Walter Anderson, Oysters, watercolor

  • Walter Anderson, “Oysters,” watercolor

Greg Thompson Fine Art, 429 Main St., opens its annual “Best of the South” exhibition Friday, a show featuring works by Walter Anderson, Guy Bell, Daniel Blagg, J.O. Buckley, Carroll Cloar, William Dunlap, Theora Hamblett, John Hartley, Pinkney Herbert, Robyn Horn, Richard Jolley, Sammy Peters, Robert Rector, Edward Rice, Kendall Stallings, Rebecca Thompson, Glennray Tutor and others on Friday, May 17.

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Oxford, Miss., artist Tutor will speak at a noon women’s luncheon Friday at the gallery; tickets are $35. The gallery will be open 5-8 p.m. for Argenta ArtWalk and will host a special panel discussion, “What’s Hot in Southern Regionalism,” at 1 p.m. Saturday. Artists taking part will be Blagg, Hartley, Rice and Tutor. Tickets are $10; adult libations will be served.

Thompson announced recently that he has opened a second location in Dallas, at 3102 Maple Avenue, Suite 400, run by gallery associate director Jennifer Lee.

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More ArtWalk events: Paint Box Gallery, 705 Main, will feature “A Taste of Jazz,” paintings with a jazz them by Angela R. Green, along with work by Mike Spain, Robin Miller-Bookhout and Jan Ironside.

Work by students from Crestview and Seventh Street elementary schools will be displayed in the 400 block of Main, and there will be closing reception for Mary Ann Stafford’s exhibition of pen-and-ink drawings, “The Argenta Project,” at the Thea Center, 401 Main St. Selma F. Blackburn will give a watercolor demonstration at Laman Library’s Argenta Branch, 506 Main. Other participants include the Art Connection, 204 E. Fourth St.; Starving Artist Cafe, 411 Main; Claytime Pottery, 417 Main, and Starving Artist Studios, 108 E. Fourth.

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Individual artists — “Art In Unexpected Places” — will locate along Main Street.

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