Atchison Art Association

If you've ever wanted to see George Seurat's famous masterpiece "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" but never found the time to go to Chicago, you're in luck. From April 22 - May 21 as part of the Sister Helen Student Arts Awards Exhibit, the Muchnic Gallery will have on display a life size (8' x 10') replica done by Bert Nash School Art students and their Instructor Mike Farrell.  Bert Nash is in 409 school district and is the on campus school for the Atchison Juvenile Correctional Facility. 

Mr. Farrell and his students have been working on the picture for about two years.  "This has been a long term project.  We've been working on it for quite a while.  Some of the original students who started the picture have gotten out and have gone home,"Mr. Farrell said.  "It's been a rewarding project.  The students learned how to enlarge a picture to mural size and they increased their sense of color and value and even were exposed to a little Art History."
 

The original hangs in the Museum of the Art Institute of Chicago.  It was started by French artist George Seurat in 1884 and finished in 1886.  It was done in a style called Pointillism.  Pointillism is a technique where color is put on in dots instead of traditional brushstrokes.
 

The Muchnic Gallery is open Wednesdays from 10-5 and Saturday and Sunday from 1-5. For further information contact the Executive Director of the Atchison Art Association, Gloria Davis at 913-367-4278 or atchart@ponyexpress.net.