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inspired by the symbolism and

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culture of the Native people,

artist who uses a variety of mediums in her visual journey

now Gesso Magazine and it is here with its 68th edition ‘Serving Up Art, Music and Culture for the Metro Area’s Enjoyment’. The St. Louis Metro deserves its own arts and entertainment magazine.

And here it is. It’s called Gesso!!!

We are so very pleased to portray Jennifer Lynn Reida of Native Heart Studio as

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the Cherokee Nation. She has

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recently embarked on a digital

Gallery turns one year old

journey with a series of travel

this month. Due to COVID

poster artworks, featured here

restrictions which emerged in

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March of 2020, the Gallery is closed to foot traffic. And the exhibition is visible from the vast windows at 219 West Main Street in Belleville IL or by appointment.

We thank our writers for their poignant features and all those who contribute to this project. We appreciate all of those individuals who have submitted their

And our Jacque Davis

works for publication. And

“Dreaming in Color”

“Likes” to all you followers on

exhibition at Governor French

Facebook!!! We are grateful to

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you, the reader, for checking out this latest issue of Gesso Magazine – Issue #68 in the Str8Up Magazine legacy!!!

artistic and creative types out there! You should contact us.

Show us your work. Tell us of your craft and brief personal/

Like Straight Up before it, the mission of Gesso Magazine is to support local arts and artists and the businesses and organizations that support local arts and artists. We invite you to contact us with ideas, comments, information, etc. that might assist us in our mission to serve you, the residents of the St. Louis Metro area.

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Perhaps, you can be one of our

Enjoy Gesso! Tell your

next published contributors or

friends. Send us your work.

even a featured cover artist.

And visit our website at

Check out who’s featured this

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Editors: Jake Bishop, Dylan Seibert, Paul Seibert Layout Design Artists: Jake Bishop, Dylan Seibert, Mark Polege Sales: Jake Bishop, Jennifer Lynn Reida, William Schmitz, Paul Seibert, Dylan Seibert Ad Artists: Jake Bishop, Mark Polege, Dylan Seibert, Wil Sullivan Calendar: Dylan Seibert, Paul Seibert Website Design & Up-Keep: Mark Polege (MarkusDesignWorks.com), Jake Bishop Photography: Mark Polege (PhotographyofMarkPolege.com)

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Contributors Cover Artist: Jennifer Lynn Reida Cover Logo: Jake Bishop Game Page: Dank By Design Comics: Wil Sullivan Fun Page: Jake Bishop Photography/ Images: Courtesy of Kirkwood Performing Arts Center (p.10-13), Michael Anderson (p.18-19), Jennifer Lynn Reida (p.24-27), Morris E. Fletcher (p.32-33)

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Table of Contents

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10 Kirkwood Performing Arts Center Exhibition

16 Sunday Morning Game Night from Dank by Design

14 March Comics

18 That Which Colors the Mind

by Timothy E. Wagner

by Wil Sullivan

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24 Cover Artist: Jennifer Lynn Reida

34 Contributing Artists:

Jake Bishop, Paul Seibert, Zenster

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by Morris E. Fletcher

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The Kirkwood Performing Arts Center is pleased to announce The First Semi-Annual Pop Up Exhibition. Featuring 25 local artists from the Saint Louis area.

Saturday, April 24th from 10am - 4pm. The Kirkwood Performing Arts Center is located at 210 East Monroe Avenue, Kirkwood, MO.

Featured Artists:

Chris Mouser

Robin Leibovitz

Makenna Burton

Nancy Early

Nathan Adam

Candace Hyams

Kristi Ponder

Maria Ojascastro

Angela Chastener

Cathy Loos

Erin Pazderka

Emily Eastman

Goz Goose

Tai Davis

Luisa Prada

Beth Kathriner

Gray Finch

Marsha Sander

Alison Bozarth

Francine Martin

Julie Villhard

Kathy Corey

Niel Kruel

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Exhibition Coordinator: Timothy E. Wagner, MA Mixed Media Artist

www.tewagner.com

Kirkwood Performing Arts Center boasts a 525 seat Main Stage Theater, a 175 seat Black Box Theatre, two lobbies, a 2,000 square foot Event Space and 3,500 square foot Event Lawn. Onsite and adjacent parking options for 500 cars. KPAC focuses on productions, corporate gigs, holiday parties and weddings. Resident Art Organizations are anchored by STAGES St. Louis, Kirkwood Theatre Guild (KTG) and the Kirkwood Youth Theatre (KYT) program. We request that patrons continue to social distance and wear masks.

