<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" > <channel> <title>creative spirit Archives - Elaine Cimino Studios</title> <atom:link href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/tag/creative-spirit/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /> <link>https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/tag/creative-spirit/</link> <description>Fine art, giclee prints, drawing programs</description> <lastBuildDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2020 15:32:52 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en-US</language> <sy:updatePeriod> hourly </sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency> 1 </sy:updateFrequency> <generator>https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2</generator> <item> <title>Earthscapes Series and US Artists Projects</title> <link>https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/earthscapes-series-and-us-artists-projects/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[elaine]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:37:19 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Abstract Works]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Giclee Prints]]></category> <category><![CDATA[creative spirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Earthscapes Series]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fine Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[New Mexico Artists]]></category> <category><![CDATA[painting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[USA projects]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/?p=2651</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>I am working on a new series of paintings called, “Earthscapes. The Earthscapes painting project creates a new series of 7 large format paintings that conceptualizes and contextualizes our relationship to water and its effects on society. The essence of my painting is landscape that discovers the effects of water and evokes the sense of place. […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/earthscapes-series-and-us-artists-projects/">Earthscapes Series and US Artists Projects</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com">Elaine Cimino Studios</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am working on a new series of paintings called, “Earthscapes.</p> <p>The Earthscapes painting project creates a new series of 7 large format paintings that conceptualizes and contextualizes our relationship to water and its effects on society. The essence of my painting is landscape that discovers the effects of water and evokes the sense of place. The Evolutionary Landscape Series has been the focus of my artwork and Earthscapes has evolved o</p> <p>ut of this work. In this project focus on imagery of satellite and microcosms view points of landscape and human relationships to it, and the behavior that has altered the ability for the Earth’s systems to cool the planet and my work will address the repercussions of action and inaction of the crisis.</p> <p>I will blog updates and thoughts on process as I move forward with this new journey. Please join me on www.USAprojects.com and help support this endeavor.</p> <p> </p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/earthscapes-series-and-us-artists-projects/">Earthscapes Series and US Artists Projects</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com">Elaine Cimino Studios</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Upcoming Spring 2013 Art Workshops in ABQ</title> <link>https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/upcoming-spring-2013-art-workshops-in-abq/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[elaine]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:22:53 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Workshops and Classes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Albuquerque art Classes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[creative spirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[learn mixed media resiste techniques]]></category> <category><![CDATA[learn painting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[learn pastels]]></category> <category><![CDATA[painting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Watercolor Classes Albuquerque]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/?p=2618</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>There are several classes being offered for adults at the North Valley and Highland Senior Centers. Please see our web page and sign up. You can pay for the class online or come to class and pay. Please remember to sign up if you are interested. We try to have at least 3 people and the […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/upcoming-spring-2013-art-workshops-in-abq/">Upcoming Spring 2013 Art Workshops in ABQ</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com">Elaine Cimino Studios</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.elaineciminostudios.com/blog/upcoming-spring-2013-art-workshops-in-abq/attachment/flower-of-georgia-okeeffe-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-2425"></a><p id="caption-attachment-2425" class="wp-caption-text">Study of Georgia Okeefe painting usine Pastel and Watercolor</p> <p>There are several classes being offered for adults at the North Valley and Highland Senior Centers. Please see our <a href="http://www.borntodraw.com/workshop_categories/upcoming/">web page and sign up</a>. You can pay for the class online or come to class and pay. Please remember to sign up if you are interested. We try to have at least 3 people and the limit is 8 people per class. Classes may cancel if we do not have the attendance needed. Whether you are experienced or a beginner you are welcome. Depending on the experience of the class each lesson will be geared towards the students interest.</p> <p>The workshops covers primarily landscape painting however, if you are interested in figurative work I can work with you on your projects. Consider working on at least two painting while in attendance.</p> <p>If you have taken the program before come back and work on another project.</p> <p>Below are the links for the North Valley Senior Center fliers:</p> <p><a href="http://www.borntodraw.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/painting_w_soft_pastels_flyer_NVSC.pdf">painting_w_soft_pastels_flyer_NVSC</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.borntodraw.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Mixed-Media_flyer_NVSC.pdf">Mixed Media_flyer_NVSC</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.borntodraw.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Watercolor_pastel_class_flyer_NVSC.pdf">Watercolor_pastel_class_flyer_NVSC</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.borntodraw.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Watercolor_Resist_flyer_NVSC.pdf">Watercolor_Resist_flyer_NVSC</a></p> <p>Below are the links for the Highland Senior Center fliers:</p> <p><a href="http://www.borntodraw.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/painting_w_soft_pastels_flyer_HSC.pdf">painting_w_soft_pastels_flyer_HSC</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.borntodraw.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Watercolor_pastel_class_flyer_HSC.pdf">Watercolor_pastel_class_flyer_HSC</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.borntodraw.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Watercolor_Resist_flyer_HSC.pdf">Watercolor_Resist_flyer_HSC</a></p> <p>Remember to sign up so we know that you are interested in the program.