Breaking Through Creative Blocks: How to Develop More Creative Designs in Your Art with Ben Hollingsworth Atlanta Georgia

Date: Sunday, October 16, 2011

Time: 2:00 pm
Location:  SEFAA Center, 1705 Commerce Drive NW, Atlanta, GA  30318
Cost:   $15 for individual SEFAA members and $18 for non-members

Registration:    Go to http://www.fiberartsalliance.org/home/classes to print out the registration form.  Mail the completed form with your payment to:  125 Parkerwood Way, Alpharetta, GA  30022.

Registration Deadline:  October 9, 2011

 Join artist and quilter Ben Hollingsworth for an in-depth look at the creative process and how you can work through creative block.  Ben will start with a discussion of how we think, so that you'll understand where creative solutions to problems, ideas, or designs are born and why both analytical and creative aspects of our brain are required in order to produce good solutions.  Then he'll discuss what characteristics are desirable in creative problem solving and move onto suggestions about how you can become more comfortable with how you work.   He'll also discuss exercises and activities that you can do to break through creative block.  This will be an interactive presentation with lecture, discussion, samples and handouts.

Ben is a retired art teacher who has taught everything from jewelry making to sculpture, printmaking, photography, drawing and painting, and ceramics.  He joined the Chattahoochee Evening Stars Quilt Guild in Alpharetta in 2006, made a quilt for his first grandson the next year, and the rest, as they say, is history.  He now spends an average of five to six hours a day quilting, planning a quilt design, or doing something related to art.  In addition to membership in the Evening Stars Quilt Guild, Ben is the current President of Fiber Art Fusion, is a member of the East Cobb Quilters Guild (ECQG), and is in charge of hanging over 350 quilts for the ECQG "Georgia Celebrates Quilts" show September 16-18 at the Cobb County Civic Center..

Call to Artists Atlanta

Hey there 

I am looking for artists, mainly painters - fill up the Forum Gallery at the Defoor Centre in Atlanta GA - I need either 100 various sizes - I need about 8-10 to be no larger than 4FT by 6FT to fill up about that many spaces. These are considered to be showcase walls. I need to follow these rules from the facility - bright colors, no sexual or violent imagery, and lots of ... I need work to be slated for March 1 to May 31 - then or Sept 1 through the end of the year. ... 

So if you could post that along with my jill@scribblesstudios.com 

Jill Kettles 

404.213.8542

NATIONAL CALL FOR ENTRIES Augusta, Georgia

The Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art is pleased to announce a Call for Entries for its 2011 juried fine art competition, A Sense of Place. Open to participants from throughout the United States, this 31st annual event seeks to recognize the outstanding quality and diversity of work being generated by contemporary American artists. Serving as Juror for the competition is Tom Hammond, noted printmaker and professor emeritus at the University of Georgia’s Lamar Dodd School of Art.

The 2011 juried fine art competition is open to all US artists age 18 and older. All works must be original, not previously exhibited at the Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art and completed on or after June 1, 2009. Work that predates this cut-off date will not be considered. Entries in the following media categories will be accepted: painting, drawing, mixed media, printmaking, photography, ceramics, and sculpture. Film and video pieces are ineligible. The exhibition is not judged in media categories.

Three cash prizes will be given, including a $750 Best of Show Award and two $500 Juror’s Awards. Award recipients will be announced at the exhibition’s opening reception on Friday, September 16, 2011.

Click here to download a Prospectus for A Sense of Place 2011

Entry Deadline June 3, 2011

Georgia Watercolor Society 32nd National Exhibition

Watercolor Society announces a call to artists for a national juried exhibition, March 5 - April 21, 2011 at the Carrollton Cultural Arts Center, Carrollton, Georgia. $10,000 in cash and merchandise. 

Juror: Christopher Schink. Open to all artists 18 years of age and older. You need not be a resident of Georgia to enter. $40 for three entries for non-members. 

Deadline: January 2, 2011. Visit website for prospectus, or send a SASE to: Kathy Kitz, 2627 Bailey Dr, Norcross, GA 30071. Questions? Please contact Kathy Kitz at kathykitz@aol.com or call 770-263-7832.