Sunday, February 26, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
Craft Hangover & Install Starts Tomorrow!
We had to pick the bits of yarn out of our hair this morning!
A huge thank you to Brick Factory for hosting this most magical event organized by Craftville. Just look at these super-fun pictures! Deliciously Happy opens next week on March 1st and Craftville will be hosting Thursday Craft Nights from 6-9pm on March 8, 15, 22, & 29!
PUT IT ON YOUR CRAFT CALENDAR!! Great for school groups and organizations!
PUT IT ON YOUR CRAFT CALENDAR!! Great for school groups and organizations!
Out of the studio, and into the gallery space!!
Here we go, folks! The Deliciously Happy install starts tomorrow morning at 9am! Watch this blog for images of the space as it comes together . . . Carnival fun here we come!
Thursday, February 16, 2012
WSMV Tonight!!
Check out Deliciously Happy being featured tonight--Thursday, February 16th--on WSMV, Channel 4 news at 5pm!! Go team go!!
Sunday, February 12, 2012
And, Craftville is hosting a . . . FINGERWEAVING PARTY at the new creative facility BRICK FACTORY to kick off their opening & Craftville's partnership with the DELICIOUSLY HAPPY project!
Here's what they say: "The Deliciously Happy art installation at Belmont University will feature work of local students of all ages. Coordinating artist Lindsey Bailey’s effort is to transform the entire space. She wants to cover EVERY inch with community creations - and this is where YOU come in!
Thursday Feb. 23rd @ The Brick Factory, Cummins Station
7-8pm is our FREE and Family Friendly hour, because we know some serious elementary school age fingerweavers that will want in on the action!
8-11pm After Bedtime CRAFT PARTY For Grown Ups - wine, horderves, and DELiCiOUS sweets provided by Alexander’s Catering. (suggested donation of $5)
So come mix, mingle and weave your way to a fantastic night supporting Craftville, Deliciously Happy, the Brick Factory and the arts & craft community in Nashville!"
Here's what they say: "The Deliciously Happy art installation at Belmont University will feature work of local students of all ages. Coordinating artist Lindsey Bailey’s effort is to transform the entire space. She wants to cover EVERY inch with community creations - and this is where YOU come in!
Thursday Feb. 23rd @ The Brick Factory, Cummins Station
7-8pm is our FREE and Family Friendly hour, because we know some serious elementary school age fingerweavers that will want in on the action!
8-11pm After Bedtime CRAFT PARTY For Grown Ups - wine, horderves, and DELiCiOUS sweets provided by Alexander’s Catering. (suggested donation of $5)
So come mix, mingle and weave your way to a fantastic night supporting Craftville, Deliciously Happy, the Brick Factory and the arts & craft community in Nashville!"
Deliciously Happy Press Release Is Out About Town!
For Immediate Release
Collaboration takes new form as Belmont graduate student teams up with Nashville-area schools for the Deliciously Happy gallery show at Belmont University.
NASHVILLE, February 7, 2012 – Deliciously Happy features partnerships with students from three Nashville-area schools: the University School of Nashville, Bordeaux Elementary, and Lead Academy. In tandem with sculpture students from Belmont University, students from each school will construct stories and create coordinating performance paraphernalia as part of an installation being featured at Belmont University.
Spearheading the project is local artist and Belmont Master of Arts in Teaching graduate student, Lindsey Bailey, who organized a Kickstarter campaign for the project in November 2011. Contributions helped to fund 12 of 24 workshops, a documentary film crew, and transportation for the students to attend the gallery opening so they can see their work and speak with the people attending the opening. A portion of the contributions will also help to publish a book, including all of the lesson plans, example artwork, and documentation; and the student, educator, and community responses to the projects. This book will be made available to schools and organizations so that more youth can participate in performance-based workshops.
For more information and images, please visit:
Deliciously Happy Kickstarter, http://kck.st/unJK6l
Deliciously Happy Blog, playdeliciouslyhappy.blogspot.com
Lindsey Bailey’s website, www.cakecrush.com
Deliciously Happy is also featured on Craftzine, beBelmont, Nashville Galleries Examiner, Belmont Achievers, and the Nashville Scene’s “Pith in the Wind”.
Deliciously Happy, a collaborative installation organized by Lindsey Bailey
On View: February 29, 2012 – March 30, 2012, with weekly craft nights facilitated by Nashville’s Craftville
Reception: 5:00pm-7:00pm on March 1, featuring special guest Megan Kelly with studiOmnivorous
Hours: Monday-Saturday 9-6, Sunday 2-7 (with holiday exceptions)
Location: Gallery 121 in the Leu Center for Visual Arts
Address: 1900 Belmont Blvd, Nashville, TN 37212
About Lindsey Bailey: Ms. Bailey's work has recently been featured at D!verseWorks Art Space in Houston for the Houston Fine Art Fair and Texas Contemporary Art Fair and at the Sideshow Fringe Festival at Belmont University in Nashville. For Artober, she was part of a panel organized by Actor's Bridge and the Metro Nashville Arts Commission to discuss Nashville innovation in the arts and arts access. When not creating gallery-based artwork, Ms. Bailey spends her time planning event spaces for fundraisers, recently working with Safe Haven Family Shelter's Museum and Menagerie event in January. She is currently beginning a new project called Space.Place.Shelter. with 2nd graders at Lockeland Design Center Elementary School.
About the Belmont University Department of Art: Belmont University offers a wide variety of study options for students interested in the visual arts. The experienced faculty and well-equipped facilities help foster an environment where students are offered numerous opportunities to explore their creative talents. For more information, please visit their website, www.belmont.edu/art.
