Outside/In Exhibit Announces winners

The winners of the Outside/In Exhibit:

FIRST PLACE - Barbara Berlin for "Into The Light"
SECOND PLACE - Dee Roberts for "Mist & Memory"
THIRD PLACE - Annelies Dykgraaf for "Before Barnishment from the Garden"
HONORABLE MENTION - Marsha Hatcher for "In The Garden"

Thanks to Barbara Fryefield for jurying the show.

Call for Artists (Sculptors)

Info for this show will be posted soon.

Marsha Hatcher featured Artist at The Art Center Gallery

TAC and AGOP Art Exhibit

PHOTOGRAPHING YOUR ARTWALK WORKSHOP @ TAC

This 3-hour workshop is split into lecture and hands-on experience. They will provide a broad overview of Photoshop's user interface learning the "what and why" of Photoshop's tools, commands and panels. Learn tips and tricks for photographing your art and making it look its best. A must-have for anyone looking to present, submit or showcase your work portfolio. Bring one piece of art to be photographed. You will receive one high resolution 300 dpi image of your work.

Tickets are $15 for Art Center members and $20 non-members. Please register at TAC's main gallery at 31 W. Adams Street during operating hours Tues - Sat between 11am - 3pm. Register online at http://photoshopart.eventbrite.com/.

A Panoramic View Landscape winners announced:

The following artists were accepted into the current exhibit titled "A Panoramic View".
Elaine Bedell, Carol Curtis, Michael Cenci (Honorable Mention), Bronwen Chandler, Keith Doles, Kathy Dolge, Paco Guitierrez, Beth Haizlip, Linda Hawkins, Patrick Hutton, Desiree Kantrim, Paul Ladnier, Patrick Mahoney (2nd Place), Steve Miller, Rick Petersen, Randy Pitts(3rd place), Deborah Reid, Pablo Rivera, Jef Taylor and (1st place winner) Leland Williams.
The winning art:
"Mirrors" by Leland Williams
"Stargazing" by Patrick Mahoney
"Dawn Patrol" by Randy Pitts
"Steinhatchee Falls" by Michael Cenci

The Art Center's Creators for One Spark

Bob Adelman from Adelman Designs is the guest featured artist at The Art Center (Adam St.) for the month of April.  Adelman Designs #348, Art by Dallas #731, Disk Sculptures #377 by Marsha Hatcher, and The Art Center #282 are all One Spark Creators which starts April 17 - 21, 2013.  Don't forget - you must be registered with One Spark to vote.

You are invited to attend an opening and reception
For Bronwen Chandler 
from 2 - 4 pm, Sunday March 24th

 In the Vandroff Art Gallery at
the Jewish Community Alliance,

8505 San Jose Boulevard,
Jacksonville, 32217
This exhibit runs through Sunday April 7th
  

I hope to see you there on the 24th!

www.artbybronwen.com

The  winners of The Art Center's THROUGH THE LENS PHOTOGRAPHY exhibit are:

1st Place - Ton e Watson
2nd Place -  Michael Cenci
3rd Place - Lawanda Barber
Honorable Mention - Carol Curtis

Be One Spark at TAC

Art In Education by Ed Malesky

Arts in Education

This is not a usual TAG blog entry, but I think this is such an important subject, I just had to write about it.

 

This morning I sat in on the Jacksonville Leadership Breakfast where the State of the Arts – Why Arts Education Matters was the sole topic.

 

. The panel was composed of:

• Nikolai Vitti – Superintendent, Duval County Public Schools
• Jackie Cornelius – Principal, Douglas Anderson School for the Arts
• Marcelle Polednik – Director, Museum of Contemporary Art
• Kimberly Hyatt – Executive Director, Cathedral Arts Project

The preamble to the discussion covered how school’s orientation generally reduces the naturally creative minds of our kids, as alluded to in Pablo Picasso’s famous quote;

 

                     “Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up”

 

There is also a great TED talk by Ken Robinson on the same topic.

 

There is lots of documentation supporting this premise, but the one mentioned here was that on a creativity test that has been developed, 98% of kindergarteners tested at the “genius” level. Five years later only 32% of the kids ranked in the “Genius” class and five years after that, it had dropped to 10%. Why do our systems drive creativity out of our kids?

 

This goes against the needs of our great companies. Jackie brought up four areas that most of the experts that follow successful industries list a key for their success. They are:

1. Innovation
2. Creative Thinking
3. Opportunities for innovation
4. Success in the above motivates employees, requiring:
1. Autonomy
2. Mastery of your job
3. A purpose

Dr. Vitti, who has only been the Duval County Superintendent of Schools for a few months, came up with some findings after visiting his schools. What he found was that our schools are not promoting creativity in our children. This is partially due to the focus on standardized testing as the sole measure of success. This drives teaching by recall, rather than critical thinking. He is getting ready to create a strategic plan that establishes four goals:

1. Great teachers and principals
2. An engaged group of parents
3. The best use of available resources
4. Focus on developing the whole child

 This “whole child” concept definitely includes the addition of arts and music to be part of the standardized curriculum, not only for the gifted and magnet schools, but for all schools. His idea is to expose the kids to arts and music during the elementary school years, then when they get to middle school some differentiation can be established. By this he meant that if there was serious interest the student displayed in middle school, possibilities of supporting this inclination can be further developed in magnet or gifted schools and programs.

 Marcelle was very straightforward in asserting that arts literacy is the motivation of creativity. It is not confined to the making of art either, but rather includes the thinking about arts, which is the foundation of our museums. One thing she said was very profound and that was we are developing students with little interest in arts or music, so when they grow up, they don’t foster this interest in their children. This process goes on and on until we end up further than ever away from the arts.

