Wellness Through the ARTS -- happened on September 22, 2007
This event is a fund-raiser for Chewelah resident, Tammy Carr, who is suffering from a rare lung disease. In Chewelah, at Sporty's Bar.
Sponsored by Greenwood Institute d'Art and Colville Arts Foundation.
DATE: September 22, 2007, Saturday
The FAT TONES, a Spokane-based band. See their website.
Volunteers are needed, poets are needed. The Blue Door Theatre will perform, as will
The FAT TONES, and Colville's own, Planetary Refugees.
WE NEED SPONSORS TO help pay for advertising and marketing expenses. OIV ARTS consortium will have an child's art booth. In this booth, the art will be for sale. Art by the kids, to raise funds for the ARTS Program at Orient, Inchelium and Valley Schools, and also for other needed programs in our schools.
Thank you in advance for your generosity. If you would like to be a sponsor, please see the sponsor letter here.
More ARCHIVES:
Past Workshops:
Instructed Life DRAWING WORKSHOP --
APRIL 14 SATURDAY 2007 FROM NOON-4PM
Instructor: Charlene Payton Holt
DRAW the Figure in historic Colville, WA –
Charlene Payton Holt is offering a class in figure drawing to the public, four 4-hour sessions for $35.00 per each 4-hour session. Ms. Payton Holt will demonstrate and instruct students in their approach to the challenge of drawing from a live model. Aspects of drawing will be gesture, contour drawing, modeling techniques and artistic anatomy.
Please register by calling 684-3002. Class size is limited, so please call early to reserve your space.
Fee $35.00 per person. email: colvillearts@hughes.net
To reach Charlene Payton Holt directly, email cpaytonholt at yahoo dot com.
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Charlene Payton Holt has been drawing the figure since her days at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, OH. She graduated with a BFA in Studio Art from Kent State University in 1972 and her specialties are painting and printmaking. In 1990 she moved to southern California and taught art at Sherman Indian High School. Besides her regular fulltime duties, Charlene worked with students to accomplish over 80 murals on the interior and exterior walls of the off reservation boarding school. Since she moved to Washington state in 1999, she was commissioned to paint her own mural depicting the life of Ranald MacDonald on Kettle River Road in Curlew, WA.
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She has also exhibited her altered photographs, paintings and drawings. In 2002, she joined the Colville Arts Foundation Regional Art Gallery and had a
one-person show of over thirty works. She was one of the founding members of Gold Mountains Gallery in Republic and last year opened her own "Eagle Ridge Art Studio" in Republic, participating in North Country Artist Trails for the 2006 season. Charlene has drawn the figure on a regular basis at life drawing sessions through the Colville Arts Foundation and at her own studio since 2004. In July of 2006, she exhibited her figure drawings at the Grand Forks Art Gallery in Grand Forks, BC, Canada. The exhibit was titled "Crossing the Line - A Survey of 13 artists from British Columbia's Boundary Region and North Central Washington. State".
More information: colvillearts at hughes dot net