SPRINGFIELD – The James S. Murray Gallery at Lincoln Land Community College presents, “All Over the Place.”
It is an exhibit by local artist and LLCC graphic design manager Greg Walbert on March 16 to April 2.
The exhibit is open weekdays, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., in the Menard Hall second floor gallery.
The public is invited at no charge.
“While it has always been known that Walbert is an accomplished graphic designer, it is through the biannual faculty art show that we discovered that his talents do not end there,” says Leslie Stalter, LLCC professor of art. “He can capture a likeness with exquisite precision in colored pencil or paint a scene on canvas in a loose expressive style.
“Walbert’s considerable range of abilities will all be on display for the public to enjoy and appreciate.”
“My journey to seeing myself as an artist has been a long one,” Walbert said. “Along the way, I took some time off. I experimented. … I had multiple itches and many things caught my attention. Each subject seemed to find a way to its own medium until there were many media and many subjects.
“Accepting and embracing my varied identity wasn’t the result of an epiphany. It took the encouraging insights of others. It took the understanding that ‘different’ is a good thing in art. My interests, my styles, my journey, my art is truly ‘all over the place.’”
Walbert has been with Lincoln Land’s Public Relations and Marketing for nine years. He has produced everything from web content and advertising to the college magazine FORWARD and Annual Report.
A Springfield native, Walbert graduated from Eastern Illinois University as a visual communications major.
