Lemont Artists Guild

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View our April 2022-7th Virtual Member Showing!

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We have so much talent in our guild, and many mediums and styles.   

Thank you to the members who could send your work to be shown! 

UPCOMING PROGRAM

Art & Science  presented  by Richard Lee  

Wednesday, May 11, 2022 at 7:00 pm  

IN PERSON at  Homer Township Public Library: 14320 W. 151st Street  Homer Glen, IL 60491,  708-301-7908  

REGISTER AT: https://www.homerlibrary.org/rich-lee   

Note: You MUST register if you are going to attend this program as the attendance will be limited to 30 people, so please register only if you plan to attend. This meeting is IN PERSON and will not be streamed on Zoom, we will try our best to record it for later viewing.        

• On May 11, 2022, in partnership with the Homer Township Public Library, the Lemont Artists Guild is pleased to present, at the library, Richard Lee, who will talk about his artistic images which were created as a result of his career and interest in microscopy, and how this merged with his love of photography to create compelling artwork that draws the viewer into a whole different world of scientific beauty.  Richard has a passion for taking pictures using a microscope and believes his love of photography stems from his father and grandfather who worked in the town that Richard is from, Rochester, NY.  His father and grandfather worked for Eastman Kodak Company, one of the leading photography companies in the United States.  After high school, Richard went to the Milwaukee School of Engineering to study Metallurgy and was introduced to photographing polished metal samples.  After that he was hired by Argonne National Laboratory (Lemont, IL) and he worked on reactor fuel cladding for several years in which he found that using polarized light was a useful method to determine the structure of zirconium fuel cladding which resulted in surprising colors and fine details.  In 1979, he won 2nd place in a photography contest using his new 35 mm Nikon camera and he continued to enter yearly contests, some of which resulted in prize money and even a 2 week paid vacation to the historic Williamsburg, VA and also Washington, D.C.  He had a winning photo in 1990, which was his “Fish” crystal that was made by evaporating a solution onto a glass slide.  His experiences at Argonne led him to learn on a scanning electron microscope (sem) and he even had the opportunity for several trips to visit JEOL in Massachusetts which is a company that is the leading global supplier of electron microscopes, ion beam instruments, mass spectrometers and NMR spectrometers.  A whole new world opened up to him as he worked with specialized materials like making diamond coatings and could study various subjects like pollen, bug eyes, and defects in materials.  
• After his division at Argonne (Tribology) was ended, he was hired by British Petroleum (BP) in Naperville, IL and he worked in their microscopy labs for nine years.  Richard also had an opportunity to help identify pigments to determine historical time lines in Myan Murals.  Richard has photographed many places as well including historic Lemont, Waterfall Glen Forest Preserve (located in DuPage County between Lemont & Darien, IL and also near Argonne), and New Mexico and Montreal (Canada). Richard attributes the importance of using microscopes to Louis Pasteur who was a French chemist and microbiologist and pioneer of using the microscope which led to Pasteur’s findings of many life-saving discoveries only to name a couple here-the process of pasteurization and saving women from disease that caused them to die in childbirth.  
• Richard says what he enjoys most with microscopes is showing students the discoveries of what is possible with microscopes and how we can all appreciate the potential that microscopes have for scientific discovery.  Richard is a Lemont Artists Guild member and has had several exhibits at the Lemont Center for the Arts and the Lemont Library and he hopes to find a home at Argonne for many of his framed artworks perhaps decorating their halls or meeting rooms someday.  
• We hope you can attend this program which is free and open to the public! Note: You MUST register if you are going to attend this program as the attendance will be limited to 30 people, so please register only if you plan to attend. This meeting is IN PERSON and will not be streamed on Zoom, we will try our best to record it for later viewing.  

Mark your calendars for the 2nd Wednesdays in 2021-2022, our Programs are announced as we add them.

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Lemont Center for the Arts 

"Celebration of Life" Memorial Open House for Emily J. B. Christian  on 

Thursday, April 28, 2022 from 4 pm to 7:30 pm

Remarks remembering Emily will begin at 6:00 at the  

Lemont Center for the Arts - 1243 State Street Lemont, IL 60439 - (630) 243-7375

(located in Lemont Village Square that is just South of 127th Street and is on the East side of State St, in the first unit (south) of the Aldi grocery store. 

There will be light refreshments, a toast or two to Emily, a place to write your thoughts and memories, and moments to share them.  

Parking is free. Hope you can attend!  

Thank you to the Lemont Center for the Arts-Lemont Art and Culture Commission for hosting this tribute to Emily.** 

**Check out a beautiful tribute video to Emily at www.artlemont.org or www.facebook.com/LemontCenterForTheArts 

LCA Current exhibit:

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Alliance of Fine Art (AFA) 2022 Student Scholarship Competition Exhibit Information:

Visit the AFA's website to see the winners and student work!

https://www.allianceoffineart.org/index.html

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