Kirkwood Performing Arts Center 210 East Monroe Avenue, Kirkwood, MO. 314-822-5813

www.facebook.com/ThePAC

https://www.kirkwoodparksandrec.org/ places-to-go/performing-arts-center

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Gesso’s monthly dose of riddles and teasers! Can you guess them all?

1. What five-letter word becomes shorter when you add two letters to it?

2. When is a door not a door?

3. What is so delicate that saying its name breaks it?

4. They come out at night without being called, and are lost in the day without being stolen. What are they?

5. What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?

6. Suproliglicatiouspenuvaliancia – how do you spell it?

7. What goes through towns and over hills but never moves?

Answers: 1.Short 2. When it is a jar 3. Silence 4. Stars 5. A Towel 6. I T (it) 7. A road

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That Which Colors The Mind Michael Anderson Painting Chosen for Cape Cod Museum of Art For National Juried Exhibit An oil painting by Belleville, IL artist Michael Anderson has been selected for inclusion in INSIGHT, a Cape Cod Museum of Art national juried exhibition, March 18-June 20, 2021.

Only 65 artworks were selected for the exhibition from 523 submissions by 272 artists from 30 states by juror Grace Hopkins, Gallery Director, Berta Walker Galleries. Hopkins notes that “As a gallery director I am regularly confronted with an aesthetic puzzle. But when you throw in the added thematic complexity of INSIGHT and the sheer number of works submitted, making a final selection was both a demanding and rewarding exercise in distillation.”

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Michael Anderson’s artwork, “That Which Colors The Mind”, is painted in saturated colors and depicts a lone figure emerging from darkness through a doorway into a brightly colored, light filled environment.

Anderson describes the image as symbolic of his own recent artistic journey in which the use of new colors has led to personal revaluation and insight.

Michael will participate in the recording of the Virtual Zoom Video Reception to be released publicly on April 2 and April 9. The INSIGHT exhibition is open to the public during regular museum hours. Founded by artists in 1981, Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA, serves its community through its outstanding art collection and diverse programming. For more information visit www.ccmoa.org

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March 2021 Belleville, IL-based artist Michael Anderson has been an artist, illustrator and designer for over 35 years and his clients hail from around the U.S. Anderson earned a BA with Honors and was a Deans College Scholar SIU Edwardsville in 1973. An awardwinning gallery artist, his works have been exhibited in numerous group and solo shows at area venues including Art Saint Louis, St. Louis Artists Guild, Third Degree Glass Factory, Green Door Gallery, Gateway East Artists Guild and Art on The Square. For further information about Michael Anderson’s artworks please visit his website at www.artworkarchive. com/profile/michael-anderson Contact Information: Michael Anderson Michael Anderson Studio 22 Howard Drive Belleville, IL 62223 Phone: 618-830-5142 Email: michaelandersonstudio@ gmail.com URL: http://www. michaelandersonstudio.com https://www.facebook.com/michael. anderson.526438 GessoMagazine.com

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Cover Artist- Jennifer Reida

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Cover Artist Jennifer Lynn Reida I am a Native American Artist who lives with MS. Through my diagnosis in 2013, I have learned to be flexible with the mediums that I use in my art. Depending on my abilities at the moment I use graphite (pencil), charcoal, paint (acrylic, watercolor), pyrography (woodburning) and most recently, digital drawing.

A yearning to travel during this Time of Covid. A need to learn and explore new cities, regions and countries. A longing for a more adventurous time.

That is what drives this new project “Vintage inspired Travel Posters”. I take suggestions from my social media, or they are places that I myself want to travel to. I try and learn a little about each location so that when someone sees the art, they feel either at home or they would love to visit.

I have 41 posters completed so far, all that can be found on Facebook and Instagram, and plan to continue creating.

www.facebook.com/nativeheartstudio

http://nativeheartstudio.com

nativeheartstudio@gmail.com

https://1-jennifer-reida.pixels.com

For more on Jennifer Lynn Reida and her Native American artwork, visit: https://issuu.com/gessomagazine/ docs/1219_december_final_color

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Gerry Ferrari Likes Stone Soup

by Morris E. Fletcher The Stone Soup Galleries, in the Chesterfield Mall, has been offering art classes, workshops and drawing events for a couple of years. In 2018 the gallery owner, Cory Lawson, decided to offer a water soluble oil painting class and she offered me the opportunity to teach the class.

