Welcome to the Artists' Guild of Columbia County
The Guild is a group of professional and amateur artists and patrons of the visual arts located in Columbia County, Georgia. We provide opportunities for artists to exchange creative ideas and business information, to show and sell their work, and to increase their knowledge through workshops. We promote the visual arts, sponsor exhibits and offer projects of interest to artists and those interested in the arts.
LATEST NEWS
Next Meeting/Speaker
Saturday, February 11, 10:30 am, Brandon Wilde.
Meetings for 2012:
January 10, 6:30 pm
February 11, 10:30 am
March 13, 6:30 pm
April 14, 10:30 am
May 8, 6:30 pm
June 9, 10:30 am
July 10, 6:30 pm
August 11, 10:30 am
September 11, 6:30 pm
October 13, 10:30 am
November 13, 6:30 pm
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Carol Dorn Art Classes
After a several year hiatus, Carol Kelly Dorn is once again teaching ongoing youth classes in her Evans studio, and is offering a free introductory class Tuesday, January 17. If you are or know of anyone interested in more information regarding youth (middle or high school age) or adult art classes, please respond to carolkellydorn@gmail.com or visit her website: www.CarolKellyDorn.com.
Scholarship Info
For more information and applications on the Guild's art student scholarship, see here.
Art After Dark Winners
This was the first year that the Guild judged Art After Dark. Categories included Abstract, Animals, Ceramic, Floral, Landscape, Photography, Portrait, Still Life and Jewelry. Judges were David Mascaro and Janice Whiting. See the full list of winners!
New Exhibits
January exhibits include Yadira Payne's Outer Influences~Inner Strength collection at Queensborough Bank; Ruth Pearl and Wenquing Cao at ASU's Reese Library; Yadira Payne's Boriken Revisited collection at the Medical College of Georgia; Lois James at the Government Complex; and Jill Gunn, Nancy Cannon and Kaye Ward at the Columbia County Library.
Check out the Members' Exhibits page to see more upcoming shows.
Artist of the Month - Tracey Barton
Mrs. Tracey L. Barton resides in Grovetown, Georgia with her husband and three children. Graduated from Georgia Southern Univerty in 1991, Mrs.Barton has always delved in landscaping and design through her job, which her dad Stanley Redd prompted her to delve into since she was twelve years old. She has been a LawnCare Owner since she was sixteen & developed facets of the business that she still owns & runs today. She designed layouts for homes built in the CSRA, Aiken, & North Augusta areas right after college, put sprinklers in and maintained over 30 residential lawns, with a crew of 4-6 employees up until she decided to have children. She has continued her business of residential lawncare but has reduced it to go into other venues of business.
The love of landscape has always been a running theme in respect to natural design based on the "Vanderbilt' Biltmore philosphy being that of enhancing the athstetic nature of the environment with a naturalistic flow of line & curvature, use of materials that are natural but that can be utilized to make an affect that expounds the artistic component of the landscape, but not infringe or bombard it, utilization of plants thru their color and shape and adaption to the environment.
Real estate appraisal work with her father, expanded her love for photography with the purchase of a digital camera and picture taking became a love and interest that has continued.
During this time: travel to Edisto yielded the temptation to try new interests such as acrylic painting of the photographical images she has photographed and penciled drawings. Her works include: the Poole House which is the Grovetown museum which her husband moved to its final resting place in Grovetown, Georgia, Grovetown High school, the Buffalo Ranch, and paintings of Jungle Rd, Edisto, S.C. & area churches.
She spends her time teaching at Damascus Baptist Church in Appling on Wednesday evenings and implements card making to spur her students' own creations in art at the pre-k level. The children's first canvas was created this year and she hopes to draw interest to those that wish to find their creative plateau.
For examples of her work, see her online gallery.
