The 2nd Quarter
30 Day CREATIVITY Challenge May 10– June 10, 2013
Hosted by Art MoB Studios & Marketplace and Miriam Hughes
We invite you to join us in our 30 Day Creativity Challenge. The guidelines are simple. Everyone is invited to give it a try. The point is to explore and try something new in your current medium, or a new medium or even an idea you have but needs community encouragement to continue. Everyone has the spark of creativity that we love to see emerge.
For thirty days you will choose a subject and work on it in anyway you want to. We will post our results daily or weekly (whatever works for you) on a special blog. At the end of the thirty days you will have time to prepare your work for a opening exhibit at Art MoB’s gallery. The exhibit will be up for two weeks and the opening reception will be held on Saturday afternoon, June 29th from 2-5pm.
All artist are invited to attend the show (of course, bring friends and help supply refreshments. The first show was a huge success and people came early and stayed late. Artists in the show sold work, as did many of the other artists in the gallery.
Guidelines, Concerns, Objections and Other Questions !
In order to accommodate all the participants here are a few highly suggested guidelines:
1. Keep the size small—for 2D work 5x7 or smaller is recommended. Several people work on 2x2 to 6x6 inch formats. Not only does it help you focus and complete the work, it looks great in the gallery as a collection of your work.
2. 3 Dimensional work should also be small, however if you have questions contact Miriam and we can help you determine what works best. For example—ceramic artists create tiles, or small objects representational of their style and large works. Even practicing new glazes is consider a worthy challenge. A fiber artist created a handmade journal illustrating through drawings, fiber selections and small collages how she went about getting ideas for her pieces. She added a small finished piece (8x10) to illustrate the results of her one month thought process.
3. All work MUST be prepared and presented in the most professional manner possible for the exhibit. That does not mean it has to be framed, but mounted in such a way that we can hang it easily. Many of the artists mounted their work with Velcro or magnets on all thirty pieces onto a backing (foam core, board or sheet metal) and we were able to hang it as one piece.
4. Submit sometime during the 30 Day Challenge a short bio and a sentence or two on your purpose so Miriam can write all the profiles that will hang with the work. We can add result ideas at the end, but this will give us time to have everything ready. Do not worry about your writing—we will rewrite and get your approval before posted.
5. Have fun! Be creative. Explore and set your worries, ego and time constraints aside. Make it easy and fun for yourself. The only thing we do request is that we avoid religious or politically offensive material. We are pretty open however we want everyone to enjoy the show. This does not mean it cannot be religious or political, just enter that territory with care and kindness.
6. All work must be received by Art Mob and/or Miriam by June 25th gallery ready.
7. Out of town participants. You are more than welcome and we can work with you to get the work to us and back again. Please contact Miriam directly on how we will do this together. P
8. IMPORTANT please friend both Miriam M Hughes and Art Mob Studios on Facebook to stay in the loop!
Contact person for the 30 Day CREATIVITY Challenge is Miriam M. Hughes:
artdog@miriamhughes.com (email)
610-389-0058 (cell phone)
Miriam M. Hughes (Facebook)
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