Classes are held at Old Dominion University in the Visual Art Building. 

Attend one, two or all three art days.  Each lesson will be taught by a new team of future teachers.

Design by ODU student Caitlin Geisaka

To “reserve” a spot in the classes, sign-up on-line:

http://freeartclassesatodu.eventbrite.com/

Mr. Imagination Visits ODU

This fall 2010 semester, Mr. Gregory Warmack (a.k.a. Mr. Imagination) was hosted by Patti Edwards as a visiting artist.  Gregory Warmack spent time working with students from the ODU Art Education courses ARTE 305 and ARTE 406. ” Mr. I” shared his vision as a self-taught artist,  reviewed student work, joined pre-service art education students in the classroom and led workshops on campus and in the community.  A free art lecture was conducted at the Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries at ODU.

Photo Courtesy Ron Gordon. Copyright.

The Art Education Program at Old Dominion University is pleased to present a free community lecture and workshop on Saturday Oct. 2^nd at 10am at the Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries followed by an afternoon hands-on workshop in the art studio at ODU from 12:00-4:00 with the artist. 

Mr. Gregory Warmack, also known as “Mr. Imagination” is a contemporary, visionary, self-taught artist whose work is an important part of “Collective Wisdom” at the Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries at Old Dominion University.

Mr. Imagination currently resides in Atlanta Georgia.  Mr. Imagination creates art with metaphor, meaning and wisdom.  He uses recycled materials to create original works of art that are personal, whimsical and powerful.

In addition to the free lecture on campus, the ODU students will work earlier in the week in the public schools as part of their ongoing service-learning. ODU students will work with fourth and fifth graders at the Willard Model School; Norfolk Public School.  The workshops with visiting artist Mr. Gregory Warmack will be linked to Virginia SOLs and based on the concepts of community identity and transformations.

An exhibition of work from the workshops will be hosted by ODU Art Education students at Waterside on the second floor at Bridge Deck across from Mayer Fine Art.  An opening celebration is set for Monday, October 25^th from 4:00-6:00pm; all are welcome to attend this free event.

For more information on the Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries visit: http://al.odu.edu/art/gallery

Saturday, October 2^nd
10am – Lecture and workshop

12:00 – 4:00 – Free afternoon studio workshop (please bring a wooden chair to transform)

To register for the lecture/workshop; pre-registration is required: http://mrimaginationodu.eventbrite.com

Visiting Artist Gregory Warmack Skypes into ODU Art Education

Our “Big Idea” this summer session 2010 in art education was Imagination…. ODU students were able to perform their first SKYPE and brought visiting artist Gregory Warmack A.K.A. Mr. Imagination to our class studio…. via SKYPE. 

Using technology in this capacity allowed students to engage face to face… and young students visiting Camp Daley loved the experience.  ..coming soon.… October 1, 2010.. meet “Mr. I” at Old Dominion University for a free community studio workshop hosted by Art Education Students.  Imagination…Dreaming… Anything is Possible…

Captured at the VAM in Baltimore, MD

National Juried Exhibition: Women's Caucus Exhibition NAEA 2010

Recent images of sculpture created by Patty Edwards, Art Lecturer at the VBHEC, were accepted to the nationally juried 2010 NAEA Women’s Caucus Exhibition: Visualizing Social Justice.  Edwards spoke on her series titled: And I Surfaced: Remembering Grace Sherwood as part of the 2010 NAEA National Convention in Baltimore, Maryland held on Saturday April 17^th.

Captured at the VAM in Baltimore, MD

ODU Students, art education teachers, alumni and the community came together at ODU for a Visiting Artist Lecture at the Baron and Ellin Gordon Galleries and Studios on February 16, 17, 18^th.  Designed for art teachers and students, the weekend workshop was led by self-taught artist, MAMA GIRL.

