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Video Recording of Smallidge Lecture featuring Entrekin, Leclaire, Mccoy, Osmon & Spolans

Buckham Gallery is pleased to present the 7th Annual Smallidge Lecture. This event was held November 2, 2024 at Buckham Gallery. This year’s guest speakers are Donovan Entrekin, Michele Leclaire, Janice McCoy, Matthew Osmon, and Brian Spolans. Their group exhibition, Tickle Me was on view at Buckham Gallery October 4 - November 2, 2024.

​Five artists come together for the first show of Buckham Gallery’s 41st Season in Tickle Me. What started out as a joke, combining the first letter of each last name in alphabetical order to spell E. L. M. O. S., turned around to become “Tickle Me” a very suggestive title referring to the works which spark intrigue. Donovan Entrekin, Michele Leclaire, Janice McCoy, Matthew Osmon, and Brian Spolans all ask more from their works than visual interpretation. They create images and narrative to explore the shadows which tend to avert our eyes, the unsettling whether physical or emotional, the collective unconscious, and frequently with a little humor. They invite, or respectfully request,  the viewers to be tickled through experiencing this collection of large and small, 2D and 3D artworks in the mediums of drawing, mixed media, painting, printmaking, and sculpture.
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This annual event is funded by the Smallidge Fund For The Arts. The Smallidge Family Fund for the Arts was established in 2015 to honor the memory of Bernice and Dave Smallidge and their passion for the arts and the arts community in the Flint area. This perpetual restricted fund is maintained by the continual donations of family members and friends. The endowment funds The Annual Smallidge Family Lecture, a yearly arts-related talk hosted by Buckham Gallery.

Donations to the Smallidge Fund for the Arts are tax-deductible.