Welcome to a new year! We hope you and yours had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!
AND we hope your resolutions included a quest for beauty and inspiration in 2011! If so, we have just what you need: classes, exhibits, festivals...anything to spark your creativity or to fulfill your love for the arts! Below you will find our latest exhibit and class information, as well as a few "teasers" as to what we have in store for you in the near future. Enjoy and be inspired to "Create a Beautiful World This Year!"
Sincerely,
Sarah Verner Executive Director Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association
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By: Lisa Schnellinger
Exhibit continues through February 18 |
Artists in Residence:
Don & Suzie Maier |
Artists in Residence: Jan 8 - March 25
Don & Suzie Maier |
Perfecting the Portrait
Beginning to Intermediate
Tuesdays, Jan 18 - Feb 8 (1-3pm)
Tuition: $95 ($85.50)
Inst: Colleen Sterling
This open media class will start with an overview of the fundamentals of facial anatomy and capturing likeness, then move on to achieving artistic expression thereby giving "life" to the subject. |
Watercolors in Dry Brush
Beginning to Intermediate
Tuesdays, Jan 11 - 25 (6 - 8pm)
Tuition: $85 ($76.50)
Inst: Alan Young
Watercolors in dry brush is a unique painting technique similar to acrylic painting, except that it maintains its transparency due to the watercolor medium. This technique is relatively dry, but still holds water-based paint. Students will be able to choose their own project while learning this fascinating, watercolor technique! |
Painting the Flowers of Winter
Beginning to Intermediate
Fridays, Feb 4 - 25 (1-3:30pm)
Tuition: $95 ($85.50)
Inst: Colleen Sterling
Working from floral and still life settings, participants will create colorful compositions in th painting mediums of their choice (acrylics, oils, pastels or watercolors). |
Putting LIFE in still Life
Beginning to Intermediate
Tuesdays, Mar 15 - Apr 5 (1-3:30pm)
Tuition: $95 ($85.50)
Inst: Colleen Sterling
Working from various still life settings, participants will learn how to compose in dynamic ways and hw to get the best results from the medium of their choice (acrylics, oils, pastels or watercolors). |
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Blue Ridge Mountains Arts Association
(The Art Center - Galleries on West Main)420 W. Main Street Blue Ridge, Georgia 30513 706-632-2144 www.blueridgearts.net |
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ANNUAL BOARD MEETING
Saturday, January 29
at 4pm. Join us for a short business meeting at The Art Center.
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Maxwell Taylor
LIVE in concert
at The Art Center, February 26, 7pm.
Tickets on sale NOW! $20
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for more information on
our clubs and meeting times:
SAAG
BlueRidgeMountainPhotographers
Poets & Writers
Woodcarvers |
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