Please Don't Quote Me PART II - Way down on the levee the paddle wheelers anchored on the sloping beach near the cobblestone ramp, the steam organ playing the most current rag and the much-loved polkas. The music drew passengers, prospective gamblers, travelers going West, town residents the curious.
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Reception Planned ay 321 Gallery
The artwork of Terri Milburn will go on display at the 321 Art Gallery in Savanna beginning Saturday evening, October 3rd, from 6 to 8 pm. A catered reception will be sponsored by the Artist's Cooperative of Savanna and is open to the public at no charge. The exhibit will remain until Wednesday, November 11. Milburn is an award-winning artist and former gallery owner who taught at Rock Valley College, Rockford IL for 15 years before moving to Savanna where she is now employed at Facemakers. She currently exhibits her work in community fairs and art shows in and around Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin and continues to teach art in workshops and seminars sponsored by the ACS, the Clinton Art Association and the Palisades Art League. She also works privately with individual students. Born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, at sixteen, Terri entered the Hyde Park Art Show there; a competition for adults in which she won First Prize and Best of Show. Convinced she had chosen the right career track, she then studied Fine Art at Edgecliff College and Commercial Art at the Academy of Communications in that city. She also worked for a time as a floral arranger for Doyle Fern Florists, as her art work continued to receive acknowledgement in the form of many prize ribbons and awards. Moving to Illinois in the mid eighties, she held membership in Rockford's Left Bank organization and the Rockford Art Guild and was also active in the Rockford Art Council, ?Milburn was a featured artist in the Dec.1991 issue of the AMERICAN ARTIST MAGAZINE, and while she owned Milburn's Gallery in Belvedere, IL, she was the 1988, 1989, 1994, and 1999 winner of the Boone County Lincoln Award. She also served as a board member on the Boone County Arts Council. In 2001 she won the Boone County Heritage Award.?Milburn has long been an advocate of trying something new. She urges her students to "think outside the box"; to experiment in order to know whether a new technique is something they can use to advance their own abilities. "Tradition is a very good thing," she said, "but artists must be open to new developments and changes in order to take advantage of the broader opportunities that science is giving us. "As technology so swiftly pushes us forward, artists dance to a faster beat to stay abreast or ahead of the current computer age. This challenge is opening many new doors for today's artists. We are discovering new ways to use age-old media to express our ideas. Yet there are so many doors to be opened that it's hard to even be aware of all of them. "This exhibit of my work represents a return to a more playful phase in my own development. Although I am including a few pieces of my more traditional work to give this show a beginning and help you follow my ride through new doors, I am exploring new surfaces and playing with light, color, and texture. I hope it will inspire you as an individual to stretch some boundaries, too" Along with Milburn's latest works, the gallery also presents a full range of unique and hand-crafted items from wood-workings, jewelry, greeting cards, stained glass, knitted and crocheted work, pottery, sculptured pieces, beadwork, quiltings, blown glass and Savanna souvenirs. Open hours at the Gallery are 10 am to 4 pm on Wednesday through Saturday and on Sunday from 1 to 4 pm.
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