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24 Thursday, October 10, 2024 BATTLE CREEK SHOPPER NEWS http://www.thebattlecreekshopper.com

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SHELLY KEHRLE-SULSER

Executive Editor

It was her career in video produc-

tion that led Texas native Linda

Tafolla to Battle Creek in 1992 and

it’s her love for the visual arts that

led her to Commerce Pointe where

she has been the volunteer gallery

curator since 1999.

Now, she’s celebrating by invit-

ing the public to the downtown

building across Michigan Avenue

from Cafe Rica (corner of Michigan

and Division) to enjoy a retrospec-

tive art show called “25 Years...A

Retrospective” complete with works

from artists who have exhibited there

over the past two and a half decades.

“I’m hoping that with this 25 year

anniversary art exhibit event, that it

will bring people to the understand-

ing that that building is there for

them to come and explore the art

that’s there,” she said. “They don’t

have to buy anything, they can just

Linda Tafolla has gathered art from nearly everyone who ever exhibited at

the Commerce Pointe Gallery in downtown Battle Creek since she began

curating the exhibits there 25 years ago for a special show called “25 Years

• A Retrospecitive.” There will be an opening reception Friday, Oct. 18, 4-7
  p.m. (Shopper News photo by Shelly Kehrle-Sulser)

Linda Tafolla celebrates 25

years at the Commerce Pointe

Gallery with special exhibit

come and appreciate what’s there.”

The building is open daily from

8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through

Friday.

It not only houses the gallery

exhibits but several business offices

as well.

“The fun thing about it is, if you

go in the front door,” she said, “the

doors open automatically, it’s like

‘Open Sesame!’ but they don’t know

that until they explore it.”

The exhibit features works from

25 different artists from around the

country who have exhibited there

in the past including many from

Battle Creek like Xenia Rose Shafer,

Coco Sweezy, Fausto Fernandez and

Tafolla herself.

Also featured are works from

Lori Feldpausch, formerly from

Marshall but now from Traverse

City, James Palmer from Kalamazoo,

See EXHIBIT on 25

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