Donna Tucker, November Artist-of-Month

The Ouachita River Art Gallery’s featured artist for November is Donna Lenamon Tucker of Monroe. She is a native of Louisiana, having grown up in Delhi, and is a long time resident of Monroe. Donna has been a member of The Ouachita River Art Gallery since 1995. Her paintings have been exhibited in museums, galleries and national shows. Donna is an intuitive and instinctive painter who enjoys creating paintings with lots of colork. She enjoys just letting the paint flow. Her style of painting ranges from abstract realism to nonobjective. This show, 2010 Overview: Mixed Media, is composed mostly of mixed water media and collage.
Donna says her goal is to share her love of art and color, through free expression, with the public.

Don Holloway, October Artist-of-the-Month

The featured artist for October at Ouachita River Art Gallery is Don R. Holloway of Monroe, Louisiana. Don specializes in crystalline glazed porcelain ware and has devoted himself to this very challenging and precise ceramic medium since 1978. No two pieces of crystalline porcelain are ever exactly alike and long hours of research and firing often result in only a 50% success rate. There are less than fifty full-time crystalline potters in the world today who produce nothing but crystalline ware. Don wrote and published the first text book on this medium, “The Art And Craft Of Crystals”, which is now in its’ fourth printing. He founded the International Symposium Of Crystalling Artists in 1982 and publishes the group’s newsletter. Holloway’s crystalline pieces are in collections both here and abroad. He participates in many regional exhibitions and shows around the USA and has won “best of show” and “sold out” status in many states. Besides studio work under renowned teachers, Don received his art degree from NLU (now ULM) in Monroe and did his graduate work there. He opened his own pottery studio, “Crosscraft Originals” in 1982 in Monroe. He teaches three workshops a year and also teaches basic pottery to beginners. He is also a dealer for pottery supplies and equipment.