Francisco's Gallery is sponsored by
Woodford Reserve
This year's theme:

Art Goes Green

This year's Gallery, in the Anne Hart Raymond Center on campus,
features artists who create using recycled/repurposed materials and found objects.
Some are also exhibiting outdoors, and a few are exclusive to the Gallery.

Just a few are featured here ~ click any image to enlarge ~

You'll have to come to the Festival to discover them all.

Cynthia Carr

Cynthia Carr (left) earned her MFA in Ceramics at Tulane over thirty years ago. Since then she has continually pushed the envelope, incorporating her ceramic designs with metals and found objects.
We profiled Cynthia in one of our newsletters before last year's festival. Read more....

Gretchen Papka
Gretchen Papka (right) creates fabulous collages in encaustic painting, mixed media, and found objects. Her work is inspired by "bold architecture, textured walls, utilitarian objects, and beauty". Visit Gretchen's website for a preview. (Exclusive to the Gallery)

Kathleen O'Brien

 Kathleen O'Brien (left) finds her inspiration in Nature. Within her mixed media collages you will often find flower petals, feathers, bird nests, or pieces of older paintings revisited. Enjoy a virtual visit to Kathleen's studio. (Exclusive to the Gallery) Kotah Moon
Kotah Moon (right) creates every piece of art with 100% recycled or reclaimed metals - which can be "as common as a 55 gallon drum lid or as obscure as the hood from a 1929 model A Ford." Enjoy!
Ray Papka Raymond Papka (left) has had a life-long love of wood, metal and discarded items. There's no predicting what you'll find within his altered books - piano keys, rusted springs, old forks, buttons, anything that catches his eye and sparks his incredible imagination. Ray's website Staci McKnight Maney
Staci McKnight Maney (right) uses recycled book pages as the substrate on her canvases, with found objects and fiber. She then applies multiple layers of acrylic washes. The silhouettes are altered images of her original photos. Visit Staci's cybergallery
Revisit this page next month for more......