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/upcoming-spring-2013-art-workshops-in-abq/">Upcoming Spring 2013 Art Workshops in ABQ</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com">Elaine Cimino Studios</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Warhol Warhol Everywhere</title> <link>https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/2578/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[elaine]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:42:33 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[artwork]]></category> <category><![CDATA[creative spirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[drawing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Elaine Cimino]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fine Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[giclee print]]></category> <category><![CDATA[woodblock print]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/?p=2578</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>BY Rachel Wolff A quarter century after Andy Warhol’s death, his work resonates more than ever. Several museum exhibitions are focusing on his influence in painting, photography, film, performance, and more Deborah Kass, 16 Barbras (The Jewish Jackie Series), 1992, a Warhol-inspired series with wit and irony added COURTESY THE ARTIST AND PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, NEW […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/2578/">Warhol Warhol Everywhere</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com">Elaine Cimino Studios</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BY <a href="http://www.artnews.com/author/rachel_wolff/">Rachel Wolff</a></p> <p>A quarter century after Andy Warhol’s death, his work resonates more than ever. Several museum exhibitions are focusing on his influence in painting, photography, film, performance, and more</p> <p><a href="http://www.elaineciminostudios.com/giclee-prints/2578/attachment/0904-300x249/" rel="attachment wp-att-2579"></a></p> <p>Deborah Kass, 16 Barbras (The Jewish Jackie Series), 1992, a Warhol-inspired series with wit and irony added</p> <p>COURTESY THE ARTIST AND PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, NEW YORK.</p> <p>“The worst thing that could happen to you after the end of your time would be to be embalmed and laid up in a pyramid,” Andy Warhol wrote in his 1975 book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again). “[I] like the idea of people turning into sand or something, so the machinery keeps working after you die. … I guess disappearing would be shirking work that your machinery still had left to do.”</p> <p>Few artists are so eager and able to accurately assess their legacy, but there is something eerily prescient about Warhol’s grainy conception of death. His machinery, it seems, is still very much ticking away. His themes, processes, personas, and approach to making art are evident in everything from the ready-mades and Pop portraits of his direct descendents to the work of some of the most boundary-pushing conceptualists, abstract painters, and video artists working today.</p> <p>With his Factory, his Marilyns, his films, and his many riffs on banality, seriality, and kitsch, “Andy knocked down obstacles that no one ever thought about before,” says critic Arthur Danto, who has written extensively on Warhol’s work. “What Andy did is far more innovative than anything else I can think of. Andy did commonplace things, and yet he did them in a way and in a number that has nothing really quite like it. Everything he did was different.”</p> <p>Which is why 50 years after his public debut and 25 years since his untimely death, Warhol remains, some would argue, the major touchstone for contemporary art. “He’s like Picasso in the sense that you just don’t run out,” says Jeffrey Deitch, director of the <a href="http://moca.org/">Museum of Contemporary Art</a>, Los Angeles. “He has become one of the most influential people in all of contemporary culture. You see the influence in painting, sculpture, performance, photography, film, even journalism. Life as performance, life as art, reality TV—it’s all Warhol’s world.”</p> <p>Several recent exhibitions have taken up the charge as well, most notably this fall’s blockbuster-scaled “<a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/en/exhibitions/listings/2012/regarding-warhol">Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years</a>,” opening September 18 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which will travel to the <a href="http://www.warhol.org/">Andy Warhol Museum</a> in Pittsburgh next year. The works on view span several generations and nearly all media. They demonstrate the wide variety of ways in which artists have ingested Warhol’s politics, practices, and Pop-friendly fixations and spit them out to express new zeitgeists, new anxieties, and candidly personal points of view.</p> <p>In “Regarding Warhol,” the artist’s soup cans and <a href="http://edu.warhol.org/aract_brillo.html">Brillo boxes</a> have given way to Coca-Cola-emblazoned Neolithic urns by Ai Weiwei, as well as Tom Sachs’s luxury-branded weaponry, and Damien Hirst’s bountiful cabinets of prescription drugs. Warhol’s Marilyns, Jackies, and Maos have been recast as Maurizio Cattelan’s topless supermodel-turned-art-collector Stephanie Seymour, Elizabeth Peyton’s elegiac renderings of Kurt Cobain, and Luc Tuymans’s steely depiction of Condoleezza Rice. And the Factory has been mirrored in the production methods of Neo-Pop masters, like Takashi Murakami and Jeff Koons.</p> <p>The loan-heavy exhibition stemmed from a sentence that cocurator Mark Rosenthal says he kept encountering in conversations, articles, and books: Warhol is the most important artist of the last 50 years. “I thought it would be kind of amazing to see what that looks like,” he says. “He’s with us whether you love him or hate him, and in so much of the work that’s been produced since. Because of Warhol, everything changed.”</p> <p>“Certain people bend the course of art history,” agrees Chuck Close, whose 1969 Phil, a colossal rendering of composer Philip Glass, is in the show. “Somehow, they deflect it from the direction in which it was going and send it off somewhere new,” Close continues. “They make something so surprising that it doesn’t look like art.” Until, eventually, what they’ve made starts to define it.</p> <p>Warhol’s most obvious legacy is his astute appropriation of mass-produced products.</p> <a href="http://www.elaineciminostudios.com/giclee-prints/2578/attachment/andy-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-2580"></a><p id="caption-attachment-2580" class="wp-caption-text">Andy — Woodblock print on Archival BFK paper 18″x24″ by Elaine Cimino I am my Face series</p> <p>Of course, he was not the first artist to use everyday imagery and ephemera in his work. He was predated by Marcel Duchamp, with his ready-mades, and then Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, who, in the late 1950s, were estheticizing and recontextualizing objects from their everyday lives. But Warhol’s hard-edged, brand-savvy, serial approach was quite different.</p> <p>“For me, the art world in the 1960s really broke down into two notions about figuration,” Close says. “There were those people who were trying to breathe new life into what was essentially 19th-century portraiture versus those people who were intent on making a truly modernist form of figuration.” Warhol, he adds, really “kicked the door open for an intelligent, forward-looking, modern kind of painting.”