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Collaborative Pointillism Mural
In addition to managing Creation Station, Ms. Myrbo annually coordinates the Atlanta High School Art Exhibition (AHSAE) for the Atlanta Dogwood Festival, and serves on teaching artist roster Atlanta Partnership for the Arts in Learning, (APAL), conducting workshops and residencies in Georgia. Her series of paintings: "Circus: Costume, Prop, and Baggage," is currently displayed in the Durham Arts Council Semans Gallery in Durham, North Carolina, through September. Cheryl Myrbo owned a pottery business in Minnesota and was awarded a patent on a drinking vessel design in 1985. By way of a Key West self-taught painting detour, she moved to Atlanta to study painting in an art school atmosphere and graduated from the Atlanta College of Art with Honors in 1997.
La Grande Jatte, by George Seurat. Come and try your hand at Pointillism in the Creation Station! Using permanent markers, color in one of the 144 small canvas squares that make up our projected "Un dimanche après-midi à l'Ile de la Grande Jatte," or Sunday Afternoon on the Island of the Grande Jatte, by French Pointillist George Seurat. This was the first large scale painting in history done entirely in the Pointillist technique. Interactive Collage Demonstration
Vickie's art has been described as a dance of shapes, rhythms and textures. Being the daughter and grand-daughter of piano tuners, using rhythm is natural for her. She is a native Atlantan, currently residing in Decatur. Always experimenting, Vickie employs everyday material into her multi-layered works, including such things as coffee, tea, alcohol, and lately utilizing a blow torch (and sometimes gunpowder!). She also integrates found paper as collage into much of her pieces. Active in the arts in Atlanta, she was a founding member and former president of the Atlanta Collage Society, and is a member of the Women's Caucus of Art in Georgia. Her work can be seen at The Seen Gallery in Decatur, Emerging Art Scene in Castleberry Hill, and Inside Out Accessories in Vinings Jubilee.
The term collage derives from the French "colle" meaning “glue”. This term was coined by both Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso in the beginning of the 20th century when collage became a distinctive part of art. The first 40 people to stop by Vickie’s tent will be able to create a collaborative collage they can walk away with. You will be able to use a variety of material, such as found papers such as music, dress patterns, books, rice paper, old drawings, greeting cards, magazines, newspapers, thread, to name a few! She will demonstrate dying paper also. Dying paper will be demonstrated throughout the day. Also - Vickie will show how she uses household items, such as coffee, tea, salt and alcohol, to create multi layered work on canvas. Working with a small blow torch she will demonstrate how she manipulates the layers to create more interest in the pieces. 11:00am Acrylic Transfer
Artist and scientist Bojana Ginn was born and raised in former-Yugoslavia. She graduated from Medical School in Belgrade, Serbia in 2001. After moving to the United States in 2002 and making Atlanta her home, she continued career in science at the Wayne Rollins Research Center at Emory University. Parallel to her scientific research, Ginn developed and pursued her lifelong interest in art, which grew from primary passion into a new career. Presently, as a recipient of a Savannah College of Art and Design's Honors Graduate Scholarship, she is pursuing an MFA in Sculpture at SCAD. Bojana creates diverse visual art: installations, paintings, drawings and 3D works. Her art was exhibited in numerous Atlanta galleries, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, SCAD Open Studios, The Seen Gallery, Gertsev Gallery, 7 Stages Theater Gallery, Garden Gallery, and many others. Acrylic transfer is the process of transferring a printed image from paper to acrylic gel. The acrylic gel texture gives a painterly quality to the image, which can then be used for creating original fine-art compositions on canvas, paper or other surfaces. In this demonstration, the artist will provide a detailed explanation of how to transform any home-printed photograph into a textured, mixed media piece of fine art. 12:30pm Wood Structure Design
Jeff Mather is an environmental sculptor & site artist & teaching artist based in Decatur, GA. Jeff has worked extensively in the Atlanta metro area and throughout the southeast as an independent artist and arts educator, collaboratively developing numerous works of art for public spaces and conducting hundreds of workshops and residencies in schools and other community venues. He is on the teaching artist banks with Young Audiences at the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta and the Georgia Council for the Arts, and he is the Board President at the Atlanta Partnership for Arts in Learning (APAL). He has been a member of Alternate ROOTS since 1990 and his community-based public art partnerships have been supported by ROOTS' C/AP Program - including, most recently, a project for West Baltimore, MD. He is the lead artist for the On Site/Insight multi-school partnership program for Atlanta Public Schools.
