The Wetherbee House

12/08/2024

Today is the last day of Indigo Gallery’s artist bazaar, TINSEL. We will be open 12-6pm featuring the work of several artists. We probably have something for everyone including door prizes. Come shop with us.

12/03/2024

Euphus Ruth, a photographer who practices antiquarian processes (and co-owner of Indigo Gallery) will have work for TINSEL. All photographs in the absinthe room (described as that for the shade of green) will be offered at 30% off during the holidays.
Here is a statement:
"Euphus Ruth grew up in Bruce Mississippi. After college in Memphis, he settled in the Mississippi Delta town of Greenville where he worked for a public utility. His interest in photography started as a teenager. Now retired, Ruth is a full-time photographer. He practices collodion and film photography using large and ultra-large format vintage cameras and lenses."

12/03/2024

Indigo Gallery’s TINSEL holiday show will be here December 7 and 8 and you won’t want to miss the chance to shop with our creative makers and artists. Each day we’ll feature an artist. Here is Yolande van Heerden (this will be her second year at the gallery):

“Yolande van Heerden has a vivid imagination, loving art and making stuff as far back as she can remember. Luck led her to Greenwood, MS in 2011 where she embraces and spreads creative play in her personal process and classes centered around sewing and other multimedia projects. A native of South Africa, she forever celebrates her homeland’s cultural diversity through unstoppable community outreach and joy.

She has worked as an artist in residence at ArtPlace Mississippi and has coordinated multiple community-wide quilting projects for organizations including the Museum of the Mississippi Delta. She currently serves as Art Director for the Boys and Girls Clubs of the Mississippi Delta.”

12/03/2024

Ann Laird Jones is a special person who is effervescent, creative, and contributes much to Greenville. She will have pottery for TINSEL ARTISTS Bazaar--functional and beautiful for yourself or as a gift.
" Ann Laird Jones is a potter, musician and Presbyterian minister (stated supply pastor at Sumner Presbyterian Church). She has just finished 31 years as the arts ministry director at Montreat Conference Center, near Asheville NC. She regularly commutes between Montreat and Greenville, MS, where she enjoys life with her husband Mike Caulfield and dog Clovis and cat LK (Little Kitty). She loves making pots that are both functional (great for oatmeal, warm soup, crispy salads and luscious ice cream) and comfortable to hold in your hands again and again."

12/03/2024

Katie Virden Johnston, Greenville native, is a painter and ceramic artist. She will have her work in TINSEL at the Indigo Gallery inside the Wetherbee House, Greenville, Mississippi December 7 & 8, 12-6pm. Here is her Artist Statement:
"I create because of an insatiable desire to do so. As long as I can recall, there has been within me a profound love of color, wildlife and the outdoors.
During my process of actualizing an idea to canvas, I am driven to authentically present my subject with its unique characteristics and details intact. That being said, I also find an irrepressible need to infuse: the work with powerful strokes of abstract color for the purpose of inviting the viewer to indulge in a closer, more intimate look at the subject in a way that is markedly different from what might be discerned when viewing a "traditional" photograph or realistic artwork. When one looks closely at an elk, there likely are no colors such as cerulean blue or bright orange. It is in such a moment ,I impart my feeling of the energy of that space. It is the job of an artist to share distinctive visions and perspectives with the viewer and this drives me as a primary objective during creation. As a longtime educator, I experience moments of inspiration when viewing, teaching and discussing the works of others as well as solving creative problems. During lively discussions on the subject of how various artists have mastered their unique skills and crafted recognizable styles when forming their works, I have been rewarded by the joy of personally discovering "fuel for my forge" as well as a desire to venture forth in new directions. For the past four years, that direction has been towards the medium of clay. I love training myself to create beautiful and practical forms, while also adding my personal style though detailed and colorful paint. I strive to be a lifelong learner myself through experimentation in my craft. It is through this process I hope to inspire someone else with my work serving as a catalyst for them and as curiosity leads to the evocation of tangible form the creative cycle perpetually manifests.”

12/03/2024

We have held Everett McCourt's photography show over for a few more days so his work will be available during TINSEL (December 7 and 8, 12N-6PM). He would like to offer 30% off for each photograph sold---good time to consider a purchase of Greenville history!

"Everett McCourt was born in 1957 and grew up in Greenville, in Washington County, the heart of the Mississippi Delta. He attended Greenville public schools and Interlochen Arts Academy where he studied both music and photography. After being awarded scholarships to State University of New York at Purchase in Westchester County and Memphis Arts Academy for merits in photography as well as from Kodak for his award winning photography portfolio, he then undertook extensive travel from Europe through Asia before settling in New York City with periodic residencies in Europe from 1978-2021.
In earlier years McCourt was a staff photographer at the Delta Democrat Times and later The New York Times, Rome, Italian bureau. His work has appeared in Vogue, Town and Country, Saveur, among other publications and was featured in group and one-man shows in New York, U.S.A.and Europe and can also be found in international private collections and museums.
Photographs in this exhibition were shot with Pentax, Leica and Mamiya cameras. All work is printed to archival specifications."

12/03/2024

If you are not already familiar with Robin Whitfield, artist and environmentalist from Grenada, here is a good introduction to her life's work. Come meet Robin at TINSEL on December 7 and 8 (she will be at the gallery midafternoon Saturday due to a prior commitment).
"Robin Whitfield is a Mississippi artist whose mission is to connect to nature and help others do the same. Her creative work begins with observations of nature in rivers, swamps and forests. Her paintings are poetic explorations of visual and ecological relationships. Robin works on paper with traditional watercolors or directly with foraged plant & mineral pigments.
Robin graduated from Delta State University in 1996 with a BFA in painting. She gives creative workshops and exhibits her work where art, nature and conservation overlap. In 2018 she founded the non-profit Friends of Chakchiuma Swamp to manage and interpret Lee Tartt Nature Preserve located near her downtown studio. She is currently serving as executive director.
Robin Whitfield lives and works from her studio in Grenada, Mississippi. www.robinwhitfield.com" .

12/03/2024

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11/20/2024

Beginning this evening and for the next two weeks, the Indigo Gallery will be featuring one of our Tinsel Bazaar artists.
Meet Doug Caulfield!

"Born in North Carolina and raised in Mississippi, Douglas Caulfield comes from a long line of potters. Both his mother as well as his Grandmother are and were both potters, and instilled in him a love of the arts but particularly pottery. He was brought up in the Sally Jones Pottery in Montreat, North Carolina; a community studio started by his Grandmother and run by his mother since, coincidentally, the year he was born. However, it wasn’t until he began taking ceramics classes at the University of Mississippi that he began his deep dive into the clay. Since then he has studied at Ole Miss as well as the University of North Carolina Asheville. His work is primarily functional and atmospheric (a process where material is introduced mid firing to impart an effect on the surface of the pots) fired, typically wood fired or soda fired. In 2020 he moved to North Carolina full time to assist a potter, Preston Tolber, from Statesville build three wood kilns in the Western North Carolina region as well as making and sending work to several galleries including the Companion Gallery in Jackson, Tennessee and Clay Space Co-op gallery in Asheville, North Carolina. Currently Doug lives and works in Marion, North Carolina."

10/09/2024