artCamp Week One: ​ Scholarships Available​

​Walk through the summery green front door of artCentral at Hyde House, and what do you see? There is lovely natural light pouring through the expansive, undraped windows. There are simple, arts-and-crafts white staircase rungs marching up to the second floor.
 
Enter this historic four square farmhouse at 1110 East Thirteenth Street in Carthage and you see  artCentral’s Annual Membership Exhibition on view through July 23, during weekend gallery hours Fridays and Saturdays, 12:00-5:00 p.m.
 
Throughout all the galleries downstairs and upstairs the vibrant works of forty-five artCentral artists are waiting for your viewing pleasure. You can preview the entire exhibition in the photo album on artCentral’s Facebook page, ArtcentralCarthage, and at artcentralcarthage.org. Take a look online then come delight and marvel at the wealth of talent shining in this exceptionally strong collection.

​MONDAY, July 18:
 
DECORATING GOURDS with DOT PAINTING with Alexandra Burnside – artCampers are introduced to dot-painting and use vibrant colors to paint the bottom-half of their gourd, then fill the gourd with a small succulent to enjoy. 
GOURD-EOUS HOLIDAYS in JULY with Teri Y. Diggs – Transform your gourd into your favorite holiday character – a witch or Santa or a snowman or…
ROCKET into OUTER SPACE (Ages 10-14, campers wear closed toe shoes) with Jane McCaulley – Make a  glass rocket, galaxy and star.
 
TUESDAY, July 19:
GOURD HOUSES and THEIR CLAY TENANTS with Alexandra Burnside –artCampers use a gourd to paint and decorate a whimsical gourd house, then use air dry clay or wood to make the folks that live in their house.
PAINT YOUR FAVORITE BABY ANIMAL or BIRD with April Davis-Brunner - Draw and use acrylics to paint your favorite baby animal or bird on an 8x10 canvas panel. Bring a picture if you want to.
FIERCELY FRIENDLY BEASTS with Teri Y. Diggs – Out of ordinary gourds of different shapes, create your own imaginative beasts with paints and embellishments.
 
WEDNESDAY, July 20:
COLORFUL GOURD BIRDS GALORE with Alexandra Burnside – artCampers use a gourd and a variety of materials and embellishments to create a free-standing bird sculpture.
PRETTY FLOWER POTS with April Davis-Brunner – Decorate your own flower pot with paint and glitter and sparkling stones and lots of other imaginative touches.
GONE FISHIN’ (Ages 10-14, campers wear closed toe shoes) with Jane McCaulley – Make a glass fish bowl and hanging fish.
 
FRIDAY, July 22:
GOURDS with ARTFUL WEAVING with Cheryl Church - artCampers can paint a design or patterns on their gourd and  learn different  weaving techniques, then finish their creation with embellishments.
MAKE BEADS and CREATE JEWELRY with April Davis-Brunner - Learn to use colorful clay to create your own beads to make necklaces and bracelets.
HARRY POTTER ART PARTY with Teri Y. Diggs – Have magical fun creating potions, house banners, wands, and more!

​An end-of-artCamp Reception and Exhibition will be held in the Main Gallery at Hyde House on Friday, July 22, 2022, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Everyone is invited. Come celebrate our artCampers and their art.

​Besides at artCentral, curriculum and registration forms may be picked up in Carthage at the Carthage Deli, the Carthage Public Library, ​Cherry's Art Emporium, Guaranty Bank, Mother Road Coffee and the Old Missouri Bank and in Joplin at Spiva Center for the Arts. Forms are also available online at www.artcentralcarthage.org.

Here is the curriculum for artCamp’s first week:
 
MONDAY, July 11:
 
PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPHY with Maddie Capps - Explore the “fun”damentals of photography! Learn photography basics and shoot your own pictures with a smart phone or a camera with a blank SD card.
PAINT YOUR FAVORITE BIRD with April Davis-Brunner - Draw and use acrylics to paint your favorite bird on an 8x10 canvas panel.
STORY STONES with Teri Y. Diggs – Paint your own set of stones to tell stories with characters and creatures and places.
 
TUESDAY, July 12:
NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY with Maddie Capps - Explore the “fun”damentals of photography! Learn photography basics and shoot your own pictures with a smart phone or a camera with a blank SD card.
WHIMSICAL WIND CHIMES with April Davis-Brunner - Create a whimsical wind chime using shells, stones and other fun embellishments!
GLASS MAGIC (Ages 10-14, campers wear closed toe shoes) with Jane McCaulley - Create glass art using  different kinds of glass (powder, paint, clay, frit and millefiori). Make a suncatcher, a hanger, spin art and more.
 
