Summer Art Camp Day 1

Day 1 of Summer Art Camp was SO much fun. Jessie Boyland taught Kadinsky style painting for the "background" of the portrait painting class. Then a quick snack and Glenda took the class to the Clay & Kiln workroom for clay sculpting fun. We are building a village using the slab building method of clay-work. So far we have the base of each "house/dwelling" and the roof. Day 2 the roof and base will be attached and it's time to cut out the windows, doors and even add "ramps" for one young artist's "skateboard" centric building!

Six new tapestries arrived for Maximo Laura's exhibit

July 1st the last 6 tapestries arrived. So if you can to the Maximo Laura PATH TO THE SUN AND MOON opening in June, you have another reason to come see this exhibit.

They are wonderful. Whether you want earthtones or brillant color, these have everything. The colors just jump off the tapestries.

Come see these! We are open Tuesday - Sunday 12-6pm. And we'll be having another reception! July 17th, Sunday at 2-5 pm.... and a special sale of these tapestries.

25 Whimsical Works of Art Arrive Today

• Arthur Jett and family are leaving Norfolk and are in route to Richmond with a collection of Vicki Bruner's work.

Bucket List

We're 60 years old. Well, the building is 60 years old and the roof is 60 years old. The roof has seen some wear and tear. We've given it a few facelifts and some treatements but the time has come for major surgery.

We have a donation jar to help us out and this week a generous lady gave us $200 toward our roof fund.

Follow this benefactor's lead. Donate wherever you can if you like what we're doing in Manchester and greater Richmond for the arts. Oh, our bucket list? It's to have no buckets necessary to catch the rain inside the building!

Call for Entries January All Media Show

It's time for Call for Entries for the All Media Art Show. So far we have 45 entries and lots of new artists are dropping by and submitting their work. We'll be accepting entries Saturday and Sunday too since the juror doesn't come until Monday. The juror is Suzanna Fields. Read about her on our website www.artworksrichmond.com/Show2011-01.htm

See you Saturday or Sunday. Bring art!

A.R.T. Easter Seals UCP Program at Art Works

Yesterday Easter Seals UCP completed the training for A.R.T. The Trackers worked with the Artists and some even completed their paintings.

What’s A.R.T ? It’s a program where physically challenged folks use technology to communicate to someone who has been trained to put their ideas down on canvas or other mediums. Scroll down to read about this amazing story and program.

For those of us who participated in the training or just watched the process and the interaction, it was a feel good day! At the end of the day, Sarah Hutchenson loaded up the materials and put them in A.R.T’s new studio 150 at Art Works. And in the next week or so, the studio will be organized and ready for the making of more art.

Some of the paintings completed this week will be on exhibit in the Skylight Gallery on FOURTH FRIDAY (January 28th) and the exhibit continues through February 20, 2011.

ABOUT A.R.T.In his book Flying Colors, Tim Lefen tells about his introduction 10 years ago to a group of severely challenged students. None of them could walk and all lacked the use of their hands. Only one of them could talk. Lefen was facing the gradual loss of his eyesight and knowing the power of art, set out to enable the students to paint despite their physical difficulties. He developed the A.R. T. (Artistic Realization Technologies) program that makes use of technologies (computers, laser pointers and more) as instruments with which the students (aka artists) use to instruct trained assistants (aka trackers) to be their arms and hands in painting, photographing and sculpting.

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