FALL CLASSES

Saturday, October 13 • 10 a.m.–Noon. Clay for Tots! (AKA Little Fingers Making Pots)
Moms & dads help their budding artists spend a happy morning playing with clay (the self-drying variety) and painting their first little pinch pots. Instructor: Arlie Templeton.

Ages: 3-–5, with a parent/adult! Cost: $10, includes materials.

Saturday, October 20 • 10 a.m.–Noon. Beginning Drawing for pre-teens, teens & adults.
Practice the skills needed for realistic rendering in pencil and charcoal with instructor Autumn Neuenschwander. Students enrolled in Realistic Western Drawing will concentrate on Native American and Western themes, and frontier landscapes.

Ages: 11, 12, Teens and Adults. Cost: $15, includes materials.

Registration and prepayment are required for all classes: 417.623-0183. Scholarships available courtesy of the SpivaKids FunFund.

EVENTS:

Tuesday, October 9 • 3 p.m. • Room 103, Porter Hall • PSU, Pittsburg, KS.
Jed Schlegel: The Journey • Exhibition, Lecture, Reception at PSU
Clay artist/Spiva member Jed Schlegel talks about The Journey, his one-man show in the Harry Krug Gallery at PSU. For more information contact Gallery Director Stephanie Bowman at 620.235.4305.
Exhibition: October 5 – November 9.
Lecture: October 9, 3 p.m.
Reception: Oct. 9, 4:30 p.m.

Sunday, October 14 at 2 p.m.
Art in the Afternoon • Slide talk with Laura Van Buren • Main Gallery
Surrounded by the 1830s prints of Karl Bodmer & George Catlin, Laura Van Buren will create a framework for Catlin’s work: influences on the artist and how the artist influenced society’s view of native people and their cultures. Do his paintings and prints portray a “true” record of Native American peoples? Explore the question during Laura’s slide talk, “In the Name of God, Country, and Science: Putting Catlin in Context.” Free admission. This event is sponsored by A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.

EXHIBITS:

In the Main Gallery: American Exploration: Prints by Karl Bodmer and George Catlin. Beautiful, hand-tinted etchings and lithographs portraying the customs, costumes, and ceremonies of Native Americans during the 1830s with sculpture by acclaimed Western artist Joe Beeler. Through November 18. Sponsored by A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc., with additional support from The Friends of St. Avips and the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency. Please note: No photography is allowed in this Main Gallery exhibit.

In the Regional Gallery: Joe Beeler’s American West, paintings, drawings, and sculpture by Joe Beeler, one of the four founding members of the Cowboy Artists of America. Through November 25. Sponsored by Leggett & Platt, Inc., with additional financial assistance from The Friends of St. Avips and the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.

OPPORTUNITIES: Teaching Artist Project

Are you a performing or visual artist interested in providing arts-enriched experiences for school children? Plan to attend the Teaching Artist Project workshop in Clarksville, Cape Girardeau, Hermann, and Mountain View. Learn about working with schools, Show-Me Standards, Grade-Level Expectations, classroom management, and MAC's new Teaching Artist Directory.

The luncheon and workshops are free, but reservations are required. RSVP soon because space is limited.

For more information or to RSVP, contact Deborah Fisher at debfisher324@hotmail.com or 314-753-5805.

Clarksville – October 23 (11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.) at Apple Shed, Highway 79 South.

Cape Girardeau – October 29 (11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.) at University Center on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University.

Hermann and Mountain View workshops will be held in November.

Teaching Artist Project is presented by the Missouri Alliance for Arts Education, a member of the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network, and the Missouri Arts Council.


For additional information, please call 417.623.0183.

George A. Spiva Center for the Arts
222 W. 3rd Street
Joplin, Mo 64801
Tel: 417-623-0183
Fax: 417-623-3805
www.spivaarts.org

See you at Spiva–where imagination lives!