About the Project.  “We Can Come Together” is a current collaboration with the ODU Art Education Program and artist MAMA GIRL.  Students learn new methods of recycling, reducing and reusing newspaper and with a small amount of glue to create papier mache figures.  Individual figures are then installed by hand by MAMAGIRL and represent the coming together, as community, committed to the vision and ideals of social justice.  This work honors the legacy of Dr. Martin L. King Jr., and reaffirms our commitment as teachers and artists for social justice and equity.  The project concept is growing and the installation developing in partnership with MAMAGIRL. Copyright MAMAGIRL and all image rights reserved.  For more information paedward@odu.edu

Studio Collaboration with MAMA GIRL 2010

 To register for this event click on:

 http://mamagirl.eventbrite.com

  MamaGirl Lecture
Saturday, January 16th 10:00am
Baron & Ellin Gordon Galleries,
Old Dominion University
Followed by FREE Teacher & Student
Workshops  (led by MamaGirl)
Saturday, Jan. 16 – Monday, Jan. 18 Social Justice: “We Can Come Together”
Celebrating the Legacy of Dr. Martin L. King, Jr. ODU Visual Arts Building, 49TH Street

  Hosted by the ODU Art Education Program

Since he arrived in 1997, Hennessey has pursued partnerships with other cultural organizations and worked at making the museum more accessible and appealing to a broader range of people. Hennessey also has volunteered extensively and is on the boards of the Norfolk Public Art Commission, the Norfolk Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Norfolk Forum.

For his efforts, Hennessey was awarded the Vianne B. Webb Award for Lifetime Achievement on Sunday. His prize was announced during the annual Alli Awards sponsored by the Cultural Alliance of Greater Hampton Roads, an arts support group.

The awards primarily honor contributions in the past year to the local arts community by individuals, businesses and the media. The ceremony took place at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum in Williamsburg.

Patty Edwards was handed the other special Alli, the Bettie Minette Cooper Arts Educator Award. A former elementary school art teacher, she has been the lone art lecturer since 2006 at the Old Dominion University-Virginia Beach Higher Learning Education Center.

Edwards has excelled at connecting her art-education students with community organizations through public art projects.

This year’s media award went to Mal Vincent, an arts and entertainment writer for more than 40 years at The Virginian-Pilot, and its former entertainment editor.

In the 1970s and 1980s, he reviewed virtually every area theater production. Early on, he wrote extensively about the regional arts scene, including covering the Virginia Symphony Orchestra, the Virginia Stage Company and the now-defunct Tidewater Ballet. He now writes primarily about theater and film.

Vincent hosts a festival of classic films each summer at the Naro Expanded Cinema in Norfolk, which consistently draws packed houses.

Winners in the professional arts category were John Dixon of Norfolk, and Diana Davenport and Martha Frances Fortson, both of Portsmouth.

Dixon has been executive director since 2003 of the Academy of Music, which offers about 10,000 hours of private music lessons each year to students of diverse socio-economic backgrounds, regardless of their ability to pay. He is credited with restoring the organization’s fiscal health and building its programs.

Davenport, art supervisor for Portsmouth public schools, has taught art in the schools since 1967. She has volunteered the past four years at the Portsmouth Museums for an after-school arts enrichment project for at-risk youths.

Fortson, executive director of the nonprofit Portsmouth Museums Foundation, was integral in the creation of the foundation’s regional advisory board. She also recruited volunteers from other cities to advise the foundation’s board of directors during its $4 million campaign to install new exhibits at the Children’s Museum of Virginia.

Four arts volunteers also received awards.

Robert G. “Buddy” Bagley of Chesapeake, a retired senior vice president of the Bank of Hampton Roads, was honored for his work on the Chesapeake Fine Arts Commission from 2004 to 2008. The city created a post for Bagley as honorary arts commissioner, in appreciation of his fundraising and networking. He helped raise money for a stage at Chesapeake City Park, now named Buddy Bagley Stage.

Ken Woolard of Portsmouth is president of Portsmouth Community Concerts, a performing arts series, and volunteers for the city’s outdoor Seawall Art Show. Woolard served on the Portsmouth Museum and Fine Arts Commission, has been a Cultural Alliance board member and has raised large sums for his city’s groups.

Louis Vosteen of Williamsburg is a founding member of the Williamsburg Heritage Dancers, a group that performs English country dances dating to the 17th and 18th centuries. Since 1988, he has faithfully researched the dances and the accompanying tunes, making the group widely known for its authenticity.

The Williamsburg Garden Club was honored for 80 years of contributions to cultural heritage. The organization has raised more than $14.5 million to restore and maintain gardens at some of the state’s historic attractions, such as the Moses Myers House in Norfolk and the 1846 Courthouse in Portsmouth.

The group has taken part in “fine arts and flowers” programs at the Chrysler Museum and the Muscarelle Museum of Art in Williamsburg, which pair artworks with floral arrangements inspired by them.

Teresa Annas, (757) 446-2485, teresa.annas@pilotonline.com

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