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The Carthage Press - ART NOTES from Alice Lynn Greenwood

7/29/2015

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WE LOVE OUR ARTCAMPERS

Today we have 63 artCampers for our final artCamp week. My wish is for the sublime symmetry of 66 artcampers beside Route 66. Please help make my dreams come true.

Two days of classes remain. We have openings! Sign up your artCamper to make art and happy memories and give us 66. Call (417) 358-4404. Register today!

Last Friday night’s artCamper Art Walk Exhibition was a terrific success. Thank you to all--
artCampers, families and fans—who dropped by UMB Bank to view the fine works created during our first five days.

Special thanks to artCamp Dad, Eric Putnam, Manager at UMB Bank, for your continuing support for artCentral, artCamp and Art Walk and for lending us props and helping hands to set up and take down.

Our very first Hyde House artCamp Exhibition and Reception is Friday night, 6 to 8, showcasing the fine artworks of our amazing artCampers. Everyone’s invited. Cookies, milk and lemonade will be served. Tours of Hyde House and Pottery House classrooms and our attic Artist Atelier et Salon will be given by artCampers.

Anticipating Friday’s final artCamp 2015 celebration, we treasure the experiences of having our budding artists and our dedicated, talented art educators here during summer’s peak.

Each morning we’ve begun by storing our bagged lunches, claiming our nametags, checking in our digital devices for the DirectorCurator’s safekeeping and visiting together on the porch until class begins at ten for our full day of learning, playing, creating and sharing.

At artCamp, while making our art and having fun, we practice lessons about life and relating. We explore and play by Requests rather than rules. This seems to work just fine.

Each morning my Director’s Requests are these:

Please be kind. Be kind to yourself, especially if you get stuck or feel frustrated. Find something you like about your creation and carry on.

Please be kind to each other. Choose words of kindness when speaking to each other. Speak words of appreciation and encouragement for your classmates’ creations.

Be kind to our Old Magnolia Tree whose branches are too brittle and breakable for climbing. Admire her age and her beauty. Respect her fragility.

Please be kind to our birds and leave the pennies in the birdbaths were they help keep the water clear. Bring a penny and toss in your wish to add to our collection.

Be kind to our world. Recycle during the day and at afternoon tidy-up. Use our labeled containers for trash, paper, plastic et cetera.

Practice kindness. Explore. Have fun. Learn. Create.

Experience the joy of sharing your creations at our artCamp Exhibition and Reception and come back next summer to make more art with us.

We love our artCampers!
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The Carthage Press - ART NOTES from Alice Lynn Greenwood

7/22/2015

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LIKE A RIVER REVVED INTO FAST FORWARD

Many seasons past, I frequently floated the Buffalo River. These excursions were made, not only in high water spring when the river ran wild and rapid, but also in summer when water levels dropped, the river sometimes traveled underground, portaging was frequent and satisfaction came with paddling to the end of a long placid pool.

I still associate summer with long placid pools—those stretches in time when the pace slows, you lean back into the stream’s gentle current and eventually you get where you’re going. 
All winter and spring, I’ve been thinking of artCentral as a swiftly flowing, vibrant river sure to slow down as the heat rises to high summer. Instead of slowing, artCentral’s rapid pace keeps quickening.

artCamp opened Monday!  Hyde House and the Pottery House are rockin’ and rollin’ like a river revved into fast forward. We have fifty plus artCampers here learning, exploring, playing and creating with our outstanding staff of eleven art educators. There are no placid pools in sight for these two weeks!

For this our fifteenth artCamp our young artists will experience the pleasures of sharing their creations at two artCamper Exhibitions.

The first Exhibition will be at Fourth Friday Art Walk on our Historic Square. Stop in at UMB, 6-9 on Friday, July 24th, to see the amazing artCamper display. You’ll likely have a celebrity sighting of an exhibitor wearing artCentral’s signature green! (This year every artCamper receives the gift of an artCentral Tee Shirt!)

Friday, July 31st, 6-8 pm is your second opportunity to view and celebrate the fine work of our budding artists. Meet and visit with our young creatives as you enjoy their art in the Main Galleries of Hyde House for our artCamper Exhibition and Reception. Cookies, milk and lemonade will be served.

artCamp 2015 with quality Teachers, Exhibitions, Scholarships, artCentral Tee Shirts, happy memories and priceless creations is made possible by converging currents of community support. We are deeply grateful to all the good people and grantors who value art, young artists and creative expression—folks who want to help and encourage the children of Carthage to experience the joys and the growth offered at artCentral’s artCamp.