</p> <p>The trajectory begins in 1962. It was the year of the first Coca-Cola bottles, the first soup cans, the first Marilyns, and Warhol’s groundbreaking exhibitions at the Ferus gallery in Los Angeles and the Stable Gallery in New York. Reverberations were felt throughout the art world almost immediately. Whether his contemporaries realized it or not, something was, indeed, in the air.</p> <p>Edging toward banality themselves, John Baldessari and Ed Ruscha immortalized their local gas stations in the mid-’60s and Vija Celmins made photorealist paintings of catastrophic imagery pulled from the news, shortly after Warhol debuted his own “death and disaster” series. “I don’t know whether Andy Warhol was so much an influence,” she told “Regarding Warhol” co-curator Marla Prather in an interview to be published in the exhibition catalogue. “But, in retrospect, I can see that . . . his influence must’ve been everywhere.”</p> <p>Indeed, by the 1970s, Warhol was a household name whose factorylike take on fine art prefigured current studio practices and today’s staggering market demands. But his singular approach to found imagery and appropriation also set the stage for the Pictures Generation, argues Prather, from Richard Prince’s Marlboro men to Cindy Sherman’s self-styled Hollywood film stills to Louise Lawler and Sherrie Levine’s loaded snapshots of other people’s art. “Appropriation may have been more or less invented by Duchamp,” Rosenthal says. “But it hadn’t really been dealt with much since. Warhol turned it into a movement.”</p> <p>Rosenthal and his colleagues are also looking at some of the less expected Warholian threads that have populated his intergenerational wake: abstraction, identity politics, and sex. Of the latter, Prather insists, “You couldn’t have Nan Goldin without Andy Warhol.”</p> <p>Films like Blow Job (1964) and Lonesome Cowboys (1968), as well as the screen-printed Thirteen Most Wanted Men (1964), which cleverly suggested that the FBI’s hit list was somehow akin to Warhol’s own, granted a sort of permission “to come out of the artist’s closet,” she adds. “When you think about artists like Rauschenberg and Johns, that work is much more coded in terms of gay issues and lovers.”</p> <p>In this sense, Warhol paved the way for photographers like Robert Mapplethorpe and Catherine Opie. Prather also draws a connection between Warhol and the ambisexual characters in video works by younger artists like Ryan Trecartin and Kalup Linzy.</p> <p>As for identity politics, Warhol’s famously indifferent demeanor was also famously a front—he loved his mother, he regularly went to church, and, like most of us, he wished he looked like a movie star. It’s a reading of Warhol that Brooklyn artist Deborah Kass spent years tackling in her practice. “I consider Andy’s work to be really autobiographical, very deeply felt, and the opposite of everything he said about it,” says Kass, who is in the Met show and has a major midcareer retrospective opening October 27 at the Andy Warhol Museum.</p> <p>In “The Warhol Project” (1992–2000) the artist cast her personal icons—most notably, Barbra Streisand—in several Warholian motifs and roles. Streisand appears in a string of tightly cropped, screen-printed profiles, and in a series of paintings, called “My Elvis,” which portray the diva multiplied on canvas in her cross-dressing Yentl garb.</p> <p>As a Jewish girl growing up on Long Island, Kass explains, “Barbra was the first Hollywood star I could identify with. I loved Marilyn Monroe, I loved Clark Gable, but I didn’t know what I was missing until I saw Barbra—someone who looked like everyone I knew. She was someone who understood the power of her difference and who wasn’t easily absorbed into a male narrative. She was completely aspirational.”</p> <p>It was a way of identifying with Warhol and “his outsiderness,” she says. In that sense, his style and character became something of a tool. She adds, “I could use it to say what I wanted to say.”</p> <p>Meanwhile, MOCA director Deitch is leading the way in positioning Warhol as a major progenitor of today’s foremost riffs on abstraction. He mounted a group show at the museum this summer featuring works by a dozen or so contemporary abstract artists—Tauba Auerbach, Mark Bradford, and Wade Guyton among them. Auerbach showed a handful of her acrylic-on-canvas “Fold” pieces—photorealistic renderings of creased and crumpled fabrics that, from a distance, look like abstract tableaux. Bradford presented a series of his signature collages composed of flyers, scraps, and other detritus collected in sociopolitical hot zones like South Central Los Angeles, and Guyton showed several new impressions on linen. Guyton’s cleverly conceived works use an inkjet printer’s inadvertent streaks and hiccups to produce stark, abstract effects.</p> <p>Titled “The Painting Factory: Abstraction After Warhol,” the exhibition made the argument that many of the most pervasive trends in abstraction today are firmly rooted in Warhol’s work. His screen-printed shadows, his camouflage paintings, and his 1980s renderings of Rorschach blots were all representational endeavors in practice that, on the surface, appear abstract.</p> <p>“It’s the mechanical approach, the mediation, the ability to embed social or personal content into an abstract image,” Deitch says. “Even though he wasn’t a pretentious philosopher, Warhol was very conscious of his contributions to a new way of thinking.”</p> <p>Either that, or it’s all just a self-fulfilling prophecy, a posthumous extension of Warhol’s own 15 minutes of fame. As Guyton put it, “It’s like he has a PR firm on retainer after death.”</p> <p>Rachel Wolff is a New York–based critic, writer, and editor.</p> <p>Copyright 2012, ARTnews LLC, 48 West 38th St 9th FL NY NY 10018. All rights reserved.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/2578/">Warhol Warhol Everywhere</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com">Elaine Cimino Studios</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Barbara Kruger Created the Billboards and Buses For the Best Ad Campaign in the City Right Now</title> <link>https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/barbara-kruger-created-the-billboards-and-buses-for-the-best-ad-campaign-in-the-city-right-now/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[elaine]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 11:38:18 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art education reform]]></category> <category><![CDATA[creative spirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Public art projects]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/?p=2570</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Great idea to promote arts and artists. This should be done in cities across the country hmmm! Anyone up to work on that project with me? By Alissa Walker Mon., Nov. 12 2012 at 1:15 Pm Categories: Art, Billboards, Cityscape, Public Art Twitter user @bshigeta via Instagram A Silver Lake billboard that recently hawked Avion tequila took on a very different tone last month. […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/barbara-kruger-created-the-billboards-and-buses-for-the-best-ad-campaign-in-the-city-right-now/">Barbara Kruger Created the Billboards and Buses For the Best Ad Campaign in the City Right Now</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com">Elaine Cimino Studios</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[Great idea to promote arts and artists. This should be done in cities across the country hmmm! Anyone up to work on that project with me? By <a href="http://blogs.laweekly.com/author.php?author_id=3337">Alissa Walker</a> Mon., Nov. 12 2012 at 1:15 Pm Categories: <a href="http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/art/">Art</a>, <a href="http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/billboards/">Billboards</a>, <a href="http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/cityscape/">Cityscape</a>, <a href="http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/public-art/">Public Art</a> Twitter user <a href="http://twitter.com/bshigeta">@bshigeta</a> via <a href="http://web.stagram.com/n/bshigeta/">Instagram</a> <p>A Silver Lake billboard that recently hawked Avion tequila took on a very different tone last month. “SUPPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION OR FACE CATASTROPHE!” read the near-apocalyptic message in stark black type. On Santa Monica Boulevard, the wisdom of Robert Frost crept by in the same foot-tall, all-caps characters, wrapped around a Metro bus: “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”</p> <p>This campaign, which launched in October and has quickly become both the best-looking and most ubiquitous advertising on L.A.’s streets, is produced by art organization ForYourArt to benefit the <a href="http://lafund.