We are excited to announce September’s Third Friday Presentation:

An Engaging Talk with Exhibiting Artist, Mickey Paraskevas

We welcome you to join us at The Reboli Center on the evening of Friday, September 15th, 2023, from 6:30pm - 8:00pm for an engaging and informative talk with exhibiting artist, Mickey Paraskevas. Light refreshments and light snacks will be served at this free event. No reservations are required to attend, seating will be first come, first serve. Doors will open no earlier than 6pm.

Join us on Friday, September 15th, 2023

6:30pm-8:00pm

“…The main bulk of my work over the past 12 years has been digital, whether it was for a children’s book or development for an animated series. As much as I enjoyed all the books and development art and character designs that I generated over the years, I missed the physical act of painting. I painted here and there but I really missed the day to day feeling of paint on a brush. I missed getting up every morning and simply applying paint to paper or canvas.

 I was now burned out working on the iPad… I have always kept sketchbooks of ideas. And sometimes I would look at something I drew and thought..well, I don’t really want to take the time to paint this idea 5 x5 feet. But if it was small… I could at least get it out of my system.

 So, on January 1 of 2022 I took a small 8x8 hardboard canvas, a panel, and I started a project, that at first, was going to last a month. A painting a day for a month. I thought to myself. That’s a nice goal. I’d have 31 small paintings by the end of the month. And all landscape paintings from my sketchbooks from Iowa. But it wasn’t long into January that I decided that I might be able to keep this up for a year and by the end of 2022 I would have 365 paintings. I would have an exhibit somewhere in 2023.”

- Mickey Paraskevas

Paraskevas’ work will be on exhibition at The Reboli Center from August 29th through November 5th, 2023. To learn more, please visit our events page by clicking here!