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Featured Artist: Ronnie Jaggers Ronnie Jaggers was born in 1951 in Edmonson County. After spending some of her youth in the northeast she returned home and then relocated to Warren County to raise her six children. “I love Bowling Green and thought it was a great place to raise a family” she said. A love of art was instilled in Ronnie early on by her aunts, particularly her aunt Lucy who taught her to crochet. For years Ronnie made her living as a graphic designer in the screen printing business and continued to enjoy craft making in her spare time. In 1996 Ronnie’s wall paintings were featured in the Amplifier and she began working with the publication to spotlight other artists. After just a couple of months with the Amplifier Ronnie opted to quit her full-time job to sell ads part time and dedicate more time to her artwork. She continues to both wrote and sell ads for the Amplifier today. Ronnie soon discovered that sculpting was the art she most enjoyed. Her first sculpture was an elephant she created as a fountain in concrete which she named Lucy. A picture of Lucy became the logo of her art business which she named Chiseled Features Studio. In the late 90’s Ronnie began creating original sculptures for Mo Money Mold Company in Cave City and concrete fountains and yard art created from those mold can be seen around the area. Over the last five years Ronnie has also been working with paper mache to create beautiful pinatas for the Bowling Green International Festival. Each year she makes a dozen pinatas and directs children at the festival in bursting them each hour throughout the day. She has also designed and built floats for the festival and similar figures for other parades. In 2006 she created a series of masks to sell at the festival and to be on display during the Bowling Green International Festival Gallery Walk. Her masks were exhibited in the Capitol Arts Center and one was donated to the auction for the festival in the Presbyterian Church. Ronnie has contributed art to other organizations and events and her piece “Window on the World” was purchased by the Presbyterian Church during the Windows on Preservation. In her spare time Ronnie also learned to make beaded jewelry and create floral designs for weddings and other occasions. Each year she teaches several classes for Community Education passing on her techniques to her eager students. Flower saddles is one of her most popular classes. Her most recent classes have been workshops on polymer clay Christmas ornaments. This holiday season Ronnie has dedicated most of her time in creating a wide variety of ornaments with the brightly colored clay. Many of her ornaments are personalized with the names of her client’s children and grandchildren. She also creates custom ornaments based on her customer’s ideas. Custom ornaments also include likenesses of family pets. You can see more of her artwork on her website at http://www.Chiseled-Features.com which is currently being updated with a store for purchasing her pieces. For more information you can email Ronnie at ronnie@chiseled-features.com or call her at 270-791-3505. |
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By Alicia Carmichael, acarmichael@bgdailynews.com -- 270-783-3234 |
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| Photo by Miranda Pederson/Daily News Savannah Lowe, 10, of Bowling Green swats at a pinata filled with toys and candy at Greenwood Skate Center on Sept. 10. The event promoted Saturday's International Festival at Fountain Square Park. |
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Annual event kicking off with parade, continuing with plenty of percussion Thursday, September 23, 2004 When the Bowling Green International Festival kicks off with a parade at 9 a.m. Saturday, the International Festival float will glide down College Street topped by a moving dragon, a Honduran who takes his hat off and puts it back on, a dancing Arab, a drumming African and a Geisha, who will be bowing. Bowling Green artist Ronnie Jaggers designed the float, complete with the animatronic figures, through the Chiseled-Features Studio she operates with Jean Arnold. She and others have been working on it for three months I do this to bring the peoples of the world together, Jaggers said. Its a little thing I can do. This weekend will mark the 15th year the International Festival has been held in Fountain Square Park to celebrate the growing international population in Bowling Green. Last years festival was named one of the top 10 festivals in the state by the Kentucky Tourism Council. Festival Executive Director