COLLAGE for a Cause

"Tea Party"- collaged greeting card

The City of Huntsville, Texas was granted an historic nineteenth-century mansion just off the downtown square for the purpose of furthering the arts in the area. The city created many citizen committees for research and planning ultimately resulting in the decision to create an arts center in the home complete with an art gallery, gift shop, instructional workshop areas, a separate ceramic studio and children's work area, offices, kitchen, dining room, marvelous porches and grounds for miscellaneous art and civic functions.

Wynne Home Art Center Grand Opening Scheduled September 23, 2006 ____Wynne Home 2006_________ ___Wynne Home Circa 1910____

My good friend, Barbara Tyson, local artist and the new center's gift shop chairman, recently hosted a workshop and work session for local artists. The artists first enjoyed lunch and a presentation of altered journals and calendars that I showed them from my collection of collaborative projects. The purpose of the day was to to have each artist create collaged greeting cards and donate at least one to benefit the Wynne Home Art Center. My cards are shown at the opening of this post above and here below:

"All the Children Laughed" - collaged greeting card
"Renewing What is Perfect" - collaged greeting card (front and back views)

Twelve local artists participated in the one-day work session held twice this month. These award winning oil, watercolor, and pastel artists were not accustomed to creating collaged art before. I think you will agree with me that a great artist in one medium can sometimes do a great job in another.

Watercolorist, Patty Davis, was the only artist who created a card in her usual medium (below left:)

Watercolor card and collage card by Patty Davis

Greeting cards (watercolor and collage) by oil painter, Barbara Tyson

Greeting cards collaged by watercolor artist, Cynthia Reid

Collage cards by (left to right)
Ann Olsta, Marsha Phillips, Pam Markham, and Marjean Creager

Comments

[Deryn Mentock]

These are awesome. Looks like I missed a great time!

[laura dodson]

Hmmmm, my folks have a home in Bellville, not too far away and as a child we would stop in Hempstead for dew berries in coffee cans sold on the side of the road on our way back from HillTop Lakes~the resort community my Dad helped develop. :o)

[Susan Tuttle]

Sally,
What a wonderful art center and an excellent idea regarding the cards. They are all so beautiful. I wish our town had something like this.

Hugs,
Susan