Gallery Opening Reception: Cara Wade – Legacy; Angela Green & Jim Gabbard – Simplicity

Cara Wade is a Professor of Photography and Digital Imaging at the University of Saint Francis. She believes that all Art derives from aspects of the self, be that personal experience, reactions of the heart or the dark and light places in the mind. Everything that an artist creates can be traced back to a profound experience in their life. Cara’s photo series, Legacy, was inspired by the struggle she saw both of her grandmothers go through while struggling to retain their dignity and memory as they battled Alzheimer’s Disease.

Jim Gabbard is a Senior Lecturer at Purdue University Fort Wayne and the Director of the Garrett Museum of Art. His recent personal photographic work has been centered on the idea of finding beauty in everything around us. “I have been especially drawn to the very simple elements that I find when I slow down and look at scenes from a different perspective.

Angela Green, of Fort Wayne, Indiana, had a career as an English teacher and is currently the Gallery Coordinator / Curator at the Garrett Museum of Art. “Simplicity to me implies purity of beauty in an object or a scene. The stillness of a photo I have taken, and its subject are nuanced by the sounds and light around it.