 |  Come make heart jewelry for yourself and your loved ones! Bring materials you have collected or use Wendy’s collection. Wendy’s work has been collected by celebrities, honored by Oprah, featured numerous times in Vogue. Private sessions also available – just ask! Saturday February 4 and /or 11 from 1:00 – 4:00 pm Come to one …
Continue reading Bring on the Valentines Bling with Wendy Gell  I spoke with Mary on the phone this morning. She was beside herself, delighted with the new show of art by Betsy Moore’s students at St. Mary’s School (grades 8-12), saying “We’re immersed in Love!”  The Great Metal Works Metal Art by Cheryl D. Garcia February 2nd, 2012 Celebrating Chinese New Year in Jacksonville The Chinese New Year has arrived! Come celebrate the ‘Year of the Dragon’ with us in Jacksonville Saturday, February 4th starting with the parade at 10:30 AM. Cheryl will be displaying her latest creation, the five foot long metal dragon (above) at the corner of Third and East California Streets in honor of the deep Chinese cultural ties in Southern Oregon. Cheryl created this dragon as part of an art trade with fellow Jacksonville artist Katharine Gracey, you can help name him by participating in our online poll. We hope you can join us for the festivities, there will be diverse demonstrations of art, cooking and dance throughout town after the Lion and Dragon Dance Parade beginning at 10:30. Be sure to stop by and say hello to us and see the  David Lorenz Winston and Lewis Anderson are reviewing photographer’s portfolios on First Friday from 5-8pm at The Ashland Art Center. They invite photographers to bring in up to 12 works for review, preferably prints, but jpegs are acceptable if a laptop is brought in to view them. The critiques last for up to 20 minutes and start on the hour and half hour from 5-7:30 pm. Continue reading Photography Portfolio Reviews at Ashland Art Center 
Start with Art- Making Art Together with Amy Godard-Navickas For ages 3-6 and an adult Rogue Gallery & Art Center www.roguegallery.org Tuesdays, February 7th 10:30-11:30 AM and March 6th 10:30-11:30 AM $10 per day—introductory price! This is an interactive art class for parent and young child. As a team, the parent/caregiver and child will make art together, learning about color, shapes, and lines helping to develop your child’s imagination while strengthening fine-motor skills and hand-eye coordination. Be prepared to get a little messy, paint, sculpt, print, draw, make crafts and to learn songs and finger plays to enhance each project. REGISTER ONLINE or call (541)772-8118 for more information! Have a creative day!
Ignite the Mind, Stir the Soul, Open the Heart… Boldly Create! The Rogue Gallery & Art Center, 40 S. Bartlett Street, Medford, Oregon 97501 www.roguegallery.org
 News on a number of different fronts from Leah Fanning Mebane’s email newsletter Cynthia Flowers will be displaying and demonstrating her abstract watercolors during the Art Walk. She has been partially color blind since she sustained a serious head injury at age 5, but you would never know it when seeing her marvelously colorful art work. Find Cynthia and her work in Lower Level Studio 5B. …
Continue reading February First Friday Art Walk – Featured Artist: Cynthia Flowers  Our February Exhibit features 8 extraordinary local artists showing their figurative works in a variety of media, including oils, acrylic, ink, graphite, charcoal, pastels and watercolor. Featured artists include: Rachel Barrett, Sarah Burns, Ann DiSalvo, Rebecca Gabriel, Shan Lollis, Karen Staal, Daniel Verner, and Nancy Zufich. Gallery owner Susan Springer will also exhibit new figurative works in clay. This show promises to be an interesting study of the artistic human form in all of its diversity! Continue reading Illahe Studios & Gallery First Annual Figurative Invitational  Ted Helard will teach Cartooning & Maquettes for Beginners Saturday mornings in February at the Rogue Gallery & Art Center! For youth ages 6-12 (Also offering Visual Storytelling through Cartoon & Comics for ages 13 and up in March!!) Saturdays, 2/4, 11, 18, 25: 10-11:30AM $51 members/ $60 non-members REGISTER ONLINE: www.roguegallery.org
Learn to construct creative and unique comics with the basic concepts of cartooning through the manipulation of three basic 3D shapes: the sphere, the cube, and the cylinder. Participants will learn to transform these shapes into simple cartoon figures and characters, ready to be brought to life by young artists’ stories, expression, and creativity! Ted Helard is a lifelong illustrator, cartoonist, and creator. He has an MA in Sequential Art from the Savannah College of Art and Design and his cartoons and illustrations have been included in many anthologies, publications and Continue reading Cartooning & Maquettes for Beginners for ages 6-12 
The Rogue Gallery & Art Center is offering monthly Afterschool Art Studio I and Afterschool Art Studio II this Winter! Register online: www.roguegallery.org STUDIO 1: For children in grades 1 – 6: Wednesdays 2 to 5PM (Corresponds with Medford School District’s early-release Wednesdays) Paint, draw, sculpt, print, explore, create, and be inspired by introductory art lessons in our spacious & fully-equipped art studio! February 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 $72 members/ $85 non-members March 7, 14, 21 $46 members/ $55 non-members April 4, 11, 18, 25 $59 members/ $70 non-members May 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 $72 members/ $85 non-members STUDIO 2 (intensive): For youths in grades 4 – 9: Tuesdays 4:30 to 6PM Draw and paint from life and the imagination Continue reading Afterschool Art Studios I and II offered for youth in 1st – 9th grades! |      DISCLOSURE: SOAR/Art Matters! has affiliate relationships with the providers of great products and services below. Purchases made through our links give us a small commission. This helps to defray the cost of operating the sites, so please use our links!  Utrecht's Special Discounts have been updated for 2012. The above link will get you 40% off your highest priced item, the one below gives 15% off any order of $100 or more AND Free Shipping! It's your choice - and using our links helps us meet the costs of operating this site! 
 Ashland artist Pegi Smith sells her art on Yessy.com - View her Yessy gallery here Make a beautiful art book yourself with Blurb's service. Artists Danna Tartaglia and Olivia Schemanski have both self-published art books using Blurb.  ImageKind, a Cafepress company, now has an artist shop site you can join for free to sell your art online. Join the Imagekind community and start selling your art today CafePress lets you design a huge variety of products with your own art and sell them for a profit! A great way to gain more exposure for your work and make a few extra bucks. Janet London of London Hummingbird Arts and Hannah West, the founder of SOAR and Art Matters!, use CafePress to sell products with their own designs. 
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