Calling all artists!

            WHAT:   First City, Pensacola’s Premiere Juried Art Show

            WHO:    Sponsored by Quayside Art Gallery

            WHERE: Quayside Art Gallery, 15-17 E. Zaragoza St.
                      Pensacola, Florida 32501
                             850-438-2363
                      www.quaysidegallery.com

            WHEN:   May 1-31, opening reception May 2, 6 to 8 p.m.

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Outside Art Fair!

May 17th & 18th

The 5th Annual Outside Art Fair (OAF), is presented by the Arts Council of Northwest Florida. This  local art show and sale features the works of over 100 local artists. The outdoor event is free and open to the public. The OAF event has in past years drawn upwards of 5,000 people and this year's fair, scheduled to be held on May 17th & 18th in Bartram Park on Bayfront Parkway will be no different. For more information, please visit the Arts Council of Northwest Florida's website at www.artsnwfl.org or call 850-432-9906.

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THE BELMONT ARTS CENTER TO OFFER SPRING/SUMMER POTTERY WORKSHOPS
FOR KIDS AND ADULTS

The Belmont Arts and Cultural Center will offer additional workshops to its series of classes this spring/summer. These workshops will offer pottery classes for both kids and adults.
KIDS POTTERY CLASSES

Saturday classes

Session 1 – April 12 & 19
Session 2 – May 3 & 10
Session 3 – May 31 & June 7

10-11:30am
Ages 5-8
Class fee $65 or 2 for $55 each

Come and create your own piece of artwork from clay. In this two week class, you will learn how to hand-build and glaze you own work of art.
One-on-one instruction is the hallmark of this program. Price includes all materials, tools and firing. Parents are encouraged to stay during class.

Session 1- April 5, 12, & 19
Session 2- April 26, May 3, & 10
Session 3 – June 7, 14 & 21

1:30-3:30pm
Ages 9-14
Class fee $95

In this three week class you will learn how to hand-build with clay and will also experience throwing on the potter’s wheel. One-on-one instruction is the hallmark of this program. Price includes all materials, tools and firing.

Thursday classes

Session 1 –April 10, 17, & 24
Session 2 – May 29, June 5th & 12th
Session 3 – June 19th, 26th & July 3rd

3-5 pm
Ages 9-14
Class fee $95

In this three week class you will learn how to hand-build with clay and will also experience throwing on the potter’s wheel. One-on-one instruction is the hallmark of this program.
Price includes all materials, tools and firing.

ADULT POTTERY CLASSES – WHEEL THROWING

Tuesday evening sessions
6 -9 pm
6 week session
May 13, 20, 27; June 3, 10, 17
Min. age - 14
Class fee $150 - Price includes all materials, tools and firing

Thursday afternoon classes for Beginning and continuing students 10 am to 1 pm:
6 week session
March 13, 20, 27, April 3, 10, 17
May 29, June 5, 12, 19, 26 & July 3
Min. age - 14
Class fee $150 - Price includes all materials, tools and firing

Thursday evening sessions
6-9 pm
6 week session
May 29, June 5, 12, 19, 26 & July 3
Min. age - 14
Class fee $150 - Price includes all materials, tools and firing

All workshops will be held at the Belmont Arts Center, 401 North Reus St., located inside the window factory in downtown Pensacola. Pre-registration is required.

For more information and a full listing of all of the Belmont Arts Center’s classes in pottery, glass blowing, glass beads and music, contact 429-1222 or visit www.belmontartscenter.com.

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Art for All

USM Fine Art- Ursula Mahler

Rebecca Haydu-Jackson/ Journalist
Gungho City

Glass Blowing Workshop with master glass artist Joe Hobbs!

MAKE YOUR OWN GLASS SOUVENIR:
40 MINUTE EXPERIENCE
Days and Times:
every tues, wed, thurs  3 pm – 7 pm / Sat. 10 a – 1 pm - BY APPT. ONLY.
Cost: $25 - $50 - materials included.

Description: Opportunities exist for all ages. We provide the materials and you provide the imagination. No experience is necessary. Experience hot glass working - you and your family will be given the opportunity to create simple glass objects, such as paperweights, flowers, and glass ornaments. Reservations required.

1-day workshop - Beginning Glass Blowing
Saturday Workshop dates:
12/11, 1/19, 2/26, 3/15, 4/12
Time: Saturday - 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Tuesday Workshop dates:
12/15, 1/8, 2/5, 3/11, 4/15
Time: Tuesday - 6 - 9 p.m.

cost: $150 (materials included)
Class size - 6
min. age 16
Course Description: Students will learn the basics of blowing and manipulating glass. They will then create simple glass objects. No glass blowing experience is required.

