Artists' Workshop Gallery is a cooperative art gallery owned and operated by thirty one local artists. We offer a wide variety of artwork including oils, acrylics, scratch board, watercolor, ink, graphite, pastel, collage, mixed mediums and photography. Our gallery also features fabric art, pottery, glass works, journals, jewelry, note cards, miniature paintings and sculpture. We have art for every budget, from reasonably priced original works to inexpensive prints and note cards. Many of the artists accept lay-away and commissions for artwork. Our gallery is staffed by the member artists who often work their craft during gallery hours. We invite you to come in, say hello, browse our artwork, and watch the artists at work.
Artists' Workshop Gallery
610A Central Avenue, Hot Springs, Arkansas, 71901 Phone: 501-623-6401 ------------------------------------ Regular Gallery Hours are: 10am-5pm Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday 12pm-5pm Sunday Open most weekend evenings during the summer Closed Tuesday Celebrating 33 years in business and 10 years in our new location(Click on YouTube video below)
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Featured High Schools
Artists' Workshop Gallery provides space for local high schools to exhibit students artwork. Our objective is to go beyond the classroom to advance students enthusiasm and knowledge of the arts, while developing students confidence, growth, self-esteem and pride in their creations. Cutter Morning Star Artists
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Artists' Workshop Gallery's Featured Artists
for November are Linda Gaeta & Joe Wilcox Please join us for Gallery Walk on Friday. November 1st from 5 until 9 PM in historical downtown Hot Springs, Arkansas. The Artists’ Workshop Gallery is, once again, teaming up with The Springs Magazine to present a show of art created by veterans. The show will run throughout the month of November. Linda Gaeta and Joe Wilcox will be our Featured Artists for the month of November. Our featured miniature artists are Pati Trippel and June Lamoureux. Many thanks to Charlie Mink who will be providing music for our November Gallery Walk.
LINDA GAETA
Art transcends culture. Many of what we might consider ‘primitive’ cultures produce art on a par with, and often above, what is being produced by more ‘advanced’ ones. Art transcends time as well. The cave paintings of Lascaux, done 20,000 years ago, left Picasso in awe. Linda Gaeta started collecting masks as a result of an art study trip to Bali over thirty years ago. To her, masks show the many sides of the people they represent. Whether it is happiness, sadness, good or evil, or just everyday life and spirituality, they give an interpretation of life within that community. The masks Gaeta has collected are only a point of departure as she assembles fabric, beads and other materials to create dolls that speak to that culture. But dolls is a woefully inadequate word to describe the end product. Gaeta’s creations are totems, ritual items to be used for ceremonies not yet known and perhaps unknowable.
JOE WILCOX
It’s been said that necessity is the mother of invention, but sometimes boredom can work just as well. While recovering from dialysis, Joe Wilcox was channel surfing and landed on an old episode of The Joy of Painting. Joe thought he’d give it a try, after all, Bob Ross made it look so easy. It wasn’t. One can learn about art by reading books and looking at pictures in galleries and museums, but that can only give direction. To become a competent artist, one has to first make a lot of bad art. There are no shortcuts. In the army they had what they called OJT, On Job Training. They gave you a rifle, taught you how to use it and sent you on your way. Art is learned in a similar fashion. Wilcox purchased paint along with several canvasses and set to work. Ruined canvases piled up and the empty paint tubes had to be replaced, but there is no quit in Joe Wilcox. The wet-on-wet oil technique that he developed produces a luminosity that is far beyond anything Bob Ross ever did on TV.
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This site is Copyright © 2014, Artists Workshop Gallery.
All images seen on this site are by permission of the artists.
Any use of materials on this web site--including reproduction, modification, distribution, or republication without the prior written permission of Artists Workshop Gallery is strictly prohibited.
Web site maintained by Artists Workshop Gallery.
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