WEDNESDAY, July 13:
BLACK and WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY with Maddie Capps - Explore the “fun”damentals of photography! Learn photography basics and shoot your own pictures with a smart phone or a camera with a blank SD card.
TWISTED SILVER and STONE JEWELRY with April Davis-Brunner – Learn how to twist silver and other metals to make necklaces, bracelets, earrings and more.
DREAM CATCHERS with Teri Y. Diggs – Make fanciful hangings with colorful ribbons, beads and charms to catch your dreams and wishes, too!
 
THURSDAY, July 14:
STILL LIFE PHOTOGRAPHY with Maddie Capps - Explore the “fun”damentals of photography! Learn photography basics and shoot your own pictures with a smart phone or a camera with a blank SD card.
ZENTANGLE with Teri Y. Diggs – Learn relaxing Zentangle drawing and create beautiful designs.
SAILING on WATER (Ages 10-14, campers wear closed toe shoes) with Jane McCaulley – Make a fused glass sailboat on a water suncatcher, a sailboat on water for your shelf and a sailboat and lighthouse picture.
 
Yes, Week One at artCamp is packed with an awesome array of fun, creative opportunities. Classes are filling up fast. Don’t delay. Sign up your artCamper today!
 
An end-of-artCamp Reception and Exhibition will be held in the Main Gallery at Hyde House on Friday, July 22, 2022, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Everyone is invited. Come celebrate our artCampers and their art.

This year’s ten interns all love art and kids and artCentral! They are Aurelia Burr, Lola Chapman, Brady Cloud, Piper Feurt, Willow Graber, Sydney Hartless, Sierra Hicks, Olivia Manning, Olivia Pierce and Oliver Schrader. When asked what inspires them to volunteer at artCamp they replied… a wish to recreate the sweet memories of being an artCamper--remembering the inspiration of interns they admired when they were artCampers; a desire to participate in every art opportunity available; to have a rewarding way to do community service hours for the National Honor Society; to make a difference helping boys and girls have fun, positive experiences in a nurturing environment where they can discover their individual talents; working with dedicated artCamp teachers; wanting to help and encourage creative young minds while making imaginative projects; the feeling of being a part of something special--a magical, whimsical experience where through beyond every doorway kids are learning and laughing and going home a little more inspired every day.

Like artCamp interns, the boys and girls that come to artCamp are amazing. They choose to come. They beg to come. They pester their parents to let them come. Guided and supported by their teachers and interns artCampers have fun and make new friends while making lots of truly amazing art to display at the closing exhibition then take home as their own uniquely created treasures. 

• Sack Lunch     Bring one. Juice boxes are available for 50 cents
• Dress Code     Cool, appropriately modest, art intern attire
• Cell Phones    Silenced and not used in front of campers (Campers do not keep or carry theirs)
• 9:00 a.m.          Coffee’s ready! Arrival and classroom preparation
• 9:45 a.m.          Porch time with campers
• 10:00 a.m.       Morning class session begins
• Noon                Lunch with campers and lawn play with teacher and intern supervision
• 1:00 p.m.         Afternoon class session begins
• 2:45 p.m.         Snacks for campers in the kitchen
• 3:00 p.m.       Campers depart. Teachers and interns tidy and prepare classrooms for the next morning
• 4:00 p.m.         Finish up and head home.

 
The 20th artCentral artCamp for youth, ages 8 to 14, will happen Mondays through Fridays, July 11-22! For two weeks, with the help of our artCamp interns, artCentral’s beautiful, historic Hyde House galleries and Pottery House will be transmogrified into teaching classrooms.
 
Want to register your aspiring young artist for artCamp? Curriculum and registration forms may be picked up in Carthage at artCentral, the Carthage Deli, the Carthage Public Library, ​ Cherry's Art Emporium, Guaranty Bank, Mother Road Coffee and the Old Missouri Bank and in Joplin at Spiva Center for the Arts. Forms are also available online at www.artcentralcarthage.org where you will find all the fun artCamp facts.

jewelry, wind chimes and dream catchers; colorful glass creations like sailboat suncatchers and hanging fishes; stones painted to tell stories and favorite birds and baby animals painted on canvas.

Our 2022 artCamp teachers are the best! All teachers are either recognized working artists, experts in their media, or public and private school teachers having professional credentials. Many are both practicing artists and school teachers, too. I am proud to introduce to you these highly talented art makers.
 