Beg/Int. 2 week glass blowing workshop
session I - 1/15 - 1/24
session II - 2/26 - 3/6
session III - 3/18 - 3/27
session IV- 4/22 - 5/1
Days & Times: Tuesday and Thursday - 6 - 9 p.m.
Cost for each session: $550 ($50 savings -
materials included)
Class size - 6
min. age - 16
Course Description: Students will create simple glass objects, such as colorful paperweights, flowers, free-form sculpture, and vessels. No glass working experience is required. Students then build on their basic skills. Using both colorless and colored glass, they will create objects such as cups, vessels, and sculpture.

To register for a workshop: registration form or for more information call the Belmont Arts Center at 850.429.1222 or email info@belmontartscenter.com.

Pensacola Museum of Art

Sosaku Hanga: Modern Japanese Prints
February 1 – April 26, 2008
Lewis Bear Family Galleries

Two schools of printmaking existed in twentieth-century Japan: Shin hanga and Sosaku hanga. Shin hanga or “new prints” continued the traditional ukiyo-e subjects and workshop method of print making, but with a new Western influence. Sosaku hanga or “creative prints” were more fully Westernized in style, blending Japanese aesthetics with international trends in art, especially European methods of painting and printmaking. The artist did everything himself: selected the paper, carved his design in the wood blocks, mixed the pigments, printed the images and marketed the prints.

This exhibition of approximately twenty Sosaku hanga prints displays a wide variety of subjects, techniques and artists. The works mostly date from the 1950s and 1960s, when the sosaku hanga movement finally achieved international recognition. The prints reveal a close relationship with nature. Others capture the human figure, including depictions of children. There is also a tea house, a circus scene, and works titled Zen and The Universe. These prints create a vivid picture of the eclecticism and renovation of Japanese printmaking in the mid-twentieth century.


This exhibition is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida.

pictured:
Kiyoshi Saito, Red Poppies, 1948, color woodblock and gouache
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida
Gift of Irwin and Marcia Hersey

The Art Students League of New York: Highlights from the Permanent Collection
February 29 – April 20, 2008
Kugelman Family and Thornton Galleries

As one of America’s oldest art schools, The Art Students League of New York has attracted outstanding talents as teachers, as well as helped prepare others who left their individual marks on 20th century American art. This selection of seventy-five works from the school’s permanent collection reflects art movements of the last 125 years, from late 19th century figure drawings to 1930s Social Realist prints to Pop and Abstract paintings.

This exhibition is organized by Smith Kramer Fine Art Services.

pictured:
William Merritt Chase, Fish Still Life, 1908, oil on canvas

Emil Holzhauer: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the PMA and OWCC
April 25 - June 20, 2008
Kugelman Family and Thornton Galleries

Emil Holzhauer (1887-1986) began his lengthy artistic career as a jewelry designer apprenticed in Germany. Following his emigration to New York City, Holzhauer began attending classes at the Robert Henri School of Art in 1909. The revolutionary Henri influenced the young artist with his desire for ‘common’ subject matter in art. Holzhauer continued with his involvement in the New York avant-garde scene until 1940 when he became a faculty member at the Ashville School for Boys. He later taught at Wesleyan College, the Norton Gallery, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Following his retirement in Niceville, Florida Holzhauer became an integral part of the Gulf Coast’s artistic development. The Pensacola Art Center (now the PMA) presented one-man exhibitions of his work in 1955 and 1958, and Holzhauer taught at the Center from 1955 through 1961. His work Brooklyn Bridge, completed in 1954, was the first accessioned piece in the Pensacola Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection in 1955.

