Big events in April

1. Workshops, demos, pottery sale, and CASA Members' Exhibition on 3 weekends in April.

The plans for the spring event, a 3-week gallery show and associated workshops etc. are evolving quickly. We now have:

A Gallery Opening and Reception for the Creative Artists' Studios of Ames members' exhibit will be held on Friday evening, April 13, 2007 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.. The Gallery is located at 130 South Sheldon Avenue, just west and south of the ISU campus.

A pit-firing, a raku firing demonstration, and a pottery sale will be held on April 14th, 1-4PM. Other artwork will be available to look at or for purchase from individual artists.

The exhibit will be open to the public from 1-4 p.m. three consecutive weekends: April14 and15, April 21 and 22; and April 28 and 29. The following Saturday workshops will also be offered:

Paste Paper Play April 14, 9-noon, 107 Dot Prater
Tiny Book Workshop April 14, 1-4 pm, 202 Dot Prater
Indigo Dye & Soy April 14, 1-4 pm, 107 Lee Anne Willson
Botanical Stamp Carving April 28, 9-noon, 202 Dot Prater
Greeting Card Bash April 28, 1-4 pm, 202 Dot Prater
Mandala Workshop April 28, 11-3 pm, 107 Joel Geske

Free demonstrations will also be offered:
Pit Firing April 14, 1-4 pm, outdoors Michele Mullen & Steve Aitchison
Raku Firing April 14, 1-4 pm, outdoors Greg Lamont
Lettering on Canvas April 15, 1-4 pm, Gallery     Dot Prater
Kiln Opening April 21, 1-4 pm, clay studios Mary Weisgram
Origami Paper Quilts April 22, 1-4 pm, Gallery Lee Anne Willson
Clay Techniques April 28 1-4 pm, 102 Ruth Soseman
Mandala Assembly April 29 2-3:30, Gallery      Joel Geske
Clay Carving April 29 1-2 pm, Gallery Mary Anne Begg

More detailed descriptions of these activities will be posted on the Creative Artists' Studios of Ames website, http://www.CreativeArtists.org. To register, please contact the artist. For more details or contact information, call CASA at 292-3448.

CASA big weekend May 19-20-21

Friday evening the all-CASA show in our Gallery will open 5:30-7:30 with many of the artists there to chat about their art. It's going to be an interesting show; several CASA artists are moving in new directions, and all are presenting relatively receont work, so there will be surprises. The show will also be open for viewing Saturday 1-4, Sunday 2-4, and in succeeding weeks mostly by appointment. The Gallery is also known as Room 208 in the CUMC Annex, 130 S. Sheldon, Ames. The Gallery is accessible; there is a ramp to the NW door of the building.

Saturday, May 20, Dot Prater is offering an eraser stamp carving mini-workshop at CASA 9AM-Noon.
Eraser Stamp-ede Mini-Workshop
Cost: $40 (includes all supplies)

The use of hand carved stamps in art works is millennia old. We will take a short cut through this laborious process and create stamps made in a morning and applied in endless ways. These simple stamps yield surpisingly sophisticated results, as evidenced in the St. John's Bible Project exhibited recently at the Joslyn Museum in Omaha, NB. Applications for hand made stamps can range from pottery surface design, bas relief clay tiles and plaster mold-making to paper collage, calligraphy, book arts, and fabric design.

Enjoy learning user-friendly design methods and carving one-of a-kind eraser stamps for your own personal use on clay, paper, and fabric. We will test our stamps on a variety of supports with a variety of media.

On Sunday, May 21, there will be a pottery sale in Room 202 (also H/C accessible) from noon - 4. There are some very interesting items coming out of our kilns these days, and quite a variety of sizes and styles.

Sunday there will also be a pit-firing east of the building, weather permitting. The construction will start at 11 AM, the fire will be lit at 12, and the pieces should be ready to pull out and admire around 4PM.

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Welcome to CASA Art News

This is a test run of CASA Art News to show members of CASA the capibility of Blogs. CASA is a nonprofit arts organization that rents affordable space to artists in the Ames area, as well as promotes the arts through classes, workshops, and gallery exhibits. CASA is open to the public on Saturdays and during designated gallery hours. Please feel free to send inquiries to info@creativeartists.org

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