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Los Angeles Fund for Public Education</a> (or LA Fund for short), a nonprofit co-founded by LAUSD superintendent John Deasy last year. And the artist is none other than the legendary Barbara Kruger, whose signature black, white and red graphics — like a public service announcement meets reassuring Mad Men-era advertising — reads spectacularly well in L.A.’s urban environment.</p> <p>The LA Fund is hoping to raise $1.5 million by the spring to fund a new initiative called<a href="http://lafund.org/#arts-matter" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Arts Matter</a> and Kruger’s work — actually an original, site-specific piece named Untitled, (Human History) — is meant to work on two levels, says LA Fund executive director Dan Chang. The campaign is meant to both communicate the critical importance of arts education funding to Angelenos and deliver that art to the city in a kind of mobile gallery. “It’s about the awareness of getting public art into the streets of L.A. and making it accessible to people who wouldn’t otherwise see it.”</p> <p>Over $4 million in ad space was donated by Clear Channel and CBS to support the campaign, making it pleasantly unavoidable.</p> Twitter user <a href="http://twitter.com/jeff6arcia">@jeff6arcia</a> Billboards are found throughout the city thanks to $4 million in donated ad space <p>Like Proposition 30, the Jerry Brown-supported education tax that <a href="http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2012/11/proposition_30_election_results_jerry_brown_wins.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">passed on Election Day</a>with a slim margin, the LA Fund hopes to provide relief for LAUSD’s decimated budget. But Chang cautions that the LA Fund is not simply trying to fundraise for lost operating dollars. Instead, it’s introducing its own ideas for fixing public education, he says. “We’re getting support for innovative projects that need startup capital.”</p> <p>After successful programs including an anti-bullying campaign and a new way to provide breakfast to students, Arts Matter will address arts education by developing immersive programming with local art institutions like MOCA and the Music Center that brings art into the core curriculum. So fractions might be taught in a math class through the value of musical notes, for example. The key, says Chang, is a totally interdisciplinary approach that is more about learning the creative process. “You have to have arts innovation in there, teaching kids to be creative.”</p> Twitter user <a href="http://twitter.com/Waltarrrrr">@Waltarrrr</a> The LA Fund’s campaign wraps dozens of Metro buses in Barbara Kruger graphics <p>Kruger is the first of four L.A.-based contemporary artists who are creating original works for the campaign — the other three are still under wraps, but Chang hints the next one is male and will debut in January. “She was perfect because her art is so clever,” Chang says of Kruger. “She tells you something profound and witty and it makes you think.” Kruger declined to comment; through the campaign’s spokesperson she preferred to “let her art do the talking.” In fact, the art does that quite well — Kruger’s ad-inspired work couldn’t have found a better home on buses and billboards; her dramatic graphics read both urgent and elegant in her signature Futura Bold. It’s impossible to look away.</p> <p>Perhaps the greatest testament to the campaign is its <a href="http://instagram.com/p/Ro-_jNiv1t/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">overwhelmingly positive response</a> on social media. Those who know what the campaign is all about are enjoying the game of spotting them around town — even a jaded art writer is not immune. I found myself pointing and screaming “Art bus! Art bus!” while I was eating breakfast on Sunset Boulevard, and I think I jumped up and down when a Krugered 4 bus arrived at my stop (and promptly Tweeted, Facebooked and Instagrammed it).</p> Twitter user <a href="http://twitter.com/bettina_korek">@bettina_korek</a> Angelenos are giddily posting the bus sightings on social media <p>But even people who have no idea what the bus or billboards are supporting are posting photos on Instagram or Twitter because they’re drawn in by the message and execution. It’s a far more effective strategy compared to something like the proposition advertising that blanketed the city, for example. Instead of a simplified message, like “SUPPORT THE LA FUND” or “SUPPORT ARTS EDUCATION” the campaign provides content that enhances the public realm, and asks the general public to actually think about the message — what a concept! Then, going deeper, the contribution of Kruger and the three other mystery artists provide an art world pedigree that resonates with well-to-do donors. It’s win-win.</p> <p>The campaign has already raised over $460,000, almost a third of the way to its goal. And at least for this phase of the campaign, the timing was impeccable for another victory: One might wonder if the LA Fund’s campaign helped bring education funding to the forefront of voters’ minds over the past month in a fresh way. It may have helped Prop 30 pass.</p> <p>Alissa Walker blogs at <a href="http://www.gelatobaby.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Gelatobaby.com</a>. Follow her on Twitter at<a href="http://www.twitter.com/gelatobaby" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@gelatobaby</a> and for more arts news like us on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/LAWeeklyArts" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Facebook</a> or follow us at<a href="http://twitter.com/laweeklyarts" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">@LAWeeklyArts</a>.</p> Tags: <p> <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/search/results/#keyword:Barbara%20Kruger/type:articles/blog:Public+Spectacle" rel="tag nofollow">Barbara Kruger</a>, <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/search/results/#keyword:education/type:articles/blog:Public+Spectacle" rel="tag nofollow">education</a>, <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/search/results/#keyword:LA%20Fund/type:articles/blog:Public+Spectacle" rel="tag nofollow">LA Fund</a>, <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/search/results/#keyword:Metro/type:articles/blog:Public+Spectacle" rel="tag nofollow">Metro</a>, <a href="http://www.laweekly.com/search/results/#keyword:public%20art/type:articles/blog:Public+Spectacle" rel="tag nofollow">public art</a> <p>The post <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/barbara-kruger-created-the-billboards-and-buses-for-the-best-ad-campaign-in-the-city-right-now/">Barbara Kruger Created the Billboards and Buses For the Best Ad Campaign in the City Right Now</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com">Elaine Cimino Studios</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>How smart can we get?