What is the meaning of making art in Piedmont Park? Public artist, Jeff Mather, returns to the scene of his first public art commission to share ways of making collaborative public art. Looking at the park itself provides the context for sculpture design choices. Freehand sketching on grayscale photos will lead directly into building a temporary site sculpture structure. 2:00pm Encaustic Photography
Travis Dodd earned his BFA in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2002. After graduating he was hired as Operations Manager for the SCAD Photography Department. During that time he exhibited in many local photography shows in Savannah's Historic Art District. After moving to Atlanta in 2005, he began to teach documentary photography and mixed media photography for the SCAD-Atlanta Continuing Education Program. In an attempt to further the use of his photographic imagery, Dodd began to experiment with photo-encaustics and photo-installation. This led to a rich knowledge in the understanding of encaustics and how they work with the photographic image. Most recently he has used this knowledge to teach encaustic workshops alongside master encaustic artist Michael David Singer. Travis currently holds the position of Operations Coordinator for SCAD-Atlanta.
Learn from local artist Travis Dodd as he leads you through incorporating encaustics into your photographic imagery. The demo will start with a brief explanation of what types of images work well with the encaustic process. Next, he will provide instruction on correct substrates and adhesive products. Finally, participants will learn how to integrate their photographic imagery using encaustics with instruction of fusing and pouring techniques. 3:30pm Marble Paper and Book Binding
Amber Singleton is an artist and educator originally from Greenville, South Carolina. She has a BA in Fine Art from Furman University and an MAT at Winthrop University. Amber currently resides in Atlanta and is Director of Fine Arts at The Weber School. Her work has been exhibited in the Annual Art Show at the Anderson Fine Arts Center in South Carolina and also at the Arts Exchange in Atlanta, Georgia. Amber recently exhibited her body of work, Back to Basics, which is a collection of artwork inspired by her teaching of design and composition. Her contemporary works on paper explore the foundational elements of line and color to create movement, rhythm and pattern.
Marble Paper is a technique that began in eighth century Japan, traveled to Europe in the fifteenth century, and made it's way into nineteenth century Art Nouveau. There are many types of marbleized paper and even fabrics. One of the most fascinating things about marbleizing is that no two sheets of the paper are the same. Local artist and educator, Amber Singleton, will be demonstrating a simple and fun technique of marbling paper with shaving cream and watercolors. In addition, she will demonstrate how to create a small, bound booklet using the marble paper as the cover. Your marbleized paper may also be used for journaling, creating a collage, or even drawing on with a variety of other media. For first-come-first-serve, you will be able to make your own marbled paper as long as the shaving cream lasts! 5:00pm Floral Foam as an Art Form
Artist and educator, Shelia looks back over 25 years spent in Visual Arts Education and credits "the student within" for the longevity. Her formal education began by pursuing a BFA from Wesleyan College and finally a B.S. in Sec Ed from Tennessee Temple University. She serves as one of 4 on the Visual Arts Faculty at Landmark Christian School (in South Fulton's Old Town Fairburn). Teaching various levels of 2 and 3D classes, Shelia has never met a piece of junk she didn't like and her art lab rivals a scene from Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. Being fascinated with the use of non-traditional materials, she attempts to broaden students' artistic ideas by utilizing everyday materials in new ways.
Experience a sculpting medium that is: additive, subtractive, affordable and forgiving. See the process in all stages morphing from block to organic shape. Using traditional and non-traditional sculpting tools, the session will conclude by demonstrating various surface treatment/texture options.... The targeted techniques will involve the use of the following materials: aluminum foil, hot glue, acrylic paint, shoe polish/dye, dry wall spackle, modeling paste, gesso, various papers and wall paper paste. |
