The Holiday Gift Bazaar is loaded with a variety of great handmade items: Earrings of every color, glistening diochroic glass pendants; hand dyed silk scarves, hand printed holiday cards, and so much more! Spiva is open Sunday, 1-5pm. Come by to see the Membership Show and then mosey up to the 2nd floor Bazaar. New things come in the door every day!

Top Row, left to right:
Jeff Youngblood: Change the World (detail), oil on panel original, $150
Connie Knudtson: Sunrise, Sunset carnelian necklace, $35
Joan Allen: Birdhouse (detail), painted wood, $25

Middle Row, left to right:
Rachel Badeau: Lady Wing pin, scrimshaw technique on resin, $45
Rick Spicer: Cardinal head walking stick (detail), $60
Lis McCool: Gourdgeous Georgetta (detail), handpainted gourd, $90

Bottom Row, left to right:
Joel Nakamura: Thunderbird Suite (detail), Painted Pony 2E/6405, $45
Daria Claiborne, Mug, $15
Dan McWilliams: Pool Time (detail), oil on panel original, framed, $100

If you didn't pick up a copy of Andy Thomas's wonderful book "The Artful Journey" during his show at Spiva, we still have a few signed copies! A great gift for art lovers, Civil War buffs, and fans of Andy.

And if you 'd like to have a unique original work by John Fitzgibbon, check out the two cypress knee Santas, hand painted by John. The 11" version (shown below) is $75; the 21" Santa, $150.

For seascape lovers, Theresa Rankin's original oil on canvas "Coastal" is a beauty....framed and ready to hang on the wall!

Spiva Center for the Arts is located at Third and Wall in downtown Joplin. Free parking on southside of building off Wall. Spiva galleries and gift shop are open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m. and Sundays, 1–5 p.m. Admission to the Main Gallery is by voluntary contribution. Suggested donations are $2 for adults, $1 for students. For additional information, please call 417.623.0183.

OPEN THIS WEEK: TH, FR, SAT 10am-5pm
(Closed Sunday, Monday, Dec 24, 25)

George A. Spiva Center for the Arts
222 W. 3rd Street
Joplin, Mo 64801
Tel: 417-623-0183
Fax: 417-623-3805
www.spivaarts.org