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february
05 museletter As Spring approaches, we hope the colors, light, and textures of the season will inspire your creative ideas to bloom and grow. In
this month’s issue: EVENTS AT MUSE GOLDEN ACRYLICS DEMONSTRATION Learn how to get more out of painting and master your materials! This demonstration by Golden Working Artist Corrine Loomis-Dietz is a fun, fast-paced, informative event covering basic technical and application subjects helpful to any painter. The workshop will cover the fundamentals of working with acrylic paints and explain the various mediums and how they work. You’ll learn about acrylic gels, which allow you to modify paint in infinite ways to personalize your creative expression. Unique properties of pigments, color-mixing tips, proper grounds, and varnishing will also be addressed. Free
literature packet and samples to the first 20 people
registered. Please call or visit the store by Friday,
March
4 to register. Five-dollar registration fee includes coupon
for $5 off any purchase at Muse Art and Design. “
UNTOLD DREAMS,” An Exhibition of Prints and Poetry
by Students of Grace Academy An exhibition of self-portrait woodcuts, monoprints, and poetry created in conjunction with the play, Untold Dreams, produced and performed by Grace Academy students in December ‘04. Grace Academy is a creative education program provided to culturally diverse, underserved students from middle schools in Northeast and Southeast Portland. View these expressive works by young artists throughout the month of March. Join us for a reception on Saturday, March 12 to meet the artists and their friends and families.
Yu Ming-Zhu, Sumi painting and calligraphy artist and teacher from the Seattle area will demonstrate techniques and materials of this distinctive and spiritually rich art form. Even if you do not work in calligraphy or brush painting, you can learn techniques from the Sumi tradition that will strengthen and simplify your drawing, painting, and composition.
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to top Need some ideas, inspiration, or a refresher on materials and techniques? Bring a cup of coffee to the back corner of the store, have a seat and browse through our growing collection of titles on art, artists, techniques, materials, and eclectic visual references. If you find a book you’d like to spend more time with, we’d be happy to let you borrow it for a week or two. For in-store reading, we’re expanding our selection of magazines including Artist’s Magazine, ARTnews, STEP Inside Design, HOW, and ReadyMade. Use the internet station to research useful art-related sites. If you’d like to pick up or distribute materials about classes, studio spaces, showings, or other items of interest to the creative community, we’re also gathering materials from artists, teachers, and organizations to include in community-resource binders and postings. back
to top We want the walls at Muse to be a place where local artists can share their work with fellow artists and the larger community. Every six to eight weeks, we’ll be displaying a new collection of pieces by local artists and designers working in all types of media and representing a range of styles, techniques, and levels of experience. During each six-to-eight week period, Muse Art and Design will host a weekend or evening reception. Artists who wish to sell their work to the public may set their own prices. Muse does not take a commission for works that sell. Works do not have to be framed, but must be wired and ready to hang. Visit or call the store for more information or to get on the calendar to show your work at Muse. The calendar
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