Kim Mason said vendors estimated an attendance of about 13,000 last year. This years festival has been dubbed Year of the Drum. I think that people of all ages will enjoy the (open) multicultural drum circles, Mason said. Anybody that wants to can bring a drum into the circle and drum. Drums, rain sticks and rhythm sticks will be available for children to use at no charge at a childrens activities tent, Mason said. Adults must bring their own drums. But if youre not in the mood to play drums or to listen to amateurs playing together there are several professional drumming groups on the festival schedule, including the Batimbo Drummers of Burundi, who play East African drums. In addition, there will be lots of other music, including a concert by Mandorico, which has a style described as Afro-Cuban/hip-hop/Latin/punk. Theyre a melting pot-band, Mason said. Theyre not traditional like most of our acts. Theyre (about) mohawks and tattoos and jumping up and down. Other acts performing at the festival include Bosnian pop artist Armin Hasanagic, the Scott-Ellis School of Irish Dance, La Luz del Mundo Hispanic Dance, the Argentine Tango Society, Japanese dancers, East-West Kung Fu, the Deep Grooves Steel Drum Band and Sons of Thunder, a Celtic pipe-and-drum band. The performances will follow the festivals opening ceremony and awards presentation at 10 a.m. on the Heritage Stage on Park Row. The opening ceremony will follow the parade, which will begin at 9 a.m. at the SKyPAC parking lot on College Street and will continue past Fountain Square Park. Throughout the day, vendors will feature international wares and food for sale. Also, many booths will feature free workshops, displays and demonstrations by people of different cultures. The following stages will feature performances: Heritage Stage on Park Row with emcee Tony Lindsey 11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Argentine Tango Society of Nashville Noon to 12:30 p.m. Open Multicultural Drum Circle for the public 12:40 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Batimbo Drummers of Burundi 1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Mandorico 2:45 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. Scott-Ellis School of Irish Dance 4 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. La Luz del Mundo Hispanic Dance 4:45 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. Deep Grooves Steel Drum Band 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. Mandorico Diversity Stage on Main Street with emcee Joe Marshall 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mystic Meditations (reggae) 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Deep Grooves Steel Drum Band 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Armin Hasanagic 3:05 p.m. to 3:20 p.m. Western Kentucky University Korean Student Association (Korean drums) 3:25 p.m. to 4 p.m. Open Multicultural Drum Circle for the public 4:05 p.m. to 4:25 p.m. Nadia Deleon (Latin dances and salsa lesson) 4:30 p.m. to 4:45 p.m. WKU international students (various cultural performances) 5 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Batimbo Drummers of Burundi 5:45 p.m. to 7 p.m. Mystic Meditations Global Performance Area in the parking lot off the square with emcee Martha Madison and DJs from Prolific Productions 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Scott-Ellis School of Irish Dance Noon to 12:30 p.m. Wah Lum Kung Fu & Tai Chi 12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Cincinnati-Dayton Taiko (Japanese drums) 2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Argentine Tango Society of Nashville 3 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. East-West Kung Fu 3:35 to 4:05 Japanese dancers 4:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. Cincinnati-Dayton Taiko 5:20 p.m. to 5:50 p.m. McNeill Elementary School (African drumming) 6 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Sons of Thunder 6:35 p.m. to 7 p.m. Open Multicultural Drum Circle for the public World State in Fountain Square Park with emcee Armin Hasanagic 11 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Small World Singers (traditional Bosnian music) 11:40 a.m. to 12:10 p.m. Alvaton Elementary School (American patriotic and folk music) 12:20 p.m. to 12:50 p.m. La Luz del Mundo Hispanic Dancers 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Lost River (Celtic ballads) 2:10 p.m. to 2:40 p.m. Regional Resource Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (signing) 2:50 p.m. to 3:20 p.m. Dance Arts of Bowling Green (Scandinavian dance) 3:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Indian