Algonquin artist’s work part of ‘Art in Action’ display

Submitted by Jeanine Hill-Soldner

“Art in Action: Passport to Creativity” featuring Algonquin artist Jeanine Hill-Soldner will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, March 1, at Lakeside Legacy Arts Park, 401 Country Club Road, Crystal Lake.

Art in Action features visual and performing resident artists with studios located in the historic Creative Art Center, adjoining the Historic Dole Mansion. Visitors will receive a passport to carry throughout the building while visiting the studios on every floor and interacting with the artists. With each stop on the tour visitors will receive a stamp in the passport. A completed passport entitles visitors to a free gift from Lakeside. The public is invited to meet the artists, enjoy artist demonstrations, learn about classes, purchase or commission original art, while enjoying art, live music, a cash bar and snacks.

Resident artist Hill-Soldner will demonstrate portrait painting with a live model seated in the Sage gallery during the event. She creates colorful paintings and drawings that depict the everyday world specializing in portraits and figure oil paintings. She has exhibited her original art in regional and national museums and galleries for the past 30 years including the Rockford Art Museum, and she is the first woman with a solo show at the GE Corporate Fine Art Gallery in Fairfield, Conn.

Hill-Soldner, an educator with a masters of art in art education from the University of Illinois, has many years of teaching experience to all ages. The artist is founder of Portraits of American Veterans Project. Soldner Fine Art Studio is a spacious working studio where the artist creates original paintings, drawings, hosts drawing and painting lessons, workshops and demos. Original art is for sale and commissions are welcome.

For details, call (224) 522-4068 , email to jeanine@soldnerfineart.com or visit [URL]www.soldnerfineart.com;http://www.soldnerfineart.com[URL]. [/URL]