October is one of our favorite months here at Open Door! We are about to make history with our first ever SUGAR HIGH Halloween event! The accompanying exhibition will be frightfully good and we just can't wait to celebrate the season with everyone! Read on to learn more about the event, get to know our featured artist Margaret, and much more!

Happy Halloween ghouls and boils!

Margaret Stromire is a natural artist. She gravitates toward watercolors because of "the way they flow on your brush." Her fluid style of depicting anything from kitties to religious icons to monsters has won her many art admirers. Some of her work is autobiographical and she occasionally includes stories or captions along with her charming illustrations. A relative newcomer to Open Door

Stuck in the Middle

Art Studio, Margaret has been interested in art since she was a teenager. No doubt being an only child encouraged her to expand her imagination. That playful side of her personality shapes everything that she makes. She is unafraid to use bright colors, bold lines and even combine kitties with paintings of Jesus. Chief among Margaret's art aspirations is to "get into a real live art show." With her talent and determination, this will no doubt become a reality.

 

The exhibition Are You Afraid of the Art? will be a collection of creepy, crawly artworks of all kinds. The opening for the show coincides with SUGAR HIGH, an annual Halloween masquerade event, that has hocus pocus, make believe, and of course, candy! Please feel free to wear a costume or Halloween-themed attire when you attend this fun event!

 

Randall Perkins' Frankenstein

What:  

Are You Afraid of the Art? exhibition

In conjunction with SUGAR HIGH, an annual Halloween masquerade event

 

When:  

Opening Reception and SUGAR HIGH  

October 13, 5-7

Exhibition runs from Sept. 29 to October 26

 

Where:

Open Door Art Studio

1050 Goodale Blvd. Grandview Heights, Ohio 43212

 

Why:

Art and candy. Need we say more?!?

 
This remarkable event is coming to Columbus for the first time due to VSA Ohio's hard work and dedication. The films are quite remarkable and will surely inspire.

Mark your calendars and buy your tickets early!!!

That all of our staff are working artists on their own time? (related: They also never sleep.)

• You can see work by Cat Lynch at Junctionview's Booby Show to benefit breast cancer treatment and research. 
• Check out the work of Sharon Dorsey as part of Junctionview Studio's Por Vida, a contemporary take on the Day of the Dead.  
• Cody Heichel, watercolorist extraordinaire, will have work on view as part of Watercolor Ohio 2012 at the Riffe Center. The show features works by 65 members of the Ohio Watercolor Society. 

For your calendars:

 

Booby Show (10/6 from 8-12 only!)  

 

Por Vida (Exhibition and event runs 10/26 - 10/28)

 

Watercolor Ohio 2012 (Exhibition runs 11/1/12 - 1/13/13, Opening Reception 11/1 from 5-7)

Cody's Where We Live will be on display at the Riffe Center downtown starting Nov. 1st!