VISUAL ARTicle Exhibits IB & AP Student Art

I’m pleased to announce the newly established Visual ARTicle Portfolio.  For several weeks, I’ve been photographing art by IB and AP Visual art students who attend Hillsboro High World School in Nashville, TN.

The purpose of the Flickr account is to enable universities to easily and quickly view artwork by applicants from the IB and AP Visual Arts program taught by my friend, Marti Profitt-Steuli.  The portfolio is also a way for students in IB programs around the world to see what we are doing here at the Hillsboro World School.

The goal of the Visual ARTicle Portfolio is to offer an opportunity for students to learn how to document and display their art online.   Each student participant has a Flickr Set and Collection folder.  Art work is added as it is completed and photographed.  As the school year proceeds, students learn how to photograph, Photoshop, and upload their images to their folders.

When Hillsboro Art Club members return from their Thanksgiving break they will begin  to learn how to administer the corresponding VISUAL ARTicle WordPress blog and the upload images to their portfolio Flickr folders.  Art Club members are IB and AP junior and senior Visual Arts students.  Visual Arts II sophomores, juniors, and seniors who express an interest and are recommended by their instructor, are invited to join.  IB members who actively participate are awarded CAS credit hours.  Each IB Diploma Candidate is required to generate a CAS report which consists of approved projects that involve Creativity, Action, and/or Service.

Passionate About Jewelry

When you make jewelry for 25 years, you can’t help but collect.  Those special gems, the ones you can’t bear to part with.  My collection runs the gambit of plastic to platinum. The collection is the result of trading, haggling, inheriting, and some are made by me.  Enjoy!

THE IMAGE: Bakelite and cut crystal earrings, part of a suite.  Stamped  EDLEE©  

Michael R. Grine – 2011 Plans for NYC Agora Gallery Exhibition

Week 10, Blog 9, September 18, 2010

I am so pleased to congratulate Michael on securing his Chelsea, NYC, NY exhibition scheduled for February 2-25, 2011.   Please take a minute to celebrate one of our own.      …and, yes, those are photos from a 3rd Saturday Photo Clinic displayed here in July.   www.MichaelGrine.com

Agora Gallery – Collective Exhibition and  Michael Grine on ARTmine BRAVO!!!

Violet Tanner – Silk Embroidary on Linen

Week 7, Blog 8, August 25, 2010

THE ART: Violet Tanner, Vi to her friends and family, was a remarkable fiber artist long before that term was coined.  She was renown in Epsom and Ewell Village, Surrey, England for detailed, beautifully colored embroidery of a substantial size.  Vi Tanner passed away in 2000 at 82; for the last twenty years of her life Vi would sit for hours working in the natural light of her flat (think apartment). She was convinced her embroidery and knitting kept her eyes strong, her hands nibble, and her mind sharp.  Included in her portfolio are felt stuffed animals, complicated knitting patterns, crocheted three-piece suits, and hundreds of pictorial embroideries.

THE IMAGE: 500px sq. gray SHOW OFF JPEG SLIDE ~ 72ppi ~ original photograph 2864px X 2592px ~ 300ppi  DIMENSIONS: length 43 in.  x  width 10 in.

Curtiss Brock – Glass Artist

Week 5, Blog 7, August 9, 2010

THE ART: Curtiss Brock is a professor, accomplished glass artist, and Head of the Glass Department at the Appalachian Center for Crafts, Tennessee Technological University, Smithville, Tennessee.

The origin of my prized lattice bowl is an amusing collector’s tale.  A group of glass students challenged Curt to demonstrate the difficult technique of inserting air bubbles into the intersections a cane-work lattice.  To the amazement of the young gaffers, Curt took the challenge and produced an exceptional bowl.

A frequent visitor to the ACC glass shop in the 1990′s, I found Curt’s demonstration bowl on his storage shelves while looking for gifts to buy.  I was immediately fascinated by the technical complexity and elegant simplicity. I walked out of the storage room with my prize in hand asking for the purchase price.  Curt shook his head and said, “I”m not sure I want to sell that one.” I proclaimed my love and he relented  with, “It figures you would find the best piece in the storage room.”  To this very moment, it is a prized center piece of my glass collection.  See more of Curtiss Brock’s art glass at iweb.tntech.edu/cbrock/

THE IMAGE: 500px sq. gray SHOW OFF JPEG SLIDE ~ 72ppi ~ original photograph 2864px X 2592px ~ 300ppi  DIMENSIONS: diameter 8.5 in.  x  height 5.5 in.

Lanie Gannon – Finely Crafted Sculpture

Week 5, Blog 6, August 2, 2010

THE ART: Great art is work you can live with for over a decade and never tire of it.  Lanie Gannon sculpts art which is beautifully crafted and meant to be viewed from every angle; each detail is clean and exact.  The figures are fun and artful.  I have lived with this sculpture for 12 years and still marvel at its perfection.  See more of Lanie’s art at  www.laniegannon.com

THE IMAGE: 500px sq. gray SHOW OFF JPEG SLIDE ~ 72ppi ~ original photograph 2140px X 2232px ~ 300ppi  DIMENSIONS: height 16 in. x  width 14 in.  x  depth 10 in.

Juliana Ericson – Purple Mountain Majesties

Week 4, Blog 5, July 25, 2010

THE ART: True to her reputation as a supportive member of the arts community, Juliana was the first artist to sign up for the 3rd Sat. Photography and Documentation Clinic and our first return client.  Thank you, thank you!  This recent group of commissioned ethereal paintings depict Tennessee Native Indian burial mounds.  Set in a Tennessee landscape, the translucent Indian spirits dance on a burial mound, as distant doves fly overhead. The sun makes every surface glow.  Juliana is ‘spot on’ in her depiction of the purple and pink mountains that greet middle and east Tennesseans each morning.  www.juliana-art.com

THE IMAGE: 500px sq. gray SHOW OFF JPEG SLIDE ~ 72ppi ~ original photograph 3100px X 2064px ~ 300ppi