LIFESTYLE ENCORE
Art that Rocks
Jacqueline Tafoya creates mini-masterpieces on stone
Brian Powers
BY KATIE HOUSTON
Retired school librarian and artist Jacqueline Tafoya loves to paint.
She has painted everything from furniture and cigar boxes to large murals on the exterior of her home. But lately she’s been painting rocks — nearly all day every day — in preparation for her June 3 Art Hop exhibition at the Kalamazoo State Theatre. She has painted such famous people as the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg and actress Marilyn Monroe but
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This page: Jacqueline Tafoya with some of the artwork she's created on canvas and stone. Opposite page: Tafoya makes the most of a rock's structure, such as her paintings of a Jimmy Choo shoe (top right), owls peering from a hole (bottom) and a singer (top right). Photos courtesy of Lora Branson.
has been mostly painting rock stars and musicians such as ZZ Top, the Supremes, Prince and Janis Joplin, a theme fitting for the music venue where she’ll show her art. Speaking from her cottage in Plainwell,
