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HomeMy WebLinkAboutclippings related to Art Centerw Those who love to give works of art for holiday presents 0 will be delighted to learn that our local North Palm Beach Art 1-3 Society has its own Gallery with a variety of artwork for " tts shoppers. The new Art Society Gallery is at the Crystal Tree -p Center, 1201 I.T.S. #1 in North Palm Beach with business t hours 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Ms. Dawn 30 Furr, creative marketingdirector ector for Crystal Tree Center credits Louis Billman, President of the North Palm Beach Art Society for making the Gallery a reality. She also thanks 7 Annette Singer, director of The Gallery, for all her labor. -3 What's more, the North Palm Beach Art Society has also G• leased a space next to the Gallery earmarked for an Arts & Crafts school in which everything from basketweaving, stained glass art, watercolors, oils, , etc. will be taught. The school opens November lst with both day and evening classes available. For more information call Ms Furr at 627-3797. Me VILLAGE A C3N' EEla .v,.nf•Yy:Jv:: �:••:ryi:�t�•�:•,:j:er4��i}'.�.., .. :::;. . , , EDWARD M. JACOMO Director STUDENTS IN OIL PAINTING CLASS. ONE OF THE MANY SUBJECTS TAUGHT AT THE ART CENTER. The North Palm Beach Art Center, now in existence for seven years, believes that you the individual are the instrument of Art, the decid- ing judge of whether art is a living experience, or a hollow farce. You decide if art exists only for art's sake, dead and unused, or if it is a living part of you to be appreciated and created. The creation of visual art is not a luxury, or recreation for a society bent on finding a distraction in an age of leisure; it is not to be regarded as therapy for the anxious in a neu- rotic age. Rather, the Art Center sees art as necessary to the well-being and well -functioning of healthy and pur- poseful people —people like you who are aware, active, curious, concerned and involved. Art increases our state of aliveness by expanding and deep- ening our state of awareness. Art discovers, heightens and refines life's experiences; it brings our emotions to our attention and makes us feel them fully. It is a selection and ex- amination of our world, in order, that we may apprehend the selected properties and values often obscure in ordinary experience. Art seems to clarify our feelings. Until we express emotions, we do not know what they are. Art has always been the means by which man illumines and shapes the work he has to do and the road he must travel. It has all the excitement and difficulty of pioneering. The Art Center, as a community program, sees creative art in this light as a great principle of visual education; it is dedicated to transmitting to its students the capacity of learning to SEE. Both avocational and vocational students are encouraged to recognize the spirit, traditions, skills and crafts necessary to an artist. If as Michelangelo says, the artist paints, not only with his hands, but with his mind, then his art education must concern itself with WHAT art has to say as well as HOW he says it. We believe that a work of art breaks up reality, recombining it in such a manner that it enlarges our total understanding. Art lives only through the past experience of artist and observer. The Art Center is in- terested in training creative artists and observers. To this end, courses are designed to give considerable latitude for the exploration of theory, and for self-expression.