What: Art & the Library Show 2025
Where: 103 Heard Street, Dunlap, Tennessee (Sequatchie County
Fairgrounds)

Cost: None, Free Admission
May 1 6-8pm CT, Reception (Open to Everyone)
May 2 & 3 11am-6pm CT,
May 4 noon-5pm CT

The Sequatchie County Friends of the Library sponsors the free art show. It takes place in early spring as one of the Valley Fest events.  On Thursday evening, May 1, between 6-8pm CT, the Friends will host a wonderful reception, which will be free and open to the public.  Light refreshments will be served to guests.  May 2 and 3, the hours will be 11-6, and May 4, noon-5.  All times are central.  All the days admission will be free.

“The art show location has changed this spring, and we want to be sure to get the changed location out, so no one misses it,” says Linda Johnson, Art Show Chair.  “Visitors to the show can expect to see many and varied works created by sixty or more local artists.  The range is always surprising.  We want a big turnout for the many talented artists who will be sharing their work with us.  It is a gift which gives both ways.  The artists enjoy having an opportunity to show what they have done and visitors always find the works delightful,” says Linda.

At the reception visitors can meet the artists and talk to them about their work.  Every artist has a story, and beside each work will be biographic information.  Visitors to the show can read about the artist, and how he or she became an artist, as well as see what the artist has produced.  What is best about the show is it celebrates local artists and encourages visitors to create art of their own.  Sometimes there are big surprises for visitors.  This year one work which may surprise visitors will be Steve Pickett’s Ghost Rider. Completely different from Ghost Rider, but just as compelling will be Larry Chapman’s beautiful wooden sculpture carved from Camphor Laurel.  Larry calls it Gathering
at Dawn.  The three birds depicted are graceful in flight.  He sought to give the viewer a feeling of flow and movement and achieved this.  His fine finishes make the sculpture glow.

“Also, among the works you will see this year will be a mixed media piece produced by Angela Bledsoe.  She entitles it  Bouquet of Memories. The art piece is made from vintage brooches and jewelry.  A couple of them are hers, but most belonged to her mother and grandmother.  She found a way to display and enjoy them, instead of tucking them away somewhere.  She describes her work as a three-generation art piece which brings a smile to her face each time she passes it,” says Linda.