</title> <link>https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/how-smart-can-we-get/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[elaine]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:23:05 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[creative spirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[intuition]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/?p=2559</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Watch How Smart Can We Get? on PBS. See more from NOVA scienceNOW. This is a great series about what it means to be smart. What were the circumstances that grew Einstein’s brain? Nurture creates nature vs. nature creates nurture. The hypothesis is that playing a musical instrument (the Violin in Einstein’s Case) helps to access intuition. How […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/how-smart-can-we-get/">How smart can we get?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com">Elaine Cimino Studios</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Watch <a href="http://video.pbs.org/video/2293519817" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">How Smart Can We Get?</a> on PBS. See more from <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">NOVA scienceNOW.</a></p> <p>This is a great series about what it means to be smart. What were the circumstances that grew Einstein’s brain?</p> <p><a href="http://www.elaineciminostudios.com/blog/how-smart-can-we-get/attachment/how-do-you-get-a-genius-brain/" rel="attachment wp-att-2562"></a>Nurture creates nature vs. nature creates nurture. The hypothesis is that playing a musical instrument (the Violin in Einstein’s Case) helps to access intuition.</p> <p>How creativity and creative thought manifests ways of conceptualizations that can be attributed to problem solving. The actual act of creating art and focus on problem solving allows people to enter the “Zone”</p> <p>Thus allowing for processes to appear, emerge to the top and to access other intelligences and perhaps intuition itself. Musicians that learn to play an Instrument as a young person developed “bumps” on the brain that may increase intuitive thought.</p> <p>Growing the brain is important and to keep it in shape mandatory.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/how-smart-can-we-get/">How smart can we get?</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com">Elaine Cimino Studios</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>Universal Concern that Creativity is Suffering at Work and School</title> <link>https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/universal-concern-that-creativity-is-suffering-at-work-and-school/</link> <dc:creator><![CDATA[elaine]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:52:51 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Children's Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[creative spirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[drawing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Editorial Artwork]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Higher Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Liberal Arts Education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[painting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Senior Center art classes Albuquerque]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Studio Art]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/?p=2530</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>The more research that I do I am finding that we are falling behind in our ability to be creative and support creativity at home, in schools and the workplace. Adobe released a study this past spring on how creativity is suffering. The results showed that Americans think their lack of time, money and tools […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/universal-concern-that-creativity-is-suffering-at-work-and-school/">Universal Concern that Creativity is Suffering at Work and School</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com">Elaine Cimino Studios</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[The more research that I do I am finding that we are falling behind in our ability to be creative and support creativity at home, in schools and the workplace. Adobe released a study this past spring on how creativity is suffering. The results showed that Americans think their lack of time, money and tools are barriers to creativity. Rightly so, the American system is slowly grinding the gears of conceptual and critical thought to a halt by adopting an ideology that only looks at the productivity of test scores in the educational system. This has resulted in massive cuts to teachers jobs, and is disproportionately cutting History, Physical Education and both the Visual and Performing Arts. The arts represents at least 37% of the entire population who are visual thinkers and problem solvers. This is why I am working on the Born to Draw Art Program because it is a way to bring drawing and the arts to children and adults, to get people to use their hands and minds once again. <p>See the <a href="http://www.borntodraw.com">www.borntodraw.com</a> website Let me know how we might be able to create a space where we can roll out the Born to Draw® art curriculum.</p> Universal Concern that Creativity is Suffering at Work and School <p><a href="http://www.elaineciminostudios.com/uncategorized/universal-concern-that-creativity-is-suffering-at-work-and-school/attachment/lack-of-tools-barrier-to-creativity/" rel="attachment wp-att-2531"></a>SAN JOSE, Calif. — April 23, 2012 — New research reveals a global creativity gap in five of the world’s largest economies, according to the Adobe® (Nasdaq:ADBE) <a href="http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pdfs/Adobe_State_of_Create_Global_Benchmark_Study.pdf">State of Create global benchmark study</a>. The research shows 8 in 10 people feel that unlocking creativity is critical to economic growth and nearly two-thirds of respondents feel creativity is valuable to society, yet a striking minority – only 1 in 4 people – believe they are living up to their own creative potential.</p> <p>Interviews of 5,000 adults across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan expose surprising attitudes and beliefs about creativity, providing new insights into the role of creativity in business, education and society overall.</p> <p>Workplace Creativity Gap The study reveals a workplace creativity gap, where 75% of respondents said they are under growing pressure to be productive rather than creative, despite the fact that they are increasingly expected to think creatively on the job. Across all of the countries surveyed, people said they spend only 25% of their time at work creating. Lack of time is seen as the biggest barrier to creativity (47% globally, 52% in United States).</p> <p>Education Concerns More than half of those surveyed feel that creativity is being stifled by their education systems, and many believe creativity is taken for granted (52% globally, 70% in the United States).