Howe Outrageous Art Gallery & Marketplace

02/14/2016

Fingers crossed, I should have some pottery to show you next week!

02/14/2016

Happy Valentine's Day!

Art of the Day: Van Gogh, Poppies, c. 1886-87. Oil on canvas, 54.6 x 45.1 cm. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford CT.

Happy Valentine's Day ♥

02/03/2016

"The person with creative literacy — a basic understanding of the mental, emotional, and sociological tools used for creative thought and communication — is able to find purpose and apply meaning to her world rather than having meaning handed down and purpose assigned to her."

Why creativity may be the only skill of value in a post-work world

01/30/2016

Something to keep in mind when you think you have no artistic talent. Just fight your way through!

01/23/2016

Happy birthday to a great painter.

Happy birthday to Édouard Manet, born on this day in 1832. In a review of the 1846 Salon, poet and critic Charles Baudelaire urged artists to depict "the heroism of modern life." Manet embodied Baudelaire's ideal painter of contemporary Paris. Emperor Napoleon III ordered the renovation of Paris under the direction of Baron Haussmann, and early in the 1860s the slum where Manet located his studio was being razed to accommodate the planned broad, tree–lined boulevards that still characterize the city.

In "The Old Musician," Manet represented a strolling musician flanked by a gypsy girl and infant, an acrobat, an urchin, a drunkard, and a ragpicker—individuals the artist might have observed near his studio. The seemingly casual gathering is composed of the urban poor, possibly dispossessed by Haussmann’s projects. Do you see this portrayal as unbiased? Why or why not?

Edouard Manet, "The Old Musician," 1862, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.162

01/08/2016

Yay - The pottery class at BCC's Lord St. campus is on if we Pre-Register by going there on Tues-Thursday. The class runs TTh 6-9, 1/19-3/10/16 and costs $180.

01/07/2016

Anyone want to take evening pottery classes at Brunswick Community College's Southport campus? I've been waiting for years to get back in a studio setting. Now that I have time, they need more students in order to hold the class. No experience needed - just lots of fun!

12/30/2015

Think big in 2016 - Happy New Year!

12/13/2015

"Outrageous" participated in the Southport Christmas Flotilla and came in 3rd for best decorated sailboat!