APRIL BRUNNER-DAVIS – Well known in and around Carthage as an award-winning painter and experienced teacher in oil and acrylic, April exhibits and teaches frequently throughout southwest Missouri. She was named 2020 Carthage Artist of the Year and is one of the seven artists contributing to the mural on artCentral’s Great Wall.
 
ALEXANDRA BURNSIDE – Alexandra grew up in El Paso. She teaches elementary art at Fairview Elementary and loves making art with kids and watching their creative minds at work. For Alexandra, drawing and doodling are fun and relaxing. This year she was awarded MAEA’s Elementary Art Teacher of the Year, for the state of Missouri.
 
MADDIE CAPPS – A former artCamp intern, Maddie currently serves on the artCentral Board of Directors. A native Carthaginian, she teaches at her alma mater, Carthage High School. The founder/owner of her own photography business—623 Photography, since her 2015 artCentral Emerging Artists exhibition, shared with a friend, Maddie has regularly exhibited her photography.
 
CHERYL CHURCH – Originally from Kansas, Cheryl has taught art at Carthage High School and at art camp for many years. She’s professionally recognized for her colored pencil drawings and her published coloring books. This year she was awarded MAEA’s High School Art Teacher of the Year, for the state of Missouri.                         
 
TERI Y. DIGGS – Teri, an artCentral member artist, holds a Bachelor of Science in Graphic Design. Her original design was the official art for a recent Maple Leaf Festival. She teaches art classes and offers art parties for kids and adults. She has been an artCamp teacher and has participated in artCentral’s Holiday Boutique.                                 
 
ALICE LYNN GREENWOOD-MATHÉ – I am an artist, artCamp Director and the Executive Director-Curator of artCentral. I LOVE artCamp! Together my artist husband David and I exhibited 98 of our original paintings and sculptures in our 2022 spring exhibition, SIGNS & WONDERS. We love to travel, garden and share our big, old house filled with art and our furry companions. We are training our high energy Aussie in French.
 
JANE McCAULLEY – Teaching makes Jane happy! She taught elementary art for 35 years in Indiana before moving with her husband to Missouri 13 years ago. She holds bachelors and master’s degrees from Ball State University. She teaches classes in glass art at Spiva, in her home studio and at artCentral.
 
Yes, artCamp Teachers are the best! Very soon these gifted and dedicated instructors will be teaching artCampers in the terrifically inspiring setting of Hyde House’s beautiful, spacious galleries transformed into classrooms where the walls are filled with remarkable artworks by artCentral’s talented artists showcased in this year’s Annual Membership Exhibition.
 
 The 2022 Annual Membership Exhibition will be on view at Hyde House through all of June, during weekend gallery hours, Fridays and Saturdays, 12:00-5:00 p.m., as well as through artCamp. Treat yourself to an afternoon of pleasure and inspiration! Come visit soon!
 

​Many sweet memories are waiting to be made at artCamp 2022 for ages 8 to 14! Registration opens June 13, 2022. Visit www.artcentralcarthage.org for updates and details!
 
Recently going through the big box Tuesday rainy morning check out, engaged in a conversation with my clerk and the customer behind me, when they asked why I was buying so many picnic supplies, I told them about artCentral’s end-of-the-week picnic for eighty. They all but rolled their eyes when I assured them the skies would be clear in time for our set up and celebration. They questioned my reliance on the positive weather predictions supporting my optimism. They reminded me the weather people often get forecasts wrong. To which I replied, “I am working a different channel. I’m sure the trend will be in our favor. We have something important to do. We will be honoring artists and art lovers as together. We will be making sweet memories!”
 
Then came rain! rain! and more rain! and yet I remained confident. Our picnic weather for artCentral’s Annual Membership Picnic and Awards would be perfect. It was!
 
By Thursday the skies were sunny and the temps exquisitely balmy for our pre-picnic setup as artCentral board members and volunteers carried tables and chairs onto the lawn and patio in anticipation of hosting our eighty picnickers.

appreciation to the exhibition’s gracious underwriter, the McCune-Brooks Healthcare Foundation and expressed gratitude for the exhibit’s thoughtful jurors Beth Simmons, Director of McCune-Brooks Healthcare Foundation, and artCentral’s board of members. Both Beth and the board members shared the challenge of selecting outstanding art from the forty-five works comprising this year’s membership collection.
 
