Award for Stephanie Neely

Stephanie's painting "Annunciation" was the winner of the Thomas Moran Memorial Award of the Non-Members Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the Salmagundi Art Club of New York. She has also been accepted as an Artist Member.

Workshop event

BRIO Fine Arts Center / New Visions Campus      5 Thursdays, October 6th -November 3rd, 2 - 5 pm  Art, Courage & Creativity II --- The Series!    Based upon the popular one day BRIO course with Karen Leeds ("Taking It Further") this new 5 partseries offers longer painting times to more deeply explore composition & feelings. Come relax, revive and reinvent yourself! We use rich, colorful oil pastels, loosening up exercises, and mixed media to gently free us from beliefs and habits that may be holding us back.  All materials are supplied. While there is ample technique taught, the emphasis is on creating original art by intuition, and on learning to recognize and act upon the inner guidance of your own unique voice.  Appropriate for both newcomers and graduates of Karen's other sessions.          COST:                     $160  +$10 supply fee each session ($50)                                        Register by August 31st for 10 % DISCOUNT!                                        Click Here   Or call 480/941-8310 (Diane)                                         Space is limited. Registration Required.                                         Directions  to New Vision location

Exhibit opportunity

The deadline for the 42^nd Annual River Road Show is approaching.  This show is a national juried exhibition sponsored by the Louisiana Art and Artists’ Guild with cash prizes of $3000.  Entries are being received until September 16, 2011.   Entry fee is $40 for three entries and $5 for each additional submission up to 10.     All United States artists 18 years and older are invited to submit any original two-dimensional art except photography or digitally-created/enhanced works.  The exhibition will be juried and judged by Pam Ingalls, renowned artist and instructor.      The actual exhibition will be held  December 5 – January 27 at the Louisiana State Archives building in Baton Rouge, LA.   The Prospectus and pictures of the 2010 are available at www.laag-site.org/River_Road_Show.html.   Direct questions to Gary Drinkwater at (225)485-8884 orlaagbr@laag-site.org.