13th Annual Tougaloo Art Colony
The 13th Annual Tougaloo Art Colony is scheduled for the week of July 12 – 17 on the historic Tougaloo College campus. The Colony is a week of studios for nationally acclaimed artists, emerging artists, art educators, art students and interested adult learners.
Guest artist instructors conduct the studios in a variety of media and the evening sessions offer an opportunity for artists to gain insight from instructors, to explain and discuss their own work, the work of other artists and other participants and to exchange techniques and theories.
This year’s colony features guest artists Maritza Davila (Print Making: Beyond Monotypes), Frank Robinson, Jr. (Art in the Surreal), Charles Smith (Classy Classic Clay), returning artist, Arlington Weithers, (From the Spirit II) and a new feature, “Raw Kids Art Camp,” an exciting children’s art camp led by Ann “Sole Sister” Johnson that will nurture creative minds by allowing children to produce cool and exciting art projects. For registration forms and more information on the artists and workshops, you may visit www.tougaloo.edu/artcolony and click the link to 2009 Art Colony Registration.
The Tougaloo College Art Colony is a retreat for nationally acclaimed artists, emerging artists, art educators, art students, and interested adult learners who have the opportunity to engage in dialogue and to create works that help extend the multicultural dimensions of America’s visual arts culture.
Begun in 1997, the Tougaloo Art Colony consists of seven days of studios led by guest artist instructors from a variety of media, geographic regions, and backgrounds.
The daily studio workshops and the shared evening sessions provide a forum for artists to gain insights from instructors, to explain and talk about their own work, the work of other artists, and to share and compare techniques and art theories.
The close associations formed through a week of intensive study provide a network for ongoing relationships between artists and celebration through the creation of art works, the common denominator of the human spirit and its relationship to our contemporary world.
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