art for your friday night....

http://powderhornemptybowls.org/

Fill up your bowl, and fill up others!!
Pick out a handmade bowl to take home and aid in ending hunger in mpls.

Field Trip!

If you would like to join us this Thursday, we will be taking a field trip to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts at 7pm. Meet us there!

If you don't have any dinner plans, you can meet us at the Bad Waitress (A cafe nearby) at 6pm.

dream a little dream.

We have a new modified gallery theme for the fall! It is an excerpt taken from the vision which we will focus on for the fall-- and we will hopefully continue to do more with the vision after this fall gallery. All submissions must be square, with the exception of sculpture! Please be working on your stuff. Submissions will be due at the beginning of NOVEMBER!!

FALL THEME:

AND THIS IS THE SOUND OF THE UNDERGROUND

The whisper of history in the making

Foundations shaking

Revoutionaries dreaming once again.

gather round....

Once again we will be joining forces with fellow artists this Thursday night at Shawn's house! We hope to see you all anytime between 7pm and 9pm. Bring a project to work on, and if you don't have one, we would love for you to start working on something for our gallery! We have art supplies you can use if you do not have your own. Call Hope if you have questions. 651.398.0775

CANVAS anyone?

There is a superb deal happening at Dick Blick right now... They have ALL SIZES of canvas on sale for 70% off if you buy 20 or more... Shawn is stocking up with at least this much, so she wanted to let everyone know they can get in on the deal if they want to. Just let her know if you want to go with her to buy some, or the size and quantity you would like specifically.
This is a fabulous deal. Get in on it if you use canvas!

put it on your calendar.

TWO festivals happening this weekend.

Get out and see some great stuff-- perhaps even be inspired for your gallery piece!

One happening in Uptown, one in Loring Park in Mpls.

Go to the web pages for more info!

http://www.loringparkartfestival.com/

http://www.uptownminneapolis.com/art-fair/

ready, get set, go.

We are so excited about our meeting this Thursday! We are going to be talking about details about when the gallery will debut, and also having people help us to lead Substance in this art movement. We also want to hear ideas from everyone about the kind of stuff we want to be doing this fall, as well as keeping up to date with the latest gallery and art festival happenings around Minneapolis.

Come to Shawn's at 7pm. Hope will bring some banana bread to snack on. Feel free to bring friends!

See you there.

ART festival THIS saturday!

http://www.falloutminneapolis.com/

This is a great festival! If you get a chance to stop by, you should! It is happening in Minneapolis this Saturday from 12-10pm. They will have a lot of cool stuff happening that you won't want to miss.

thought for the day:

"To be a Christian artist means that one's particular calling is to use one's talents to the glory of God, as an act of love toward God and as a loving service to our fellows. It means to be on the way, preparing ourselves as well as we can, learning the trade techniques and principles, learning from the work of others and from their mistakes, finding our direction, experimenting, achieving what we set out to do or failing. To work in such a way, with all our heart and mind and spirit, with all our potential talents, in openness and freedom, praying for wisdom and guidance, thinking before we work, is to accept our responsibility."- H.R. Rookmaaker

NEXT MEETING

is Thursday July 30th at 7pm at Shawn's house! Bring ideas for workshop topics. : )

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.-Monet

Please come and join us at Shawn's house tonight starting at 7pm. We will have a little group discussion, and then dispurse to start working on our gallery projects for "The Vision" or work on something you have brought on your own.

We welcome anyone who has been thinking of coming-- it is never to late to join! We also welcome all skill levels and hope that we can each challenge each other to take our creations to the next level of excellence!

For more information, contact artofsubstance@gmail.com. Or you may call Hope at 651-398-0775.

Time Warp

Greetings Artists!

We will be switching to every other week for Art of Substance.
This week we will NOT be meeting this Thursday, July 9th. We will, however meet on July 16th, and every other week from there on out.

Confused about whether or not we are meeting on a given week?
E-mail info@artofsubstance.org

See you next week and keep thinking about your projects!

Gallery theme 1

We are going to be using "The Vision" by Pete Greig as our first gallery theme. Really take your time when reading the poem and think about the things that stand out to you. All mediums of art are welcomed, of course, and as of right now, the deadline will be in the fall.

The Vision - by Pete Greig

So this guy comes up to me and says:

“What’s the vision? What’s the big idea?”

I open my mouth and words come out like this:

The vision?