Four HONORABLE MENTION awards were made to Jim Bray for “Kristianborg for A Dream Too Far”, a large format collage in acrylic; Linda Kyger for “Full Bloom”, created with fiber and threads; John Mills for his oil on panel landscape titled “Dancing with the Hoodoos”, and Mary Parks L. Parks for her intimate, colorful “Chroma” rendered in acrylic.

BRONZE, SILVER and GOLD awards were selected over two days by the board of directors. The BRONZE was awarded to Jane McCaulley for her translucent, fused glass “Effervescent” a sparkling medallion is sea blues and greens. Clint Thornton’s “Percussion Fantasy” received SILVER for his spaciously spirited, vibrantly lyrical painting made with acrylic that pops. 

​Both the GOLD and UNDERWRITER awards went to Andrew W. Batcheller for his show-stopping oil on linen—“The Black Swan That Stole Her Eyes” described by Beth Simmons, Underwriter Juror, as “made by a master of technique using beautifully curving contours and sensuous lines enhanced with the richness of detail--a gorgeously evocative and mysterious painting that with color and compositional drama intrigues the viewer to look and intimately engage again and again."

PEOPLES CHOICE, a new award, will be given for the first time this year. Each Gallery Guest is entitled to cast one vote. The award recipient will be announced July 24, 2022, at the close of the Exhibition.   

​Do treat yourself to a lovely afternoon and make your own sweet memories in artCentral’s elegant Hyde House at 1110 East Thirteenth Street in Carthage. The Annual Membership Exhibition continues through July 23. Weekend Gallery Hours are set for Fridays and Saturdays, 5:00-12:00. For more information visit www.artcentralcarthage.org. 

​Alas! The time is here for artCentral’s 2022 ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP EXHIBITION and PICNIC.  Weekend Gallery Hours are set for Fridays and Saturdays, 5:00-12:00 pm, through June 23. After June 23, viewing is available by appointment through July 23!

Hyde House is ready and waiting for your visit! The galleries are filled with forty-five absolutely awesome works of art created by artCentral member artists! This is definitely a destination collection with artworks from the studios of Jane Ballard, Andrew W. Batcheller, Karolee Blanchard, Diana Bray, Jim Bray, Maddie Capps, Cheryl Church, April Davis-Brunner, Samuel Gilbert, Alice Lynn Greenwood-Mathé, David Greenwood-Mathé, Al Gritten, Carol Hammerbacher, Stacy Heydt, Sierra Joy Hicks, Nina Johnston, Beth Kang, Justin Kidston, Melody Knowles, Helen Kunze, Linda Kyger, Lori Marble, Koral Martin, Jane McCaulley, Jesse McCormick, Dan McWilliams, Connie Miller, John Mills, Margie Moss, Janice Myers, Mark Norris, Mary L. Parks, Sandra Parrill, Tyla Raredon, Debbie Reed, Rich Reed, Emily Rose, Brenda Molesworth Sageng, Debbie Southard, Jodie Sutton, Linda Teeter, Clint Thornton, Mary Thorton, Jordy Vulpine and Marilyn York.
 
The juror for the Underwriter Award is Beth Simmons. Beth is the Director of McCune-Brooks Healthcare Foundation, an avid collector of art and a longtime patron of artCentral and artCentral artists.  
 
Members of artCentral’s board of directors have graciously agreed to serve as jurors making selections for recipients of the cash awards for Gold, Silver and Bronze. These jurors include Jackie Boyer, Alexandra Burnside, Maddie Capps, Wendi Douglas, Lori Marble, Doug Osborn and Jason Shelfer.
 
After viewing the forty-five works on display, the board members based their selection choices on three criteria: impact of presentation, composition of elements and technical achievement. First they listed their six choices to be considered for special recognition and rated each of these choices on a scale of 1 to 10. Next they listed their specific choices for each of the three top awards plus two artworks to receive honorable mention. I complied the results of all the board’s individual selections. From this compilation the award recipients emerged to be announced at the Opening Picnic.
 
My deep gratitude goes out for the time and considerable contemplation generously given by Beth Simmons and members of artCentral’s board of directors—the outstanding jurors for artCentral’s 2022 Annual Membership Exhibition. They have made fine choices of the artists and their artworks selected to receive 2022 awards.
 
This year for the first time, the Peoples Choice is the additional award added to the roster of juror selected honorees. Each gallery visitor will have the privilege of casting one vote for the selection of the 2022 Peoples Choice Award to be announced at the close of the exhibition.
 
Do come and cast your vote for Peoples Choice while you view the creations of all the award recipients and all the diverse talents that now fill the galleries of Hyde House!