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MAIN Info Session
Date: Sep 27, 2010
Time: 12:30 pm
Location: Main Line Art Center, FREE
Founded in 2007, MAIN (Mentoring Artists Interested in Networking) brings together emerging artists who have a body of coherent work and want to discover opportunities to present their work publicly. Please join us to network with other artists and follow up with and develop new ideas for promotional events for local artists. |
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Curator Talk: Chuck Thurow - Danielle Bursk: Between the Studio and Facebook
Date: Oct 15, 2010
Time: 4-5 pm
Location: Main Line Art Center, FREE
Chuck Thurow, curator of Danielle Bursk: Between the Studio and Facebook, our annual Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition, will present a talk about the new direction of the exhibition. Danielle Bursk: Between the Studio and Facebook, which runs Oct. 15-Nov. 13, explores the dynamic between the dedicated concentration on an artistic vision and a community that inspires and encourages that vision. Read more about Chuck, former Executive Director of Hyde Park Art Center (HPAC) in Chicago, and the exhibition by clicking here. |
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Potter’s Walking Tour of the PMA with Claire Shenk Rodgers
Date: Oct 17, 2010
Time: 10 am-1 pm
Location: Philadelphia Museum of Art
This tour led by Claire Rodgers starts with pottery from 6000 BC and unfolds through many cultures and important ceramic prototypes ending with American pottery from the early 20th century. We will look at these ceramic works of art from a potter’s point of view: how it was made, glazed and fired. What were the design decisions of these ancient potters? You will find that everything made today has been informed and inspired by those before us. Tour-goers will meet at the Education entrance on the south (river) side of the PMA at 10 am, and the tour will go for 2.5-3 hours. Admission to the museum is free on Sundays. To register, please visit the Education Section of our website. $46 M/$54 NM |
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Artistic Development: Understanding Contemporary Oil Painting Materials
Date: Oct 21, 2010
Time: 7 pm
Location: Main Line Art Center
Jordan Graw, Artist Representative for Gamblin Artist’s Colors, will present a hands-on presentation on Gamblin Oil Colors. The presentation will cover all aspects of oil paints, mediums and varnishes, including color theory and practical color mixing, mineral vs. modern pigments, oil paint manufacturing, mediums and varnishes and much more. Attendees will receive free Gamblin product and literature samples. FREE for Members/$10 NM. Visit the Adult Workshops section of our website to register or call 610.525.0272. |
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Artistic Development: Photograph 2 & 3-D Artwork
Date: Oct 24, 2010
Time: 12-4 pm
Location: Main Line Art Center
Learn the tools and techniques to photograph your artwork and crafts like a pro with Teaching Artist Richard Dunoff. We will explore lighting and exposure for photographing 2- & 3-D work, and inexpensive tools and techniques will be demonstrated that will enable you to have professional results at home. Bring a personal camera for hands-on experience photographing artwork. $51 M/$59 NM. Visit the Adult Workshops section of our website to register or call 610.525.0272. |
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Parent & Teen Lecture: Do’s & Don’ts of Portfolio Preparation and Presentation
Date: Oct 27, 2010
Time: 6-7:30 pm
Location: Main Line Art Center
Join us for this informative evening about the many do’s & don’ts for students and parents preparing to navigate the admissions process to colleges of art and design with the least amount of stress and anxiety. The talk will focus on preparation of the entrance portfolio and will also cover when to apply, value of a college visit, National Portfolio Days, how to find the right school and then what to expect your first year. FREE for Members/$15 NM |
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Artistic Development:The Artist & Social Media
Date: Oct 28, 2010
Time: 7:30-9 pm
Location: Main Line Art Center
Come discuss the artist’s place in cyberspace, a phenomenon for contemporary artists. Unlike the 19th and 20th century artists like Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet, and later Picasso who would go to cafes for socializing with friends and other creatives, we now have Facebook and Twitter. Linda Dubin Garfield, artist and president of smart business consulting, will help you navigate your way into the artists’ new café society of social media. Don’t be shy. It’s time to jump right in! $15 M/$20 NM. Visit the Adult Workshops section of our website to register or call 610.525.0272. |
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Artistic Development:The Artist’s Blog I: Nuts & Bolts
Date: Nov 7, 2010
Time: 10 am-12 pm
Location: Main Line Art Center
The key to selling more is maximizing exposure. The internet is a profitable tool for promoting art. Blogs provide a free and easy way to display art, discuss creative process, post exhibition announcements and more. Bring your laptop as Nancy Bea Miller shows you how to design and set up your own blog. Students must have a working knowledge of their computer operating system and wifi capability. $15 M/$20 NM. Please visit the Adult Workshops section of our website to register, or call 610.525.0272. |
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Members' Event: Artist Cafe
Date: Nov 9, 2010
Time: 9-10 am
Location: Main Line Art Center, FREE
Each session the Art Center will host Artist Café, a discussion group for our Members who are artists with a new theme to explore each session. This session will be about artist statements, so bring yours to share and discuss. Network with other artists while you enjoy coffee and baked goods. For Members only. RSVP to eost@mainlineart.org. |
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Artistic Development:Creating Digital Files of Your Artwork
Date: Nov 17, 2010
Time: 7 pm
Location: Main Line Art Center
Join Mike Zaikowski from Profiles Fine Art Printmaking Studio, for a live demo of his 4-step process for generating pleasing and accurate digital files from 2-D artwork. Mike will discuss how to set up lighting and a digital camera, and demonstrate using Photoshop Elements to correct files for color and contrast, crop and size and compress files for online uploading to websites, shows and galleries. Please visit www.ProfilesStudio.com for a follow-up seminar. $15 M/$20 NM. Please visit the Adult Workshops section of our website to register, or call 610.525.0272. |
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Raku Trip to Tuscany
Date: Jun 25, 2011 - Jul. 2, 2011
Location: La Meridiana in Tuscany
Next spring, the Art Center has planned a one week ceramics workshop for intermediate/advanced students at La Meridiana, a well equipped ceramics school set in a restored 18th century farmhouse, in the centre of Tuscany, land of Etruscan and Roman culture, medieval architecture and renaissance splendour. Since 1981, Meridiana has been dedicated to a continual education in the ceramic art, a meeting ground in a place rich in Italian culture and our group will spend one week studying Raku with one of the Center’s talented instructors while staying near by a beautiful Italian country house. In addition to instruction and firing and wonderful food, the group will take side trips to surrounding hill towns including Certaldo, Siena and San Gimignano and can start or end the week with their own stay in Florence our air destination. The surroundings at the school and villa are breathtaking where rigorous learning can take place in a relaxing atmosphere. Tuition Includes: All materials and firings, lodging in double room (single room on request), all lunches on the working days, breakfast, coffee breaks, welcome and farwell dinners, trips to S. Gimignano, Certaldo, Siena with guide, visit to a vineyard and wine tasting, live oil tasting, cooking demo, local organic farm and ground transportation while at La Meridiana. Please call the Art Center or stop by for more information. |
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