A gallery opening and breast cancer research fundraiser will be held from 6-8 p.m. Saturday at the Margaret Harwell Art Museum.
The fundraiser offers aspiring painters the chance to create in the same way as a unique team of artists who are featured in May and June.
Aaron Horrell and Barbara Bailey work as a team, each taking turns adding new elements to colorful miniature paintings.
Horrell, who owns and operates the Painted Wren Art Gallery in Cape Girardeau, often hosts community fundraisers where the public pays $1 per minute to paint on a canvas.
This fundraiser comes to Margaret Harwell on Saturday.
The event also will be the opening reception for the exhibit "BARBARON."
Bailey and Horrell have collaborated to create more than 158 of their surreal miniature paintings.
Horrell is a self-taught artist from rural Chaffee County, Mo., who has worked in photography and painted for 40 years.
His gallery handles some of the homemade dairy products and soaps produced by Bailey, a Marble Hill resident who raises and breeds dairy goats.
Their partnership began in 2014, after a class at the Southeast Missouri State University River Campus left Bailey with a deeper interest in painting.
After seeing Bailey's abstract creations, Horrell asked if he could outline the images he saw in the paint.
Bailey then added to it, and they continued to pass these 6-by-8 inch miniature paintings on Masonite, back and forth creating the "BARBARON Minis."
To learn more about the artwork of Bailey and Horrell, visit their Facebook page, keyword search, "BarbAron Minis," or keyword search, "Painted Wren Art Gallery."
The museum is open noon to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The museum is physically impaired accessible. Admission is free.
More information about this exhibit, paint for a cause,and the museum can be found online at www.mham.org and on Facebook keyword search "Margaret Harwell Art Museum" or by calling 573-686-8002. Financial assistance for the exhibit has been provided by the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.
The museum is open noon-4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 1-4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.