Charlotte Opperman chairs art show Art Show

Staff Report
The chairman for Artists Guild Unlimited 53rd Annual Judged Art Show, in conjunction with the 81st Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival, is Charlotte Cronier Opperman. The art show housed in Everett Street Gallery in downtown Morgan City, opens Wednesday, Aug. 31, and closes Saturday, Sept. 24.
Opperman began taking art lessons in1976 when her sister, Alice Gibson, encouraged her to try acrylics. Over many years she studied under Gibson in many media. She worked in pencil, pen and ink, oils, pastels, watercolors as well as acrylics. Janet Robinson has also been her teacher and mentor for her studies in pastels in recent years.
Opperman has also taken workshops in watercolors with Keith Andry, Judi Betts, Edgar A. Whitney, Janice Sachse and Kathy Stone; oils with Don Wright and Carol Hallock; and pastels with Sandra Burshell. Opperman has entered and placed in many local art competitions, including the Gonzales Jambalaya Festival, the Acadian Art Show at the Iberville Parish Library, the Terrebonne Fine Arts Guild and the Artists Guild Unlimited Art Show during the Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival.
Improving her skills in pastels is Opperman’s current artistic passion.
Artists may register to enter the show at Everett Street Gallery, 201 Everett St., Morgan City, 1-4 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 1-7 p.m. Friday and 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday.
AGU President Helene Allen is co-chair of the show. Cash prizes and ribbons are awarded in categories: Oils, Acrylics, Water Media, Pastels, Mixed Media, All Other; and Photography, Black and White, Color, and All Other, (including mechanically altered). Adults, Teens, and Children I, (2-6) and II, 7-12 are the divisions.
For more information call 985-395-5885 or 384-5551, or email charopp@cox.net.