The Warren County Public Library will host exhibits from VSA Kentucky and Tom Poole.

“In the Garden” is a selection of artwork created by children with disabilities in the Side-by-Side programs of VSA Kentucky, providing students the opportunity to work with a professional artist as their mentor. The artwork comes from Bowling Green, Louisville, Murray, and Somerset.  The exhibition theme includes subjects like flowers, butterflies, trees, small animals like rabbits and cats and children playing in the park.  The compositions are from a child’s point of view, up close observations combined with flourishes of imagination and fantasy.  The images are animated and brightly colored.  The artistic processes used to express these visions are painting in acrylics and watercolor, printmaking and mixed media.  The styles range from Realism to Abstraction and celebrate the season of growth in swirls, drips, patterns and texture.

VSA Kentucky provides arts education and inclusion programs for children and adults with disabilities throughout the state and offers an under-served population equal opportunity to explore the arts in a way that is fully accessible.  To learn more about VSA Kentucky programs visit our offices at the ArtsACCESS Gallery and Studio at 515 East 10th Avenue in downtown Bowling Green, phone number 270-781-0872 or visit our website at www.vsartsky.org.

Kentucky artist Tom Poole paints with watercolors, acrylic, oils, pastels and mixed media. Tom’s art has a strong emphasis on design and bold color.  His figural and portrait paintings are contemplative and invite the viewer to be quietly drawn into the painting. He is striving to make his art more personal.

“My art is intended to be sensual, poetic and in some way a small look into the soul,” says the artist.

The VSA Kentucky exhibit will be in the Porter Café at the Main Library.  Tom Poole’s art will be at the Bob Kirby Branch.  Both exhibits begin June 1.