Tougaloo Art Colony
July 12- 18, 2008
The Tougaloo Art Colony is a retreat for nationally acclaimed artists, emerging artists, art educators, art students, and interested adult learners to engage in dialogue and to create works that help extend the multicultural dimensions of America’s visual arts culture. The Tougaloo Art Colony consists of seven days of studios led by guest artist instructors from a variety of media, geographic regions, and backgrounds. The daily studio workshops and the shared evening sessions provide a forum for artists to gain insight from instructors, to explain and talk about their own work, the work of other artists and to share and compare techniques and art theories. The close associations formed through a week of intensive study provide a network for ongoing relationships between artists and celebration through the arts, the common denominator of the human spirit and its relationship to our contemporary world.
Art Colony 2008 classes and guest artists : Digital Dreams: How Do I Get There From Here (Digital Imaging), Carmen Hathaway; Creative Realism With Abstract Connection (Mixed Media), Charles Crossley; Polymer Clay :Fabricate Your Own Icons, Dolls, Puppets and Masks (Polymer Clay and Textiles), Sarajane Helm; Textural Approach to Wood Carving (Band Saw Wood Carving), Ronald Koehler; Creating Icons and Ancestral Memory (Welding), Allen Uzikee Nelson ; From the Spirit (Acrylic Painting), Arlington Weithers; Life Drawing (Mixed Media Life Drawing) William “Bill” Henderson.
Special FREE public events include 7:00 PM evening presentations, July 13-17 by Art Colony instructors and participants, open studios until 12:00 noon, Friday, July 18, Hot Art Exhibit, WorldFamous Brenda Singletary presents Collecting and Making Money Through Your Art and Music by Jesse Primer and Band Thursday, 7:00 PM, July 17, 2008, Owens Health and Wellness Center.
Hot Art Exhibit: Works by Art Colony Instructors, Participants, National and Local Artists featured. [ARTISTS MAY apply for submission in this annual exhibit by contacting JOHNNIE M.GILBERT AT jgilbert@tougaloo.edu or call the numbers listed below].
For additional information regarding the Tougaloo Art Colony, please contact Minnie Watson @601-977-7839; e-mail @ mwatson@tougaloo.edu; or Johnnie Mae Gilbert @ 601-977-7743; or visit the Tougaloo Art Colony page.
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