 This discussion continued that we don’t have any such problem with sports. Many school activities make success in sports a key focus for the schools and students. It also is an activity where the whole family can be involved. Marcelle recommended that we bring this family activity concept into the arts world by making family trips to the local museums. Many of them have free family days to help. In Dr. Vitti’s previous experience in Miami, the Parent Academy that he established helped facilitate this. He also established a Cultural Passport for the students, to make sure they were exposed to a broad range of the arts.

 Once again Dr. Vitti focused on the planning process that defines what we want the kids to do and then developing the plans and budgets to make this happen.

 

The session was then opened to questions from the floor. There were a number of points I thought were important, including:

1. We have established a concept of core vs elective classes in our curriculum. This establishes electives as second tier and therefore becomes the focus of budget cuts. Electives are important to the students to develop critical thinking which truly benefits industry.
2. We need to make it easier for businesses and other groups to help bring arts to our kids. Those channels of communication are not strongly developed or are cumbersome to use.
3. We talked about the idea of a Cultural Passport, not only for our kids, but for our city officials as well, so that they can clearly evaluate the true benefit of the arts.

 

My only problem with today is that virtually all the attendees were supporters of the arts already. It would be great to bring this message to those that have not found the value of the arts to help promote a constructive dialog

                                                                                                   Ed Malesky

Kenneth Balser

Will be featured artist at The Art Center gallery this month. Stop
by during artwalk. 31 W. Adams St. March 6th 5pm to 9pm

JCVA Winter Exhibit

Congratulations to TAC members in the current juried show at the Ponta Vedra Cultural Center Linda Hawkins ( third place, Pablo Rivera (honorable mention) and Elaine Bedell.

TAC - Call For Artists

Juried Art Show - “Through the Lens” – Photography

Submission deadline: February 28, 2013

Opening reception: March 7, 2013  

The Art Center Premier Gallery, Bank of America tower, 50 N. Laura St. 5-7 pm

“You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.” - Ansel Adams

Show us all that your photographs bring to us in this wonderful show.

Photography only

Cost of entry: TAC members: $20 up to 3 entries; Non-members: $25 up to 3 entries; $5 per each additional entry for everyone. Please make checks payable to The Art Center.

Juror: TBA

Notification of unaccepted work: March 1, 2013

Pick Up of unaccepted work: March 5, 2013

Post-Show Pick Up: April 18, 2013.

http://an-evening-in-paris.eventbrite.com/#

MOSH AND RACE

The Art Center is excited to announce our partnership with Jacksonville's Museum of Science and History as they open a revolutionary new exhibit:  RACE: Are We So Different?  

This award-winning traveling exhibit makes a powerful statement about the origin of race, race ideas and the impact they have on American Society.  The RACE exhibit examines the topic from historical, scientific and cultural perspectives in hopes of helping individuals of all ages better understand the origins and manifestations of race in everyday life.

For more information on this compelling new program, please visit MOSH's website

RACE Exhibit winners announced

1st Place - Annelies Dykgraaf for her woodcut titled HOLDING ON TO HERITAGE           

    2nd Place -  Ed Malesky for his wood sculpture titled COMMUNION

 

    3rd Place - Jean F. Ossi for her mixed medium titled PATRIARCH

 

    Honorable Mention - Steve Miller for his oil painting titled BRANDI

 

    Guest Juror - Al Letson



 

Tickets on sale TODAY through Feb.16th

                                         http://an-evening-in-paris.eventbrite.com/#

RACE – Respecting Anybody’s Cultural Experience

Juried Art Show

January 24 through March 7

at The Art Center Premier Gallery, Bank of America Tower, 50 N. Laura St.

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“(Racism) is not how you look, it is about how people assign meaning too how you look”

Robin D. G. Kelley, historian

The above quote is from a exhibition entitled RACE: Are We So Different? that MOSH (Museum of Science and History) is bringing to Jacksonville on January 26 through April 28, 2013.

The Art Center also wanted to take a look at issues about race and is inviting you to participate in a juried show called RACE – Respecting Anybody’s Cultural Experience.

“Your art says a lot about how you see the world” and we would like to see how your art best represents the diversity in our world and how we can all come together.

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Submission Deadline – January 17, 2013

Opening reception: January 24, 2013   Premier Gallery, 5:00 - 7:00pm

Cost of entry: TAC members: $20 up to 3 entries; Non-members: $25 up to 3 entries; $5 per each additional entry for everyone. Please make checks payable to The Art Center.

Juror: TBA

Notification of unaccepted work: January 18, 2013

Pick Up of unaccepted work: June 22, 2013

Post-Show Pick Up: March 7, 2013

 

 

Questions? Please contact Annelies at amdafricanmk@msn.com or Ed at emalesky@comcast.net for answers or additional details.



ARTIST WORKSHOP

Artist Workshop:   "The Art of Left Brain / Right Brain Creativity"

This educational 3-hour workshop is designed for the visual artist and explores the topic of left / right brain theory and its relevance for art-making. Increase awareness about your own left / right brain approach to making art and how it influences your work. Experience and learn fun left / right brain exercises to stimulate, unblock, or unlock your natural creativity. Limited to 30 participants.    $15 member/$20 non-member

Facilitator: Michael Frame, B.F.A, M.A.

Michael is a professional counselor and visual artist with a B.F.A. in Painting/Drawing from the University of North Florida and an M.A. in Counseling Psychology form Norwich University.  Michael completed post-graduate work in Art Therapy at Vermont College and is currently working toward an Ed.D in Education.