The vision is JESUS – obsessively, dangerously, undeniably Jesus.

The vision is an army of young people. You see bones? I see an army.

And they are FREE from materialism. They laugh at 9-5 little prisons.

They could eat caviar on Monday and crusts on Tuesday. They wouldn’t even notice.

They know the meaning of the Matrix, the way the west was won.

They are mobile like the wind, they belong to the nations.

They need no passport.

People write their addresses in pencil and wonder at their strange existence.

They are free yet they are slaves of the hurting and dirty and dying.

What is the vision ?

The vision is holiness that hurts the eyes. It makes children laugh and adults angry.

It gave up the game of minimum integrity long ago to reach for the stars.

It scorns the good and strains for the best. It is dangerously pure.

Light flickers from every secret motive, every private conversation.

It loves people away from their suicide leaps, their Satan games.

This is an army that will lay down its life for the cause.

A million times a day its soldiers choose to lose,that they might one day win

the great ‘Well done’ of faithful sons and daughters.

Such heroes are as radical on Monday morning as Sunday night.

They don’t need fame from names. Instead they grin quietly upwards

and hear the crowds chanting again and again: “COME ON!”

And this is the sound of the underground.The whisper of history in the making.

Foundations shaking. Revolutionaries dreaming once again.

Mystery is scheming in whispers. Conspiracy is breathing…

This is the sound of the underground. And the army is discipl(in)ed.

Young people who beat their bodies into submission.

Every soldier would take a bullet for his comrade at arms.

The tattoo on their back boasts “for me to live is Christ and to die is gain”.
Sacrifice fuels the fire of victory in their upward eyes.Winners. Martyrs.

Who can stop them?

Can hormones hold them back? Can failure succeed?

Can fear scare them or death kill them?

And the generation prays like a dying man with groans beyond talking,

with warrior cries, sulphuric tears and with great barrow loads of laughter!

Waiting. Watching: 24 – 7 – 365.

Whatever it takes they will give:

Breaking the rules.

Shaking mediocrity from its cosy little hide.

Laying down their rights and their precious little wrongs, laughing at labels, fasting essentials.

The advertisers cannot mould them. Hollywood cannot hold them.

Peer-pressure is powerless to shake their resolve at late night parties before the cockerel cries.

They are incredibly cool, dangerously attractive. Inside.
On the outside? They hardly care.

They wear clothes like costumes to communicate and celebrate but never to hide.

Would they surrender their image or their popularity?

They would lay down their very lives - swap seats with the man on death row - guilty as hell.

A throne for an electric chair.

With blood and sweat and many tears, with sleepless nights and fruitless days,

they pray as if it all depends on God and live as if it all depends on them.

Their DNA chooses JESUS. (He breathes out, they breathe in.)

Their subconscious sings. They had a blood transfusion with Jesus.

Their words make demons scream in shopping centres.
Don’t you hear them coming? Herald the weirdo’s! Summon the losers and the freaks.

Here come the frightened and forgotten with fire in their eyes.

They walk tall and trees applaud, skyscrapers bow, mountains are dwarfed

by these children of another dimension.

Their prayers summon the hounds of heaven and invoke the ancient dream of Eden.

And this vision will be.

It will come to pass;it will come easily; it will come soon.

How do I know?
Because this is the longing of creation itself,the groaning of the Spirit,the very dream of God. My tomorrow is his today. My distant hope is his 3D.

And my feeble, whispered, faithless prayer invokes a thunderous, resounding, bone-shaking great ‘Amen!’ from countless angels, from hero’s of the faith, from Christ himself.

And he is the original dreamer, the ultimate winner.

Guaranteed.

Info

Art of Substance

When: 7pm*, Thursday nights

*We will officially begin at 7pm, and will discuss a gallery theme and have any announcements at this time. You, however, are more than welcome to come as early as 5pm to begin working on your projects. Make sense?

Where: 4438 Shoreline Dr.
Robbinsdale, MN 55422

Cost: None
(When we meet we'll talk about possibly throwing in ten dollars to get supplies for the group including easels, paints, pencils, etc.)

Contact:
info@artofsubstance.org

RSVP: Not required, but helpful

Also, when sending in your RSVP, it would be great to find out what kind of art you are interested in, from graphic design to acrylics, mixed mediums to graffiti, all are welcome!

What? No art supplies you say? Don't worry, we have plenty of extras.