Out & About: Greensburg library exhibit depicts 'Storms and Saints'

Shirley McMarlin
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Westmoreland County Community College art department co-chair Kathy Dlugos (left), featured artist Stephanie Oplinger of Hempfield and artist Pamela Cooper of Greensburg at the opening of Oplinger’s print exhibit, “Storms and Saints,” on Aug. 4 at Greensburg Hempfield Area Library.

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Westmoreland County Community College art gallery co-coordinator Christine Kocevar (left) of Irwin with James Kuhns and artist Sarah Hunter of Greensburg at the opening of “Storms and Saints,” a print exhibit by Stephanie Oplinger of Hempfield, on Aug. 4 at Greensburg Hempfield Area Library.

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Touchstone Center for Crafts Executive Director Lindsay Ketterer Gates and Doug Meads, both of Ohiopyle, at the opening of “Storms and Saints, “ a print exhibit by Stephanie Oplinger of Hempfield, on Aug. 4 at Greensburg Hempfield Area Library.”

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Greensburg Art Center members Shirleah Kelly (left), Marcy Koynok and Pat Majcher at the opening of “Storms and Saints,” a print exhibit\ by Stephanie Oplinger of Hempfield, on Aug. 4 at Greensburg Hempfield Area Library.

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Kara Jurkovic (left) and Susan Walker, both of Greensburg, at the opening of “Storms and Saints,” a print exhibit by Stephanie Oplinger of Hempfield, on Aug. 4 at Greensburg Hempfield Area Library.

Greensburg Hempfield Area Library isn’t just a place to find a good book, use a computer, take a class or attend a special program.

It’s also a place to view art, thanks to the Picture This at the Library exhibition series featuring the work of artists from around the area, a joint venture with Greensburg Art Center.

The current show is “Storms and Saints,” with linocut, dry point, monotype and screen prints by artist Stephanie Oplinger of Hempfield.

The show was originally scheduled for a pre-pandemic run, the artist said during an opening reception on Aug. 4. Though Oplinger’s work has been included in previous exhibits around the area, all the featured works are showing for the first time.

Oplinger has worked in a variety of mediums, including film. Her soft sculpture, “Beauty Fetish,” won third place in the sculpture category in the 2022 “Art of the State” exhibit at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg.

She is the office and gallery coordinator at Touchstone Center for Crafts in Fayette County and maintains a studio in the Green Beacon Gallery in downtown Greensburg.

“Storms and Saints” can be viewed through Sept. 7 during regular hours at the library, 237 S. Pennsylvania Ave.

Seen at the opening: Kathy Dlugos, Christine Kocevar, Sarah Hunter and James Kuhns, Stacey Pydynkowski, Robert and Terri Pydynkowski, Lindsay Ketterer Gates and Doug Meads, Barbara Ferrier, Joe and Olga Herbert, Pamela Cooper, Rosemary Sovyak, Shirleah Kelly, Pat Majcher, Marcy Koynok, Kara Jurkovic, Susan Walker, Carolyn Taylor and Nicole Berry.