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Superior Pet SNAPS
May 30, 2024, through Sept. 30, 2024
About the exhibit - The Superior Pet SNAPS exhibit is currently on display at the Superior Community Center (1500 Coalton Road). For this year’s annual SNAPS competition, the theme was “pets” and residents submitted over 160 entries and 56 were juried into the exhibit. Be sure to check out the zany, adorable, and in-action pet photos through Sept. 30!
Local artist present the Plein Air Art Exhibit
Jan. 5, 2024, through March 29, 2024
About the Exhibit - The Cultural Arts and Public Spaces Advisory Committee (CAPS) hosted the Plein Air Painting Festival last fall and the paintings created by local artists will be displayed at the Superior Community Center (SCC). Residents are invited to attend the Opening Reception at the SCC on Jan. 18 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. to enjoy light refreshments, live music and a chance to meet the artists.
Artists: Jane Elvins, Ted Garcia, Celeste Hodges, Kristal Hoeh, Elizabeth Kalika, Jeanne Mitchell, Jennie Mizrahi, Jaya Patel, Camilla Pratt, Dave Reiter, Yadira Edith Rodriguez, T. Nicolette Toussaint, Elizabeth Truskin, Dorothy Weiner, Ella West, Cathy Zheng.
"Aura" by Superior Artist Nikita Kataria
Oct. 2, 2023, through Jan. 2, 2024
About the Exhibit - "Aura" is a series of oil paintings that focus on spiritual devotion and impressions of growing up in a colorful country of rich diversity and emotionality. Superior artist Nikita Kataria enjoys painting with oil on canvas to create abstract and modern illustrations of the impressions and thoughts she has from growing up in India.
Superior SNAPS Annual Resident Photo Competition
June through September, 2023
About the Exhibit - The first annual juried photo competition for residents featuring the beauty of the Town of Superior community.
Superior Elementary Annual Art Show
March through May, 2023
About the Exhibit - An exhibit of drawings and paintings by K-5 students from Superior Elementary School students.
Plein Air
January through March, 2023
About the Exhibit - The finished paintings from the fall 2022 Plein Air Festival at Purple Park.
Artists: Kate Byther, Jamie Byther, Jane Elvins, Ted Garcia, Mary Giacomini, Celeste Hodges, Kristal Hoeh, Haley Knowles, Kira Law, Jeanne Mitchell, Dave Reiter, Tania Rouser, John Speaker, Adria Vaughan, Alex Wicks, Cathy Zheng.
A Lens on Superior’s Past
September through December, 2022
About the Exhibit - Presented by the Superior Historical Commission, the exhibit at the Superior Community Center is a collection of black and white reproduction photographs depicting life in Superior during the coal mining era. Miners, families and a small handful of businesses thrived in the area now referred to as Original Town.
Plein Air
April through August, 2022About the Exhibit - The finished paintings from the fall 2021 Plein Air Festival at Purple Park.
Artists: Jody Faught, Ted Garcia, Jana Hanavan, Kristal Melody Hoeh, Jeanne Hougen, Haley Knowles, Jennie Mizrahi, James Reeves, Dave Reiter, Jeanne Mitchell, Nicolette Toussaint, Jodee Whitehead, Joy Wolf
History in the Making: Snapshots of Superior
July, 2021, through March, 2022
About the Exhibit - Residents were invited to apply to participate in an historic photography project that encapsulated the experience of the Covid-19 pandemic by collecting stories and photographs of Superior residents. Roughly 25 photos were displayed at the Superior Community Center while all 80 from the project were published in a book.