Meick selected as Artist of the Month

Cheyenne County Art Guild member Pat Meick of Gurley was chosen Artist of the Month.  Meick's favorite media is oil painting, but she is an accomplished award-winning artist creating artwork in various media. She enjoys working in pencil, colored pencil, watercolor, pastels, and experimenting with any media. 

"I have found it very interesting and challenging to find the technique and results of the different media," she said. She has enjoyed taking many workshops and trying the warm, cool, lights, darks, blending, and mixing – all evolving to come together to make a picture of her own.

Meick has served as vice president and treasurer of the CCAG and on various guild committees over the years. She has also served on the Gurley Centennial Committee and oversees an annual art project with the Girl Scouts there.

Her artwork has been on exhibit and won awards at various art shows including the CCAG Spring Art Show in Sidney, the Cheyenne County Fair, Holyoke (Colo.) Art Show, Carnegie Art Center in Alliance, Neb., the McCook (Neb.) Community College Show, Scottsbluff (Neb.) Art Gallery, the Association of Nebraska Art Clubs Conference, the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum Art Competition, the Yuma (Colo.) Art Show and the Crane Trust Visitors & Nature Center in Alda, Neb.

Meick's oil painting "Golden Grain and Cloudy Skies," depicting wheat harvests remembered from 25 years of harvesting grains, is one of the first paintings she ever painted many years ago and is on display at the Sidney Public Library and open to the public. More of her paintings are at the Cheyenne County Community Center through Sept. 8.