After all our delays due to weather we have finally gotten over the halfway mark of Figure Study! It has been an exciting year so far with lots of amazing art pieces being created!  We have a few more classes left, one of those being the very popular LARGE ANIMAL NIGHT, if your interested please feel free to talk to your art teacher about joining us!

Check out the pictures below, maybe you will see a art piece from a artist you know!

I wanted to write this today to inform you all of some great extracurricular activities happening that your children could participate in!

The first is the ESS Art contest. For this contest the participants create a art piece representing "what would it be like to have a class in outer space?"  Due date is on April 8th and any info can be found here, https://library.ess.com/artcontest 

If your child is participating in any of these all they need to so is get me the art piece and any other information before Friday the 8th and I will handle the rest! If getting me the physical art piece is tricky feel free to send me a photo of it with the necessary info and I will work my magic. 

The second is the Ingham Students Art Exhibit.  This one I can only take 20 students, and the due date is this one is also the 8th of Feb., but unlike the other I need the physical art piece.  If your child would like to enter have them bring the art piece and accompanying paperwork to me and I will enter it in!  Follow the link for more information, http://lansingartgallery.org/17th-annual-ingham-art-exhibit/ 

For both art shows I will be talking to some students and pulling some of their art, so spots will fill up fast!

The third and final is our Figure Study Class help up at the High School.  This runs every Tuesday, weather and snow day permitting, and our first class will be this Tuesday, Feb. 5th. I have also attached the following paperwork needed to attend the class, please bring it to our first class if you are joining us for this amazing experience!

Thanks and if you have any questions, comments, or concerns please feel to contact me:
Mr. Gere

Due to the weather conditions we are canceling figure study for the night.  But worry not! We will still have our full amount of classes, everything will just be pushed back one week.
 
I also want to take this moment to mention that if we are having extremely bad weather, please contact me to see if class is still happening.  In the event of us having a snow day on a figure study night we will not have class that night and will be pushing it back one week. 
 
Be safe and have a great night!
 
Mr. Gere
 
PS: If you know someone who was going to attend tonight please pass the word along that there is no class tonight, we are in a unfortunate circumstance that I have a limited email list being we have not had the first night, so some that might have planed on showing up might not have contacted me yet, thus I have no way of informing them of the cancellation.
 

Grand Rapids Art Prize just ended this weekend and what a year!  There were some amazing art pieces spread out around the wonderful city of Grand Rapids.  If you have never heard of Art Prize, it is a city wide art show where artists from all around the world enter in a piece to compete for a fame and fortune!  Check out HERE to read more about it. 

This years winners can be viewed and read about HERE. 

This year Helping Hands charity reached out to the Williamston Visual Arts program about creating some cards for people who could use them. We participated and created some great cards with positive messages.  Look at the images below of some of those said cards.  

Tonight the first ever Fine Arts Festival. This festival combines all the arts together for the first time! Tonight there will be a concert where attendees will hear the various choirs and bands perform. There will also be a unveiling of the winner and honorable mentions of the Susan Lorenz Memorial Art Show as well as celebrating all the participants.  

The night will start at 6 and end at 8pm.  The performances will be held in the new gym at the High School while the art show will be, and is currently, on display in the old gym.

This year marks the 35th Susan Lorenz Memorial Art Show, we had some talented artists participate this year!  This years first place winner is Jasmyne Bush, check out the piece below!

​The 10 Honorable Mentions are Eva Gray, Aliana Hermann-Campana, Kenzie Carson, Charles Herek, Emma Reynolds, Amelia Keyes, Benjamin Krueger, Paige Lewis, Eva Hudson, and Allison Peplowski.  Check out their pieces below!

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Last night concluded our last live drawing night for figure study this year, check out the photos below from our large animal night and the previous weeks night, motion night. 

Next week marks our last meeting, and the day will be dedicated to giving participants full access to the various mediums we used throughout the class and letting them use them to work on continuing and improving one of their pieces from previous nights. 

We have had a very successful year of Figure Study!   Today marks our eighth and most popular night, Large Animal Night!  So if you are interested feel free to drop in and draw!

Check out he pictures below of the amazing art created in our past few nights. Also those who haven't seen in the Middle School the art in the display case out front has been changed, check out the amazing art from our local Middle School students! 

Ingham Count Art Show
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Once again it is that time of year where the Ingham County Art Show is kicking off!  This year students entered a variety of art projects, like self-portraits done in watercolor, radial designs, and even a graffiti name paint project and a mixed media drawing of a crazy world!  Out of all the entries judges pick 60 pieces to be professionally framed and displayed and exhibited for one year at their facility.  Judges will contact schools with winners by late Feb. so keep an eye out for information on that and if we have any winners in our group!

Figure Study

Figure Study had kicked off and we are already almost half way through with it this year!  We have an amazing group of students, each with their talents and goals.  We have a lot of Williamston students, and even some students from other schools such as Mason!  Check out the images below to see the amazing pieced being created. If you are interested in joining us for our last few classes feel free to contact Mr. Gere or your local art teacher for more information.