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Art exhibition featuring three area artists to open Saturday at Weirton Area Museum
WEIRTON -- Defining Voices, an art exhibition featuring the paintings of Dale Biesecker, Bob Dombrowski and Jaci Rice, will open at 1 p.m. on Saturday at the Weirton Area Museum and Cultural Center, located at 3149 Main St.
The event is open to the public in accordance with Gov. Jim Justice's updated "West Virginia Strong --The Comeback" guidelines, and all social distancing protocols will be observed. Admission is free, and light refreshments will be served.
The exhibition, which will run through July 17, brings together three distinct but complementary creative voices from the region in Biesesker, a Follansbee resident; Dombrowski, who is based in St. Clairsville; and Rice, a 2020 Tamarack Foundation Emerging Artist Fellow who lives and paints in Weirton.
Biesecker is an active member of the Top of WV Arts Council and a member and trustee of the Steubenville Art Association. His work has been exhibited at Weirton's Summit Gallery, Historic Fort Steuben, Music and Art at Oak Glen, Weirton Medical Center and the Mary H. Weir and Swaney Memorial libraries.
He has participated in numerous area art competitions, including the "Weirton -- Forged in Steel," the Steubenville Art Association spring and fall shows and New Cumberland Riverfest. He also has developed a following for commissioned work, including landscapes and portraits of homes, people, pets and collector cars.
Biesecker's work can be seen and purchased either on his Facebook page, @dales.orig.art or on his website at dalebiesecker.com.
Dombrowski, who was born and raised in eEastern Ohio, lived in Los Angeles and New York City for 30 years before returning to St. Clairsville. He received a bacehlor's degree in fine arts at Ohio University, then continued his studies at Parsons School of Design and the School of Visual Arts. A skilled colorist who vividly expresses form, light and emotion, Dombrowski's illustrations and paintings, with their vibrant palettes and rich textures, have been commissioned by major advertising and design agencies, national magazines and publishing houses. His list of clients includes Random House, St. Martin's Press, Little Brown, Dell, AT&T, New York Magazine, Harcourt-Brace, Family Circle and Out Magazine. In addition to his editorial illustration and fine art, Dombrowski's decorative murals and trompe l'oeil works have been commissioned for residences and corporate spaces throughout the country.
Rice is a member of this year's Tamarack Foundation for the Arts Emerging Artist Fellowship cohort as well as a stay-at-home mother to three. For the past 10 years, she has been living in the Weirton area with her husband, a Weirton native. She holds a bachelor's degree in fine arts in painting/drawing from Tyler School of Art, part of Temple University, in Philadelphia. As a transplant to the Ohio Valley region, she said she has been "afforded an opportunity to see the area's beauty with eyes not accustomed to it."
Her artistic career's focus started out purely figurative. However, in recent years, she has been inspired by the area's dramatic sky and landscapes intermingled with ghostly and active industrial spaces. She exhibits this work under the hashtag #rustbeltbeauty.
The Weirton Area Museum Cultural Center works to preserve Weirton's history and culture for future generations. To learn about exhibitions and public programs, follow WAMCC on Facebook at "Weirton Area Museum & Cultural Center."
Blessing Boxes distribution scheduled for Saturday
WEIRTON -- Blessing Boxes of food will be given out to Brooke and Hancock County families from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday at the Weirton Salvation Army, located at 794 Cove Road.
A W.Va. ID is required.
WMC Auxiliary Gift Shop
now open on weekdays
WEIRTON -- The Auxiliary Gift Shop at Weirton Medical Center is now open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Mondays through Fridays.
For now, the gift shop will not open on Saturday and Sunday.
The WMC executive board was to meet in the Starvaggi Board Room.