Ms. Ferrari was an experienced artist with skills in water color and oil paint. She was attracted by a sign advertising a new class in water soluble oil painting utilizing materials without objectionable odor and environmentally friendly.

In the fall of 2019 I met Gerry when she joined the class and became my student.

I am fortunate to work with her on a continuing basis as she develops her skills as an artist. Between our class sessions she originates other paintings and brings them to me to review.

Ms. Ferrari has now taken the class with me three times at Stone Soup Galleries and two times at the St. Louis Artists’ Guild. She, like many of my students, take the class repeatedly because we paint together in a studio setting, critiquing the work of one another, and learning from one another. The class is conducted as a studio collaborative where we all learn from one another and become colleagues.

Geraldine Ferrari and her daughter, Jeanne, The students paint two paintings in each attended a movie at the AMC theater in the eight week class and I paint the first Chesterfield Mall before shopping in some assigned painting with them. Then we all of the shops in the mall. They entered the create a second painting of our choice in Stone Soup Galleries and experienced the the final four weeks of the class. art displayed by resident artists.

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In addition to her artistic skills and her interest in continuing to improve, Gerry has exhibited her interest in growing and enjoying life in her years where many think their opportunity to grow and learn has passed them by. It is an honor to be her friend and teacher as I paint along with the students and enter my 80th year of life. We share a desire to keep busy and enjoy learning. When a tree stops growing, it dies.

beautiful studio space in the rear of the gallery. More information and directions to enroll is available at the gallery and on the gallery website.

www.stonesoupgalleries.com

https://www.facebook.com/ StoneSoupGalleries/ Stone Soup Galleries 2004 Chesterfield Mall Chesterfield, MO63017 314-803-2085

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Jake Bishop

Being a colorblind artist has its challenges, but knowing color theory helps. By not being able to see the variations in shades of colors, my pieces are one of a kind and I can never duplicate them. It also gives them a unique look. While not photo-realistic, I strive to achieve as realistic of a look as possible. The color choices that I tend to use represent more of a Pop-Art style with bright yellows, reds, and blues. Although I mix my colors on a palette, sometimes I prefer to mix my colors directly on the canvas. This allows me to control blending from one color to the next and help with my disability. The average size of my work is around 4 to 5 feet and because of this, I can not only capture large amounts of detail, but the image itself creates a striking presence from the moment it is viewed.

The subject matter I typically work with is the human body. Every face has a story to tell. If I am not referencing a pop-culture icon, the faces I capture tend to be painted and manipulated to make them more androgynous. I find that the best story is one that is personal to the viewer and by allowing my viewers to see what they want, they create their own stories. This adds to the complexity of each of my pieces during the creation period. I tend to use found materials such as journals or documents to create an undertone that enhances the overlaying image as well as the use of heavy applications of paint to give a thick texture to the piece. Every piece that I show has been created with a specific story in mind, and signed with my version of a Bishop chess piece- not just as a reference to my own name, but as a reminder to my viewers on how to approach the viewing of my pieces.

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Paul Seibert

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Paul Seibert String Theory Given two pieces of string of identical composition, the one with the greatest diameter will be stronger.

If two balls of string are of identical diameter and one ball has string of greater diameter than the other, that ball with greater diameter string will have a lesser length of string than that of the ball with lesser diameter string. The difference in length of the string will be proportionate to the difference in diameter of the string.

A train leaves New York and travels at 60 miles per hour to San Francisco. If a length of string is extended from the front of the engine of a train to the end of the last car, the end of the string at the engine will arrive at the station first – assuming the train is traveling in a forward direction.

String cheese is neither cheese nor string.

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Search “Ian Buechele” on Spotify, iTunes and any streaming platforms to listen to Americana/ Blues songs by Ian Buechele.

Governor French Gallery Exhibition

Dreaming in Color Textile Arts by

Jacque Davis Governor French Gallery 219 West Main Street Belleville IL 62221 Due to the Covid quarantine, the Gallery is closed.

This exhibit is continued indefinitely.

“You can’t come in, but... you can see the exhibit through the windows.”

Sponsored and Curated by Gesso Magazine Regular Gallery Hours: 8am-4pm Monday through Friday or by appointment