Sculpture Classes with Award-Winning Sculptor

THE ROAD TO BALI IS PAVED WITH INSPIRATION……AND SHOPPING!

Lori Myers & Lauren Knode, both participating artists in the 2012 Arizona Fine Art EXPO, took flight this summer and found an abundance of inspiration.

We’re back!!

Okay, it has been a while – almost a year – but we are back with a fabulous line up of more than 100 artists.  Here is an update of what some of the artists have been doing over the last year….

JASON NAPIER

Crossfire

17.5″ tall x 19″ long x 9″ wide (clay size)

Black Granite Base Details:  11″ diameter x 1.75″ thick, bullnose edge & embedded swivel

Limited Edition of 21

A glimpse into the EXPO….

Sound Sculptures; Canon Pixma

Becoming one with the landscape….

To Inform and Entertain You…..

With the sun still shining brightly in Arizona here is a little ‘meandering advice’ with some fabulous reflection. Check out our youtube site for additional videos: Youtube/ArizonaFineArtExpo

THE NEXT POLLOCK…..

Need a new way to while away the time burn daylight, buy time, consume time, dabble, diddle, doodle, dawdle, dillydally, footle, fribble, fritter, have fun, keep time, lollygag, look for time, loosen up, lose time, measure time, pass the time, pass time, piddle, or potter? If you haven’t already done so then visit http://www.manetas.com/pollock/ or click on the image above to create your own Internet Art.

Like Water for Chocolate…

Art has many forms as she delves deep into the artist and the audience alike to encapsulates emotion.

So let us step into the art world of writing and cooking with Laura Esquivel’s book Like Water for Chocolate. It is tale of love, passion and food.

A must for readers and food lovers alike once you have finished the book  see the Spanish version of the film with English subtitles and then perhaps cook the recipes!

The New York Times/nytimes.com free book reading series ‘The Great Summer Read’ offered the first chapter as a pdf.

Like Water for Chocolate



Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

‘Thirty Years of Collecting: A Recent Gift to the Museum‘ showcases approximately 100 new works of contemporary art given this year to the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art by Don and Carolyn Eason. Santa Fe-based collectors, the Easons
purchased art throughout their relationship and this wonderful collection is a testament to their shared vision and passion for contemporary art. Daring art collectors, the couple sought out the work of both established and lesser known artists. For example, Kenneth Noland and Ken Price are both represented in the collection alongside the art of John Tinker and Bill Metcalf. In an interview published before Don Eason’s death, the couple described their collection as favoring “the maverick, the quirky, the slightly off.”

Organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.

For more information visit:http://www.smoca.org/exhibit.php?id=205

Happy Birthday John…..

LIVERPOOL (REUTERS).- John Lennon’s son Julian and first wife Cynthia unveiled a monument to the late singer Saturday, the 70th anniversary of his birth, and said the time for mourning the former Beatle was over.

The presentation of a $350,000 18-foot structure, designed to promote peace, was one of several events being held around the world to celebrate one of pop music’s most influential singers and songwriters who was murdered in New York in 1980 at the age of 40.

Internet search site Google paid tribute to Lennon with a hand-drawn logo and mini-video based on his hit “Imagine.”

Manhattan planned a benefit concert and Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono was to perform alongside their son Sean as the Plastic Ono Band in Reykjavik.

Cynthia, 71, and Julian Lennon, 47, looked on in Lennon’s birthplace Liverpool as a choir performed his music. A crowd of several hundred people gathered in Chavasse Park for the event.

“I think the mourning is over for John,” said Cynthia, who was married to Lennon between 1962 and 1968. “I think it’s time to celebrate, which is what we’re doing.”

Musician Julian added: “I think most things have been said. We come here with our hearts to honor dad and to pray for peace and say thank you to each and every one of you and everyone involved in the celebrations today.”

As one half of the songwriting partnership in the Beatles alongside Paul McCartney, Lennon was responsible for much of the band’s catalog, including seminal hits like “She Loves You,” “I Want to Hold Your Hand” and “A Hard Day’s Night.”

The band is widely credited as being the most successful in pop history, and Lennon went on to make his mark as a solo artist after the group split in 1970 with classic songs including “Imagine.”

Ono said his influence continued to be felt, 30 years after his death.

“It’s very interesting, you know, that songs like ‘Gimme Some Truth’ mean a lot now, and of course ‘Give Peace a Chance’ … ‘Imagine’,” she said in Reykjavik Friday.

“All his political songs really have a lot of meaning right now for people,” she said.

Lennon remains big business, and the anniversary, just months before the 30th anniversary of his death, has seen the release of a new wave of Lennon-related merchandise and music.

Ono oversaw the making of a digitally remastered Lennon catalog that includes eight studio albums and several newly compiled titles on the EMI Music label.

(Reporting and writing by Mike Collett-White; Editing by Janet Lawrence)