There may be more than 20 artists exhibiting at the Albert Lea Art Center this month, but the subject matter is a little more defined: It&8217;s all about horses.

The exhibitors are students and friends of Faribault artist Dee Teller, who has taught Asian brush classes and has exhibited in Albert Lea on a number of other occasions. She also teaches horse painting workshops in her home.

Teller admits she owns no horses herself, but was on one when she was 10 and another when she was 12. Many of those exhibiting have horses and others were raised with them.

Teller herself does not paint realistic horses. &8220;I do impressionistic work,&8221; she said. &8220;It&8217;s the spirit and the energy of the horse that I paint.&8221;

She got the idea for the show from the results of some of her workshops. &8220;People had done some remarkable pieces,&8221; she said.

In the show, people will see three-dimensional pieces, oils, collages, watercolors, acrylics, pencil and colored pencil drawings, photography, ink, charcoal and batik.

Debbie Klecatsky of Rosemount has brought her papier mache Appaloosa horse heads to the show. &8220;I made them when my kids were showing in Oklahoma at the Appaloosa Nationals,&8221; she said.

The kids had requested horse ears on a headband for part of the show, but Kelcatsky decided they needed something better.

&8220;So I got out the chicken wire and started sculpting and fitting,&8221; she recalled.

She made six of the horse heads in three to four weeks from papier mache. The kids wore costumes that were sponge painted to match the horse heads. &8220;I finished the last one in the kitchen oven of the hotel,&8221; she added.

There were four horses with spots and two without, and all with different expressions. She has three on exhibit.

Klecatsky also has a large cowboy on a horse in the exhibit, a Native American collage and other pieces.

Klecatsky met Teller eight or nine years ago at a horse expo at the Freeborn County Fairgrounds. &8220;She&8217;s taken me down many roads,&8221; she said.

Artists in the show are from the local area, Wisconsin and outstate Minnesota. They include: Pat Johnson, Eloise Adams, Jan Schewe, Esther Kanzenbach, Patty Thorwardson, Carolyn Bye, Debb Petersen, Marci Lessman, Karen LaQuia, Gail Walsh, Jeffrey Lee Gulczynski, Y. Catherine Park, Lynese Gulczynski, Carol Fahrenholtz, Les Schroader, Leah Miller, Marlys Shirley, Renee Olson Sonka, Linda Van Lear, Kristin Shirley and Karen Fahrenholtz.