Holland’s 6-by-6 art show is up through Dec. 23, at $40 a piece

HOLLAND — About 200 small works are on the wall at the Holland Area Arts Council after a Thursday opening, and each one is priced at $40, with the entire price going to the council’s programs.

The council’s exhibition page says the 6×6 show runs Nov. 5 through Dec. 23 in the Armstrong Gallery. The opening reception was 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursday. Annual members and ceramics-studio members could come in at 4:30. The pieces are 6 inches by 6 inches, in painting, drawing, collage, mixed media, and other forms. People who bought one Thursday could take it home that night. What is left stays up during regular hours through Dec. 23.

The council said more than 200 people in town took a blank panel. Admission to look is free during open hours. The building is at 150 E. 8th St. The phone is 616-396-3278. Hours on the same page are Monday 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Friday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Where the $40 goes

The council’s event listing says 100 percent of sales support its programs. That is the reason a 6-inch square has a posted price at all. It is not a gallery commission split. The same listing calls the show the second annual 6×6 exhibit and ties it to an “Evening of Gratitude” on Thursday from 4:30 to 7 p.m., which was also the unveiling.

A separate show, the Holly Palmer Memorial FOTOG competition, is scheduled in the Padnos Gallery from Nov. 19 through Jan. 15. It is not part of the 6×6 sale. The building closes for Thanksgiving Nov. 26-28 and from Dec. 24 through Jan. 1, the hours page says.

The photograph is the street, not the gallery

The picture is the Eighth Street historic district in 2010. The arts council’s address is on East Eighth, inside that downtown, but the photo is not labeled as 150 E. 8th and should not be read as the Armstrong Gallery. Anyone going for a $40 square should use the council’s hours, not the picture.

The show is the second annual version, which means last year’s leftovers are not this wall. Each panel was a blank the council handed out. What sold Thursday is already gone. What is still there is the inventory through Dec. 23, and the council’s page is the one that will say if the gallery hours change for the holiday closure already printed: Thanksgiving, Nov. 26-28, and Dec. 24 through Jan. 1.

Sources:
Holland Area Arts Council exhibitions page (6×6 dates, $40, 100 percent of sales, reception, hours), https://hollandarts.org/exhibitions
Holland Area Arts Council events page (Evening of Gratitude, member early entry), https://hollandarts.org/events
Photo: Andrew Jameson, “Holland Downtown Historic District D.JPG”, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AHolland_Downtown_Historic_District_D.JPG

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