The Geneseo Christmas Walk brought in a great number of young people to decorate cardboard gingerbread people. It was a hopping time at the gallery!

CLASSES! We will be hosting a Chinese Brush Painting class on Saturday, February 17, 2024, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Class size is limited to 8 students; cost is $10.00 and supplies will be provided.

Call the gallery at (309)944-4994 to register; class will be held weather permitting.

Sample of Joyce Mattan oil pastel landscape.

Sometimes we just need to MAKE the time to do art and express ourselves.

This would be a Great Time to do art ! From left, Deb Beyerlein, Les Hoste and Elaine Hofman.

Members, clockwise from top left, Elaine Hofman, Mary Copersmet, Joyce Mattan, Sharon Michaelsen, Lexi Gordon and Les Hoste on a gallery studio day.

Our members have decades of practical experience in the fine arts. It is important to share our experience, knowledge and skills with others and we always learn from them too. You don't know what you can create until you try. We want to encourage all to make art.

Jamie Sullivan with an art student and member Les Hoste ready to help dry paintings at the September 26 class.

Want to support the arts? Enjoy working with other artists? Join our nonprofit side, RutabagA, the Heart of Regional Art, NFP! Stop by the gallery and ask a member for further details.

Here's a sampling of the community enrichments our members have been involved in over the years.

Sponsoring a regional judged art competition, the Maple City Fine Arts Exhibit, for 35 years and now starting our own, the Geneseo Fine Art Exhibit, begun in 2023.
Partnering with civic groups to provide low- and no-cost instruction for children.
Leading art projects for life enrichment at area senior care facilities.
Teaching art for local home-schooling families.
Teaching classical fine art techniques.
Bringing nationally-known instructors to teach in Geneseo.
Painting community murals.
Giving time to area causes, such as Dress For Success, Henry County Humane Society, Braveheart Childrens' Advocacy Center, the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, and others.