By Claudia Loucks
Geneseo Current

Sharon Michaelsen is the featured artist for the month of October at RutabagA Art Gallery in downtown Geneseo. Her window display of shooting stars, done in acrylics, is the result of Michaelsen’s involvement with the Geneseo Community Choir. She said, “This past summer, I had the honor of being invited to paint on stage with our local 124-voice Community Choir as they sang ‘Choose Something Like a Star.’ Images from the Hubble Space Telescope were my inspiration for these preliminary practice paintings of nebulae (exploding stars). This was certainly an exciting adventure for me to work outside of my comfort zone of painting pastel portraits of children and veterans and creating pen and ink drawings of cathedrals and Victorian homes.” - “From stardust we came, and to stardust we shall return.” RutabagA Gallery hours are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. Photo by Claudia Loucks