“ARTBAR” NIGHT PREMIERES AT SHARON ARTS CENTER FEB 11
A new monthly event called the “ArtBar” will premiere at the Sharon Arts Center Exhibition Gallery, 30 Grove St., on Saturday, February 11 from 7 to 9 pm.
“ArtBars are popping up all over the country,” says Gallery Director Camellia Sousa. “We are pleased to host this unique and exciting monthly event at Sharon Arts Center, where in our relaxed and casual setting in the main Exhibition Gallery you can complete your own acrylic painting to take home, based on the ArtBar themes of the month, with creative and timely ideas that anyone can do.”
According to Sousa, ArtBar will provide all the art supplies plus hearty cheese and crackers and seltzer water with wine and beer available for a suggested donation. Ready for participants, supplies will include acrylic paint colors, brushes, small sponges for painting, stencils and pencils, blue tape for hard edges, and 8 x 10 inch canvas boards.
“I was thrilled to be invited to lead the ArtBar,” says instructor Holly Alderman who will guide participants through the process to create their own original paintings. “Since we’re beginning just before Valentine’s Day, the theme for February’s ArtBar will be Love and Chanel No. 5.”
Alderman plans to start each ArtBar with a slide show of inspirations by projecting iconic images on the gallery wall. Her slide show for Feb. 11 includes Andy Warhol’s famous painting “Chanel No 5″ (1956) and more Chanel imagery, symbols, logos and ads old and new. Alderman will also demonstrate the use of sponges, tapes and stencils. As models for the evening, she will provide classic bottles of Chanel No 5, sample photos, sketches and artworks. Participants are welcome to bring their personal favorite small brushes and acrylic colors or watercolors.
An artist and photographer whose decorative arts are inspired by digital innovations and the beauty of local landscapes and weather, Alderman was a mural fellow at the National Academy Museum in New York and a teaching assistant in Design Science at Harvard College. Her art and décor are installed in residences and restaurants from San Francisco to DC to London and have appeared at Sunflowers Café in Jaffrey as well as at the White House, Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site, the Chelsea Flower Show and the Boston Design Center and on TOH, Dream House, Today, and Art.com. She will have an art show of Chanel paintings in March at Aesop’s Table in Peterborough inside the Toadstool Bookshop.
On Feb. 11 Alderman will also introduce a special guest invited to be a teaching assistant, interior designer Cathy Bosworth, who advises celebrity interior designers and world famous cultural institutions on design and decorating trends and is an art consultant with an eye for iconic images. Bosworth is Vice President of Sterling and Knight, international distributors of fine fabrics, wallpapers and lighting to showrooms at design centers throughout the US and Canada, owned with her husband Paul in Keene, NH.
To be held the second Saturday of each month, ArtBar upcoming themes will be: Animal Patterns, March 10; Cherry Blossom Festival, April 14; Words as Art, May 12; Stars and Stripes, June 9; French Kitchen Still Life, July 14; Pink and Green Lilly Fest, Aug. 11; Pop Art/Op Art, Sept.15; Monadnock Landscapes, Oct.13; Duck Decoys, Nov. 10, and Star Bright, Starry Night, Dec. 8.
While ArtBar studio nights are limited to 12 participants, a couple or two friends are welcome to sign up to collaborate together on a single painting. Pre-registration is required. The cost is $25 per person, and the cost for a collaborator is $15. To register and for more information call (603) 924-2787.