Appreciate art at Batavia library

In conjunction with Batavia's sixth annual Art in Your Eye Fine Arts Show & Festival, Aug. 14-15, the Batavia Public Library is offering three art appreciation programs during late July and early August. All programs will be held at the library, 10 S. Batavia Ave. The programs are free; registration is required. For information and to register, call (630) 879-4777. Register online at www.BataviaPublicLibrary.org.

• "No Wheel Required" will be presented at 7 p.m. Thursday, July 22. Patricia Davoust, art teacher and award-winning ceramic artist, will demonstrate and discuss her use of the ancient technique of pinching and stretching clay to form pottery, with a distinctive modern approach. Her hand-built (without the use of a potter's wheel) pottery technique creates pieces with a rock-like texture that are completely unique and individual. Davoust currently is represented by Water Street Studios in Batavia.

• "Frank Lloyd Wright: An Architectural Journey from Oak Park to Taliesin" will be presented at 7 p.m. Monday, July 26. Art historian Jeff Mishur returns to the library to share his slide lecture about the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. This program addresses the period written about in the popular novel, "Loving Frank," as well as later periods in Wright's oeuvre.

•"Honor, Beauty, and Tradition" will be presented at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 4. When Christopher Columbus discovered America, he found a continent called Turtle Island by many of the 500 nations and 50 million people who lived here already. This program includes a stunning show-and-tell of art objects and ancient artifacts by the First Americans. The presenter Ann Leslie manages the River Trading Post, a Native American gallery, in East Dundee. She is adopted Lakota and Cherokee, and a Pipe Keeper.