A Rare Treat: Rondo Residents Rose and Melvin Smith are Unity’s Featured Artists in November11/10/2023 By Paul Rogne, Unity Church Art Team On Friday, November 10, from 5:00-7:30 p.m., an open reception will be held at Unity Church where visitors can view the art and meet the artists. Light refreshments will be served. The Unity Church Art Team is pleased to open an exhibition of paintings by nationally known Rondo artists, Rose and Melvin Smith in Unity’s Parish Hall. The show is the culmination of a journey that began in 2021 when Unity's Art Team sought out the esteemed artists and longtime Rondo neighborhood residents, hoping to purchase one of their art works. After a tour of Unity’s permanent art collection, they agreed to sell one of Rose’s paintings, an image of a woman whom she met in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. That painting now hangs in the Center Room. The Art Team and Unity Church were doubly privileged when the Smith’s consented to a full exhibition of their latest paintings, which have never before been shown.
The Smith’s paintings have been featured at galleries in New York City, Chicago, Oklahoma, and at Minneapolis’s Weisman Museum. The new works include a series of paintings by Rose depicting flowers arranged in the style of Ikibana, the art of Japanese flower arrangement. Melvin’s works are colorful collages inspired by the classical American dance form, the Jitterbug.
The exhibition will be on view in Unity’s Parish Hall through November 2023.
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