Local artist Laura Pommier featured at Jasper Arts Center

Local Jasper artist Laura Pommier is the featured artist at the Jasper Arts Center’s Krempp Gallery for the month of May.

Pommier’s oil paintings and pastels consist of pieces presented for her most recent thesis exhibition with the addition of several new paintings created this year.

The subjects in Pommier’s paintings are figurative, informed by her interests of figure skating, sewing and reading. Additional imagery is inspired by her immediate surroundings and travel destinations.

“The way I present my ideas read like pages torn from a novel, where the story continues beyond the parameters of the painting,” Pommier said. “Hence the characters are often not contained resulting in sudden moves and unexplained exits.”

After living and working for over 20 years in Dubois County, Pommier decided to return to school in 2012 to pursue a Master of Arts Degree in Studio Art at Indiana State University.  She also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from Murray State University.

Join us at the Jasper Arts Center for our monthly FiRST THURSDAY opening reception at the Krempp Gallery on Thursday, May 7th, 2015 from 5:00- 7:00 pm.  Enjoy an evening of art, food, cash wine bar and fun! Artist, Laura Pommier will attend to give a brief gallery talk. This is a free, family friendly evening out.

The Krempp Gallery, located in the Jasper Arts Center adjacent to the VUJC campus, is open to the public Monday through Friday from 8:30 am to 5 pm, until 7 pm on Thursdays, and Sunday from noon to 3 pm.   School groups, clubs, and students are welcome. Admission is free.

For more information, please call the Arts Center at 812-482-3070.  The Jasper Arts Center is managed by the Jasper Community Arts Commission, a department of the City of Jasper.  The JCAC is supported by the Friends of the Arts, Inc., the Indiana Arts Commission through its regional partner the Vanderburg Community Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.