Friday, February 6, 2009

CERAMICS ENTHUSIASTS!



You're invited to take the Ceramics Research Center Open Studios Tour on Saturday, February 21 & Sunday, February 22, 10 - 4. Please stop by 491 W. Courtney Ln in Tempe to see ceramic art by Sandy Blain, Lisa Harnish, Gil Quintanilla, and me. We'll conduct hand building and surface treatment demonstrations from 12 - 3. And please visit my shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=6548021 to see a preview of some of my art.

Click here for a Tour Brochure
I hope to see you at the tour!
Take care.
Sandy Luehrsen

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Thanks to Ingrid Donaldson and The Blink Gallery!


Thanks go out to Blink gallery owner Ingrid Donaldson for talking with us on January 16th. She covered many things including tips on approaching and selecting a gallery to carry your work, as well as things to look for in a consignment contract. Importance was placed on professionalism in presentation and researching your target to know what type of work they carry and who their audience is. She also shared what is looked for in the artists/artwork carried at their gallery and the reasoning behind their approach to the rotation of the work. Other things mentioned addressed issues of pricing and whether galleries require exclusivity or not.














The Blink Gallery has an open call for new artists. For more information go to http://www.theblinkgallery.com/

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Join us January 16th at The Blink Gallery on Roosevelt Row


Happy New Year ADC!
Let's start off the New Year with a gallery visit to...
The Blink Gallery on Roosevelt Row in Phoenix
The vision of this gallery is to promote local and emerging artists. Combining several media into one space, this gallery offers the viewer a great range of different artworks and techniques.

Note the date and time change!
Friday, January 16th at 6:30pm

Owner and operator Ingrid Donaldson will speak of her experience with opening and managing a gallery as well as give insight on the topic of consignments from both a store owner and an artist's perspective.

Location:
Blink
An Art Gallery
610 E. Roosevelt Suite 133Phoenix, AZ 85004
https://exchange.asu.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.theblinkgallery.com
480-363-2225

The gallery is located on the NW corner of 7th and Roosevelt...Just up street from Quiznos. There is parking directly in front of the gallery. There is also parking on 5th street which is just west of the gallery.

Hope to see you there!

Kerr Grabowski Workshop

Announcing a 3-day workshop opportunity. If you have any questions, contact Marla Hattabaugh at mchquilts@cox.net.

Kerr Grabowski
3 Days of Design and Deconstructed Screen Printing
February 14-16
Location: Marla Hattabaugh Studio
6339 E. Mitchell Dr.Scottsdale, AZ 85251
Cost: $250 for three days

If you want to know why your pieces do or do not work, to be able to simplify and make work stronger—
along with Deconstructed Screen Printing, this is the workshop for you!

We begin with a very quick, fun design exercise to “realign” our brains,
followed by a Powerpoint show of painting/drawings with images grouped according to the design principle used.
We will discuss images as they are shown.
This is exciting and revealing as it visually simplifies and makes very obvious which design principles the artist used
and how universal the usage is. If time allows, we will do another quick design exercise.

After lunch we begin deconstructed printing creating a series of prints based on chosen or assigned principle of design.

On day 2 we will do design/composition exercise and discussions until lunch.
After lunch we will print based on designs created.
On the last day we will print all day with a break for discussion of work being done.

Kerr will provide extensive handouts on deconstructed printing and design.
This is a fun, creative and enlightening workshop---guaranteed to send you home excited and chock full of ideas/images
to work with. (along with knowledge of deconstructed screen printing)
Please visit www.kerrgrabowski.com

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

30th Annual Contemporary Craft Exhibition

Congratulations go out to the ADC members juried into the MCA Contemporary Crafts exhibition this year.



Above: Nick DeFord, Found, Embroidery on map, 15" x 22"



Left: Farraday Newsome, "Nesting Snake Cloud", glazed terra cotta, 20x20x2 1/2"

Below: Marla Hattabaugh, Mother, Don't Dance ...., cottons, hand dyed/air brushed/silk screened, machine pieced, hand quilted, 73" x 54"
Out of 131 artists, the juror, Namita Wiggers, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon selected 58 artworks by 39 artists to make up the show. This is always one of the highlights of the year for our community of craftsmen and should not be missed!











Lynette Andreasen
Left top: Linked, 13"x6"x2"
Above:Mementos, each 2.5"x2.25"x.5
Left bottom: Sisters, 9"x6"x6"
The opening is January 23rd from 6-8pm. The show runs Jan 23-Mar 15, 2009. Mesa Arts Center is located on the corner of Main Street and Center Street in Downtown Mesa. For more info: http://www.mesaartscenter.com/

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Holiday Festivities


Happy Holidays are upon us again!
Marla Hattabaugh has graciously offered to host this year's holiday party!

Saturday, December 20th
11:00 - 2:00pm
6339 E. Mitchell Dr.Scottsdale, AZ 85251

As usual it will be a pot luck so bring something yummy. If you want to know what to bring you could follow this breakdown: Last names beginning with A-J bring a side dish, K-Q bring a dessert and R-Z bring a main dish. Otherwise...just bring whatever you want to! I will bring a pecan pie with a slice missing... my specialty. Marla will be making a batch of chili.

Ornament Exchange
Optional: Bring a handmade ornament to exchange. Make sure it is wrapped and keep the cost under $10 worth of materials. There was no vicious stealing last year, but we shall see what this year brings.

Monday, November 10, 2008

SMoCA Lecture: Rope, String, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in Comtemporary Art

Dr. Elissa Auther is scheduled to speak on DEC 4th at 7 PM

The words “radical” and “subversive” might not be the first (or second) to come to mind when mentioning knitting, lacemaking, embroidery or other historical crafts. Today, however, these fiber techniques enjoy a revolutionary new legitimacy in the contemporary art world. Dr. Elissa Auther will discuss the historical context for the elevation of such practices from craft to art. What are the artistic and political issues driving this new work? Auther is assistant professor of contemporary art at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs. Her book, String, Felt, Thread and the Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art, forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press, focuses on the increased visibility of fiber in American art of the 1960s and 1970s and the changing hierarchical relationship between art and craft. In conjunction with the exhibition Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting.

7380 E Second Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
480-874-4666
Stage 2 Theater.
$5 members; $7 nonmembers.
Call 480-994-ARTS [2787] for tickets.