</p> <p>“One of the myths of creativity is that very few people are really creative,” said Sir Ken Robinson, Ph.D., an internationally recognized leader in the development of education, creativity and innovation. “The truth is that everyone has great capacities but not everyone develops them. One of the problems is that too often our educational systems don’t enable students to develop their natural creative powers. Instead, they promote uniformity and standardization. The result is that we’re draining people of their creative possibilities and, as this study reveals, producing a workforce that’s conditioned to prioritize conformity over creativity.”</p> <p><a href="http://www.elaineciminostudios.com/uncategorized/universal-concern-that-creativity-is-suffering-at-work-and-school/attachment/adobe-study-creativity-4-12pg-8/" rel="attachment wp-att-2532"></a>Creativity Rating: Japan Ranked Most Creative The study sheds light on different cultural attitudes toward creativity. Japan ranked highest in the global tally as the most creative country while, conversely, Japanese citizens largely do not see themselves as creative. Globally, Tokyo ranked as the most creative city – except among Japanese – with New York ranking second. Outside of Japan, national pride in each country is evident, with residents of the United Kingdom, Germany and France ranking their own countries and cities next in line after Japan.</p> <p>The United States ranked globally as the second most creative nation among the countries surveyed, except in the eyes of Americans, who see themselves as the most creative. Yet Americans also expressed the greatest sense of urgency and concern that they are not living up to their creative potential (United States at 82%, vs. the lowest level of concern in Germany at 64%).</p> <p>Generational and gender differences are marginal, reinforcing the idea that everyone has the potential to create. Women ranked only slightly higher than men when asked if they self-identified as creative and whether they were tapping their own creative potential.</p> <p>Four in 10 people believe that they do not have the tools or access to tools to create. Creative tools are perceived as the biggest driver to increase creativity (65% globally, 76% in the United States), and technology is recognized for its ability to help individuals overcome creative limitations (58% globally, 60% in the United States) and provide inspiration (53% globally, 62% in the United States).</p> <p>About the Adobe State of Create Study The study was produced by research firm StrategyOne and conducted as an online survey among a total of 5,000 adults, 18 years or older, 1,000 each in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan. Interviewing took place from March 30 to April 9. The data set for each country is nationally representative of the population of that country.</p> <p>For more information on the research results visit <a href="http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pdfs/Adobe_State_of_Create_Global_Benchmark_Study.pdf">Adobe State of Create Global Benchmark Study</a> and <a href="http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/pressroom/pdfs/Adobe_State_of_Create_Infographic.pdf">Adobe State of Create Infographic</a>.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/universal-concern-that-creativity-is-suffering-at-work-and-school/">Universal Concern that Creativity is Suffering at Work and School</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com">Elaine Cimino Studios</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item> <title>The Arts and Passion-Driven Learning is on my Wish List</title> <link>https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/the-arts-and-passion-driven-learning-is-on-my-wish-list/</link> <comments>https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/the-arts-and-passion-driven-learning-is-on-my-wish-list/#comments</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 23:04:22 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art education reform]]></category> <category><![CDATA[creative spirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fine Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[harvard Seminars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Havard Graduate Classes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Seminars]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Silk Road Project]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/?p=731</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>I would love to attend these classes. If you can afford it you should do it. – The Constant Learner- Elaine Cimino http://www.gse.harvard.edu/ppe/programs/prek-12/portfolio/arts-and-passion-driven-learning.html What You Will Learn Deepen your understanding of how learning takes place in and through the arts. Examine the role of engagement, connections, collaborations and communities in learning. Presented in collaboration with […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/the-arts-and-passion-driven-learning-is-on-my-wish-list/">The Arts and Passion-Driven Learning is on my Wish List</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com">Elaine Cimino Studios</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would love to attend these classes. If you can afford it you should do it. – The Constant Learner- Elaine Cimino<a href="http://www.elaineciminostudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/g08_3.jpg"></a></p> <p><a title="The Silk Road Project" href="http://www.gse.harvard.edu/ppe/programs/prek-12/portfolio/arts-and-passion-driven-learning.html">http://www.gse.harvard.edu/ppe/programs/prek-12/portfolio/arts-and-passion-driven-learning.html</a></p> What You Will Learn <p>Deepen your understanding of how learning takes place in and through the arts. Examine the role of engagement, connections, collaborations and communities in learning.</p> <p>Presented in collaboration with The Silk Road Project Inc.</p> What You Will Learn <p>Deepen your understanding of how learning takes place in and through the arts. Examine the role of engagement, connections, collaborations and communities in learning.</p> Program Overview <p>Students bring a wealth of excitement, talent and dreams to the classroom. In order to channel these experiences into meaningful learning for the 21st century, teachers need to be able to capture these passions through proven teaching and learning techniques. The Arts and Passion-Driven Learning explores how educators can use the arts to engage students across all subjects—not only in the arts. The program explores several key questions; How can the arts foster connections between ideas, people and places to deepen learning? How can we turn learning from a requirement into a desire? How can artists collaborate with educators to design powerful learning experiences that focus simultaneously on the individual and the community?</p> <p>This unique new program will open with a plenary session with world-renowned cellist, Yo-Yo Ma, and a concert by the Silk Road Ensemble. Along with Harvard faculty, ensemble members will present arts-integrated lessons throughout the institute. You will deepen your understanding of how learning takes place in and through the arts and consider issues of access and quality in the arts. You will join artists and educators from a variety of backgrounds in workshops, panel discussions and small group sessions to experience and analyze what passion-driven learning looks like in practice.</p> Program Objectives Examine how students can become more engaged, empathetic and responsible participants in their communities Understand how the arts can lead to deeper learning in other subject matter Identify features of strong and productive collaborations among educators, artists and community members for creating rich interdisciplinary learning opportunities Who Should Attend Classroom teachers, particularly those at the middle school level, arts specialists and school administrators Artists, teaching artists and arts administrators <p>Fluency in English is mandatory.