Dear Friends of Mr. Imagination,
Mr. I was featured in Curator’s Choice for Sunday Arts, a segment about the Folk Art Museum’s show, Approaching Abstraction, on PBS in late February. The segment is about ten minutes toward the end of the half hour show. Enjoy!
http://www.thirteen.org/sundayarts/approaching-abstraction/425
Enjoy!
Martha Henry
SUMMERVILLE, Ga. — They say money can’t buy happiness, but Chattooga County hopes it can buy Paradise.
County Commissioner Jason Winters says the county is in negotiations to buy Howard Finster’s Paradise Gardens.
Feeling sales are slow, here is something to dig on. The results of The Art Festival Newsletter’s first national survey are in, collated and available for you to read and digest. Click here for more
Of note, most feel things have changed but few are willing to change, most are content to wait.
I would love to reach out to the folks in Who-Ha with a special offer to participate in Folkfest. What is the best way to do that?! I have a couple of incentives to encourage the fellowship to get on down to Florida this year!!
Any ideas of what some of the best motivating factors have been for you or folk artists you know in determining which shows you participate in? We are planning to offer free hotel accomodations to one or two artists who sign up first, as well as 3 or 4 monetary art awards for the festival…
Folkfest St. Pete is an annual street folk art and music festival held in downtown St. Pete on Central Avenue in front of Creative Clay Cultural Arts Center. The expressed mission of the festival is to draw as many people to Creative Clay’s front door step as possible to bring exposure to 15 years of creativity, passion, and art-making at Creative Clay. Creative Clay receives all proceeds from the festival to assist the organization in serving literally hundreds of community members with a variety of obstacles to accessing the arts. In 2009, more than 20,000 festival participants enjoyed bands like Rebekah Pulley and the Reluctant Prophets, The New Familiars and Donna the Buffalo. Folkfest St. Pete is also a fantastic opportunity for Creative Clay to reach out partner with like-minded community organizations such as the city of St. Petersburg, YMCA, Youth Arts Corps, and Suncoast Hospice.
Jenny
Jenny Baxley Lee, MA, BC-DMT, CCLS
Director of Arts Services
Creative Clay Cultural Arts Center
Making the arts accessible to all
www.creativeclay.org
Phone 727-825-0515
Fax 727-825-0525
On Saturday, October 2, 2010, the Hickory Museum of Art will have its 2nd annual outdoor folk art sale held on Lake Norman in Sherrills Ford. Folk Art Festival at the Lake will give folk artists the opportunity to show and sell their artwork in a juried artist sale located in a natural setting. Last year Folk Art Festival At The Lake was a great success. Over 1000 people attended and the majority of participating artists had strong sales.
The Lake Norman area is home to an active arts community filled with art enthusiasts and collectors. The participation of artists like you is another important ingredient to help make a great success!
George
HOWDY YA’ALL – GREETINGS Frum POSSUM COUNTY™
We FINALLY got the new website working. Still a few bugs to work out but we’re getting there.
New features:
• Sheila’s blog…she’ll be posting weekly…if there’s anything you want her to mention…email SHEILA
• Links to dozens of our Blues Musician Friends
• Links to 100 folk artist friends ……There’s many that we couldn’t find their links…..IF…..you are not listed or if we don’t have the favorited link….please email me and I’ll post or correct
it asap. GEORGE
• 1000 pieces of art for sale and a SECURE shopping cart for easy ordering.
NOTE: we’ll be re-posting the OLD pictures from our old website as soon as we are able to convert web archives to jpegs so we can post ‘em!
Please give it a look….SUGGESTIONS WELCOME!
` Thanks George Borum…..aka…..MUROB
Doo-Nanny 2010
Third time is for charm…..yes the blog has been destroyed once again, God I hope I get the hang of this…hang on.