Opening Event For Mona Ritemon Art Exhibit Happening In Davenport This Weekend
West Davenport artist Mona Ritemon will be exhibiting her latest paintings an art reception and sale at the West Davenport Arts Council gallery wall of the Metropolitan Community Church of the Quad Cities in Davenport on Sunday, September 18th from 2 to 5 pm.
Mona is both a visual and performing artist. She is well-known for her dejembe drumming for events around the Quad Cities. She has also long been a painter, and previously had her work displayed at the Arts Gallery in Rock Island.
“I began drawing in grade school. Being dyslexic and undiagnosed at the time, art was my friend, my companion, my love. But I began truly painting in my 40’s. The paintings now exhibited are my grown, Black, proud paintings and I hope you will stop by to enjoy them.”
For more information about the artist or this exhibit, please contact artist Mona Ritemon at 719.229.8752.
For more information about the West Davenport Arts Council, please contact Rev. Rich Hendricks at 563.940.9630 or by email at richdhendricks@msn.com
