MARSHALL, Ill. (WCIA) -- For the last 16 years, the Gaslight Art Colony in Marshall has welcomed artists of all ages. It's a non-profit keeping creative brains busy and art exhibitions alive.

"I've always been considered more of a painter," Jo Rich-Vadas, a founding member of the gallery, described. "When we were thinking of a name, we had just gotten the new cityscape, and there's a gaslight right out the front of the door."

Since 2009, the non-profit has been an outlet for the arts. There are more than 150 adult members and more than 50 students.

"It's been a dream come true," Rich-Vadas said.

From the artwork hanging in the gallery on the inside, to pieces of art scattered across the community outside. If you look closely throughout Marshall, you'll find 40 painted lions all spread

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