Letter to the Editor

Area art guild needs support

Monday, February 18, 2013

To the Editor:

The Owen County Art Guild will very soon be celebrating its 50th anniversary, Feb. 18, 2013.

This is a momentous milestone for the Owen County Art Guild and a somewhat sad one, due to the fact that most all of our early archival history has been destroyed in many floods, especially the flood of 2008.

We are making a very passionate plea to anyone who may have any historical items of the Owen County Art Guild, including pictures, stories, paintings, books or newspaper articles, obituaries, even the smallest bit of information on the early days of the art guild, that began in 1963, to please share with us or with the most generosity, donate these items to the Owen County Art Guild so we can start to rebuild our history.

There is a very great and fine history of the art guild, its founders and past members that is remembered in just a very few minds of today.

This great history most certainly would have a considerable amount of documented evidence of its founding, exhibits, meetings and fundraising efforts. All of this, and anything in relationship to the art guild, would help us to rebuild our history.

Any of this would be extremely welcome and most appreciated and a tremendous boost to all past and present members.

This rebuilding of a very important part of Spencer, Owen County, an archive to be extremely proud of books, articles, stories, paintings, of the great beginning of this 50-year-old establishment, all the way to the present, what a way to begin the second half of our century with our archives full of our own great history.

Photo copies can be made if truly needed. Please call the Owen County Art Guild at 812-829-1877, or mail it to the Art Guild, 199 W. Cooper St., Spencer, Ind., 47460.

Better yet, bring it into the art guild yourself. Have a look around and chat for awhile.

See what the Owen County Art Guild is all about. Observe the paintings of its founders and members of the past and present, the jewelry, sculptures, pottery that are now within the walls of the newly painted building, the little yellow and black trimmed building at the corner of West Cooper and South West streets. It is a site to behold and memory to treasure that must be shared with all.

We do thank you all very much for your very kind and generous responses of donations of our historical past. Only you can help us rebuild the archives of the Owen County Art Guild.

With your help, we can build a very great and magnificent historical archive one piece at a time, one we can all be proud of forever.

George Thurston, Relocation Administrator,

Owen County Art Guild