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/the-arts-and-passion-driven-learning-is-on-my-wish-list/">The Arts and Passion-Driven Learning is on my Wish List</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com">Elaine Cimino Studios</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/the-arts-and-passion-driven-learning-is-on-my-wish-list/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2245</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Ovation And Americans For The Arts Kick Off $110,000 Innovation Grant Program</title> <link>https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/ovation-and-americans-for-the-arts-kick-off-110000-innovation-grant-program/</link> <comments>https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/ovation-and-americans-for-the-arts-kick-off-110000-innovation-grant-program/#comments</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:14:08 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Workshops and Classes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[artwork]]></category> <category><![CDATA[creative spirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[grants for art education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Grants for the Arts]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/?p=726</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>press release June 19, 2012, 9:00 a.m. EDT Ovation And Americans For The Arts Kick Off $110,000 Innovation Grant Program Online Application Process Now Open http://www.americansforthearts.org/get_involved/membership/innovation.asp SANTA MONICA, Calif. and WASHINGTON, June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Continuing its quest to recognize the role artists play in revitalizing their communities, Ovation, the only network […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/ovation-and-americans-for-the-arts-kick-off-110000-innovation-grant-program/">Ovation And Americans For The Arts Kick Off $110,000 Innovation Grant Program</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com">Elaine Cimino Studios</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[ <p id="columnname">press release</p> <p id="lastupdate">June 19, 2012, 9:00 a.m. EDT</p> Ovation And Americans For The Arts Kick Off $110,000 Innovation Grant Program Online Application Process Now Open <a title="http://www.americansforthearts.org/get_involved/membership/innovation.asp" href="http://www.americansforthearts.org/get_involved/membership/innovation.asp">http://www.americansforthearts.org/get_involved/membership/innovation.asp</a> <p id="">SANTA MONICA, Calif. and WASHINGTON, June 19, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Continuing its quest to recognize the role artists play in revitalizing their communities, Ovation, the only network dedicated to art, artists and all forms of artistic storytelling, has partnered with Americans for the Arts, the nation’s leading organization for advancing the arts and arts education, and has opened the online application process for its new national grant program, innOVATION. The online submission site, available at http://www.americansforthearts.org/get_involved/membership/innovation.asp , will be accepting applications for the inaugural innOVATION Grant Program until 5p.m. ET on July 31, 2012.</p> <p id="">Inspired by the remarkable community revitalization effort documented in the network’s recent original series Motor City Rising, the innOVATION Grant Program was created to highlight similar stories of arts-focused, neighborhood renewal initiatives across the nation and provide support to model projects. Ovation is contributing $110,000 for the initial year’s grants–three for $25,000, two for $10,000 and one $15,000 “Viewer’s Choice Award.” Americans for the Arts’ roster of nearly 1,300 member organizations are eligible to be nominated for each.</p> <p id="">“Ovation is once again putting our money where our passion is by launching a program that provides much needed support for those communities utilizing the arts to revitalize local economies, create jobs and spur ingenuity,” said Ovation CEO Charles Segars. “The solution to our nation’s problems can be found through innovation, and innovation is made possible through the arts. The arts can and do make life better for all of us.”</p> <p id="">President and CEO of Americans for the Arts Robert L. Lynch added, “Cities and towns across the country are leveraging the arts and culture to define and address civic problems and drive revitalization and economic growth. Projects, with art at the center, that are both authentic and fresh, are creating jobs, re-activating old spaces, connecting neighbors, increasing tourism and offering hope as communities look forward. I am delighted Americans for the Arts’ membership base has this unique opportunity to be recognized for the excellent and compelling work they have done to enrich their communities economically and artistically.”</p> <p id="">The innOVATION Grant Program invites mayors, county executives or other elected community leaders to endorse the most-inspiring community revitalization efforts featuring the arts and artists in their city. In addition to the formal funding process, Ovation will also provide an online platform for submissions for the innOVATION Grant Program on its Facebook page and web site, providing a national platform for these encouraging stories and the opportunity for the public to choose an additional “viewer’s choice” grantee.</p> <p id="">Ovation, Americans for the Arts and national experts in creative place making will select this year’s grant recipients based on creative, economic and social impact, as well as ability to bring together public, private, nonprofit and community efforts to improve and enhance a specific region through arts and culture. The grant recipients will be announced October 2012, which is also National Arts and Humanities Month. For information and guidelines for the innOVATION Grant Program or to submit an application for the innOVATION grant program, please visit http://www.americansforthearts.org/get_involved/membership/innovation.asp</p> <p id="">About OvationOvation is the only multi-platform network celebrating art, artists and all forms of artistic story-telling. Its programming tells the stories of artists, their work, and the powerful impact art has on each of us. Ovation programming is a one-of-a-kind mix of original and selectively curated series, films, documentaries and specials. The network reaches a national audience of 51 million homes and is available on cable systems across the country, as well as nationally on DIRECTV, Dish, Verizon FiOS and AT&T U-Verse. Ovation is also available in HD and VOD (both in standard and high definition). Ovation extends its linear channel experience for viewers online via its popular website, www.ovationtv.com . In addition, Ovation is also active in the social media space. See the Ovation Facebook page for the latest information and conversations about the network and the arts: http://Ovtn.tv/fb .</p> <p id="">About Americans for the ArtsAmericans for the Arts is the leading nonprofit organization for advancing the arts and arts education in America. With offices in Washington, D.C. and New York City, it has a record of more than 50 years of service. Americans for the Arts is dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts. Additional information is available at www.AmericansForTheArts.org .