Jackson Art Group chooses logo contest winner

Joyce Loos, winner of the Jackson Art Group logo contest, was chosen by the Wednesday Morning Coffee Group, a group that meets weekly for fellowship at the Steck House, next door to the First Presbyterian Church, Jackson. The Steck House is where the Jackson Art Group was established in November, 2010; the gallery is located on the main level and second floor. Officers of the Jackson Art Group asked this group to choose a logo that would best identify this group and JAG is pleased for the group's help.

Loos, an administrative assistant for cooperative advising at Southeast Missouri State University, is pleased to become a member of the Jackson Art Group because it will give her a connection to kindred spirits, an opportunity for learning and people who share the energy generated by art. A Jackson resident since 1982, Joyce is married to Kenny Loos. The couple has two daughters. One daughter is a student at Maryville University; the other is onto medical school.

Loos is pleased to have won the contest and sees membership with the group as an opportunity to get back into art. Her free membership, the prize for winning, may have been an incentive for Loos to get back into creative work by applying her ideas in identifying a new art group. Loos submitted three ideas. The winning logo used an illustration of an easel for the letter A.

After reading about the contest in the Cash-Book Journal she decided to give it a try. "I had plenty of time to get a few items together. I decided I wouldn't win if I didn't try," she said. Her idea was to incorporate art with a logo and keep it simple. She chose to work in black and white to keep the cost down when the logo was reproduced.

"I don't know if I'd consider myself an artist. I took four years of art in high school. But I haven't gotten into it since college. I use my artistic juices in decorating the interior of my home and landscaping," she said. "I hope to get into watercolor, charcoal, pastel, acrylic...maybe even texture."

Visit the Steck House Gallery at 210 E. Washington St., Jackson any Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; till 7 p.m. on Second Saturdays. Closed for major holidays and snow.