dancers 4:10 p.m. to 4:40 p.m. Liberian dancers 4:50 p.m. to 7 p.m. Various cultural performances Fountain Square Park ongoing performances and workshops at booths AMA Bolivia (music of the Andes) Argentine Tango Society of Nashville (culture and dance) Batimbo Drummers of Burundi (east African drums demonstrations and workshops) Chiseled-Features Studio (sculpture display and pinata making and bursting workshops) David Owens (country parson funeral dirges and Protestant songs) East-West Kung Fu Academy (martial arts demonstrations and display) High Cross Society (Celtic culture demonstrations and display) Joe Marshall (southern Depression-era storytelling) The Lotus Dancers (Arabic dance demonstrations, lesson and display lessons are at 11:15 a.m. and 3:30 p.m.) Mustafa Abdul-Aleem (African and South American drum workshops) Prolific Productions (DJ music of the world) Society for Creative Anachronism (Middle Ages display and demonstrations fighting demonstrations will be at 11:55 a.m. and 4:10 p.m.) Wah Lum Kung Fu & Tai Chi (martial arts demonstrations featuring Sifu Leroy Kautz) Willie Rascoe (woodworking display and workshop) For more information, call Mason at 796-2777, visit the festivals information booth on State Street during the festival, or visit the International Festival Web site at www.bginternationalfest.com. Daily News ·813 College St. ·PO Box 90012 ·Bowling Green, KY ·42102 ·270-781-1700 |
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'Windows' art to be auctioned off at Ellis Place By Alicia Carmichael, acarmichael@bgdailynews.com -- 270-783-3234 The window-themed art pieces decorating the lawns and lobbies of historic properties throughout Bowling Green wont be around much longer. At 6:30 p.m. Friday, the works will be auctioned off at Ellis Place at 700 State St. The auction will be preceded by a 5 p.m. reception featuring appetizers and live music by classical guitarist Tom Shinness of Nashville Tickets are $25 at the door. Some of the proceeds will benefit the artists who took part in Bowling Greens first open-air, public art installation, Windows On Preservation, which kicked off last month during National Preservation Week. Artist Ronnie Jaggers, whose metal, stained glass and blown glass work is in front of The Presbyterian Church on State Street, is excited. There has been such wonderful support ... Ive had people call me up and tell me they saw my piece, she said. Im already thinking I have nothing to wear (to the auction). Windows on Preservation was produced by the Bowling Green-Warren County Historic Preservation Board and local artist Andee Rudloff, with assistance from Bellewood Presbyterian Home for Children, Landmark Association and local art lover Kari McCloud. Both Landmark and Bellewood will also receive some of the proceeds from Fridays auction. Landmark President Eileen Starr thinks the public will enjoy the auction, which will be conducted by state auctioneering champion and Re/Max auctioneer Steve Cherry. Local artists created the window-related pieces to bring awareness to historic preservation here. We have art in so many places outside, (and) it has generated a lot of interest in art as well as historic preservation, Starr said. After Fridays auction, the Landmark Association, which works to promote historic preservation here, will hold its annual meeting at Ellis Place. During the meeting, Landmark will present the following historic preservation awards, and a surprise award, to the following local residents: General House Award Dick and Lori Davidson for Beechmont on Old Richardsville Road Sheila Steele for the telephone exchange on North Main Street in Smiths Grove Gary and Deborah West for Farnsworth House on Chestnut Street April Pearson for Gaines House on State Street Jeff Samuels and Benedict Bossut for Jesse House on East 10th Avenue Steel Wool Award (Also called an Attaboy Award, given for an unfinished project) John and Alisa Carmichael for The Castle on College Street Jean Thomason Historic Home Award Tami Meredith for the Alexander Graham House on Plum Springs Road Jane Morningstar Award of Merit Ed Faye for Galvin House on East 10th Avenue Landmark Building Award David and Sharon Dahle for William Cooke House, which is now Victorian Inn on North Main Street in Smiths Grove State Street Baptist Church on State Street Daily News ·813 College St. ·PO Box 90012 ·Bowling Green, KY ·42102 ·270-781-1700 |
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Spotlighted Artist: Ronnie Jamiolokowski by Ronnie Jaggers Our feature artist of the month is Ronnie Jamiolkowski Jaggers. |
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