Take a look at the latest GAC Newsletter!
3rd Annual Art Achievement Awards – “Visionaries 2008”
Guilford Art Center Seeks Craft Expo Volunteers
Move Over Dr. Seuss! Noted Author to Teach "Illustrating Children's Books"
Photographs of Asian Travel by Artist Larry Snider
"About Face" Portraiture Exhibition
New Classes This Spring at Guilford Art Center
Shop at Guilford Art Center Reopens
Portraiture Exhibition at Guilford Art Center
Art After Hours (for adults only!)
Previous News Releases
Guilford Art Center Announces
3rd Annual Art Achievement Awards – “Visionaries 2008”
The Guilford Art Center announces the recipients of its Third Annual Art Achievement Awards, recognizing individuals for their contributions to the community through art: Natalie Forbes, Executive Director of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, and Kathryn Halloran Greene, owner of the Greene Art Gallery. The Award recipients will be honored at a cocktail reception in the Mill Gallery at the Guilford Art Center on Friday, May 23, from 6-8pm. The gathering is free of charge, and the public is invited to attend.
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Guilford Art Center Seeks Craft Expo Volunteers
On the Guilford Green, July 17, 18 & 19
Guilford Art Center seeks volunteers to assist with the 51st annual Craft Expo, once again to be held on the Guilford Green. Craft Expo 2008 is scheduled for Thursday, Friday & Saturday, July 17, 18 & 19. One of Connecticut's oldest and finest outdoor juried craft shows, Craft Expo showcases the best traditional and contemporary high-caliber crafts made by 170 American artists.
Volunteers are crucial during this busy, three-day event. Volunteers are needed to help with: Event setup/breakdown; admissions; booth relief for artists; the Silent Auction of donated crafts; the Kids' Crafts Table and more.
Saturday volunteers are especially needed this year. Saturday volunteers will receive a Free Saturday Admission pass for a friend.
Craft Expo is one of the shoreline's favorite summer events, and one of Guilford Art Center's most important fundraisers, benefiting its School and Gallery programs. All volunteers receive free admission to all 3 days of the event, invitation to the Artists' Dinner, and the fun and camaraderie of supporting Guilford Art Center and its programs for the community through this popular event. Volunteers can work any and all times during the show (most shifts are a minimum of 3 hours). Friends can work together! Teens can earn community service credit.
For more information and to sign-up to be a Craft Expo volunteer, call Maureen Belden, Program Administrator, at 203.453.5947, ext. 12.
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Move Over Dr. Seuss! Noted Author to Teach "Illustrating Children's Books" at Guilford Art Center
Noted children's book author Jamison Odone will conduct a weekend workshop at Guilford Art Center on Illustrating Children's Books, Saturday-Sunday, April 26-27. Designed for students with previous art training, this workshop will offer aspiring authors tools to progress from inspiration toward publication of their book ideas.
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Photographs of Asian Travel by Artist Larry Snider on View at Guilford Art Center
Compelling images of people and places captured during Asian travels will be featured in the Guilford Art Center's exhibition Documenting "The Other": Photographs of China, Myanmar and India by Larry Snider. This solo exhibition features works by Snider, a Chicago-based photographer, who has traveled extensively over the past 30 years, documenting the people and cultures he has encountered. The exhibition is on view May 9 through June 19 in the Center's Mill Gallery.
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Renowned Artists Exhibit at Guilford Works by Dawoud Bey, Marie Cosindas, Daniel Heyman Included in “About Face” Portraiture Exhibition
The Guilford Art Center’s 2008 exhibition season kicks off in a major way with the exhibition About Face: The Relevance of Portraiture in the 21st Century. On view at the Center’s Mill Gallery March 14 through April 25, this exhibition includes paintings, prints, photographs, digital collages, animation and more that pose provocative questions about the relationship of portraiture to identity, gender, class, likeness, and the notion of “inner truth.” About Face includes work by seven artists, including three of international stature who are lending their work to this project: Dawoud Bey, Marie Cosindas, and Daniel Heyman.
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New Classes This Spring at Guilford Art Center
The Spring schedule at Guilford Art Center includes a whole crop of new classes--on new topics, or exploring specialized aspects of familiar art forms, ideal for adventuresome new students and seasoned artists alike.
A weekend workshop in Illustrating Children's Books will offer the chance to work with Jamison Odone, an artist and author and protégé of Maurice Sendak. Clay Monotypes makes ceramics come alive in a new way: as a matrix for creating limited edition prints. Basic Mural Design translates your ideas onto the walls of your own home. In the Fiber Arts, students can explore weekend workshops in Marbling on Fabric and Paper and Embellishing Fiber with Glass and Silver-creating your own glass and metal objects. Weekend Hinge Sampler will help jewelery students to get their work to move and articulate in new ways, while painters will learn to work in series, a la Monet and Cezanne in A Landscape Chronicle. Or create your own photographic heirloom in Artful Family Tree.
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Shop at Guilford Art Center Reopens With New Merchandise, New Look
“Extreme Makeover” Revealed at Grand Reopening, March 14
The Shop at Guilford Art Center will unveil its “Extreme Makeover” and celebrate its grand reopening on Friday, March 14, 5:30-7:00pm.
Since the January closing of its annual holiday sale, the Shop at the Guilford Art Center has been undergoing an “Extreme Makeover,” with staff and volunteers working feverishly to brainstorm, redesign, and re-stock this specialty retail mecca. The Shop will celebrate its grand reopening with an unveiling of its fresh and vibrant new look, new layout, and new merchandise.
The reincarnated Shop at Guilford Art Center will be filled with never-before-seen merchandise, colorful displays, a spacious layout for browsing, and personal service by art-savvy shop assistants. Gorgeous, handmade objects of the highest quality, created by American artists are what the Shop is all about, including jewelry, pottery, glass, fiber, wood.
Click here to download the new Shop postcard.
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Contemporary Portraits Explore Identity, Likeness and New Media
Portraiture Exhibition at Guilford Art Center
We might all think we know a simple definition of a portrait is: an artistic representation of a person, in which the face is predominant, and in which the intent is to display likeness, personality, and mood. However, when one tries to pinpoint an all-encompassing definition of portraiture as a genre, it becomes clear that it is nearly impossible to gather the properties of the word and achieve universal acceptance.
The Guilford Art Center’s latest exhibition, About Face: The Relevance of Portraiture in the 21st Century, will examine new artistic avenues into this enduring genre, as a means to explore its richness and complexity.
Curated by art historian Samantha Pinckney of Guilford, About Face will be on view in the Guilford Art Center’s Mill Gallery from March 14 – April 25, 2008. For more information contact the Guilford Art Center at 203-453-5947 or click here.
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ART AFTER HOURS (for adults only!)
Come together with family, friends or co-workers to celebrate a birthday or a night out making art together! Choose one of our themes or create you own; meet at the Guilford Art Center or we'll come to you! Themes include paper, polymer or traditional beading, belt making, book making, felted bowls, stenciled or decorated handbags, shirts or clay pots, beginning painting or drawing and
polymer pens. Come, explore your creative side! Call now for details!
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