Minerva Financial Arts is a company devoted to enhancing business and financial literacy among artists and arts organizations.  These courses are designed to do just that via self-study or online learning.  

Affordable online classes, for only $29. But for OAL members receive a 50% discount with the following code, Minerva50.

Starts January 14, 2015, class scheduled to 'meet' every Wednesday in January, Allowing one week to finish each lesson.

Goal Setting for Portfolio Careers is tailored for creative entrepreneurs looking to develop better tools to manage the business side of their art.  By managing multiple sources of income through a portfolio career and developing goals that are both quantified and attainable, creative entrepreneurs will increase their confidence in business financial matters... and maybe even their financial health in the process.   

Online classes will be monitored by Minerva's founder, Elaine Grogan Luttrull. 

For more information about Minerva and to register, please visit their registration page

Public Art Chattanooga

January 30  

Public Art Chattanooga is seeking qualifications from artists or artist teams for the commission and installation of a mural at 2001 Chestnut Street at West 20th Street in Chattanooga, Tennessee.  Up to three finalists will be selected to develop concept proposals for this project.  Each finalist will be paid a $500 stipend.  The project budget for the selected commission is $25,000.  The Chestnut Street Gateway Mural will provide a transformative and dynamic visual anchor to this important gateway.

The site is located on the southwest perimeter of Chattanooga's revitalized Southside neighborhood, and is adjacent to Finley Stadium and First Tennessee Pavilion, home to a variety of heavily attended public events including sports, a major fine art festival, and the Chattanooga Market, a weekly community farmer's and craft market.  Once a blighted and severely neglected industrial district, the Southside has experienced a rebirth through reinvestment and is being transformed into a thriving and urban neighborhood.  Only blocks away, a 3.5-mile extension of the award-winning Tennessee Riverpark is under construction that will connect Chattanooga;s downtown to South Chattanooga and significantly increase pedestrian and bike traffic.  Here, old and new neighbors embrace diversity, urban living, and the return of locally-owned businesses.

For more information the full RFQ is available at: http://www.chattanooga.gov/images/citymedia/generalservices/Chesnut_Street_Gateway_Mural.pdf

VSA Ohio 

January 27 

On January 27 from 3-4pm VSA Ohio will offer a webinar titled "Tools and Techniques for Artists with and without Disabilities: How to Handle the Resistance in the Creative Process".  Many creatives experience creative blocks due to the resistance that is part of the creative process.  Too often, resistance stops the artist from making movement in their art work or out in their careers.  This includes artists with disabilities and without disabilities--no artist is immune to this challenge.  However, resistance can be a conduit for change when the artist uses techniques and strategies alongside their art making process.  When someone attains a disability or goes through some changes in their lives or artisitically this resistance can be stonger than normal.  This where developing a tookbox to handle the many changes that effects one's creativity becomes highly valuable to the artist.  This presentation addresses the many ways in which to redirect one's creativity. 

To register visit: http://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/200000000028189472

Hearts United for One Billion Rising, the 2nd annual "Hearts United" Public Art Project.  Second Sight Studio will once again be facilitating a public art display that is open to anyone who would like to participate. Hearts United for One Billion Rising is a project in which individuals and collaborative groups create heart-shaped or heart-themed art to be displayed at the Bellows End schoolyard, just across the street from the studio.  Everyone is invited to convene at the schoolyard from 11am to 2pm on Saturday, February 14 to hang their artwork on the fences, enjoy the work of others, and then warm up at the studio with coffee and donuts. 

This project is part of the global observance of One Billion Rising's "V-Day", a movement to draw attention to the need to end violence against women.  Last year, there were over 100 Columbus artist participants from elementary-school age all the way through adults.  This year, "Hearts United" is two cities strong, with a concurrent happening at House Tremont, an alternative art space in Cleveland.  

For more information go to: http://www.secondsightfranklinton.com/#!hearts-united/c1oy6

ImageOHIO 15 

Juried by Benjamin Montague  

Exhibition runs from January 20-February 20, 2015, at the Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery 

Opening Reception: Friday, January 23, from 7-9pm

Artists' Panel Discussion: Friday, February 20, from 1-2pm  

ROY G BIV presents ImageOHIO 15, their 15th annual exhibition of the best photography, video and digital art by Ohio artists.  This year's juror Benjamin Montague (Wright State University) selected 42 works by 25 artists and 1 artist collective, which collectively represent the innovative artwork produced in the Midwest. 