We send out artfelt thanks to our 2015 contributors—the Helen S. Boylan Foundation, Carthage Council on the Arts, Crackpot Pottery, David and Betsy Flanigan, Sandy Higgins, the Ruth I. Kolpin Foundation, S&S Computers, our local Walmart, by way of Mark Lasley, and those generous souls who wish to remain anonymous.

Thank you for giving life to artCamp’s river of creativity moving us toward August’s long, placid pool that will carry us into another brilliant, autumnal Carthage, where creativity is cherished like the blessings of a fresh water stream.

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The Carthage Press - ART NOTES from Alice Lynn Greenwood

7/15/2015

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SUMMER'S IN-BETWEEN EXHIBITIONS

artCamp begins Monday! There are still a few openings. Register your camper pronto!

Ready for two exciting, creative weeks, Hyde House is filled with a plethora of inspiring camper-friendly “In Between” Exhibitions. (“In Betweens” are the extra, pop-up art shows that are on our walls between the Featured Exhibitions of our scheduled Exhibition Season.)
In our Entry Gallery is PATCHWORK WORLD, Carthaginian Josie Mai’s new collection of collaged mandalas replete with patterns and texture. Composing these symbols representing the Universe, Josie uses images from pages of National Geographic supplemented with yarn and acrylic.


A traveler, Josie goes off often—east and west—multiple times to Kenya. Before coming to  Carthage she taught art K-12, earned an MFA from Parsons School of Design in NYC and instructed at MSSU in Joplin.  Volunteering at Spiva, Josie developed curriculum, public art, exhibitions and events. Today Josie is Associate Professor of Art at Pittsburg State University and frequently makes fun art with kids at Carthage Art Walks.

You can see more of Josie’s design savvy PATCHWORK WORLD collages in Mother Road Coffee’s Gallery throughout summer.

Our two Main Galleries are vibrant with SUMMER WONDERS--a stellar exhibit of Cindy and Steve Head’s bright, multi-media works depicting summer adventures.

While uniquely individual in their treatments of a picture plane, both these award-winning Joplin artists, utilize line and color boldly in ways whimsical and earnest as well.

Painting to evoke joyful, happy responses, Cindy, a quilter, uses repetitive vivid colors, shapes and images plus lots of detail. With energetic abandon, Steve enhances and conveys his considered messages, incorporating text and photographs that tell stories and invite conversations. 

Jerry Ellis, internationally known and treasured regional painter, takes you up our Hyde House stairs with CONVERSATIONS--sparkling watercolor and gouache streetscapes and landscapes.

 Jerry’s inspiration and imagery come from the beautiful, rolling countryside of his native Missouri Ozarks and from our own small town, where his studio is located in the home he shares with his wife, writer Jo Ellis. Jerry’s celebratory, atmospheric CONVERSATIONS feature a chatting cluster of folks beneath umbrellas in the rain; conversationally silent hay rolls scattered across a field; and vibrant autumn leaves shouting their beauty before the Courthouse.

   In our Sandy Higgins Members Gallery, you’ll find charming framed chapeaux created by Joplin fiber artist, Brenda Hayes for UPCYCLEDSweaters. A maker of jewelry, as well, Brenda’s delightful creations are in our Boardroom Boutique with a wide variety of artist-made selections displayed for purchase on shelving built and donated by Brenda’s husband, Thomas Hayes.

While all these splendid “In Between” Exhibitions are here to surround our young artCampers with happy inspiration, they’re here for your grownup viewing, too! Schedule a visit at 358-417-4404 or artcentral@artcentralcarthage.org.

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The Carthage Press - ART NOTES from Alice Lynn Greenwood

7/8/2015

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Introducing artCentral’s Interns
 
I am thankful! At artCentral, I’m privileged with the presence of three lovely, willowy beauties—supple, statuesque, always reaching toward the light, growing ever more poised and competent by the day! Katie Watson, Emma Pound and Maddie Capps--artCentral’s 2015 Interns. 

With grace they’ve come—by way of their individual artistic expressions and a beautifully fashioned letter of introduction accompanied by a well-crafted curriculum vitae.

As you know, artCentral is a place of whirling activity with Special Events and Gallery Tours, Exhibitions and Openings, Guests and Groups coming in and presentations being taken out, Workshops and Classes, The Great Wall unfurling and artCamp about to be happening--plus all the behind-the-scenes workings that keep our many up-in-the-air plates spinning smoothly. There’s so much to keep in motion, sometimes I’ve felt stretched to beyond my beyond.

