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must be completed by Nov 1, 2024.Linda Tafolla hopes the exhibits she curates at the Commerce Pointe Gallery
in downtown Battle Creek will draw more people inside the building to see
what it has to offer. Here, she talks to visitors about her new show, “25 Years
- A Retrospective”. (Shopper News photo by Shelly Kehrle-Sulser)
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Ken Campbell of Kalamazoo and
Rhonda McEnroe Hocking, now of
Kentucky, to name a few.
“She was the very first artist I
worked with doing an exhibit,” said
Tafolla of McEnroe. “The other art-
ist that’s a really big focus in this
particular exhibit is Nora Choppa
Mendoza of Detroit. She recently
won the Kresge Foundation Eminent
Artist Award. She’s 93 years old
and she was nice enough to put four
pieces of her artwork in the show.”
The exhibit features watercolors,
acrylics, oils and photographs, fea-
turing everything from still life flow-
ers to portraits to landscapes to even
an iguana.
Subjects depict a variety of cul-
tures, too.
Mendoza’s work, for example, is
Latino-related, said Tafolla.
“It usually has a theme like dealing
with immigration or more or less a
religious, spiritual aspect. “Her’s is
mixed media, acrylic, oil on canvas.
She uses all media, really.”
She is hosting an opening recep-
tion Friday, Oct. 18, 4-7 p.m. and the
“fiesta style” celebration exhibit will
continue through January.
Many of the artists on exhibit plan
to attend and refreshments will be
offered.
Tafolla said the exhibit means a lot
to her due to her 25-years of commit-
ment to the gallery.
“Nobody’s really doing anything
quite like it,” she said. “Because,
they have to rent a building or a
space and I’m lucky that I have the
owners supporting me by saying, ‘as
long as you put art on the wall, you
can have a small office.’”
The building owners in the begin-
ning were Bob Cook and Bob Diehl,
she said.
“Now, they sold it with the idea
that he had to do the same thing for
me,” she said, “that he wasn’t going
to be able to get rid of that office.
Bottom line, it’s so small, nobody
wanted it. So, I’m fortunate to have
had that kind of support.”
Tafolla hasn’t talked to some of
these artists in years or months but
when she asked them to participate,
they all said “yes.”
“So, I’m very grateful and I’m just
excited that I’m able to pull this off,”
she said. “Let’s see what happens.”
One of her hopes is that schools
bring their art and photography stu-
dents to the show.
“I think it would be really great if
a school would say, ‘we’ve got this
small class of art students who are
interested in learning more,’” she
said. “Come by.”
For more information, Tafolla can
be reached at ltafolla4312@gmail.
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