“Seven Women With A Brush” Gallery Exhibit

“Seven Women With A Brush” Gallery Exhibit The exhibit "Seven Women with a Brush" by local Siouxland artist from the Sioux City Art Center will open June 7 at the Betty Strong Encounter. The paintings will be on display through July. Seven women artists who have been students in Glenda Drennen’s watercolor classes for a number of years were poised for another series of classes at the Sioux City Art Center when COVID-19 broke out. The classes were cancelled, but it did not take long for one of the students to suggest meeting face-to-face on Messenger twice weekly, and their collaboration began. The women’s group is now known as “Seven Women with a Brush”. All of the paintings displayed in the Betty Strong Gallery June 7-July 31 are from the watercolor artists: Paula Crandell, Jeanne Emmons, Carol Ratcliff, Lynn Nordsiden, Glenda Drennen, Sharon Hobart, and Mary Jo Kvidera. The Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center and adjoining Betty Strong Encounter Center comprises a private, non-profit cultural complex built and sustained by Missouri River Historical Development, Inc. (MRHD).