Little by little, a longed for shift’s happening. I’m starting to find cherished interludes for personal maintenance and rejuvenation, those times that quickly fell away with my arrival six months ago and the escalating of artCentral’s activities.

Now I’m again enjoying the moments that keep me balanced and energized. I appear faithfully (though often a bit late) for yoga with Holly at the Y and I swim my laps at least once a week. At dinnertime, I frequently allow myself a thimble of Pino Grigio sipped while a sweet breeze cools artCentral’s porch and me in the swing. On a weekend evening I walk east on Thirteenth Street to see the goats and count the new quarter horse colts of artCentral’s neighbors.

My sense of being super stretched in a gazillion directions is diminishing.  artCentral’s phenomenal interns, Katie, Emma and Maddie, are making all the difference!

They greet our Guests graciously and do housekeeping tasks cheerfully. Together they did major prep for our Annual Membership Picnic. They’re learning the art of Hyde House mise en place and how to install an Exhibition, from wall patching to label and artwork mounting. Thanks to this awesome trio, we’re in great shape for artCamp’s opening. (Katie and Emma are former artCampers!) Supplies are organized and inventoried, work tables are covered and the Pottery House is thoroughly cleaned and sparkling.

Soon Katie will leave for the University of Central Missouri for a double major in Illustration and Graphic Design. Emma, a dancer and Senior Class officer at CHS, will intern this year before pursuing a degree in Interior Design. Maddie, an aspiring photographer and active member of 4H, is a junior at CHS. In spring of 2016, Katie and Maddie will be the first “Emerging Artists” featured in artCentral’s new Annual Emerging Artists Exhibition.

I have much for which to be thankful, especially artCentral’s 2015 Interns. Such lovely gifts!

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The Carthage Press - ART NOTES from Alice Lynn Greenwood

7/2/2015

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artCAMP is COMING!

artCentral’s fifteenth annual artCamp is coming soon for young artists ready to make art and happy memories, too!

Hyde House and the Pottery House will be filled with artful activities as campers and their instructors explore, learn, discover and create during the last two weeks of July, Monday through Friday, July 20-24 and 27-31. The fee for a day long class is $35 with all supplies furnished.
In the words of a veteran artCamp parent: “I want my children to have a great appreciation for the world of art and the beauty of self-expression. I’m so excited artCentral’s artCamp supports this learning in such a hands-on way.”

Each morning begins when campers--ages eight to fourteen, dressed to get messy—arrive with a sack lunch and coins for a juice. The day’s classes commence at 10 a.m.  At noon, everyone gathers for lunch on the big porch followed by fun on the Great Lawn. Afternoon class time concludes with pick-up at 3 p.m.

artCentral’s twelve artCamp educators are either recognized working artists, experts in their media, or public and private school teachers. Several are both professional artist and school teacher. The artCamp curriculum of thirty-four classes includes an exciting range of explorations in various medium and creative approaches. This year’s schedule has portrait painting, drawing and dream catcher making taught by Carthage High School art teachers Cheryl Church and Tom Jones. Beth Lawson will offer variations of her always popular stitch work classes, as well as Zentangle designing on canvas. Painting of pets, birds, butterflies and forest animals will be taught by April Davis. Kahlie Jones will teach African drum, paper quill and coiled bowl classes. Different versions of art book construction will be taught by Deb Bentlage, Sean Fitzgibbon and Cindy Head. Anne-Marie Gailey and Sarah Serio will share their sculpture, design and Chinese brush painting expertise.

This year artCampers will have two opportunities to display and share their work. For the first Friday of artCamp, artCamper creations will be on view at the Historic Downtown Carthage Art Walk. For artCamp’s closing Friday, an artCamp Reception and Exhibition, for campers, family and friends, will be held in the Main Gallery of Hyde House.

Do you have your camper registered? Classes are filling up quickly! Registration Forms and Class Schedules are available at artCentral, Cherry’s, Mother Road Coffee, the Library and the YMCA. For additional information please call: (417) 358-4404.

Pick up your Registration Form today and spend some fun time with your camper selecting class preferences. Then send your completed Registration Form with your check to artCentral.

Don’t delay. Sign up your artCamper today for inspiration, art and making memories that will last far beyond the days of mid-summer.

 

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