</p> <p id="">SOURCE Ovation</p> <p id="">Copyright (C) 2012 PR Newswire. All rights reserved</p> <a title="http://www.americansforthearts.org/get_involved/membership/innovation.asp" href="http://www.americansforthearts.org/get_involved/membership/innovation.asp">http://www.americansforthearts.org/get_involved/membership/innovation.asp</a> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/ovation-and-americans-for-the-arts-kick-off-110000-innovation-grant-program/">Ovation And Americans For The Arts Kick Off $110,000 Innovation Grant Program</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com">Elaine Cimino Studios</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/ovation-and-americans-for-the-arts-kick-off-110000-innovation-grant-program/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>1192</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>North Valley Senior Center Art Classes</title> <link>https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/north-valley-senior-center-art-classes/</link> <comments>https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/north-valley-senior-center-art-classes/#comments</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:51:13 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Albuquerque art Classes]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[art education]]></category> <category><![CDATA[artwork]]></category> <category><![CDATA[creative spirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[creativity]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fine Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[painting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Senior Center art classes Albuquerque]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/?p=691</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>Elaine Cimino Studios Registration for Art Classes July through December 2012 at the North Valley Senior Center Please check a class and spark your creativity o Learn Watercolor –July 17th –September 11th for 8 wks Cost: $75.00 o Pastel Workshop – September 18th– October 30th for 6wks Cost: $65.00 o Drawing for the Holidays and […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/north-valley-senior-center-art-classes/">North Valley Senior Center Art Classes</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com">Elaine Cimino Studios</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">Elaine Cimino Studios</p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center">Registration for Art Classes July through December 2012 </p> <p style="text-align: left;" align="center">at the North Valley Senior Center</p> <a href="http://www.elaineciminostudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/showgirl.jpg"></a><p id="caption-attachment-264" class="wp-caption-text">Lila A Showgir</p> <p>Please check a class and spark your creativity</p> o Learn Watercolor –July 17th –September 11th for 8 wks Cost: $75.00 o Pastel Workshop – September 18th– October 30th for 6wks Cost: $65.00 o Drawing for the Holidays and Special Occasions- November 6th -December 18th for 6 wks Cost: $65.00 <p>All Classes will be on Tuesday Afternoons at 4:30pm – 6:30pm</p> <p>Method of payment</p> <a href="http://www.elaineciminostudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/eggplant.jpg"></a><p id="caption-attachment-266" class="wp-caption-text">Eggplant</p> <p>Cash, Check: Make payable to: Elaine Cimino Studios</p> <p>Use SASE available at Senior Center Office</p> <p>or use PayPal http://www.paypal.com for online payment</p> <p>Instructions for PayPal, Go to PayPal website.</p> <p>Click “send money” Button You will send to my email address</p> <p>Contact me through this website</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/north-valley-senior-center-art-classes/">North Valley Senior Center Art Classes</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com">Elaine Cimino Studios</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/north-valley-senior-center-art-classes/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2088</slash:comments> </item> <item> <title>Art Auction April 26th Hotel Albuquerque 6-8pm for the Sawmill Land Trust Fundraiser</title> <link>https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/painting-for-the-sawmill-land-trust-door-art-auction/</link> <comments>https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/painting-for-the-sawmill-land-trust-door-art-auction/#comments</comments> <dc:creator><![CDATA[]]></dc:creator> <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:42:28 +0000</pubDate> <category><![CDATA[Announcements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Artwork]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Paintings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[artwork]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Children's Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[creative spirit]]></category> <category><![CDATA[drawing]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Fine Art]]></category> <category><![CDATA[painting]]></category> <category><![CDATA[paintings]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Sawmill]]></category> <guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/?p=666</guid> <description><![CDATA[<p>This oil painting resulted from a computer generated image that I designed for the Born to Draw Children’s Art Drawing Program. The computer image was to be a demo from the Matisse cut-out project that teach color and shape relationships to 3rd grade -6th grade children. The composition of the piece had to fit an […]</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/painting-for-the-sawmill-land-trust-door-art-auction/">Art Auction April 26th Hotel Albuquerque 6-8pm for the Sawmill Land Trust Fundraiser</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com">Elaine Cimino Studios</a>.</p> ]]></description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.elaineciminostudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Cimino-Door600x1300.jpg"></a>This oil painting resulted from a computer generated image that I designed for the Born to Draw Children’s Art Drawing Program. The computer image was to be a demo from the Matisse cut-out project that teach color and shape relationships to 3rd grade -6th grade children.</p> <p>The composition of the piece had to fit an elongated format of the slab door without looking like a montage of two pictures juxtaposed.</p> <p>There were objects changes from the original sketch. The paint is drying now and after completely dried I would like to apply to the painting a non-yellowing and UV protect varnish. There is not enough time to do that and allow the painting to completely dry before the artist reception. The painting was completed on a slab door 30″ by 80″ in oil. The sides and back ofhte painting is stain natural and has a hand wax and polished finish.</p> <p>I hope that whomever purchases “When Life Serves You Lemons…” enjoys the painting for a very long time.</p> <p> </p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/painting-for-the-sawmill-land-trust-door-art-auction/">Art Auction April 26th Hotel Albuquerque 6-8pm for the Sawmill Land Trust Fundraiser</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.elaineciminostudios.com">Elaine Cimino Studios</a>.</p> ]]></content:encoded> <wfw:commentRss>https://www.elaineciminostudios.com/painting-for-the-sawmill-land-trust-door-art-auction/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>6022</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>