The Art Center is opening a new exhibition devoted to small paintings this week.  It is called the Small Works Invitational.  It has been an annual event in February for longer than Marti Christman, director of The Art Center, said she can remember, and it has been one of the most popular of the center’s  exhibitions.

There are 21 artists from around the area contributing works this year.  Almost all of them have exhibited in The Art Center before, with several, including Manuel Franco, Johnna Luther, Cherine Marie Custer, Keith McCabe, Devery Burch, and others, having had solo shows.  Kelly Pennington, a noted landscape painter from Guymon, Oklahoma is a newcomer.  Her only other exhibition in the Panhandle was last year when she was one of 40 artists selected to participate in the Amarillo Museum of Art 20 X 20 Exhibition and Online Auction.