Phoenix Rising Printmaking Cooperative is offering a Montoype series starting next week. Sign up for just one or all three. Phoenix offers classes throughout the year that can enhance, or even awaken, the artist in you! Always wanted to learn more about print-making? Great opportunity to create art!

Check out their website too at: http://www.phoenixrisingprintmaking.com/

August Monotype Week

August 9, 11 and 13; from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm

Take just 1 class or sign up for
all 3 sessions!

Tuesday,
August 9: Watercolor Monoprints with Cindy Davis   

Thursday, August
11: Painterly Monotypes with Anne Cushman 

Saturday, August
13: Three Color Reduction Monotypes with Joan Tallan

All class sessions run from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm

Individual Sessions are $40. person  OR  Complete Series
fee is $100. per person   

Reservations are required.  Space is limited.   

Email phoenixrisingco-op@sbcglobal.net  

Registration Now!    

The art experience is about making connections between the art  and the visitor. Social norms, values,  injustice throughout history and throughout the world, views on love, war, politics, scientific and technological advances–all of this can be seen and connected to via art.  Art tells a story, makes a statement and what it says can be different depending on the viewer. Engaging in an art experience can be done anywhere there is art –but the CMA philosophy of creating themes and age divergent tools to interact with the art is innovative and approachable for all.

Visiting the CMA is an opportunity for everyone, teachers, school groups, families, seniors, juniors–everyone to engage in creative interaction with the museum and their own imagination. You are invited to Create your own art experience, to “use” the museum instead of just “visiting”. To that end, the Museum is thinking of ways to bring the community into the museum in personally creative and fun ways, such as today’s Craftacular Spectacular! I hope some of you will attend!

Craftacular
Spectacular

Today!

June 9, 2011

3:30 – 8:30 PM

Come to the Columbus Museum of
Art for an evening of art, craft, food and fun. Mingle with other crafters,
spend time working on your projects, and explore CMA’s newly renovated
galleries. The Museum will provide great work spaces, some crafting supplies, a
digital technology lab, tools, and dinner. You should bring your projects,
friends, and creativity!

Drop-in workshops will take
place throughout the evening, including felting, scrapbook and cardmaking
techniques, and knitting. As a special treat, Etsy will be providing free swag
for participants!

$45 general public

$35 CMA members

$25 students with valid ID—available
at CMA front desk only

Registration is requested,
but not required. To guarantee your spot, please register at:

http://craftacularspectacular.eventbrite.com/

For more information, please
contact

Dayna Jalkanen at 614.629.0356
or

Dayna.Jalkanen@cmaohio.org

Hoping you can attend the Phoenix Rising Printmaking Cooperative’s  fundraiser next Friday, March 4 at the OSU Urban Arts Space located at 50 W. Town Street in Columbus.  The members of Phoenix are dedicated to enriching the visual arts experience  for artists, students, schools, art groups,  the Columbus community at large and the surrounding area, through education and exploration of the printmaking media. This fundraiser will help Phoenix move to larger space to expand and enrich their outreach.

Go to www.phoenixrisingprintmaking.com to learn more,buy tickets or just donate to this 501(c)3 arts org! See the studio print invite below and more details about the event. Hope to see you!

Friday, March 4, 2011
6.00 to 9.00 pm
OSU Urban Arts Space
50 West Town Street
Columbus, OH 43215

Looking for an art evening with a little edge? Lindsay Gallery will be hosting their opening for the “Evolved Gallery Show” during Gallery Hop on February 5. 

 The show will feature artwork from Evolved Body Art artists, as well as work from studio friend and print maker Craig Fisher.  There will be food provided by Cafe Bella, drinks provided by KOBO and a DJ!  The event starts at 6pm and goes until the party is over.  Music starts at 8pm sharp. 

DO click on Cafe Bella link  to find out about this funky no-menu restaurant on High Street.  

LINDSAY GALLERY

986 NORTH HIGH ST.  

COLUMBUS, OH  
 

Back before media of any kind existed–think past SOCIAL media here–before tv, radio, I’m talking pantaloon wearing horse and buggy era–landscape paintings were a visual escape.  An image of a serene landscape with gentle breezes, far removed from the dreary toil  and stench (horses remember) of everday life. I am talking about the merchant class , peasants couldn’t get away from stench, and the aristocracy had little toil and could probably frolic in the landscape whenever. So, the middle class escape–most of us right?

We escape the confines of our everday life by surfing the net searching out hot vacation deals in hot locations that we can’t afford, chatting with friends on facebook, watching horrifyingly embarrassing videos of fools on YouTube. We look at images and  grasp at stress releases through media everyday.

Landscape paintings can say many things through color, imagery, perspective. I encourage you to take a look at the “Landscapes” show at the Art Access Gallery on Drexel Ave. in Bexley. The show opens on January 7, runs to through Feb 3, and  features works by Richard Clem, Valerie Craig, Andy Reed, Diane Young and Kim Zarney.  Check out:  artaccessgallery.com

Art can still take us away from our dreary everyday, open our eyes to new ideas, encourage us to breathe a little deeper and reflect–we don’t allow much of that with all the opportunities to distract ourselves on a daily basis.

We need art as much as the pantaloon wearing folk did. As a way to pause, look at and reflect on something visual that is without a hash tag and outside our “daily landscape”.