In the 1990's Okaloosa-Walton College received a gift of more than 350 pieces of Emil Holzhauer's work. By joining our Holzhauer collection with a portion of their collection, the PMA will offer a rare look at this nationally recognized artist and his important impact on our community.

pictured:
Emil Holzhauer, Self Portrait, 1935, oil on canvas, collection of the Pensacola Museum of Art

April Calendar

Tue 1 - Homeschool Art Ed-Venture "GEORGIA ON MY MIND"

Sat 5 - Saturday Workshop for kids "LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY ART STUDENTS"

Thu 10 - Sun 13 - Art in Bloom, a PMA fundraiser

Sat 12 - Saturday Workshop for kids "FUN WITH FUJI"

Sat 19 - Last Day of The Art Students League of New York: Highlights from the Permanent Collection

Fri 25 - Emil Holzhauer: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the PMA and OWCC Opens

Sat 26 - Last Day of Sosaku Hanga: Modern Japanese Prints

Mon 28 - Deadline for entries Members Juried Exhibition (entries can be submitted until midnight)

May Calendar

Fri 2 - Opening Reception for Facing Abstraction: Refiguring the Body in the 20th century

Sat 3 - Saturday Workshop for Kids "FIGURE IT OUT!"

Sat 10 - Saturday Workshop for Kids "WALK EMIL IN MY SHOES"

Fri 30 - Artists will be notified of acceptance into the Members' Juried Exhibition

"Vision of an Artist"

“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.” James McNeil Whistler so eloquently stated in the 19th century. Today this idea still rings true for many. If you don’t have a vision to start from, the labor is going to be useless.

21st Century painter Oudi Aarroni declared, "I paint not only what I see but, more importantly, what I feel. For me, painting is not merely holding up a mirror to the world but rather reacting to it". An artist can easily paint the world as it is, but when you react to the world though artwork it makes everything look possible. You can reveal to people how much differently you see the world than they do without even speaking a word.

As Lani Picard stated, “There is no excuse for small thinking, for we have infinite minds.” So, if our minds are truly endless to possibilities, we can come up with almost anything. Because the more you create and produce, the more you are able to let your infinite mind run free.

In closing I leave you with another quote from James McNeil Whistler, "As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color."

Tiffany Hartman

Journalist / Gungho City                         

Pensacola Museum of Art

Got the urge to see some contemporary art? Maybe you desire to bask in the warmth of a historic building while feasting your eyes on pieces of art from the 20th and 21st centuries. Or maybe you just want to educate yourself or your family about the finer aspects of art.
If so, the Pensacola Museum of Art is the place to go.

The Pensacola Museum of Art has a rich history that would be far too long to detail in this column. Suffice to say that in 1954 a group of women pooled their skills to create the Art Center and later helped to form the Pensacola Art Association. When the city of Pensacola wanted to replace the old city jail, they made a bid and turned the structure into a prime location for exhibits. Finally in 1988, the Pensacola Art Association bought the building and today visitors and locals know it as the Pensacola Museum of Art.

Since that time, the museum has presented hundreds of works of art and led thousands of educational opportunities. Their current exhibits include ‘A Simple Expression of a Complex Thought: Bassmi Ibrahim’ and is currently the only museum in Florida to host the ‘Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography’.

The museum is open Tuesday – Friday from 10:00a.m. – 5:00p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 12:00p.m. – 5:00p.m. It is closed on all major holidays and Mondays.

Adults are $5.00
Students and Military are $2.00
Children under 5 are free
And Tuesdays are a freebie day for all.

Members are also let into the museum for free and also enjoy other benefits for joining, including discounts, Members Only previews, a newsletter, and special art tours. To find out more on how to become a Member and the fees that apply check out:
http://www.pensacolamuseumofart.org/join.htm

Also on every first and second Saturday of the month, the Art Museum hosts what they call “Saturday Art Ed-ventures”. During these Saturdays, workshops are held for children age 6-14. They are given a guided tour of the exhibits and then retire for a class from 1:00p.m. – 2:30p.m. that explores the themes found throughout the museum. Parents may join their children in the workshop. The cost of this is $10.00 for non-members and $7.00 for members.

To learn more about the Pensacola Museum of Art, their exhibits, functions, and activities visit their website at:

http://www.pensacolamuseumofart.org/

Still want to explore the depths of art at other locations, or perhaps you like your art to be spiced with other things? Check out the following:

National Museum of Naval Aviation

• http://naval.aviation.museum/home.html
  

• 130 East Government Street, 850-434-6211 10:00a.m. – 4:00p.m. Tuesday through Saturday
  

• Fort Pickens, Pensacola Beach 850-934-2635 9:30a.m. – 5:00p.m. $8.00 for a seven day pass
  

• http://www.gulfarium.com/
  

• Navarre Park, 850-939-3267, Tuesday through Sunday 11:00a.m. – 4:00p.m.
  

• http://www.historicpensacola.org/default.asp
  

• http://pensacolahistory.org/museum.htm
  

• http://www.pensacolaauxiliary.com/

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