"News From Diversity fourteen"
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NEWS FROM DIVERSITY - January 4, 2002
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In this issue...
Community Arts Task Force meeting
Diversity's drawing classes in DeRidder
News from the Louisiana Division of the Arts
Upcoming events and website updates for 2002
COMMUNITY ARTS TASK FORCE MEETING
The next meeting of Leesville's Community Arts Task Force
will be held January 5th, 9am at the First Christian Church
(400 N. 6th Street) The task force is doing a great job of
bringing the arts to the young people in our area. This
meeting is open to the general public. For more information,
please call: (337) 238-1959 or email mnearly@worldnetla.net
DRAWING CLASSES
Diversity's next life drawing class will be held in DeRidder
at Misty Martin's home on Tuesday, Jan. 15th at 6:30 pm (not
7 pm as previously announced) For those of you interested in
drawing the human figure, please join us with your art materials
and a $10 fee (to pay the model) at 101 South Royal Street.
Directions from Leesville...
- Hwy 171 South into DeRidder
- Right turn onto Hwy 190 West (one-way) at the Methodist
Church
- Left turn on the first street you can make a left on,
North Royal, at the Heart Center
- Go one block to Hwy 190 East (one-way) (also called 1st
Street) and cross straight ahead. You are now on South
Royal
Misty's home is the first house on the right corner after you
cross Hwy 190 East. If you get lost, please feel free to call
her at (337) 462-1621. Or if you'd like, I'll be leaving the
gallery at 6 pm that day and would be glad to give anyone a ride
from Leesville.
NEWS FROM THE LOUISIANA DIVISION OF THE ARTS
Diversity receives information from the Louisiana Division of
the Arts every week. The following is an edited version of some
of the things I thought you might be interested in.
Gouache This!, workshop presented by the Louisiana Arts and
Science Center, Jan. 14th in Baton Rouge, LA. Participants will
learn the basics of working with the traditional medium of gouache,
or opaque watercolor. $60 registration fee ($50 for members).
For more info, contact: LASC, P.O. Box 3373, 100 S. River Rd.,
Baton Rouge, LA 70821 or call (225) 344-5272; e-mail at
lasc@lascbr.org or on the Web at http://www.lascbr.org
Deadline Jan. 18th for 5th annual Magnolia Independent Film
Festival. All lengths, all genres. $10 entry fee. Cash awards.
For more info, contact: Ron Tibbett, Magnolia Independent Film
Festival, 2269 Waverly Dr., West Point, Mississippi 39773; or
call (662) 494-5836; e-mail at ron@magfilmfest.com or on the
Web at http://www.magfilmfest.com/
Deadline Jan. 15th for New Orleans Art Association's 22nd National
Show. $10 per slide (4th one free). Over $3,000 in cash awards.
Open to all U.S. artists. For more information, contact: NOAA/AD,
P. O. Box 7764, Metairie, Louisiana 70010-7764.
The Visual Artist Information Hotline (VAIH), a program of the
New York Foundation for the Arts, is a free national information
service for individual artists working in all visual arts media
(painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, drawing, printmaking,
crafts, etc). The Hotline provides artists with information about
resources to facilitate their work. The Hotline Directory, a
comprehensive, alphabetical listing of all organizations, publications
and other programs listed on the VAIH's Factsheets, is also available
online. For more information, contact: Visual Arts Information Hotline,
(800) 232-2789; e-mail at hotline@nyfa.org or on the Web at
http://www.nyfa.org/vaih
UPCOMING IN 2002 AT DIVERSITY
In addition to our continuing exhibition of works from almost 30
local and regional artists, we're planning on some special exhibits
in the center gallery.
Feb 14-28 - Jessica Ashworth's "The Ways We Love" will be Diversity's
first exhibit of poetry. Diversity has always been open to
all forms of art and I'm glad to see that Jessica is taking
advantagev of that to share her work with the community.
March 4-31 - Phil Bourgeois' "Untitled Work" will feature a number
of Phil's most recent paintings in a solo exhibition at
Diversity. (some of his work can be seen online at:
http://www.diversearts.com/phil.html )
April 5-30 - "Glassworks" - a group show of works in glass. This show
(tentative) still has room for more artists, so please contact us if
you'd like to be included.
May 4-31 - H.E. Werner "A Retrospective" I can get my hands on about
(tentative) six of Werner's paintings from the 1960s. If we could
double that amount to include the full range of his work,
it would fill the center gallery nicely and would probably
be a very popular show to have up during Leesville's annual
Mayfest festival.
June 4-31 - David Labby - "Improvisations" will include recent work from
the last couple of years.
(July to December - open)
WEBSITE UPDATES
David Gibson, artist and local art educator has 12 new works online
and available through the link on his Diversity page at:
http://www.diversearts.com/davidg.html
There are also a number of other projects in the works including
website updates coming soon for:
Jessica Ashworth - to document "The Ways We Love" exhibit
Phyllis Carper - visual artist based in Leesville
Isabelle Massart - art auction coordinator and local art educator
Regina Williams - a new artist at Diversity
George Wolfe - puppeteer extraordinaire (we'll also be making
his video "Sculpture in Motion" available)
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