Monroe Walton Center for the Arts weekly news update

05/29/2018 Sharon Swanepoel Top News 0

Summer ART Camp registration is now on-line!

More info HERE

A few camps are almost full!!

Four weeks of ART camp to choose from … plus Art Intensive!

  • ages 5 – 8 and 9 – 14, plus ART Intensive (AP level art) for more serious students aged 14 – 18
  • June and July only
  • Camp times: 9 am – noon.  Art Intensive:  9 am – 4 pm.  Monday – Friday
SUMMER MEMBERS SHOW
Our Summer Members Show open Saturday, June 2.  So many fabulous works by our members – some see!

peace,
Hope
director, MWCA

p.s. – please check out our calendar of events and classes!
RAIN BARRELS
Look at these amazing rain barrels painted by our Artists (Joe Gargasz and Robin Shirreffs, so far!)! This is a cooperative effort with the City of Monroe. These barrels promote water conservation and come with conversion kits installed to attach to your downspout to catch rain water for your garden.

They will be auctioned off by the city at various events over the summer … be on the look out for these and more to come!
DRAWING CLASS
Wednesdays @ 3 – 4 pm during June and July.
Adults and ages 14 and up.
REGISTER HERE

Join Robin for Drawing 101. Learn to push your pencil to new peaks. Class topics include: shapes, shading, perspective, Zen Tangles, drawing from nature and more!

Take one class or take as many as you want. Fee: $15 weekly or $50 if you wish to sign up for four classes; plus $10 (one-time fee) for supplies if needed. Pay Robin for supplies (cash please) at your first class. Supplies include: Sketch Pad, Pencil #2 and kneaded eraser.
.Pottery Mini Course: Four weeks in June
Thursdays starting June 7 from 10 am – noon
​To register, contact Rebecca at
braswellcr@bellsouth.net

Join Rebecca Braswell on Thursday mornings in our pottery studio!
Age 18 and up.

Instructor fee: $100 for members; $110 for non-members
plus $25 for clay and glazes.
CLASS AND EVENT LIST
Are you a visual kind of person who likes to see everything in one place?

Drop by the Center anytime for a Class list for adults and children. This includes events, too.

Updated at least once a week!
Please be sure to check out our calendar of show opening & closing dates for the rest of the year — including drop off and pick up dates.  Everything is detailed & updated on our website!

Check it out HERE.

TWO NEW SHOWS!

  • Fiber Show   Learn more HERE and get an application!
  • Georgia Places and Country Roads — both urban and rural scenes depicting our lovely state — drop off dates are July 17 & 18

Artists – please share on your pages, and tell your friends. Thanks!
Weekly Classes, More Creative Workshops & other events — see examples & learn more on our website HERE
  • Weekly classes for adults on Tuesdays and Wednesdays:
    • painting
    • sculpture
    • photography
    • drawing 101
    • and pottery
  • After-School Arts Program Tuesdays & Wednesdays for ages 7 – 14:
    • General Art (resumes Sept. 2018)
    • Painting & Drawing (resumes Sept. 2018)
    • and Pottery  (NOTE – pottery will continue through the SUMMER!)
  • Thursdays @ 11am – 2pm:  FREE Let’s Create with Robin.  Bring your own supplies and a sack lunch if you wish. Hang out with other creatives – paint, knit, draw, write – whatever moves you! Robin will provide inspiration, encouragement and a little advice if you want it! Just show up – easy!
MONTHLY:
  • Saturday, June 2 Paint & Pizza Party @ 12 – 2 — email donna@monroeartguild.org
  • Thursday, June 7:  ALIVE AFTER FIVE Visit us the first Thursday of the month — April – October — Open 11 am – 8 pm!
  • Thursday, June 7: Walton Writers meets at 6:30 — FREE!
  • Thursday, June 14 Members-Only Art Guild Meeting at 6:30. Join us as artist Sue Grilli gives a demonstration of her mixed media technique (see one of her works, above). Also … news about an upcoming plein air event and other art-insider news! You can join at the meeting if you are not a current member.
Join us for this free WALTON WRITERS event… Author Lynn Hesse on the art of dialogue.

Thursday, June 7 at 6:30

Lynn is the 2015 First Place Winner, Oak Tree Press, Cop Tales for her mystery, Well of Rage and the first place winner of the 2017 unpublished fiction contest, Public Safety Writers Association, for her brand new published mystery, Another Kind of Hero. She has a law enforcement background and writes her character-driven stories with an ear for dialogue and an affinity for plot twists set in rich southern culture. She empowers and adds humor when she can and sheds light on the gray layers of life. She is a performance artist and member of Beacon Dance, Atlanta InterPlay:SoulPrint Players, and Dancing Flowers for Peace. Her flower persona is “The Dandelion”. She lives in Stone Mountain.

Visit her web: www.lynnhesse.wordpress.com

Amazon : https://www.amazon.com/Lynn-Hesse/e/B01LKPRAZQ

Please RSVP here so we can have space ready. If you don’t know until the last minute come and join us. Free event.

on the website…

* A history of the Art Guild —> here
* Our renovation plans —> here
* Calendar of events and classes —> here

Call for Entries 
Take a look at the 2018 shows HERE.

NOTE our NEW SHOWS: 

  • Fiber Show (seeking fiber artists).  Learn more HERE and get an application!
  • Georgia Places and Country Roads — both urban and rural scenes depicting our lovely state — drop off dates are July 17 & 18

What’s in the Galleries and Sculpture Garden?
Summer Members Show opens June 2

See our list of Art Guild Members
(and hey artist-members!  If you have a website, Etsy Shop or Facebook page, please send the link to hope@monroeartguild.org. And be sure to renew your membership annually when we send your reminder out.  If you do not renew, your information will be removed from our listing of Guild members.)

Support the local arts and get discounts in our shop and on classes!  Join us today!  Click HERE.

We can host your private party!  From a child’s birthday party to a girls’ night out or bridal or baby shower … if you want to add some sparkle and artistic shine to your party – check this out!

As always, much love to our awesome & generous business sponsors – thank you so much!   Please support these local businesses.  See them here.

Also check out our friends at Walton Writers and On Stage Walton who also make Walton County a creative and enjoyable place to live!

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