ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — If you’re looking for one last blast of summer, it’ll soon be waiting for you in Fairport.
An exhibit will be opening at Stony Point Art Studio at 114 N Main Street in Fairport, featuring the watercolors of Luvon Sheppard.
Plein air pieces he painted while floating on the Erie Canal this summer.
Luvon is a tremendous artist and long-time RIT art professor, and by long-time, I mean he’s been teaching there for 55 years!
And he told me he picked up his passion for teaching from his high school art teacher.
“I think that’s one of the main reason I’m a teacher today. She actually got me into teaching when I in high school. She’d have other students, the top students in the class and then when those people graduated, I became that person to train to some of the other,” Luvon said.
In my interview with Luvon, we waxed philosophical about painting and life. You can join us in that conversation when it starts streaming Thursday at 8 p.m. on the RochesterFirst app.
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