High Hand Gallery hosts free veterans art show

Reid Anderson, 97, is still making art.

A U.S. military veteran and Purple Heart recipient, Anderson creates glass kaleidoscope airplanes that will be featured in the "U.S. Veteran Artist Show" at the High Hand Art Gallery through Feb. 26.

Artist Phill Evans, a standing member of the gallery, said Anderson inspired the concept for the special show.

"At 97 ½, the man's a lightning bolt. I said, we've got to do something for this person," Evans said.

The show is free and open to the public. It features more than 15 national artists from the home front and all branches of the U.S. military, many who have served in war zones.

"Men and women who served our country will be represented," said Marie Malloy, High Hand director of events and marketing.

The collection will represent recovered work from a Civil War soldier, a "Rosie the Riveter," a female Black Hawk pilot and more, Malloy said.

The show includes more than 25 artistic works such as sculptures, wood furniture, watercolors, oils and acrylics, fine prints and historical comic books, according to Evans.

The Art Gallery is located inside the historic fruit shed at the High Hand Nursery, 3750 Taylor Road in Loomis. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sundays.

For more information, call 652-2064.