Exhibition is at the Fort Hayes Shot Tower Gallery (546 Jack Gibbs Blvd., Columbus, OH 43215).  Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, from 9am-5pm 

We would like to congratulate Ohio Art League artist, Virginia Kistler, for being selected along with Darren Baker, Michelle Burdine, Kimberly Burleigh, Joy Christiansen Erb, Nicole Crock, Toby Kaufmann-Buhler with Nathaniel Bartlett, Ray Klimek, Paula Willmot Kraus, Kent Krugh, Tracy Longley-Cook, Lillianna Marie, Anna McDonough, Daniel McInnis, Frederick Needham, Ardine Nelson, The Page Collective, Griffin Pines, Jill Raymundo, Rachel Girard Reisert, Jason Schwab, Kaitlyn Jo Smith, Jessica Wascak, Nick Weiss, Joel Whitaker, Rachel Yurkovich 

For more information, visit http://roygbivgallery.org/exhibitions/imageohio-15/ 

ROY G BIV Gallery is a nonprofit art gallery located in the historic Short North Arts District in Columbus, Ohio. Founded in 1989, ROY G BIV is known for showcasing innovative contemporary art by emerging artists from around the world.

New Classes start January 5th! 

Registration for the 8 week class is only $280 per person!  It includes 25lbs of clay, glazes, firing, open studio time during the session and a student gallery show and raku firing at the end of session. evening classes meet from 6:30-9:00pm once a week for 8 weeks.  Classes are small, ensuring students a high level of individual attention. 

There is also a 4 week Raku Class for $150 per person, which is Mondays from 6:30-9:00pm, January 5-26. 

Play with Fire!  Spend 3 weeks making work to raku and spend the last class firing the raku kiln.  Work can be made on or off the potter's wheel and textured for the kiln.  The 3rd class will focus on glazing and the final class will focus on the firing process.  Raku is an exciting and rewarding way to fire your work.  The fire and smoke from the reduction chambers add drama to the process and create stunning surfaces on the work. 

For more information go to http://www.clayspace831.com/ or email Todd Hickerson at toddhickerson@yahoo.com

The Clintonville Arts Guild will host an exhibition of its members work during the month of January, 2015, in the lobby of the James A. Rhodes Office Tower, 30 E. Broad Street, Columbus.  Twenty-five artists will present 70 works in a wide variety of media and styles – paintings (oil, acrylic, watercolor), collage, mixed media, photography, fiber, fused glass, jewelry, and ceramics.

The Rhodes Tower exhibition is an opportunity for the Guild to announce itself to a broader audience, and to show how the arts thrive in many of Columbus’ neighborhoods.  An artists’ reception is planned for Thursday, January 15th from 6 to 8 PM in the Rhodes Tower lobby.

The Clintonville Arts Guild meets every 4th Monday, from September through May, at 7 PM at the Whetstone Community Center, 3923 N High St.  “We have monthly programs that inform and inspire, and opportunities to be part of several group shows each year,” Pusecker notes.  “We also issue a challenge for our members every May – ‘given a specific theme, create an artwork in your own style and preferred medium.  Past challenge themes have included flamingoes, doors, blue, masks, things fall apart, and an ‘aha’ moment.”

For more information, please contact:

Michael Pusecker

cagartmike@gmail.com or clintonvillearts@gmail.com

Art and Artists Of Network and Open Door Art Studio and Gallery announce the Call for Entries for the juried exhibit Perpetuating Purpose that will be on display from February 28 through March 27, 2015.

This exhibition is a demonstration of the importance to create and to have creativity in our lives, and artists of all media are invited to submit one piece to be submitted for the jurying process. Find out all the nitty-gritty fine print here.

Submission deadline is Monday, February 2, 2015, 11:59 pm, so don't hesitate! This is one show you'll definitely want to be a part of. The Opening Reception will take place from 5-7 pm on Friday, Feb. 28 at Open Door Studio and Gallery.

Don't forget to LIKE Art And Artists Of on Facebook and join to your corresponding area code!

Creative Collaboration 

Gallery 831 

Opening Reception Friday, January 9, 6-9pm 

Exhibition runs from January 9-30 

It is an exhibition featuring individual and collaborative work by ceramic artists Kevin Russell and Richard Paldino celebrating clay and the creative process. 

For more information check out http://clayspace831.com/index.php