Associated Artists Gallery closing, New ones opening

Photographer Bob Hageman and Dick Lawson try to explain why Associated Artists Gallery is closing in January: as the Southern Illinoisan reports: "[It] voted itself out of existence at its December meeting. . . .The gallery was formed in 1983 as the Carbondale Artists Cooperative . . . located on South Illinois Avenue next to the Kaleidoscope gift shop. . . ," but never recovered from the move to The Island, where it became more of gift shop.

". . . [A]rtists . . . intend to go on with their work and find new venues - maybe even a new association and new gallery -- including a symbiotic relationship . . . between Southern Illinois wineries and Southern Illinois artists."