arts Council of Douglasville/Douglas County presents drawings, paintings and collages by Judy Coward Callaway and photographs by her husband Ken Callaway in its April exhibition at the Cultural Arts Center in downtown Douglasville. The exhibition opens April 3rd and will be on view through April 27th. Hosted by the Women’s Council of Realtors – West Georgia Chapter, the reception will be held on Thursday, April 3rd, from 6 until 8 p.m. The gallery talk and tour, led by the exhibiting artists, is scheduled for Sunday, April 20th, from 3 until 5 p.m. Both events are free and open to the public.

A dedicated teacher who has taught art at Douglas County High School since 1987, Judy Coward Callaway earned her Bachelors of Fine Arts degree from Atlanta College of Art and received her Masters of Fine Arts degree from the University of Georgia. She has been the Fine Arts Chair at Douglas County High School for the past four years and served as the National Honor Society sponsor since 1989. Recently voted the High School Teacher of the Year for 2007-2008, Ms. Callaway was also named High School Teacher of the Year and Douglas County High School Teacher of the Year in 1995. In addition to teaching at Douglas County High School, she is an adjunct faculty member at Mercer University where she teaches a variety of arts education, art history and arts appreciation courses. Her work has been exhibited in the Virgin Islands and Oregon as well as extensively in Atlanta and Athens, Georgia. She was represented by Fay Gold Gallery from 1980-1986. Her work was awarded the Purchase Prize of the 2006 National Juried Exhibition at the Cultural Arts Center, and last summer she worked as a teaching artist at the Alice Hawthorne Center in Jessie Davis Park through an arts enrichment initiative sponsored by the Cultural Arts Council.

“I want students to experience the excitement that the study of art offers. I am thrilled when students tell me time and time again that they didn’t care anything for art when they signed up for my class, but learned to appreciate it in spite of themselves, and see the world with new eyes,” comments Judy Callaway. “I love turning people on to art, as art has been a source of great joy to me since I was a child.” Of her own art, she states, “I am drawn to linear works, although not to straight hard lines, but to ovals and organic lines, which are everywhere found in nature. I want to interpret visually how it feels to grow and change, not from the outside, but from the inside.”

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