Jessica Owings, Director of Galleries & Exhibitions
Belmont University
1900 Belmont Boulevard
Nashville TN 37212
615-974-1746
jessica.owings@belmont.edu
Collaboration takes new form as Belmont graduate student teams up with Nashville-area schools for the Deliciously Happy gallery show at Belmont University.
NASHVILLE, February 7, 2012 – Deliciously Happy features partnerships with students from three Nashville-area schools: the University School of Nashville, Bordeaux Elementary, and Lead Academy. In tandem with sculpture students from Belmont University, students from each school will construct stories and create coordinating performance paraphernalia as part of an installation being featured at Belmont University.
Spearheading the project is local artist and Belmont Master of Arts in Teaching graduate student, Lindsey Bailey, who organized a Kickstarter campaign for the project in November 2011. Contributions helped to fund 12 of 24 workshops, a documentary film crew, and transportation for the students to attend the gallery opening so they can see their work and speak with the people attending the opening. A portion of the contributions will also help to publish a book, including all of the lesson plans, example artwork, and documentation; and the student, educator, and community responses to the projects. This book will be made available to schools and organizations so that more youth can participate in performance-based workshops.
For more information and images, please visit:
Deliciously Happy Kickstarter, http://kck.st/unJK6l
Deliciously Happy Blog, playdeliciouslyhappy.blogspot.com
Lindsey Bailey’s website, www.cakecrush.com
Deliciously Happy is also featured on Craftzine, beBelmont, Nashville Galleries Examiner, Belmont Achievers, and the Nashville Scene’s “Pith in the Wind”.
Deliciously Happy, a collaborative installation organized by Lindsey Bailey
On View: February 29, 2012 – March 30, 2012, with weekly craft nights facilitated by Nashville’s Craftville
Reception: 5:00pm-7:00pm on March 1, featuring special guest Megan Kelly with studiOmnivorous
Hours: Monday-Saturday 9-6, Sunday 2-7 (with holiday exceptions)
Location: Gallery 121 in the Leu Center for Visual Arts
Address: 1900 Belmont Blvd, Nashville, TN 37212
About Lindsey Bailey: Ms. Bailey's work has recently been featured at D!verseWorks Art Space in Houston for the Houston Fine Art Fair and Texas Contemporary Art Fair and at the Sideshow Fringe Festival at Belmont University in Nashville. For Artober, she was part of a panel organized by Actor's Bridge and the Metro Nashville Arts Commission to discuss Nashville innovation in the arts and arts access. When not creating gallery-based artwork, Ms. Bailey spends her time planning event spaces for fundraisers, recently working with Safe Haven Family Shelter's Museum and Menagerie event in January. She is currently beginning a new project called Space.Place.Shelter. with 2nd graders at Lockeland Design Center Elementary School.
About the Belmont University Department of Art: Belmont University offers a wide variety of study options for students interested in the visual arts. The experienced faculty and well-equipped facilities help foster an environment where students are offered numerous opportunities to explore their creative talents. For more information, please visit their website, www.belmont.edu/art.
Jessica Owings, Director of Galleries & Exhibitions
Belmont University
1900 Belmont Boulevard
Nashville TN 37212
615-974-1746
jessica.owings@belmont.edu
Saturday, January 14, 2012
LEAD Academy Workshops Kick Off the New Year!
Monday, November 21, 2011
Teacher Feature: Carmen Mims, LEAD Academy
Carmen Mims was born in 1986 in Louisville, Kentucky. She currently teaches high school visual art at LEAD Academy Public Charter School in Nashville, through the Teach for America program. During her time at LEAD Academy, Carmen has started and developed the visual arts program. Highlights of the school’s visual art program include participation in regional art competitions and a field trip to the High Museum of Art, as a culmination of the 9th grade’s study of Surrealism.
Carmen received her BA in Studio Art from Vanderbilt University in May of 2009. While at Vanderbilt, she balanced working at the Sarratt Art Studios, curating the student gallery, and being a member of the university’s cross country and track teams. In April of 2007, she gave a talk on Jackson Pollock at the Centre College Art and Aesthetics Symposium in Danville, Kentucky.
Carmen was the recipient of the 2009 Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet for her video Where We Go When We Tire. This video was also featured in the 2nd Kentucky Short Film & Video Showcase on September 15, 2009 at the 21C Museum Hotel.
In terms of collaboration in the classroom, one way she has her students collaborate on a weekly basis is through critique. Students participate in full group critiques as well as informal partner critiques throughout the art making experience. Carmen mentioned that collaborating is not always so easy with students, "'They want full control of their projects." This week Carmen's art class is hosting their own version of a task party. It will be interesting to see students interact and collaborate more during this activity. Carmen mentioned that she is both excited and hesitant to begin using collaboration in her classroom. "I think my students are definitely open to collaboration, it will just be new to them in an art setting."
In Carmen's personal art making, she wholeheartedly enjoys collaboration. In fact, most of her work is based on collaborations with her husband. Their art making relationship began in college, when he would critique her paintings. Then it evolved into working together on several video art pieces, 2009-2011. "The strengths he has with technology make it so we can accomplish more than I could on my own. He is also a great editor, and I'm not always the best at this!"
The Deliciously Happy workshops at LEAD Academy begin in January. The students will be working with paper puppets, choreography, and animation. Stay tuned for more exciting news from LEAD Academy in 2012!
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Help us REACH out GOAL!
While this project is expensive it is also expansive, and even though we still need more dollars to make the original goal I think it is really important that PEOPLE support the project. So, consider pledging $1. This will keep you updated and connected to the project for the next year! If you can give more, super. Find out more here. Your support is greatly appreciated.
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