The James S. Murray Gallery presents “All Over the Place,” an exhibit by LLCC graphic design manager Greg Walbert, March 16-April 2. The exhibit is open weekdays, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., in the Menard Hall second floor gallery.

“While it has always been known that Walbert is an accomplished graphic designer, it is through the biannual faculty art show that we discovered that his talents do not end there,” says Leslie Stalter, professor of art. “He can capture a likeness with exquisite precision in colored pencil or paint a scene on canvas in a loose expressive style. Walbert’s considerable range of abilities will all be on display for the public to enjoy and appreciate.”

Walbert explains the title of his exhibit. “My journey to seeing myself as an artist has been a long one. Along the way I took some time(s) off. I experimented. I scratched the itch that came and went until it was always there. I didn’t have the itch to do one thing one way, just the opposite. I had multiple itches and many things caught my attention. Each subject seemed to find a way to its own medium until there were many media and many subjects. Accepting and embracing my varied identity wasn’t the result of an epiphany. It took the encouraging insights of others. It took the understanding that ‘different’ is a good thing in art. My interests, my styles, my journey, my art is truly ‘all over the place.’”

For nine years in the LLCC Public Relations and Marketing department, Walbert has produced everything from web content and advertising to the college magazine FORWARD and Annual Report. He can be seen walking the hallways with a camera collecting images for his many projects and has taught classes in publication layout for the art department. A Springfield native, Walbert graduated from Eastern Illinois University as a visual communications major.