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First Thursday to display art around downtown Muncie
Star Press
MUNCIE, Ind. March s First Thursday gallery walk in downtown Muncie will be 5-8 p.m. Thursday, March 4.
Cornerstone Center for the Arts, 520 E. Main St., will have an opening reception for Fire an Art Exhibition by Scott Livingston, on display in the Judith Barnes Memorial Gallery on the second floor. In his debut exhibit, local artist Livingston shares what remains of his abstract pieces after they ve been engulfed in flames. The opening reception will be 5-8 p.m. Thursday. The exhibit will remain on display until March 26. A virtual gallery will be available on the Cornerstone Center for the Arts website during this time. This event is free and open to the public, but visitors are asked to follow social distancing guidelines and wear masks.
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Tom Heatherly is the Muncie Artists Guild’s featured artist for March 2021. Heatherly worked at Muncie Community Schools for more than two decades before retiring in 2011. Since then, he has been pursuing his passion for oil painting.
He has won several awards for his paintings in the past 10 years, including the People s Choice Award at the 2019 Muncie Artists Guild’s Annual Show.
Heatherly prefers to paint people, landscapes and buildings. His wartime experience also influences his artwork. Heatherly is a Vietnam War Army veteran who served in the 25th Infantry Division and the 101st Airborne Division 1970-71. He has created several paintings of soldiers in action from this time period. One of these paintings is on permanent display in the Yorktown American Legion.