DreamMosaics Studio is moving!

Well, just downstairs to the main floor of Poudre River Arts Center. It is Studio 105the premiere studio on the main floor, where Barbara Moore, Jan Allen and Bob Matthews exhibited their work for the last two years. This studio will allow a lot more exposure to the public and it's more than double the studio space I have right now and I'm really excited to take on this new venture. July will be the month of preparing for this new venture - first, I will paint the studio a neutral color, probably gray, hopefully to lighten up the space as well as make it fitting for exhibiting all forms of art.

My plan for this new studio is to make it a working studio (where I create and sell mosaic, fused glass items, batik, and other art) plus have more art shows, classes, and art demonstrations in that space. I will start offering a Guest artist program in August, to help emerging artists with getting their work out in the public. They will exhibit and sell their work at my studio for 1-3 months. How long the exhibit is depends on what the artist wants. The east wall will be where we'll exhibit the work. The first day of the exhibit will be the first Friday of each month, when we have the gallery walk and the most exposure.

I want to also feature art demos during the gallery walk. Sharon Stuart will be demonstrating Ikebana in August or September. It should be a hit! I also hope to have an artist demonstrate bead-making and cutting smalti with a hammer and a hardie. I'm open to other ideas - so let me know what other art demos you'd like to see.

I'm still developing my plans, so I'm sure there'll be more.

More to come!

Dream art show and more

The dream art show went well - we had 97 people come in expressedly to see the show, not counting our First Friday (gallery walk) crowd. The show was multi-media (which was my intention) - we had paintings, mixed media, mosaic, sculpture, and film.

We had a "people's choice" vote for our audience to vote for their favorite pieces.
The people's choice awards went to:
1st place: Nanci McCutcheon's "Wisdom of the Earth"
2nd place: Magic of the Crystal Tree
3rd place: Kirsten Truman's "Detachment"

My camera is missing so I didn't take pictures of the show, but we videoed it. The video will be posted on Utube and MySpace and hopefully on the new www.dreamartshow.com website. I'm still in the process of writing the text for the website. Stay tuned - more to come!